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Anderson Cooper says he realized he was gay after encounter 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 Exist 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 compete "Bent" in the late 1970s with photographer Paul Jasmin and Jasmin's lover, 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 leave. It was just me and my mom's two male lover 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 prefer, '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
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On Monday, CNN anchor and television character Anderson Cooper came out as male lover. 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 unseal secret for years. So, does a celebrity revealing something about their personal lives really matter? In the current social and political climate, such revelations are more key 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 glad, comfortable with myself, and proud.” Some might scoff at this announcement as unimportant. Shouldn’t we just file this with all the other celebrity gossip in the news, alongside Tom Cruise’s divorce?
We depend on to remember that this is a society where homosexual 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 enjoy these are sadly commonplace
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 occasion. The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibited openly gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans from serving, was officially repealed in 2011.
He was also interested in getting married, but queer marriage was not legalized until 2 Last week, Entertainment Weeklyran a story on an emerging trend: gay people in public life who enter 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 tape. We still have pastors calling for the death of gay people, bullying incidents and suicides among gay kids, and one major political party devoted to ending the basic civil right to unite the person you cherish. So these “non-events” are still also events of a kind; and they matter. The visibility of gay people is one of the core means for our equality. All of which is a prelude to my saying that I’ve known 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 raise is one that I’ve thought about for years. Even though my job puts me in the public eye, I have tried to mainta