Comments on: PHOTOS: Anderson Cooper Rides (With) Chiseled Gent

By: asta

asta — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:11:27 +0000

I don’t know about Anderson being gay but I certainly have my doubts and like him anyway. As for Shep, he has been married and is divorced and never has there been any gossip about him.He goes back to Mississippi every chance he gets and seems to be close to his family. A gay man would seem to stay in NY more.

By: Tj

Tj — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:05:00 +0000

@Nitesurf:

I met AC in a gay bar, Splash, before he was very famous.

I’ve seen AC smiling and waving atop a float in a Gay Pride parade.

If that isn’t “out” I don’t know what is.

By: Riker

Riker — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:16:02 +0000

I see AC at my gym practically everyday. He is really remote and not terribly friendly, only talks with his trainer. So essentially he is the same guy you see on television: cool, reserved, not very relaxed at all.

By: mikey

mikey — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:15:49 +0000

@TANK: i thought he was looking at that woman’s ass too! lol!

By: declanto

declanto — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:13:16 +0000

@Shae: The frown could be he’s pissed off about being stalked in his daily life.

As far as coming out, he seems to be living pretty openly IMHO. What do we expect- neon?

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:18:21 +0000

(1) wish he’d come out already.
(2) sooo not into the muscleyness.
(3) LOL THE FROWN! aww frowny!anderson is adorable haha.

By: schlukitz

schlukitz — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:36:33 +0000

No. 61 · Mark

My beef with this is that Ben owns a gay bar in NY called
Eastern Bloc.That does not sound like good parental potential
to me.Ben cannot possibly be a father right now at this time in his life.

My, aren’t we a veritable paragon of virtue and morality?

I own a leather shop in New York City. By your standards, did that make me incapable of being a good father, raising a son, who is now 40 years of age, is married with three children and owns a successful business of his own?

It’s Anderson Cooper’s life and he is free to do with it as he wishes, and choose whom he wishes for his life partner. It’s not for you to make that decision for him.

Busy-body much, do you?

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:45:58 +0000

I have read some articles regarding Anderson and his boyfriend

Ben adopting a Haitian boy.

My beef with this is that Ben owns a gay bar in NY called

Eastern Bloc.That does not sound like good parental potential

to me.

From what I have seen of Anderson lately in Haiti is a compassionate

caring man but me thinks mr cooper is still thinking with his willy wonka

cause Ben cannot possibly be a father right now at this time in his life.

I think Anderson could do much better than this guy.

Thanks, Mark

By: Kayleen_cooper

Kayleen_cooper — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:55:09 +0000

Anderson , i love you , i hope the gay rumors are just that rumors, u are so veryyyyy hot.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:08:53 +0000

Why do we even care if Anderson is gay or not? His private life is private — let’s just leave it at that.

By: MakeItNotBeTrue

MakeItNotBeTrue — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:46:20 +0000

Cooper is a disgrace. He wants to have it both ways, like so many other fucked-up self-hating queens in Hollywood. But, karma is a bitch: he is dead-last in the ratings. Mr. Coop, your 15 minutes are up!
Oh wait, maybe he will finally come out as ratings stunt!

By: rayy

rayy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:05:23 +0000

I whole-heartedly approve! Maisani is hott! You go, Coop!

By: Warren

Warren — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:34:57 +0000

There is a holy place in Anderson Coopers spirit, and it is quite evident in his manner. I often wonder abouth the culture of the American people and the gossip that fills their head, how it has been burned into the consciousness of certain people who really need to examine themselves and their own psychological makeup. When one gossips, one causes separation and forgets their own spiritual mirror, and Anderson Cooper just because of his wealth or fame does not give any one the right to discuss his social arena or his sexuality, by far his intelect speaks for it self and so does his compassion and great wisdom.

love

Warren Le Johnson

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:30:46 +0000

@AlwaysGay:
AMEN to THAT!!! Really dig sweaty armpits on hot, sexy, suckers too!

By: schlukitz

schlukitz — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:07:24 +0000

@Starry Eyed:

Your points are well-taken, Starry Eyed. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with the rest of us.

By: Starry Eyed

Starry Eyed — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:19:36 +0000

I am truly saddened by these pictures, only because Anderson Cooper is a decent, empathic, caring person who has had his share of tragedy with his father dying at age 50 and losing his brother to suicide which affected him very deeply. Eventho he was born to famous parents writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt this does not mean his pain was any less than if you or I had experienced this in our lives. I “fell in love” with Anderson when he did the story of the West Virginia coal miners who were trapped for days with only one survivor making it out of the mines. The whole town fell in love with Anderson, he showed heartfelt sympathy and much, much empathy for these people and they felt it, I felt it, America felt it. Please,let’s don’t judge him on his private life as that should be his to own not ours to tear apart. Check out his support for many causes such as New Orleans against violence, marching against wildfires in California and others. Let’s concentrate on all the good he’s done and the fact that he is a genuine, down-to-earth, likeable, entertaining journalist, leave his personal life alone as it is absolutely none of our business.

By: shane

shane — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:54:01 +0000

@Marius: I think your right anderson sometimes acts like a queen when it comes to fashion

By: shane

shane — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:51:53 +0000

@M Shane: lol i hope not because that purse is ugly

By: Marius

Marius — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:51:20 +0000

@shane:

Perhaps checking out is the wrong term. Maybe wondering why she made that unflattering fashion choice. His mother knows something about jeans. Genetics.

By: M Shane

M Shane — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:56:47 +0000

Fox has gone through journalists head over heels nonestop: most of them have quit, unable to tolerate Murdoch’s daily personal editing of the news. They admitedly got his version of events daily to crib from..

