Tth About Anrson Cooper's Gay Partner Benjam Maisani and Fay Life

Contents:

• ANRSON COOPER SAYS HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY AFTER MEETG A SHIRTLS RICHARD GERE BACKSTAGE AT A BROADWAY PLAY
• ANRSON COOPER REVEALS WHEN HE KNEW — AND ACCEPTED — HE WAS GAY
• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
• ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’
• TTHS ABOUT ANRSON COOPER’S GAY PARTNER AND FAY
• OPENLY GAY ANRSON COOPER SPL WH RTRANTER PARTNER; BOYIEND STILL FAY

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

Anrson Cooper opened up about the moment he realized he was gay Friday on "Rad Andy. Anrson Cooper opened up about the moment he realized he was gay on Friday durg the "Andy Cohen Live Pri Special" on SiriXM's "Rad Andy. Richard Gere starred the play about the persecutn of homosexualy Nazi Germany.

It was jt me and my mom's two gay iends, " he lled the openg scene, which a man gets out of bed pletely naked and puts on a uniform, "the gayt thg you n image. ""And I jt remember beg like, 'Oh my God, I'm gay....

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

I'm totally gay, " he the play end, Cooper said Jasm took him backstage to meet Gere, who he worked wh on the film "Amerin Gigolo.

He said he didn't tell her he was gay until he graduated llege, and although she was "ol about , " she told him not to make any "fe cisns. July 2, 2012: Anrson Cooper out as gay.

Cooper publicly me out as gay July of 2012 an open letter to his longtime iend, journalist Andrew Sullivan. "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 wrote.

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

"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. 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.

ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’

"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.

"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.

TTHS ABOUT ANRSON COOPER’S GAY PARTNER AND FAY

"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.

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.

"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.

OPENLY GAY ANRSON COOPER SPL WH RTRANTER PARTNER; BOYIEND STILL FAY

"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.