I hear Ms Gloria moved back in with Anderson? Does anyone know if this is true? Or perhaps he moved in with her?? HMM..maybe that's why she wrote this steamy novel, they are running low on the dough.

Gloria lives on her own in a swanky apartment. She is not living with Anderson. She lived with him briefly when she sold her estate in the Hamptons after her therapist and financial advisor conspired together and swindled her out of millions and she needed to liquidate some assets to take them to court.

Anderson makes good money and is doing fine.

anderson makes 10 mil a year

Gotta love Gloria, 85 years old and still hot and bothered.

And right after that picture was taken, Andy went to his bedroom and brought out his dildo for his Mommy to use……might as well keep it in the family!

@MG: Well thank you for that insightful update from Miss "I'll Screw Anyone" Vanderbilt's Press Secretary.

@Joeb1212: I was just answering No.1's questions with some facts.

Most of my friends are gay and they all abhor Anderson Cooper because:

(1) he is completely closeted which implies that being gay is still something to be ashamed of and something that will detract from your professional success…he is a real throwback to the last century in that respect

(2) even if you respect a person's right to stay in the closet, like I do, Anderson has put every other aspect of his personal life on display, like his book about his personal history, so the fact that he won't address the most fundamental aspect of his personal life is just plain pathetic. Worse still CNN continues to play him up as this heart throb that sends all the women aflutter.

Everyone in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC knows that Anderson is a power bottom constantly searching every dark corner of Chelsea late at night for a teenage Hispanic male to satisfy his aching need to be fulfilled so the joke is on him. (I've even seen him prowling the showers at the David Barton gym looking for quick (unsafe) anonymous sex. Its really quite sad–his closeted lifestyle has relegated him to searching for sex in shower stalls. So sad.)

@american dreamer:

and might I add I have one friend whose roommate was "dating" (screwing) Anderson last fall and he wanted to go to Empire State Pride Agenda dinner…which is the formal dinner for the NY State political group…with Anderson but poor Anderson had to sit at home while the roommate went because of course Anderson was fraid he'd blow his "cover".

When I see Anderson giggling on Regis & Kelly about the latest episode of the Real Housewives of Atlanta…or Lindsay Lohan…while real journalists like Campbell Brown or Rachel Maddow are doing heavy duty investigative reporting…it kind of tells me that Anderson is screaming on the inside to come out and be himself.

At this point though he isn't even a journalist…he is just a talking head…who turns every interview, every nightly news show, into a dialogue about himself. He isn't really a newsreporter…he is just a news presenter. His ratings are so awful I dont think he'll last much longer.

@american dreamer:

so where exactly is this gym?

@american dreamer: Uh, yeah, sure it's just your FRIENDS who hate Anderson.

There are loads of closeted gays in news. They'll sit around on newscasts and say things about their life or their perspective as a black person (or woman or whatever), but leave out their romantic life and perspective as a gay person. Some of them also have given interviews and been the subject of profiles that omit their sexuality (e.g. FOX's Shep Smith), without being asked any of the questions about the gay rumors that Anderson gets. People give the rest of them a pass and obsess about Anderson for the obvious superficial reasons - he's the hot glamorous Vanderbilt they'd like to change places with or have sex with. Anderson is actually more out than most of the other closeted ones (even publicly gave his boyfriend a nice thank you in his book) and has done more for the gay community (earned GLAAD awards, hosts Elton John AIDS events, auctions off dates with himself annually at a gay charity event for homeless AIDS sufferers, etc) than them.

Anderson has not put every aspect of his life on display. His book was almost entirely about his professional life. In so far as personal life he only touched on a few famous facts and incidents (his mother is Gloria Vanderbilt, his dad died, his brother killed himself) that had already been well covered by the media and his mother had written books about herself. There are all kinds of things he chooses not to discuss. For instance, his half brothers are extremely private and he never talks about them or even includes their names anywhere, when you see him talk or write you'd never even guess they exist.

Anderson has a lot of females and males who like his looks and think he's hot. CNN didn't start that sex symbol phenomenon themselves, he just started gathering a lot of admiration and lust back when he was a roving correspondent standing in hurricanes and wading through Katrina waters. They have used it in marketing, which is no big deal.

Anderson dates a lot of guys who are younger than him and are not the same race as him (although he has dated older guys and white guys), but not teenagers. He does not have sex in the gym, let alone unsafe sex.

