His employers know.

The interviewees know.

I expect his family know.

His boyfriend knows.

Bergdorf’s know.

We know.

Who else is important?

We don’t know if he votes Republican (and I don’t suggest he does or worse, should) but hey, what have the Democrats done for us lately?

One can’t put the nice bits of one’s private life out into the public domain with lovely little fluff appeareances on Oprah and endorsing this, that and the other without giving the media the green light to go after the dirt under the rug. Just ask Tiger.

It’s ok to say “my private life is my private life”.

It’s not ok to say one thing and do another. If there is evidence that he does that in any meaningful way, then fine, hang him out to dry.

Otherwise, relax and enjoy the view. It’s pretty nice and isn’t spoilt whenever he opens his mouth.

And as news anchors go, he’s better than the average bear (in the Yogi sense of the word).

What, is CNN going to fire him for being gay? If anything, CNN could use the ratings!

Rachel Maddow is out and proud, and she doesn’t have the Vanderbilt fortune behind her.

@cam The privacy, or personal right, to not have other people, the government, the church, who ever, make decisions about your personal life, or judge you all the time.

What news anchor get pictures published of him with his partner buying gum ~anywhere~, except for Cooper?

It’s ridiculous to suggest he is ashamed of being gay. He’s made it clear this is about privacy and work for him. Anyone who knows he is gay, and that’s not hard to find out, knows he’s leading a perfectly content private life being gay, no bearding, no denial, he goes on dates, he goes to gay bars, he hangs out with other gay friends, and makes no effort of hiding interests that might make him come off as gay in his public life. He might have an extra platform, but as it is, he’s perfectly fine being as out as you and most people here are, and it’s not hard to see that.

As above:”All those things – my brother’s suicide, my father’s death – were in the public domain. To me, I wasn’t writing a tell-all narrative about my life; it was a book about loss, war, disasters and survival.” He also doesn’t talk about his two other brothers and plenty of other things besides who he sleeps with.

Cooper is not part of the problem. This whole “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” mentality is way too simple. There’s not just one way of doing things, Cooper gives a lot of coverage to gay issues compared to other anchors, he supports several aids charities, an issue within the community, he was the only anchor to cover the gay teen bullying suicides. He’s a likable guy who’s happy with himself, who happens to be gay and happens to be private. That’s still a good image to have out there.

A lot of those celebrity couples in tabloids don’t consent or cooperate with the couple profiling. It’s smarter for celebrities and better for their relationships if they try to keep the media and public out of that.

It’s up to the media to treat gay and straight celebrities the same. We can’t realistically expect gay celebrities to voluntarily give up privacy in areas they don’t want to and they know could hurt their careers. The hands off approach of the MSM helps them, and they naturally aren’t going to want to spoil it for themselves especially if they are rumored playboys trying to maintain good public images for their job like Anderson Cooper.

It makes zero sense for a CNN news anchor to open up to the press about the fact he is dating a beefy frenchman who bartends shirtless in divey gay bar with a communist theme. CNN is already mocked as the Communist News Network by the right, and you don’t see any other national news anchors doing relationship profiles in US Weekly with some guy or woman they’re dating. In an equal world the press would disregard his lack of cooperation and report on his relationships to the same extent that they report on straight anchors’ relationships, and they would report on the gay sex lives of others news people and stars like straights. In an equal world the career impact of that reporting would be the same as the career impact on straights, but hopefully we’ll get there eventually.

And just what privacy are we all supposedly demanding for our lives? I’m out there advocating for gay marriage so I can make a very public declaration of just who I am. The fact that every celeb couple is profiled extensively in magazines every time they buy a pack of gum together, yet everything about Cooper is kept quiet outside of gay blogs shows that not only Cooper but the regular mags think being gay is shameful.

He whores out his brothers Suicide, His fathers death etc… in his book and yet somehow people still pretend that Cooper doesn’t want to put his personal life out there. Give it a rest, people like Ellen and Wanda Sykes, and nowadays, Cheyenne Jackson are part of the soloution, people like Cooper are part of the problem.

All of us can come out and be out there, but it’s too much for him? give it a rest.

It was in a seperate book, it’s not like he’s interspersing it in his news coverage every chance he gets, and having dead family members is hardly as controversial as being gay would be for a news anchor. Telling one thing about yourself doesn’t mean you then owe everybody every little bit of your personal life.

Progress is when people don’t have to declare they’re gay anymore than straight people have to declare their straightness. And if they want to be private about it, they should be able to.

I agree. Neil didn’t do some major People magazine cover story–it’s completely unneccesary.

A quick blurb from a publicist or a mention in an interview with New York magazine is more than enough.

Lol!

11 months IS an LTR!!

I don’t. I think it would be a story for a bit–and it would go away, as it did with Neil, T.R. And the same thing will happen to Matt Bomer as well.

I know! And they don’t even have to be that famous. I’m always confused as to why a “Lance Bass” level of fame gets hot boyfriends.

LOL!

Who the fuck is asking him to come out then? Who? LOL. Your scenario was the poorest defense of Coop’s closet so far.

Ms. Anderson is a coward and he’s saying to the world that it’s okay for him, a gay man, to face down dictators and ask them tough questions, stand shoulder to shoulder with soldiers during a war as he covers their story and the bullets fly, take on political figures, but it’s not okay for the world to know he’s a homosexual. It’s not okay to be gay.