Anrson Cooper: 'Beg gay is one of the blsgs of my life' | CNN

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• ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’
• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
• ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — HE WAS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT HE WAS GAY

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

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.

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

” Anrson wanted to travel, but beg gay was illegal some untri.

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

“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. "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

The ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibed openly gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins om servg, was officially repealed 2011.