Rachel Maddow is not a traditional journalist (or an "investigative journalist") she is an editorialist, she is part of the American wave of cable politically partisan commentators like Olbermann and O'Reilly. Campbell also caters to the ratings grabbing editorializing craze with her regular opinion speeches. Anderson's 60 Minutes serious pieces and Planet in Peril programs do more investigation and bring more neglected matters to light than anything I have seen Campbell do.

Anderson's ratings are OK, but it is partisan commentators who create the big ratings especially when there is no big news event happening. If there is eventually no place in US TV news for a cable host who remains neutral and avoids theatrical argument and speeches, he can go back to being a combat reporter and disaster correspondent or he can turn to hosting a daytime show.

Cooper is spotted all the time out in public on dates with guys. He was spotted by page six and a number of bloggers at Kathy Griffin's Madison Square Garden show last year in a tight T-shirt with a posse of gay male friends. It's not like he's living some deeply closeted life or his sex life is some dark dirty secret. He's in the most see through glass closet around. Michael Musto says Cooper's been a member of the national gay and lesbian journalists association and attended their meetings. It's not unusual for a member to be glass closeted from what I've read. It is unusual for the world to go nuts about a journalist being in the glass closet.

@american dreamer:
You sound like you are a girl and dont know much about the dynamics of gay sex. what is wrong with prowling?
either way, hes totally yummilicious and super smart. I love him!
oh, and im a girl

@american dreamer:
LOL I smell the stench of jealousy and regret…. why are you so personally bitter at Anderson Cooper? Be objective!

I agree completely with Adam, Kel and Missskitttin–the whole idea of Anderson being the ONLY person singled out for not discussing his personal (sex, dating) life is tiresome and totally unfair.

Everyone in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC knows that Anderson is a power bottom constantly searching every dark corner of Chelsea late at night for a teenage Hispanic male to satisfy his aching need to be fulfilled so the joke is on him. (I've even seen him prowling the showers at the David Barton gym looking for quick (unsafe) anonymous sex. Its really quite sad–his closeted lifestyle has relegated him to searching for sex in shower stalls. So sad.)

This sounds like utter bullshit. Anderson's low-key, private and very discreet, which is why NO ONE has a clue about his dating habits. Anderson is also too careful about his career and public image to be as reckless as american dreamer claims.

@Nate:

I contribute at least a hundred…sometimes up to two hundred legal hours to pro bono assignments benefiting the Harvey Milk School and other gay causes in New York. I care very dearly about gay rights and gay causes. My eldest brother passed away from AIDS.

I attend the New York State Pride Agenda dinner each year. Anderson and I do have mutual acquaintances who I've asked about this and they all told me (independently of each other) that Anderson would never be caught dead at the dinner because he knows it would be front page news the next day.

Sure I've seen him walking his dog with his boy toy down west 23rd street….my friend and I sat next to him and his date at a restaurant called Red Cat around the corner from his apartment just last week….I'm sure he can be seen lurking in the shadows of gay venues besides the shower stalls of David Barton gym from time to time.

But the bottom line (or should I say power bottom line) is that he is a public figure who has invited the public into every aspect of his personal life…even something as intimate as his brother's suicide…without a single word about his sexuality.

At first it enraged me because it made being gay seem shameful. But now that we have Rachel Maddow and so many other openly gay public figures….and in every place from my white shoe law firm to Wall Street so many openly gay leaders….it just seems pathetic.

At this point I don't really care: Anderson Cooper is more interested in watching a rerun of the Real Housewives of Atlanta than pursuing thought provocative investigative reporting or fighting for gay justice so I dont think he has anything to offer anyway.

And might I add to all the ladies (and men) who find the "Silver Fox" so attractive: don't forget that the carpet must match the drapes: if he is white on top of his head he is white down there also: I for one dont want to see white pubic hair til I'm in my eighties and sitting in a nursing home. ECK.

@Adam:

Anderson's Planet in Peril series was a complete joke:

it was like watch Anderson swim with the sharks! (which by the way is bad for sharks….they attract the sharks with food that disrupts the sharks normal habits and makes them more aggressive to humans)

then it was watch Anderson do this! watch him do this! that series was woefully uninformative

and Anderson turns every interview into himself. he was interviewing Bono about some charity work and two minutes into the interview he started talking about his own work on something

he was interviewing Whoopi Goldberg about some charity she was running for New Orleans and two minutes into it he started prattling on about his own experience

enough already

@Nate:

ummm…the New York Post is constantly running items about Anderson's faux paus….don't you remember the one where he was waiting for a plane in Sao Paolo (god only knows what he was up to there…article didn't mention if he was limping) and he tried introducing himself to some young (very young) brazilian guy also waiting for the plane. The article was entitled "Why Hello Stranger"

Anderson needs to meet a nice boy his own age that shares his interests like Richard Quest. They can go on a quest in Central Park together or something.

