Anrson Cooper Com Out: 'The Fact Is, I'm Gay' | HuffPost Voic

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• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
• ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — HE WAS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER COM OUT: 'THE FACT IS, I'M GAY'
• ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW HE WAS GAY AND WHY TOOK SO LONG TO E OUT
• ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY
• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT HE WAS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER OUT AS GAY
• WHY IT MATTERS THAT ANRSON COOPER CAME OUT AS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER KNEW HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS OLD

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.

ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — HE WAS GAY

"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The ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibed openly gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins om servg, was officially repealed 2011.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 COOPER COM OUT: 'THE FACT IS, I'M GAY'

Anrson Cooper is openg up about when he realized he was gay — and when he "really, tly accepted . "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. Somethg was different, " he said, rpondg to someone who asked him how he learned to accept beg gay and how old he was when he did.

The news anchor said that while he had told people high school, wasn't until after llege that he "me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay. "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, " the father of one ntued, explag that "a lot of the thgs I wanted to do at the time, you uldn't be gay.

ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW HE WAS GAY AND WHY TOOK SO LONG TO E OUT

"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, " he said, addg that his perspective has "ma me a better person, and 's ma me a better reporter. " In 2016, the journalist was the first out gay man to morate a printial bate.

"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, ' " Cooper said June for PEOPLE's first-ever Pri issue. Anrson Cooper has, at long last, publicly said he is gay. "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 's sexualy has long been the subject of ample media speculatn, but he has never publicly nfirmed .

"Prevly, the 45-year-old CNN anchor and daytime talk show host has been romantilly lked to Benjam Maisani, the -owner of New York Cy gay bars Eastern Bloc and a photograph of Cooper and Maisani below, then scroll down to keep readg: Cooper be at least the sixth, though by far the most high-profile, openly gay anchor the ble news bs.

ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY

Jt fifteen years ago, Ellen DeGener revealed she was gay a storm of magaze vers and publicy. Gay rights group GLAAD also issued a statement. Page Six today has a not-very-thly-veiled em about Anrson Cooper gog on a very gay vatn wh his very gay boyiend who owns a very gay bar.

ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE KNEW — AND WHEN HE ACCEPTED — THAT HE WAS GAY

Enough: Anrson Cooper is very gay.

" CNN cled to Cooper is gay is no longer a sop. Wh today's em Page Six may have exhsted all the ways to say "He's GAY GAY GAY!

ANRSON COOPER OUT AS GAY

Every 'mo New York knows Eastern Bloc is a grty, dirty gay bar ("a te man meat bar") that often has boy-on-boy porn playg on s TVs. (The stencil over the DJ booth offers "Free Motache Ris" and one outsi once read "One Gay at a Time, Sweet J. Word on the street is that Madonna's recent appearance there had ls to do wh her gettg back to her East Village gay roots and more to do wh the fact that she was wh Cooper, who wanted to play "whose boy toy is hotter" wh 's see-through closet is such a joke that don't make sense to ll him the closet anymore.

He is part of an creasgly large crowd of notabl who won't e out but have given up tryg to hi that they are gay. Ricky Mart has stopped even tryg to fight the gay mors. Jodie Foster has never said she's a lbian out loud, but she basilly me out when she thanked her partner an acceptance gay-not-gay celebri are different om the Hugh Jackmans, John Travoltas, Tom Cis, and Kenny Chneys, who are all nstantly plagued wh gay mors that they strenuoly try to ny or flect.

If they're gay, they're dog secret. Cooper and his set of horts live openly gay liv — and that's a good thg — but they refe to acknowledge what the public already Anrson Cooper's specific se, we sort of unrstand why he won't open his mouth and let the rabows fly.

WHY IT MATTERS THAT ANRSON COOPER CAME OUT AS GAY

Every time he tried to ver somethg havg to do wh gay civil rights (or Madonna or Fire Island) plenty of people would claim that his reportg was biased bee of his sexual orientatn. Rachel Maddow has paved the way, but all the baby gays out there need you to man up and be our Jackie Robson. Anrson Cooper me out as a gay man this morng, via a movg statement on his iend Andrew Sullivan’s blog.

But do matter that gay men and lbians e out: Negative attus to gay people cle when people have an openly gay iend or relative their liv. There is nothg wrong wh beg gay, but refg to talk about one’s sexualy mak seem as though there might be.

ANRSON COOPER KNEW HE WAS GAY AT 7 YEARS OLD

It also reflects the sid realy of homophobia—people hi the tth about who they love for the same reasons that people hi their relign, their polil views, or plited fay stctur: bee they’re aaid that someone will e agast them. CNN newsman Anrson Cooper has opened up about the first time he realized he was gay, and the long procs towards personal acceptance that followed. Rpondg to a qutn about his personal g out procs, he said: “I was probably seven when I realized… I’m not sure I knew the word gay at the time, but I realized somethg was up, that somethg that was different.