Anrson Cooper says he realized he was gay after meetg a shirtls Richard Gere backstage at a Broadway play

ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
ANRSON COOPER TALKS ABOUT WHEN HE ACCEPTED BEG GAY
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ANRSON COOPER CALLS BEG GAY “ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE”
ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY

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ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibed openly gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins om servg, was officially repealed 2011.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

ANRSON COOPER TALKS ABOUT WHEN HE ACCEPTED BEG GAY

"I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, " Cooper add on "Full Circle. Anrson Cooper has been openly gay for years, but he’s now openg up about when he fally accepted to himself that he was gay.

“I mean, I was probably, I don’t know, 7, when I kd of realized — I’m not sure I knew the word ‘gay’ at the time, but I realized somethg was up. “I thk I really, tly accepted — and not jt accepted , but fully embraced and you know, me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay — would probably be right after llege, ” he said.

“You know, I kd of stggled my teenage years, certaly, but even a ltle llege… a lot of the thgs I wanted to do at the time, you uldn’t be gay. “And I wanna embrace who I am, and as I’ve said before, I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, ” Anrson ntued. After keepg his sexualy a secret for years, Anrson Cooper me out of the closet and announced himself gay back 2012.

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Openly gay anchor Anrson Cooper revealed a recent CNN broadst that he realized he was “different” around the age of Monday’s episo of his thrice-weekly news program Full Circle, a viewer asked the 53-year-old journalist when he embraced his sexual orientatn. “I’m not sure I knew the word ‘gay’ at the time, ” he went onto expla that he “stggled” wh his inty throughout his teen years, only tellg a few close iends that he was gay, and ntued to grapple wh his orientatn “a ltle llege. ” What troubled him, he said, was the realizatn that “a lot of the thgs I wanted to do at the time, you uldn’t be gay, ” such as enterg the armed forc.

“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 noted that his feelgs on the subject hadn’t changed the past eight years, remarkg to CNN viewers on Monday that “beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life. Domik Bdl/Getty Imag; Frazer Harrison/Getty ImagAnrson Cooper opened up about the moment he realized he was gay Friday on "Rad Andy.