@american dreamer:

you so crazy. keep dreaming.

Maybe dear Anderson can just get a sex change and we won't have to keep arguing over this. He wont have to change his sex habits at least.

While I don't agree with American Dreamer entirely, I do find it hard to accept that AC is getting away with airing all his family's "dirty laundry," especially the suicide of his brother about which he always previously refused to speak, but yet no mention about any love life. If this were someother striaght celebrity, half the book would be about the spouse/relationships, and if it weren't, all would be aflutter about what the author left out.

Its also amazing to me how the press other than Out Magazine has been so accomodating. Vanity Fair did a full length article on him and never broached the subject.

AC may be cute, etc., and sure I'd like to meet him as he leads an interesting life, but I think that once he decided to write this book, he legitimately could not leave out any part of his life, including Julio or whatever his name is.

So a pox on AC for being a coward. Not for not putting on a rainbow sash and struting around Splash or El Mirage, but for leaving out key bits of who he is, some might say even the most important part of who he is. You don't write an autobiography and leave out the interesting bits.

I suspect that one day he'll bitterly regret not coming out of the closet more openly.

I attend the New York State Pride Agenda dinner each year. Anderson and I do have mutual acquaintances

Every gay in NY who has exchanged two words with Anderson is an "aquaintance". An "acquainatance" is not an "authority", especially when the information or speculation is being filtered through someone as biased as you.

who I've asked about this and they all told me (independently of each other) that Anderson would never be caught dead at the dinner because he knows it would be front page news the next day.

Did they think he'd show at the Kathy Griffin show with a group of gay guys? Did they think he'd show up at the Bailey House auction and pose for pictures with Simon Doonan and Tim Gunn the year after all the gossip columns trumpeted that he'd been outed by a rich gay man spending thousands to buy a date with him at the last auction? Did they think predict he'd emcee the Elton John AIDS event that headlined KD Lang and Elton, and those after? All those things drew media attention.

New York State Pride Agenda is an advocacy group with specific political goals. Anderson is rigorously neutral as a journalist, the way old school journalists are. When he attends events in support of something it is something politically neutral and non-controversial, like creating more AIDS funding or relief to Africa, whether gay issues are involved or not.

How many other closeted gay news guys have you seen at the above events, by the way? Enough to justify singling out Anderson Cooper this way for this sort of venom? Or none?

But the bottom line (or should I say power bottom line) is that he is a public figure who has invited the public into every aspect of his personal life…even something as intimate as his brother's suicide…without a single word about his sexuality.

No, he has shared a few aspects of his personal life. All the major ones shared had already been well documented by the media.

At first it enraged me because it made being gay seem shameful. But now that we have Rachel Maddow and so many other openly gay public figures….and in every place from my white shoe law firm to Wall Street so many openly gay leaders….it just seems pathetic.

Whereas the other closeted gay news people send a terrific message about being gay?

Anderson only shot up to major attention and career success in 2004, and for a long time people were wondering if he was going to be one of the flash in the pans a big news story sometimes throws into the limelight for a brief moment. How many celebrity gays have decided to come out since 2004 in America? A couple, most of them because they were frightened by Perez Hilton. Thomas Roberts was the national male news guy on cable whose television career ceased to exist after he came out. Rachel Maddow is quite new and joins the ranks of leftist TV hosting lesbians who blazed the trail ahead of her, Ellen and Rosie Odonnell.

At this point I don't really care: Anderson Cooper is more interested in watching a rerun of the Real Housewives of Atlanta than pursuing thought provocative investigative reporting or fighting for gay justice so I dont think he has anything to offer anyway.

Yeah, you really sound like you don't care when you're sending post after post ranting about the guy, insulting him and slandering him.

He does a nightly news program, 60 Minutes pieces on his weekends and vacations, and CNN specials around those. So what if he wants to watch Real Housewives when he takes a break? It's unique to see a glass closeted TV news guy actually admit to stereotypically gay TV viewing habits so comfortably.

