Anderson Cooper has discreetly managed to dodge answering the “Are you gay?” questions for quite sometime now, but that hasn’t stopped the media from continuing to speculate he’s the Silver Fox of Chelsea. In fact, curiosity about Anderson Cooper’s sexual orientation is starting to reach proportions of mass hysteria. Everyone from the gay community to the straight community wants to know one just one thing: Is Anderson Cooper Gay?
In the Radar’s recently published “Anderson Cooper’s Gay Timeline”, Anderson Cooper has been quoted as saying:
“You know, I understand why people might be interested. But I just don’t talk about my personal life. It’s a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life. The whole thing about being a reporter is that you’re supposed to be an observer and to be able to adapt with any group you’re in, and I don’t want to do anything that threatens that.”
Keith Olbermann, however, thinks it’s time for Anderson Cooper to just come clean about it. In a recent interview with New York Magazine, Keith vented about Anderson’s hypocritical reticence on the matter:
“Don’t tell me you don’t want to talk about personal life when you wrote a book about your father’s death and your brother’s death,” says Olbermann. “You can’t move this big mass of personal stuff out for public display, then people ask questions and you say, ‘Oh, no, I didn’t say there was going to be any questions.’ It’s the same thing as the Bush administration saying, ‘We’re going to war, but you really aren’t allowed to know why.’ ”……..
“Don’t tell me you can’t talk about your personal life and then, when they send you overseas and you do a report that consists of your voice-over and pictures of you in a custom-made, blue-to-match-your-eyes bulletproof vest, looking somberly at these scenes of human devastation—like a tourist—and that’s your report. Your shtick is your personal life.”
I personally believe it’s nobody’s business to “out” someone. If someone wants to come out on their own that’s fine, if not, I really don’t care. Especially when it comes to hotties like Anderson Cooper, a guy who has garnered the amorous attention of both the ladies and the gays, I don’t want to know. If I found out Anderson Cooper truly was gay, it would totally kill my daydreams about him.
He’s a smart good looking guy. I hope the chicks win this one.
He’s a smart good looking guy. I hope the chicks win this one.
Could care less who he fucks in his bed.
I can’t imagine that, in 2007, there’s still people to panic about one’s sex life.
I guess some persons out there got time to waste…
Could care less who he fucks in his bed.
I can’t imagine that, in 2007, there’s still people to panic about one’s sex life.
I guess some persons out there got time to waste…
Who cares if he is or isn’t gay. Would it change anything really except maybe destroy the wet dreams of a few women? I don understand he gay community putting so much pressure on someone out themselves either. Certainly these people should understand what a hard and very personal decision it is to come out and that its not something that someone should feel forced or pressured into doing.
Who cares if he is or isn’t gay. Would it change anything really except maybe destroy the wet dreams of a few women? I don understand he gay community putting so much pressure on someone out themselves either. Certainly these people should understand what a hard and very personal decision it is to come out and that its not something that someone should feel forced or pressured into doing.
I can understand if the gay community want more openly gay figures in media and film, but it doesn’t mean this guy or anyone else has an obligation to come out and become a role model of sorts. And this is concerning someone’s private life after all.
I can understand if the gay community want more openly gay figures in media and film, but it doesn’t mean this guy or anyone else has an obligation to come out and become a role model of sorts. And this is concerning someone’s private life after all.
That was a pretty smart move though, declaring that he wouldn’t talk about his personal life no matter what. The man’s getting even more attention and if he came out one way or the other, there’d be no more mystery.
One smart cookie!
That was a pretty smart move though, declaring that he wouldn’t talk about his personal life no matter what. The man’s getting even more attention and if he came out one way or the other, there’d be no more mystery.
One smart cookie!
I thought it was common knowledge about his being gay, which matters how much to the news stories he investigates? nada and zippo. He doesn’t deny it, so what’s the issue, really? I love him.
I thought it was common knowledge about his being gay, which matters how much to the news stories he investigates? nada and zippo. He doesn’t deny it, so what’s the issue, really? I love him.
Your taking Olbermann’s quote somewhat out of context. He’s taking about the hypocracy of Cooper writing what is essentially a tell-all about his past and then straight up refusing to talk about his present. It’s doesn’t seem to be motivated by Olbermann wanting an answer to the gay/not gay question so much as his disliking the fact that Cooper is being something of a hypocrite. “Here’s this incredibly sad story. But I won’t talk about anything else.”
Your taking Olbermann’s quote somewhat out of context. He’s taking about the hypocracy of Cooper writing what is essentially a tell-all about his past and then straight up refusing to talk about his present. It’s doesn’t seem to be motivated by Olbermann wanting an answer to the gay/not gay question so much as his disliking the fact that Cooper is being something of a hypocrite. “Here’s this incredibly sad story. But I won’t talk about anything else.”
wow im suprised at Keith really. The difference between Anderson not saying if he’s gay or not and the Bush Admin for lying is that the Bush Admin are killing innocent people and lying to the american public about their crimes… Anderson telling us whether he’s gay or not wont benefit us in any way.
wow im suprised at Keith really. The difference between Anderson not saying if he’s gay or not and the Bush Admin for lying is that the Bush Admin are killing innocent people and lying to the american public about their crimes… Anderson telling us whether he’s gay or not wont benefit us in any way.
