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Anderson Cooper: 'I'm gay'
NEW YORK (AP) - CNN's Anderson Cooper came out in a letter online, saying "the fact is, I'm gay."
Cooper said Monday in a note to the Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan that he had kept his sexual orientation personal for personal and professional reasons, but came to think that remaining silent had given some people an impression that he was ashamed.
He said he couldn't be any more happy and comfortable with himself.
Cooper, the son of Gloria Vanderbilt, had distant been the subject of rumors about his sexual orientation. He said that in a perfect society, it wouldn't be anyone's business, but that there is value in "standing up and being counted."
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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 idea 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 talk about the matter on air.
He wrote in the email, <link> <caption>published by Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Beast</caption> <url href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/anderson-cooper-the-fact-is-im-gay.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> : "It's develop clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken impact that I am trying to cover something."
He continues: "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more joyful, comfortable with myself and proud.
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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 Reside 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 1970s 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 act 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 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 same-sex attracted. ... I'm totally gay," he said.
After the play ended, Cooper said Jasmin took him backstage to join Gere, who he worked with on the motion picture
(CBS News) Anderson Cooper has been subject to much speculation about his sexual orientation.
The journalist put any questions to rest on Monday in an email written to The Daily Beast blogger/reporter Andrew Sullivan.
"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," Cooper, 45, wrote.
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"I acquire always been very reveal and honest about this part of my existence with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect nature, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted," the journalist continued in the email to his friend of more than 20 years. "I'm not an activist, but I am a human entity and I don't offer that up by entity a journalist."
In his note, the CBS "60 Minutes" contributor talked a lot about journalists' roles.
"As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their secret life shouldn't matter," Cooper explained. "I've stuck to those principles for my entire professional career, even when I've been directly asked 'the gay question,' which happens occasionally."
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Anderson Cooper shares when he realized he was gay: 'One of the fantastic 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 second, but I realized something was up," Cooper said in a Q&A session Monday on CNN's "Full Circle," adding that he began to explain friends when he was in elevated school but still struggled through college with fully loving himself.
"I think I really, truly approved it – and not just standard 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 male lover community were not allowed to provide at the moment. The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibited openly gay, woman loving woman and bisexual Americans from serving, was officially repealed in 2011.
He was also interested in getting married, but homosexual marriage was not legalized until 2015.
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