If you want someone to be a political activist you don't look to a news anchor. You can look to a right wing or left wing commentator, but not a traditional news anchor. All you can look to a news anchor to do is present pieces about your issues, moderate discussions on your issue fairly, and introduce questions about your issue if he moderates a presidential debate. Anderson has done all those things with gay issues.

Anderson's Planet in Peril series was a complete joke:

it was like watch Anderson swim with the sharks! (which by the way is bad for sharks….they attract the sharks with food that disrupts the sharks normal habits and makes them more aggressive to humans)

Did you actually watch the series? They actually covered the controversy over whether chumming makes sharks more aggressive. Diving without a cage was obviously became a little attention getter, but that was just a tiny part of the series. They covered the endangerment of sharks from finning for shark fin soup, which many people were not aware of. The transmission and spread of zoonotic diseases from bush meat and the impact of African wars on elephants haven't been widely known either, and the pieces were informative.

He's had some really good 60 Minutes pieces like his one on rape in the Congo that were informative and brought a lot of attention to international matters that were not being given coverage elsewhere.

and Anderson turns every interview into himself.

He sometimes mentions personal experience briefly in interviews. That's not weird, especially from someone who has done a lot of field work away from the studio. He's actually spent more time in these locations over the years and had more experience in the area sometimes than whatever celebrity charity representive he's talking too.

Since he's one of the few cable TV hosts these days who does not devote his show to his own opinions and instructing people about what to do, I find his coverage is far less ego driven and about him than most other shows that fill up the prime time of cable news. The coverage and interviews of the many editorialists on cable news are totally ego driven and about them and what they think and how they can be a conquering hero by showing up whatever guest has the nerve to disagree.

@William:

While I don't agree with American Dreamer entirely, I do find it hard to accept that AC is getting away with airing all his family's "dirty laundry," especially the suicide of his brother about which he always previously refused to speak, but yet no mention about any love life. If this were someother striaght celebrity, half the book would be about the spouse/relationships, and if it weren't, all would be aflutter about what the author left out.

Do you have any idea how much laundry the Vanderbilts have had? He got into almost none of it.

I don't recall him refusing to discuss his brother's death. He discussed it publicly well before he published his book.

The book really was mostly about his professional life with a few asides into personal matters that were important to his career and fit the theme. It wasn't a real autobiography.

I don't think it would be a big scandal if a straight news guy wrote a book mostly about his professional life and didn't mention romances, especially if a lot of his professional life was travelling around constantly between combat zones and distasters.

Its also amazing to me how the press other than Out Magazine has been so accomodating. Vanity Fair did a full length article on him and never broached the subject.

The Vanity Fair article was excerpts from his book. The press, gay and straight, have actually been rough on him like they've been on no other closeted gay news man. He's been asked about his sexuality plenty of times, even after it was very clear he wasn't going to announce it. The Advocate did an expose about how TV news is filled with closeted gay guys, said everybody in the industry knows who loads of them are, and then bizarrely outed only Anderson who was the one guy you could guarantee everybody reading the article already knew was gay.

AC may be cute, etc., and sure I'd like to meet him as he leads an interesting life, but I think that once he decided to write this book, he legitimately could not leave out any part of his life, including Julio or whatever his name is.

So where do you stand on all the other things he left out of his book? Was it legitimate for him to "disappear" his privacy loving half brothers? Was it OK for him to not cover his school life, college life, mother's boyfriends, mother's ex-husbands, nephews and nieces, years of working at ABC News, early days working at CNN, and a huge amount of other things?

The book was not at all a comprehensive account of his life. It was a free form presentation of some episodes from his life and reflections bound together by the themes of loss and survival that left out enormous expanses of territory.

You don't write an autobiography and leave out the interesting bits.

The stuff he put in wasn't salacious, but it was interesting. Unfortunately, if he did put in references to his romantic life and/or sex life it probably would have been all anybody talked about.

I suspect that one day he'll bitterly regret not coming out of the closet more openly.

I have my doubts. His famous old family has always been the subject of lots of gossip in the press, and they haven't been cooperative with the gossips. He loves his job, and he's had terrific opportunities over the last few years. Nobody can know if he would have had those if he'd come out officially years ago. This gradual edge out he's been doing means that by time he ever actually announces his sexuality it won't cause major waves for him because so many people have had the chance to adjust already. He hasn't been deeply closeted or bearding, so it's not as though he's living a stressful lie on the personal front.

To be honest, I think it's more likely a guy like Thomas Roberts would end up with regrets if he cared much at all about the career he had built. I hope he's found work he likes in some other field and does OK.

