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ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
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Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist.
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Durg her five years as host, she reported on several lorful and thought-provokg stori cludg poverty oil-rich Bahra; everyday stggl for artists livg Iraq; and gay life the Middle East, which was a first on ternatnal televisn and earned a nomatn for a Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) award. "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.