Anrson Cooper: 'I'm gay, always have been, always will be'

Contents:

• 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: 'I'M GAY, ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE'
• CNN PRENTER ANRSON COOPER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• ANRSON TALKS ABOUT HOW HE LEARNED TO EMBRACE BEG GAY
• ANRSON COOPER IS A GRATEFUL NEW DAD: ‘AS A GAY KID, I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE’
• ANRSON COOPER: ‘I’M GAY’
• ANRSON SPEAKS TO LEGENDARY AIDS AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
• IS ANRSON COOPER GAY?
• ANRSON COOPER REVEALS HOW RICHARD GERE HELPED HIM REALIZE HE'S GAY: 'I COULDN'T SPEAK'

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.

“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.

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

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ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibed openly gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins om servg, was officially repealed 2011.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

CNN PRENTER ANRSON COOPER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

"I thk beg gay is one of the great blsgs of my life, " Cooper add on "Full Circle. Journalist Anrson Cooper me out as gay on Monday after keepg his sexualy private for years. "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.

ANRSON TALKS ABOUT HOW HE LEARNED TO EMBRACE BEG GAY

"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 IS A GRATEFUL NEW DAD: ‘AS A GAY KID, I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE’

"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. That’s why, spe the mors that were already circulatg, me as a b of a shock when he me out as gay 2012.

Acrdg to The New York Tim, this ma him “the most proment openly gay journalist on Amerin televisn, ” which turn ma fans wonr who he might be datg. He ntu: "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. "Cooper's sexual orientatn had long been subject to show, Anrson Cooper 360, received an award earlier this year om a gay rights group.

CNN's Anrson Cooper answers a viewer's qutn about how he learned to embrace beg gay.

ANRSON COOPER: ‘I’M GAY’

Anrson broke the big news about this ltle boy on his show Anrson Cooper 360 and followed up wh a tly heartwarmg Instagram post about the personal signifince, as a gay man, of beg a father. “As a gay kid, I never thought would be possible to have a child, and I’m grateful for all those who have paved the way, and for the doctors and nurs and everyone volved my son’s birth.

As a gay kid, I never thought would be possible to have a child, and I’m grateful for all those who have paved the way, and for the doctors and nurs and everyone volved my son's birth. The openly gay star later told People: “When I was 12 years old and knew I was gay and thought about my life, always upset me bee I thought, ‘I will never be able to have a kid..

ANRSON SPEAKS TO LEGENDARY AIDS AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Anrson Cooper has announced that he is gay.

IS ANRSON COOPER GAY?

The biggt star at CNN, Cooper has long been mored to be gay but has largely kept his personal life private. “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 wr.

Anrson speaks to legendary AIDs and gay rights activist.

ANRSON COOPER REVEALS HOW RICHARD GERE HELPED HIM REALIZE HE'S GAY: 'I COULDN'T SPEAK'

Anrson Cooper talks to Peter Staley about his new memoir chroniclg his life as an AIDS and gay rights activist. Is Anrson Cooper Gay?

Y, Anrson Cooper is gay.