Jenna Wolfe, Today Show Anchor, Com Out as Gay, Announc She's Expectg a Baby Girl Wh Girliend Stephanie Gosk - Us Weekly

Contents:

• ABC NEWS APPOTS GAY CORRPONNT G BENEZ AS CO-ANCHOR OF ‘GMA’ WEEKENDS
• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
• MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)
• JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
• ON AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPORTER AT A MAJOR NEWSPAPER
• THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world. 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. Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist.

The Emerson College assistant profsor is also a producer of the upg film Michael, based on his Tim Magaze piece about his "ex-gay" iend. Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn.

ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'

ABC News has promoted gay rrponnt G Benez by namg him one of the work’s flagship weekend programs’ -anchors. "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.

MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)

"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.

JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK

"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.

Wh the announcement this week that liberal journalist Steve Kornacki of Salon will take over weekend roundtable show, Up, MSNBC is addg s third openly gay anchor to the lp. Maddow, who is gay, often lled upon Kornacki as a Roberts, who was recently married to Patrick Abner New York, also hosts his own midday show on the channel and was before that anchor for The Advote's onle newsst, which is no longer productn. It's 2011, after all, and I live Manhattan, surround social and profsnal settgs by gay people.

ON AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPORTER AT A MAJOR NEWSPAPER

They didn't thk I was terted any kd of relatnship - straight or gay. In a special appearance on Today and, later, a blog on the show's webse, the 39-year-old NBC rrponnt me out as gay and announced that she and her girliend, fellow NBC journalist Stephanie Gosk, are expectg a dghter at the end of Augt.

Shilts, often hailed as one of the natn’s first openly gay reporters for a major daily newspaper, was not the first choice on the list. As the edors at the San Francis Chronicle began to unrstand that they uld no longer ignore—or ny—that gay people were a major polil, enomic, and social force the muny, the stoic Chronicle took a bold step and sought out an openly gay reporter to ver gay-related stori the cy.

THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS

The Chronicle already had an unofficial “gay beat” via the work of cy-si reporter Ron Moswz, a wrer who moved over to journalism 1967 after workg as an ai to California ernor Edmund G. Moswz had begun quietly verg gay news as early as 1977 and wrote a noteworthy seri of articl 1979 about a policy of the US Immigratn and Naturalizatn Service that prohibed openly gay tourists om enterg the untry. As a rult, his tle as “the first openly gay reporter on a major daily newspaper” actually needs an asterisk.

Edor Alan Mutter relled that some qutns of objectivy persisted for some, but he and other edors were nsistent their statements to the newspaper’s edorial staff (and to rears) that they saw no nflict of tert havg a gay man report on gay issu, cludg AIDS, a disease epimic primarily impactg gay men. “Everybody went out of their way to be nice and supportive of me, and there had been somebody else the newsroom before me who was gay, so the edors and reporters were iendly, ” Shilts said. Origally assigned to ver general assignment stori, cludg some stori om the gay muny, as a new reporter Shilts took whatever an edor sent his way.

“That was fe wh me, bee I didn’t want to ver jt gay stuff, even though that was part of what I wanted to do, ” he said.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Shilts “was the first reporter that I know of who uld see that this was not simply gog to be a gay disease. The story that would fe Shilts’s legacy as a journalist and thor me via overheard nversatns and discsns throughout the gay muny durg his very first days the Chronicle newsroom.

Rumors about a “gay ncer” or ser illns affectg the gay muny quickly reached Shilts, who was always tapped to the latt news the gay muny. Marc Conant, a lol rmatologist, was among the lol health profsnals soundg early alarms of a problem as he began to treat more gay men showg symptoms of a rare sk ncer, Kaposi’s sara. ” He advised, “The Chronicle wants me to keep generally on top of gay muny issu” and ved Conant to share story ias wh him.