@adam:

Your argument in large part appears to be that because other gay journalists are closeted…or at least don't share their personal life….Anderson should be entitled to do the same.

I dont think anyone is challenging Anderson's RIGHT to keep quiet. But Dreamer and Will and the rest are simply exercising their right to judge whether that makes him (as Will puts it) a coward.

Anderson's refusal to directly verbally address his sexuality does seem to me also to be an anachronistic throwback to earlier times.

I think Anderson remains closeted for the same exact reason Jodi Foster did until recently: it is partly at one level that Anderson is a private person…but also he thinks that coming totally out of the closet could impair his ability to be an investigative journalist….like Foster clearly thought it would hurt her acting career…no Arab leader will take an interview from the gay man.

The fact that Anderson clearly thinks being more openly gay would hurt his career is what makes some gays angry.

More importantly don't you think that if he did address the three ton elephant (or should I say dildo) in the room the press would back off and it would just become another facet of his life like it did for Foster?

I don't get why being gay has to be the number one personal bit of information to be revealed about a person, and if it isn't then that person is a coward? WTF is that about? Maybe he/she just considers it personal and who the hell are we to be so damned demanding that everyone reveal their sexual orientation? Why can't you just decide if you think an individual has something worthwhile to say REGARDLESS of their sexual orientation? I do not understand why so many outspoken gay people insist that unless a gay person declares he/she is gay from the get-go, then that gay person has zero credibility as a human being. Seems pushy and nosy to me.

@american dreamer:

How stupid do you think we are? Now you’re making up bullshit about things right on the internet anybody can check. The brazilian guy was not described as ‘young (very young)’. He was described as 25ish. Besides like lots of people noticed back when the new york post printed that it was a fake story. He was covering the pope’s visit live in Turkey when the post claimed he was in brazil.

The new york post is owned by Rupert Murdoch who owns FOX News. You bet your ass it has gay gossip about Cooper all the time. That’s because they’d like to damage Cooper’s career and they think that’ll do it. Notice they print zero gay gossip about FOX News' own Shepherd Smith.

You’re messed up and you sound like you’re a hate stirring conservative. Attacking a gay celebrity with a pile of made up bullshit and trying to get people to reject him by falsely playing on hate stereotypes. Cooper is chasing little boys! He has sex in public! He’s a disease risk! He can’t stop having sex for a second! He a white guy who has sex with guys who aren’t white! He’s a pervert! Boo hoo he won’t go to my pride dinner to say how proud he is of being a little boy chasing, exhibitionist, disease risking, sex mad, race crossing, pervert!! Jesus, why don’t you just join the family research council or the saddleback church? You’d fit right in.

How do you think trying to wreck the reputation of a respected gay public figure who lots of people know is gay and will probably finish coming the last bit out of the closet someday will help gay rights? It won’t. If it works straights and other gays will lose a really visible example of a gay guy that disproves those old hate stereotypes.

@american dreamer,

But the bottom line (or should I say power bottom line) is that he is a public figure who has invited the public into every aspect of his personal life…even something as intimate as his brother's suicide…without a single word about his sexuality.

Just because someone reveals certain aspects of their lives publicly, it in no way means that they are somehow required to talk about EVERYTHING if they don't wish to. The fact that Anderson acknowledged Julio Cesar Recio (his assumed bf at the time) publicly in his book meant that he wasn't going to "hide" from making a statement about an important person in his life when it really counted.

At first it enraged me because it made being gay seem shameful. But now that we have Rachel Maddow and so many other openly gay public figures….and in every place from my white shoe law firm to Wall Street so many openly gay leaders….it just seems pathetic.

There are many fairly high profile news anchors and reporters who are rumored to be gay who never address their sexuality–Shep Smith, Suzanne Malveaux and Robin Roberts are some examples. Why is it that only Anderson takes the heat for keeping quiet but they get a free pass?

Sure I've seen him walking his dog with his boy toy down west 23rd street….my friend and I sat next to him and his date at a restaurant called Red Cat around the corner from his apartment just last week….I'm sure he can be seen lurking in the shadows of gay venues besides the shower stalls of David Barton gym from time to time.

Walking with a guy or being seen in a restaurant is a far cry from Anderson having sex with random guys at David Barton, which I still don't buy.

American Dreamer: Anderson is 41. The handsome black/latino *man* Anderson thanked in his book and he has been seen and photographed with over the years at events, on vacation and walking around is in his 30s. Being a dark-skinned immigrant working a normal job does not make him a *boy* or a *boytoy*.