Watch “OUTFOXED’ .They interview the flock of ex-foxers. Truly amazing that one Neocon writs the news. But re; A.C. It seems very often that gays are less concientious about what they’ll do for money. Part of assimilation?

By: M Shane

M Shane — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:19:39 +0000

Shane:He probably is looking enviously at the purse!

By: shane

shane — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:07:18 +0000

how can anderson cooper be gay when he is checking out that girl ass?

By: ?

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:51:55 +0000

AC is that you @ No. 45?

By: me

me — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:11:24 +0000

look at all these comments. only one of them mine.

By: londonbridge

londonbridge — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:20:17 +0000

Old chicken makes good soup!

By: schlukitz

schlukitz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:43:43 +0000

@HellsKitchen:

I believe the helmet law pertains only to motorcycle operators. Please do correct me if I am wrong.

By: mk

mk — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:27:09 +0000

Now that weak token liberal Colmes left Faux, Shep has become the only person they have that could remotely suggest any sort of “balance” and he gets good ratings. I don’t imagine they’ll get rid of him for those couple of outbursts. I’m not even absolutely sure that they weren’t strategically planned outbursts. Shep has been doing interviews about how he says what he wants and is uncensored and it’s being used by the interviewers as proof that while Faux late night “opinion” shows have a bias their news coverage does not (which is laughable).

By: Cam

Cam — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:15:12 +0000

@mk: you said “Some people have wondered if his days are numbered on Faux, but I think they’ll keep him around so they can point to him and say “look, we aren’t totally 100% orthodox conservative al the time!”.:
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I was wondering the same thing after he blew up at that guy yelling “The United States is NOT supposed to tortoure” and when he spoke about the psycho e-mails he gets.

By: mk

mk — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:22:20 +0000

Not explicitly homophobic that I’ve seen or heard of, although he hasn’t actually rejected or distanced himself at all from the pro-republican and anti-gay stance of his network. These days he actually seems to be the only remotely rational and remotely voice on Faux, and he’s drawn heat from republicans after the assassination of the abortion doctor by speaking out on the network about all the scary crazy emails they get from conservatives and the dangerous anger that’s building out there. Some people have wondered if his days are numbered on Faux, but I think they’ll keep him around so they can point to him and say “look, we aren’t totally 100% orthodox conservative al the time!”.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:12:01 +0000

@mk: I had no clue he was gay.Is he homophobic? All I know is that he works for foux and that he likes O’reilly and Glen Beck who are both serious homophobes.

By: mk

mk — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:04:23 +0000

@Michael: Yes, Shep Smith is gay. There are a number of gay personalities on TV news and he is one of them. Normally Anderson Cooper is the only one that gets outed or discussed, but very occasionally you see Shep outed like he just was in the documentary Outrage.

By: Nitesurf

Nitesurf — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:36:12 +0000

Oh wow, it’s pretty surreal to get namechecked in a Queerty update! I promise not to let it go to my head…..

@RRR, good point about New Yorker’s generally indifferent attitude towards celebrities and it’s also true that AC is not in the “Brangelina” category of fame.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:57:26 +0000

Is shep Smith gay?

By: mk

mk — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:29:45 +0000

@princedeligne: There is a component of accomplishment, social significance or even just fame to being a “gay celebrity”. Something more than having a tan and some height. Anderson Cooper is a celebrity who is gay, while the twinks in pics here and on your subway are not, so it’s natural for that to make him more likely to be received as a gay celebrity.

By: alan brickman

alan brickman — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:59:41 +0000

blue shirt guy is hot..

By: princedeligne

princedeligne — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:41:44 +0000

The gentleman in question was a cocktail waiter at Barracuda in Chelsea several years ago and has worked in other bars as well. Its a surprise to see him in daylight. Don’t know why Mr.Cooper is received as some kind of gay celebrity, he’s a well respected journalist, but,who knew him before his CNN gig? He was a rather lackluster,boring, distant guest on the Ellen Degeneres show not very long ago. Is he all that great looking? Rather short and pasty as compared to the other beauties often featured here. I see plenty of guys on the subway that are much more attractive.

By: rrr

rrr — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:29:45 +0000

@Nitesurf: Celebs are left alone for the most part in NY by citizens, and even a news guy with “it factor” going for him isn’t enough to attract paparazzi around there either. If he was an actor or singer or hung around with big name stars instead of regular guys he’d be in more paparazzi snaps.

I remember that blind item but I wouldn’t count on there being anything “infamous” about the bartender except the unremarkable fact that he is known to run a gay bar. The blind item actually referred to a “TV icon”, so I think the writer was playing fast and loose with exagerrated labels. AC is famous and successful in news but there’s no way he’s attained the status of “TV icon”. TV icon is for people like Dick Clark or Johnny Carson.

By: Nitesurf

Nitesurf — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:48:20 +0000

@RRR, I understand your point but Sam Champion and Shep Smith just don’t have the “it” factor that AC does and nobody cares who they’re sleeping with–the abundance of gossip items about AC here and on other sites speaks to that. Anderson’s out and about a lot around NYC and his “disguise” of wearing a cap to cover his silver locks really isn’t fooling anyone, so that’s why I was a little curious why we haven’t seen more pics.

There was an old blind item about a “gay icon” dating an “infamous bartender” in NYC, well I suppose we have the answer to that now but why the guy is infamous is anyone’s guess.

By: Ima Tellya

Ima Tellya — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:10:54 +0000

Damn, da-da-damn, damn, damn. I wonder if they have have permits for those guns.

By: mikeandrewsdantescove

mikeandrewsdantescove — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:04:53 +0000

They both look hot. Talk about biceps.

I can tell Anderson seems uncomfortable in this photo.

Mike
http://jjadams928.blogspot.com/