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CNN presenter Anderson Cooper announces he is gay
CNN presenter Anderson Cooper has publicly announced that he is gay.
In an email published online, Cooper said he was proud of his sexuality and had decided to speak out in case anyone thought he was ashamed.
The son of socialite Gloria Vanderbilt, he said he had not previously spoken out on his sexual orientation for personal and professional reasons.
CNN said it had no comment and there were no plans for Cooper to discuss the matter on air.
He wrote in the email, <link> <caption>published by Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Beast</caption> <url href="" platform="highweb"/> </link> : "It's become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken impression that I am trying to mask something."
He continues: "The proof is, I'm gay, always own been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself and proud.
"I have always been very open a
Anderson Cooper said he is gay and “couldn't be any more happy,” revealing in an online letter that he had been reluctant to talk about his personal life but realized the value of "standing up and being counted."
"The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, pleasant with myself, and proud," Cooper, 45, wrote in a letter to journalist Andrew Sullivan. The CNN anchor and talk demonstrate host gave permission for the letter to be published on the Daily Beast website.
Sullivan had asked Cooper to weigh in on the subject of how celebrities have been coming out in recent months, with particular reference to an Entertainment Weekly cover story that addressed the way stars such as Matt Bomer and Jim Parsons hold taken a low-key approach to revealing their sexuality in the media.
Cooper, who had never publicly addressed his sexual orientation before, explained his reticence to reach out in the past by saying that, "I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to
Anderson Cooper says he realized he was gay after meeting a shirtless Richard Gere backstage at a Broadway play
Anderson Cooper opened up about the moment he realized he was gay on Friday during the "Andy Cohen Live Pride Special" on SiriusXM's "Radio Andy."
The CNN host sat down with Cohen and actor John Hill at the iconic Stonewall Inn in New York City. People reports Cooper recalled watching the Broadway play "Bent" in the late s with photographer Paul Jasmin and Jasmin's boyfriend, who were friends with Cooper's mother, the late fashion designer, and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt.
Richard Gere starred in the compete about the persecution of homosexuality in Nazi Germany.
"And this was Richard Gere in , 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar.' He was so beautiful. And I'm there. My mom didn't go. It was just me and my mom's two gay friends," he said.
Cooper called the opening scene, in which a man gets out of bed completely naked and puts on a uniform, "the gayest thing you can imagine."
"And I just remember being like, 'Oh my God, I'm gay. I'm totally gay," he said.
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Anderson Cooper shares when he realized he was gay: 'One of the great blessings of my life'
Though he publicly came out almost 10 years ago, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper says he first knew "something was different" around the age of 6 or 7.
"I'm not sure I knew the word 'gay' at the time, but I realized something was up," Cooper said in a Q&A session Monday on CNN's "Full Circle," adding that he began to tell friends when he was in high school but still struggled through college with fully loving himself.
"I think I really, truly accepted it – and not just accepted it, but fully embraced it and came around to really loving the fact that I was gay – would probably be right after college," he said.
"A lot of the things I wanted to do at the time, you couldn't be gay," he said, citing an interest in joining the U.S. military, though out members of the gay community were not allowed to serve at the noun. The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibited openly gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans from serving, was officially repealed in
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