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THOMAS ROBERTS BE FIRST OPENLY GAY EVENG NEWS ANCHOR ON NETWORK TV

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Thomas Roberts anchored NBC's "Nightly News" on Saturday, a huge tone for both the 42-year-old journalist's reer and gay rights history.

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Until the broadst, an openly gay person had never anchored the nightly news on work TV.

" There are a few openly gay eveng news anchors on ble TV -- MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, CNN's Anrson Cooper and Don Lemon -- but Roberts is the first for one of the big three the historic broadst: Popular the CommunyYou May Like. Gay MSNBC anchor and his new hband tail 12-year affair that led to their weddg (which spired ABC's Sam Champn to e out on the dance floor) Published: 17:31 BST, 7 October 2012 | Updated: 18:01 BST, 7 October 2012 When MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts married his long term partner, Patrick Abner, was the culmatn of a 12-year cross-untry Roberts and Mr Abner, both 40, followed each other as their reers explod -- movg the uple om Virgia to Philalphia to Atlanta to Washgton to Los Angel and fally New York. They often found themselv separated by hundreds of and battlg the exhstn of matag a long distance weddg on September 29 on the roof of the upsle Gansevoort Park Avenue hotel was such an even that spired ABC's Good Morng Ameri weatherman Sam Champn to publicly reveal he is gay and planng to marry his longtime partner.

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But, shortly after movg to the Cy of Brotherly Love -- and the fort of endg a long distance relatnship -- Mr Thomas was disvered by CNN and moved to Abner soon got a job wh Roche and the pair bought ho near each other 2006, he ma history as one of the first natnal TV anchors to publicly e out as homosexual.

Governor of California Gav Newsom, a TV host who is a strong supporter of gay marriage. Good Morng Amerin's Sam Champn, Talk show host Nate Berk and realy star Carson Krsley also watched them walk down the aisle, acrdg to TV is also home to openly gay Rachel Maddow, who hosts the hugely succsful programme The Rachel Maddow Show - and is the first lbian TV anchor of a primetime news Roberts has been a forceful fenr of gay rights, lashg out at those who try to stop same-sex marriage or oppose gay parents. In July, the rpected prenter reportedly said Republin Michele Bachmann wanted to 'extguish' gay people.

Thomas Roberts tweeted his excement about wakg up as a married man New York Mr Roberts was speakg to Jimmy DeSalvia, the head of GOProud, a gay Republin anisatn, about Mrs Bachmann when he ma his forthright former hopeful printial ndidate is known for her opposn to gay rights, and Mr Roberts told Mr DeSalvia that supportg her would be supportg the stampg out of gay rights. 'You will replace Obama wh a person who would extguish you, ' he June, he argued wh the head of the Natnal Organisatn for Marriage, which oppos gay marriage, about the 'threat' of gay marriage. 'I don't unrstand how same-sex marriage is a challenge to your marriage, ' Mr Roberts said when Mr Browned claimed that gay marriage jos divorce as a threat to all an terview, Mr Roberts asked: 'If same-sex marriage hasn't existed alongsi divorce, how is even parable?

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Durg a movg speech at the 2006 nventn for the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn, CNN news anchor Thomas Roberts me out as gay.

Three months after actor John Krasski started his popular Some Good News seri on YouTube, veteran gay journalist Thomas Roberts is lnchg a 30-mute streamg show to share “gay good news.

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In a postg on Facebook, Roberts said the program will be “dited to reportg “Gay Good News ordatn wh Gay Pri durg the month of June 2020.

Roberts’ show tak a siar approach and giv a gay twist. “Our world is need of a morale boost, ” Roberts said a wrten statement that he posted onle about his program, dubbed GGN for Gay Good News. “I wanted to do somethg to boost morale the LGBTQ muny wh gay good news.

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Roberts, 47, has the distctn of beg one of the first out gay journalists on Amerin televisn and the first out gay person to anchor a natnal eveng news broadst. Roberts publicly acknowledged he was gay while speakg at the annual nventn of the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn 2006.

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In 2015, he beme the first out gay person to anchor a natnal eveng news broadst when he substuted for the regular anchor on NBC Nightly News. So ’s jt gay good news all the time.

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Roberts, an MSNBC host, beme the first openly gay anchor on a work news broadst when he hosted NBC Nightly News on Saturday, The Advote reports.

Cable news viewers wnsed the culmatn of his years-long g-out procs as a gay journalist and media personaly when h the mastream media after he discsed durg a panel at the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn's annual nventn Miami 2006. What do you see as your role, and that of other openly gay and lbian hosts on the work, to promote the cln of the issu? And how feels to worry about havg a succsful reer while beg openly gay.

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