<p>As someone who has never (as far as I know) purported to being otherwise, I’m not sure why this is news.</p>
<p>Okay - I just checked. Fox, CNN, and MSNBC all have it in the ‘Entertainment’ sections of their websites. </p>
<p>I still don’t see why anyone cares. It adds nothing and takes nothing away from what he does for a living IMO.</p>
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<p>The sad part is, the pressure to do so comes almost solely from the LGBT community itself.</p>
<p>I thought this news was news a year or two ago. In other news, Franco clings to life.</p>
<p>“Would it be a headline if Hannity came out as straight?”</p>
<p>Hannity is straight?</p>
<p>I had to Google Hannity. And the first thing I saw on his website was his paid endorsement for investing in gold.</p>
<p>^I had to google Anderson Cooper.lol</p>
<p>I never knew until recently that Anderson Cooper was a great grandson of the ultra wealthy Vanderbilt scion, Cornelius Vanderbilt. I recently toured Biltmore estate in Asheville, NC and became interested in that family’s history. </p>
<p>I did, however, know that he was gay before this announcement, whether by instinct or by other means, I cannot recall.</p>
<p>Anderson Cooper’s email to Andrew Sullivan: [Anderson</a> Cooper: “The Fact Is, I’m Gay.”](<a href=“http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/anderson-cooper-the-fact-is-im-gay.html]Anderson”>http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/anderson-cooper-the-fact-is-im-gay.html)</p>
<p>Its not pressure from the lgbt community to come out. I kind of see it this way. When a personal matter is brought into the public arena, it becomes less taboo. Years ago, women pretended they were virgins. People hid they were adopted. People changed names to be more American. It’s not that he is advertising I am gay, it’s more here is another aspect to who I am and I am know ready to share. </p>
<p>Kevin spacey is gay, and sigh, like Anderson, wish he swung the other way. It is important for gay men and women in the public eye to be more open. Sadly there are still homophobes and the more people see gays out and thriving, the more it wil help the kid who is being bullied. If Anderson coming out helps one kid, that’s a good thing.</p>
<p>Ps I have known he is gay years. And what a good looking, smart, charming, funny man.</p>
<p>Sorry, but gay or not, I don’t watch him because for me he talks too fast and does not enunciate.
He is good looking, though.</p>
<p>wasn’t he already out?</p>
<p>When I see someone, celebrity or not, I don’t give a second’s thought to their sexual orientation. I didn’t know Kevin Spacey was gay, but I realized I’d never given it a moments thought, and again, it matters not.</p>
<p>He has a good show. I think more people should watch it. I am not surprised he is gay, but I would be devastated if he came out as left-handed. :)</p>
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<p>Probably because you are happy to focus on the wonderful acting performances of Kevin Spacey. And probably, because he does not make great efforts to let his purported sexual preference … define him. The same could be said about AC. One can like or detest him based on his journalistic performances without having to worry about whom is the beneficiary of his affection. AC success, just as Don Lemon’s, has been to minimize their sexuality (without hiding it) in conducting interviews with people who clearly find their choices offensive. Plenty of TV or radio people are totally unable to do the same with political or religious views! </p>
<p>Observers are correct that the progress in this matter will be measured by our ability to stop noticing or worrying about the sexual preferences of others. On the other hand, it could also be said that it could be measured by the need for some to allow their entire life to be defined by that same sexual preferences, and constantly make their personal and private choices a matter of public interest.</p>
<p>Given that I wasn’t planning to hit on him, why would I care?</p>
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<p>I agree that it shouldn’t matter, but the fact is that there still a lot of prejudice in the world and a lot of agents and spokespeople telling celebrities that it is a good idea for them to remain in the closet. And real consequences. So good for him. I think that the more celebrities that are out and acting like their sexuality is nothing to be ashamed of, the better struggling kids in middle school will feel about themselves and their prospective futures. </p>
<p>I agree that it was kind of an open secret with Anderson Cooper, though.</p>
<p>On another barely related note, Neil Patrick Harris is gay! Like Kevin Spacey, I wouldn’t just guess NPH is gay… He plays the playboy type guy in like every movie, ahah. I love him to death though, in the non-romantic sense…=P</p>
<p>jym, I saw your friend and her partner on Melissa Harris Perry recently - what a cute couple! I am horrified to hear that there has been a backlash against them.</p>