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• ABC NEWS APPOTS GAY CORRPONNT G BENEZ AS CO-ANCHOR OF ‘GMA’ WEEKENDS
• OPEN MENUVIOSHOPWELLNSFOODCULTUREFAYLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICY — YOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS — CHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICY — INTERT-BASED ADS — TERMS OF USE — DO NOT SELL MY INFO — CONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCH'GMA' DEALS & STEALS ON FAN FAVORCULTUREJUNE 23, 2021WHO IS MAKG LGBTQ+ HISTORY RIGHT NOW: GMA INSPIRATN LIST 2021OUT LOUDWHAT 'S REALLY LIKE AS A TRANSGENR PERSON TO GET MEDIL REJUNE 28, 2021PRI STYLE THROUGH THE YEARS: FTIVE FASHN, BETY AND MOREJUNE 27, 2022‘RUPL’S DRAG RACE ALL STARS’ DISCS UP-AND-G DRAG ARTISTS WHO SPIRE THEM JUNE 28, 2021LGBTQ+ ISSU AT THE FOREONTLGBTQ+ ISSU AT THE FOREONTETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAG, FILENFL PLAYER CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY
• ‘GMA’ ANCHOR ROB ROBERTS PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG SHE’S GAY
• WILL “GOOD MORNG AMERI” GET A GAY HOST?
• SAM CHAMPN, ‘GOOD MORNG AMERI’ WEATHER ANCHOR, IS GAY AND ENGAGED
• FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

ABC NEWS APPOTS GAY CORRPONNT G BENEZ AS CO-ANCHOR OF ‘GMA’ WEEKENDS

Pri Month 2021 Special: Benez's 'It will all be OK' Letter to His Younger SelfTransportatn Corrponnt for ABC NewsIn 2019’s Natnal Comg Out Day—which is celebrated worldwi on 11 October remembrance of the 1987 Natnal March on Washgton that was held support of lbian and gay rights—Benez dited a letter to his past self. “Qutns that may flip your whole world upsi-down, ” he openly gay Lato journalist, G Benez is the transportatn rrponnt for ABC News. Is G Benez Gay?

OPEN MENUVIOSHOPWELLNSFOODCULTUREFAYLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICY — YOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS — CHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICY — INTERT-BASED ADS — TERMS OF USE — DO NOT SELL MY INFO — CONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCH'GMA' DEALS & STEALS ON FAN FAVORCULTUREJUNE 23, 2021WHO IS MAKG LGBTQ+ HISTORY RIGHT NOW: GMA INSPIRATN LIST 2021OUT LOUDWHAT 'S REALLY LIKE AS A TRANSGENR PERSON TO GET MEDIL REJUNE 28, 2021PRI STYLE THROUGH THE YEARS: FTIVE FASHN, BETY AND MOREJUNE 27, 2022‘RUPL’S DRAG RACE ALL STARS’ DISCS UP-AND-G DRAG ARTISTS WHO SPIRE THEM JUNE 28, 2021LGBTQ+ ISSU AT THE FOREONTLGBTQ+ ISSU AT THE FOREONTETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAG, FILENFL PLAYER CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY

G Benez’s Comg Out LetterOn 2019’s Natnal Comg Out Day—which is celebrated worldwi on 11 October remembrance of the 1987 Natnal March on Washgton that was held support of lbian and gay rights—Benez dited a letter to his past self. "The letter further elaborat on younger Benez’s stggle to f societal norms, his enunter wh homophobia his muny and school, and how he ternalized till adulthood.

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‘GMA’ ANCHOR ROB ROBERTS PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG SHE’S GAY

Though one iend warns, ‘you n’t be gay and succsful the media, ’ your lleagu will celebrate you. The event brought together leadg lumari om the entertament and sports dtri on 19 May panel discsed the vast range of acplishments, issu, and experienc of LGBTQ+ stars and muny, cludg the creator Ilene Chaiken’s cisn to e out by -creatg LGBTIQ+ seri The L Word for Showtime, actrs Laverne Cox’s reactn to beg the first trans performer of lor to be nomated for an Emmy, the issue of why more sportspersons haven’t e out sce Jason Colls’ breakthrough actns 2013, and how beg told to be ls feme vigorated artist Adam Rippon to bee the first openly gay Amerin to w a 2018 medal at the Wter Olympic Gam among many more. On the other hand, David Muir is not gay.

ABC News has promoted gay rrponnt G Benez by namg him one of the work’s flagship weekend programs’ -anchors. Now, he’s officially land an anchor posn on the veted morng news TV show, which means even more gay reprentatn on a platform that has already featured Rob Roberts for many years. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world.

WILL “GOOD MORNG AMERI” GET A GAY HOST?

Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay. For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn.

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SAM CHAMPN, ‘GOOD MORNG AMERI’ WEATHER ANCHOR, IS GAY AND ENGAGED

I also beme aware of somethg else -- somethg some parents felt about their gay children the years before scientific advancements like IVF and donor eggs beme available on a mass sle. Some parents told me that while they supported their children who me out, they were aware typilly meant that, many stat, they uld not have children or adopt children as a gay or lbian uple. I worked there several days a week after school and, when I was old enough to drive, livered on the weekends to hair of which is to say that, the 1960s, I grew up teractg wh lots of people who were gay at a time when most gay people were eher flamboyantly out of the closet -- or firmly hidg .

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FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

“Good Morng Ameri” anchor Rob Roberts ed a Facebook post to acknowledge what iends and -workers have long known: She’s gay. Rob Roberts, a fan favore on “Good Morng Ameri” has e out as gay (probably).

On Sunday, “Good Morng Ameri” anchor Rob Roberts acknowledged her “long time girliend, Amber” a Facebook post, apparently g out as gay (or at least not straight). Roberts, whose stggl wh breast ncer and myelodysplastic syndrome were closely tracked by the media, is a fan favore on “GMA, ” and drew wispread publicy after Print Obama rmed her—and the world—that he had fally fully evolved on gay marriage. Roberts’ cisn to e out has been praised by gay rights supporters, who hope her announcement may draw more Amerins to the e.

And she is a gay black woman. Most mentators have assumed she’s gay, but Roberts merely acknowledged the existence of her girliend—an creasgly equent tack which, as my lleague J. Good Morng Ameri may be gettg a new pair of hosts for s third hour, cludg openly gay journalist G Benez.