Anrson Cooper on son Wyatt's dad and gay fatherhood

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CNN’s Anrson Cooper answers a viewer’s qutn about how he learned to embrace beg gay. Anrson Cooper Full Circle airs Monday, Tuday and Friday this week at 6p E.T.

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ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’

Anrson Cooper was asked by a viewer on Full Circle about how old he was when he accepted that he was gay. * andreson cooper gay *

Anrson talks about how he learned to embrace beg gay. Anrson Cooper was asked by a viewer on Full Circle about how old he was when he accepted that he was gay.

ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'

Anrson Cooper opened up about when he first realized he was gay and when he accepted , and he explaed that those were very different tim his life. * andreson cooper gay *

And not jt accepted , but fully embraced and me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay right after llege, ” Cooper said. Cooper shared that he stggled to e to terms wh beg gay bee of limatns he and others faced the late 80s. Anrson thought about jog the ary, but 1982, the US Army clared homosexualy to be “patible wh ary service.

” Anrson wanted to travel, but beg gay was illegal some untri. “I thk beg gay is one of the blsgs of my life. "I'm not sure I knew the word 'gay' at the time, but I realized somethg was up, " Cooper said a Q&A ssn Monday on CNN's "Full Circle, " addg that he began to tell iends when he was high school but still stggled through llege wh fully lovg himself.

"I thk I really, tly accepted – and not jt accepted , but fully embraced and me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay – would probably be right after llege, " he said.

ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY

The news anchor said he "me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay" after llege" emprop="scriptn * andreson cooper gay *

"A lot of the thgs I wanted to do at the time, you uldn't be gay, " he said, cg an tert jog the U. Ary, though out members of the gay muny were not allowed to serve at the time.

ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT HE WAS GAY

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The ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibed openly gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins om servg, was officially repealed 2011. " He me out as gay to the public on July 2, 2012, allowg iend and wrer Andrew Sullivan to publish an email om him, sayg 'd bee clear that remag silent on the topic had given the false imprsn that he had somethg to hi.

ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — HE WAS GAY

Anrson Cooper on his son, Wyatt, and how as a gay teen he feared he would never bee a dad. * andreson cooper gay *

"The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I uldn’t be any more happy, fortable wh myself, and proud, " he has sce weled a son, Wyatt Man Cooper, born April 27, 2020 via surrogate.

ANRSON TALKS ABOUT HOW HE LEARNED TO EMBRACE BEG GAY

"I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, " Cooper add on "Full Circle.

Anrson Cooper opened up about the moment he realized he was gay Friday on "Rad Andy. Anrson Cooper opened up about the moment he realized he was gay on Friday durg the "Andy Cohen Live Pri Special" on SiriXM's "Rad Andy. Richard Gere starred the play about the persecutn of homosexualy Nazi Germany.

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It was jt me and my mom's two gay iends, " he lled the openg scene, which a man gets out of bed pletely naked and puts on a uniform, "the gayt thg you n image. ""And I jt remember beg like, 'Oh my God, I'm gay.... I'm totally gay, " he the play end, Cooper said Jasm took him backstage to meet Gere, who he worked wh on the film "Amerin Gigolo.

ANRSON COOPER: AS A GAY MAN, FATHERHOOD IS 'A DREAM E TE'

He said he didn't tell her he was gay until he graduated llege, and although she was "ol about , " she told him not to make any "fe cisns. Anrson Cooper was 45 years old when he me out publicly 2012, but this week, a CNN viewer wanted to know what age the newsman was when he first realized he was gay and accepted for his answer, Cooper explaed that those were two very different thgs that happened at very different ag.

” “I’m not sure I knew the word ‘gay’ at the time, but I realized somethg was up, somethg was different. But ultimately, he said he “stggled” wh as a disvered there were thgs he simply uldn’t do, like jo the ary at a time when homosexualy was nsired grounds for discharge or travel abroad to areas where remaed illegal and often dangero to be gay.

ANRSON COOPER IS A GRATEFUL NEW DAD: ‘AS A GAY KID, I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE’

“I thk I really, tly accepted — and jt kd of, really not jt accepted but fully embraced and me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay — would probably be right after llege, " the now-53-year-old said, addg that was “about a year after llege (when) I realized, 'I don't want to waste any more time worryg about this' and sort of wishg I was some other way. "I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, ” he ntued. “When I was 12 years old and I knew I was gay and thought about my life, always upset me, bee I thought, ‘I will never be able to have a kid, ’” Cooper told People magaze shortly after Wyatt’s birth.

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