Anrson Cooper: “The Fact is, I’m Gay’ – NBC Connecticut

Contents:

• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
• ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’
• ANRSON COOPER: 'I'M GAY, ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE'
• ANRSON COOPER: “THE FACT IS, I’M GAY.”
• ANRSON COOPER: ‘THE FACT IS, I’M GAY’
• ANRSON COOPER: 'THE FACT IS, I'M GAY'
• ANRSON COOPER: ‘THE FACT IS, I’M GAY’
• ANRSON COOPER: “THE FACT IS, I'M GAY'
• ANRSON COOPER COM OUT: 'THE FACT IS, I'M GAY'

ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT 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. The ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibed openly gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins om servg, was officially repealed 2011.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.

"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. "I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, " Cooper add on "Full Circle. Anrson talks about how he learned to embrace beg gay.

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.

ANRSON COOPER: 'I'M GAY, ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE'

And not jt accepted , but fully embraced and me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay right after llege, ” Cooper said.

ANRSON COOPER: “THE FACT IS, I’M GAY.”

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: ‘THE FACT IS, I’M GAY’

” Anrson wanted to travel, but beg gay was illegal some untri. “I thk beg gay is one of the blsgs of my life.

Journalist Anrson Cooper me out as gay on Monday after keepg his sexualy private for years.

ANRSON COOPER: 'THE FACT IS, I'M GAY'

"The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, " Cooper wrote an email that he allowed iend Andrew Sullivan to publish at The Daily Beast webse.

"Sullivan wrote that he had asked Cooper to ment on an EntertamenJuly 2, 2012, 3:34 PM UTCJournalist Anrson Cooper me out as gay on Monday after keepg his sexualy private for years. "Sullivan wrote that he had asked Cooper to ment on an Entertament Weekly story that foced on how gays public life e out a more rtraed way than past announcements. (Remember Ellen DeGener' "Yep, I'm Gay" TIME magaze 1997 ver?

ANRSON COOPER: ‘THE FACT IS, I’M GAY’

"Cooper also wrote that bullyg and discrimatn agast gays enuraged his announcement, sayg, "I’ve also been remd recently that while as a society we are movg toward greater cln and equaly for all people, the ti of history only advanc when people make themselv fully visible. Last week, Entertament Weekly ran a story on an emergg trend: gay people public life who e out a much more rtraed and matter-of-fact way than the past. In many ways, ’s a great velopment: we’re evolved enough not to be gob-smacked when we fd out someone’s gay.

We still have pastors llg for the ath of gay people, bullyg cints and suicis among gay kids, and one major polil party dited to endg the basic civil right to marry the person you love. The visibily of gay people is one of the re means for our equaly.

I’ve stuck to those prcipl for my entire profsnal reer, even when I’ve been directly asked “the gay qutn, ” which happens ocsnally. 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.

ANRSON COOPER: “THE FACT IS, I'M GAY'

Sce my early days as a reporter, I have worked hard to accurately and fairly portray gay and lbian people the media – and to fairly and accurately portray those who for whatever reason disapprove of them. Anrson Cooper revealed on Monday that he is gay, endg years of reluctance to talk about his personal life public. “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 wrote the letter, published by Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Beast.

ANRSON COOPER COM OUT: 'THE FACT IS, I'M GAY'

Few natnal televisn news reporters have publicly acknowledged beg gay, wh MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’s Don Lemon perhaps the bt known.

Cooper’s show, “Anrson Cooper 360, ” received an award this year om the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn. "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, " Anrson Cooper wr an email that he agreed to have published on The Daily 's acknowledgment rponse to a nversatn wh his longtime iend blogger-mentator Andrew Sullivan about Entertament Weekly's recent ver story about the matter-of-fact way people the public eye reveal their homosexualy the days. " The article foced on numero celebri whose homosexualy is nsired an open secret.