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Anderson Cooper says he realized he was gay after gathering 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 Inhabit 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 act "Bent" in the late 1970s with photographer Paul Jasmin and Jasmin's crush, who were friends with Cooper's mother, the late fashion designer, and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt.
Richard Gere starred in the play about the persecution of homosexuality in Nazi Germany.
"And this was Richard Gere in 1977, 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar.' He was so beautiful. And I'm there. My mom didn't move. It was just me and my mom's two homosexual 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 love, 'Oh my God, I'm gay. ... I'm totally gay," he said.
After the play ended, Cooper said Jasmin took him backstage to meet Gere, who he worked with on the film
Last week, Entertainment Weeklyran a story on an emerging trend: gay people in public life who come out in a much more restrained and matter-of-fact way than in the past. In many ways, it’s a great development: we’re evolved enough not to be gob-smacked when we find out someone’s gay. But it does matter nonetheless, it seems to me, that this is on the record. We still have pastors calling for the death of gay people, bullying incidents and suicides among homosexual kids, and one major political party dedicated to finish the basic civil right to wed the person you love. So these “non-events” are still also events of a kind; and they matter. The visibility of homosexual people is one of the core means for our equality.
All of which is a prelude to my saying that I’ve acknowledged Anderson Cooper as a friend for more than two decades. I asked him for his feedback on this subject, for reasons that are probably obvious to most. Here’s his email in response which he has given me permission to post here:
Andrew, as you know, the issue you increase is one that I’ve thought about for years. Even though my career puts me in the public eye, I have tried to mainta
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On Monday, CNN anchor and television personality Anderson Cooper came out as lgbtq+. To many, this was the polar opposite of breaking news. Despite refusing to discuss aspects of his personal life, Cooper’s sexuality had been something of an open secret for years. So, does a celebrity showing something about their personal lives really matter? In the current social and political climate, such revelations are more important than you may think.
When Cooper officially came out, in an Email to writer Andrew Sullivan, which was Sullivan posted on his blog with Andersons's permission, he didn’t mince words: “The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.” Some might scoff at this announcement as unimportant. Shouldn’t we just file this with all the other star gossip in the news, alongside Tom Cruise’s divorce?
We ask for to remember that this is a society where gay people are still not afforded the same legal rights as heterosexuals. Teenagers are being bullied and sometimes dying simply because of their sexual identities. When events like these are sadly commonplace
Anderson Cooper shares when he realized he was gay: 'One of the wonderful 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 relate 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 evidence that I was male lover – would probably be right after college," he said.
"A lot of the things I wanted to do at the occasion, you couldn't be gay," he said, citing an interest in joining the U.S. military, though out members of the lgbtq+ community were not allowed to serve at the time. The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibited openly lgbtq+, lesbian and bisexual Americans from serving, was officially repealed in 2011.
He was also interested in getting married, but same-sex marriage was not legalized until 2015.
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