It is his personal business. If he does not want to share intimate details which will later turn into a public label, then so be it.
It is his personal business. If he does not want to share intimate details which will later turn into a public label, then so be it.
I wish more people were like Cooper. We do not need to have a person’s sexual orientation thrust upon us. Kudo’s for Cooper for keeping it real. KO is a big mouth and I don’t think he’s into getting information out as much as he’s into spiking up his dismal ratings.
I wish more people were like Cooper. We do not need to have a person’s sexual orientation thrust upon us. Kudo’s for Cooper for keeping it real. KO is a big mouth and I don’t think he’s into getting information out as much as he’s into spiking up his dismal ratings.
Keith Olbermann needs to find something else to report on. No one cares about Anderson’s sexual orientation, and it’s totally up to him what he wants other people to know about his personal life. Writing a book about your family does not mean that you have to, all of a sudden, open up about the most intimate details of your life. I mean, how would Keith like it if someone spent a few minutes on their television show speculating about his personal life, like what position he and his wife prefer during sex? It’s 2007, mind your own business and concentrate on actual news.
Keith Olbermann needs to find something else to report on. No one cares about Anderson’s sexual orientation, and it’s totally up to him what he wants other people to know about his personal life. Writing a book about your family does not mean that you have to, all of a sudden, open up about the most intimate details of your life. I mean, how would Keith like it if someone spent a few minutes on their television show speculating about his personal life, like what position he and his wife prefer during sex? It’s 2007, mind your own business and concentrate on actual news.
Keith isn’t married last I heard. Someone could speculate about him, if he didn’t talk about women and drool over the ones with big teeth on his show. But I don’t understand why he would pressure someone to come out. But people on the left tend to do that. I think most of the establishment just hates Anderson because He really hasn’t worked that hard as a news man to get ahead.
Keith isn’t married last I heard. Someone could speculate about him, if he didn’t talk about women and drool over the ones with big teeth on his show. But I don’t understand why he would pressure someone to come out. But people on the left tend to do that. I think most of the establishment just hates Anderson because He really hasn’t worked that hard as a news man to get ahead.
People need to mind their own damn business! It sucks that he even has to deal with this kind of bullshit.
I am so tired of the selfish ness of gay people, who do they think they are, just because they choose to be gay does not mean every one should choose to be gay. Anderson may be attracted to fellow men but he does not want to act on it, it is a free world and his life, his choice. He does not owe any one any thing and we do not care is he is gay or not.
I think it is time some one stood up to minority bullies!!!!!!!
I don’t see what the problem is. Who cares who he chooses to sleep with. He has NEVER denied he was gay or straight. Why is the public so interested in tabloid news? There is more important things going on in this world than someones sexual preference. It’s 2007 people haven’t we evolved past such junior high issues? I don’t care if he’s gay or not all I care about is how he does his job.
“I personally believe its nobodys business to out someone. If someone wants to come out on their own thats fine, if not, I really dont care. Especially when it comes to hotties like Anderson Cooper, a guy who has garnered the amorous attention of both the ladies and the gays, I dont want to know. If I found out Anderson Cooper truly was gay, it would totally kill my daydreams about him.”
This statement of yours is so soaked in instutionalized homophobia and simpering heterosexism, I’m really not surprised that you published it.
In a world of gay teenagers repeatedly being bashed by straights — teens who need more solid role models than the twerp on Grey’s Anatomy who plays a hetero doctor then throws a public hissy because the born-and bred-homophobic black leading man on the show calls him a faggot — when someone like Anderson Cooper grows a set of balls and comes out, maybe we’ll see more gay kids bashing straights for being straight, tables that have long since needed turning.
I think KO should keep his mouth shout, to be honest with you I really thought KO was gay. People in glass houses shouldnt throw rocks.
Kurt
“maybe we’ll see more gay kids bashing straights for being straight, tables that have long since needed turning.”
I don’t know, Matt. It sounds to me like you’re recommending that gays form a hate group against straight people and go out and bash them. I’m sorry, but I think this country should be a live and let live country. Straights shouldn’t bash gays OR VISA VERSA. Maybe Busy Body is right, all gays are bullies (note my sarcasm, but it does pertain here).
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Damn it. If he’s gay then I’m a man! ;P
Why would his being gay kill your daydreams? Fantasies, by their very definition, are not real. Although in reality I’m relatively convinced he is gay, in my fantasies he can be anything I want him to be. The point is, his orientation is both none of our business and irrelevant – either way he’s an awsome journalist and very hot!
I agree with some of the comments above, the point is Anderson Cooper is a good media savvy journalist, who actually paid a lot of dues working late night shifts as a virtual unknown. What he does in his private life is, well, private. One thing I dont understand though are ‘stars” like Charles Nelson Reilly. Is that guy gay or a straight guy who is playing the part of a doofus to make money. That guy is disturbing.
he is still my hero..gay/ married/vampire /alien monster/dream lover…no matter what he is he is and that is what counts
Cooper’s book was written as a way of healing; both his father and his brother are deceased so I don’t see how he can be seen as being a hypocrite for writing about them. Copper himself is alive and well and is an AWESOME journalist!!!
Anderson cooper eye is very beautiful
i love him