Also, Anderson Cooper is one of the very last guys in the world who would have to lurk around a gym locker room hoping to get some sex. In fact, he has other guys checking him out in the locker room and then blogging all over the net about the skin they managed to see and griping about how he's too modest and doesn't drop his towel until he's alone in one of the private shower stalls with the door shut.

This "American Dreamer", is either mentally disturbed or just some dumb chick who knows she has zero chance with Cooper and is bitter about it. A few years ago on some news blogs, she used to call herself "Mary Snow". When commenters chased her off, she changed her handle, each time to be eventually chased off again.
Incidentally, I have been intimate with a couple of young fellows who were prematurely gray and no, "American Dreamer", this doesn't mean the "carpet matches the drapes". You are really sinking low. How interesting, though, that your thoughts drift in that direction…..after all,you claim your only agenda is to protect your gay buddies (if they actually exist in your world, they'd be better off without you). Yeah, you are just a bitter chick, Mary Snow.

@MG:

Have you seen the Real World Brooklyn? The most recent season of the MTV reality television series?

One of the cast members this season is a latino guy from Miami Beach who is 21 years old (half of Anderson's age). I can't remember his name. What I do rememember….and what was widely disseminated on Gawker.com, Towleroad.com, Out Magazine and elsewhere is that he dated Anderson Cooper for several months.

There was a running on the Real World Brooklyn that this same guy could only use extra large magnum condoms (and that he was a total top).

Just another example of Anderson dating a hispanic male half his age hung like a HORSE!!! No wonder Anderson sits while readng the news. He can't get up!

Hey Gang! Anderson here. I'm sorry that my lifestyle choices have left so many of you in a tizzy. American Dreamer's eloquent argument has convinced me to come out of the closet (as a uber bottom) this Monday night on CNN.

Stay tuned!

@MG:

there is definitely some off about Anderson's dating preferences though….at his age…he's already 41…he should be in a long term relationship but he's clearly jumping from one guy to another most of them much younger than himself

he is kind of the gay version of the toxic bachelor in my mind

@keisho fujimoto:

that is actually true…the "Julio" mentioned earlier is Julio Cesar Recio….he dated Anderson for a while…photographs of them together were all over the internet….and led to lot of joking about Anderson having a latin taste in men

what i do know is they had a very hot and heavy physical relationship….lasted a short while…and Anderson dumped Julio very abruptly….from what I heard Julio was dropped as soon as the media picked up on it….Anderson treated him very rudely.

He did the same to the 21 year old from the real world cast after he was done irrigating anderson's "plumbing"

If Anderson dropped Julio, why is it that he's the only guy who's been photographed with AC consistently? I'm not saying they're a couple now, but there are fairly recent photos of them together which have been posted on Jossip and other sites–it seems like they are at least pretty close friends if nothing else.

Julio was photographed (and in a video) with Anderson out in LA when he was out there for Barry Diller's Oscar party just recently - as usual Anderson leaves separately and they act like they don't know each other. Anderson looked like he was running for the hills when he was video'd leaving Diller's party and Julio was standing in the background chatting with others. Anderson looked rather cowardly.

I can understand Anderson Cooper's reluctance to be totally open about his sexuality because it could impinge upon his ability to do investigative reporting in the middle east and elsewhere. I also suspect that despite the fact he is on the nightly news every night he is a very private person when it comes to his sexuality.

But I do think he has a pretty severe "Peter Pan" complex: he only seems to have physical relationships or date men who are much younger than him. The one time I saw him in New York City he was with a group of other presumably gay guys at least a decade younger than himself and was decked out head to toe in Abercrombie & Fitch clothes.

I don't think a 42 year old man should be running around in Abercrombie & Fitch.

But more importantly he doesn't seem to be willing to settle on a long term relationship which suggests the peter pan complex too.

@greg:

that is further proof that Anderson is actively seeking to hide his sexuality

i remember there was an article in the new york post and a lot of blogs on the fact that Anderson Cooper flew first class on the flight back from a vacation in latin america but made his male companion (again, a much younger hispanic dude—not Julio) fly coach and Anderson waited for him outside the main waiting area so noone would realize they were together

its kind of trashy not to fly your boyfriend first class if you can afford it i certainly would!!! but trying to hide him from the public is even worse. i guess anderson wanted to keep his options open in case there was any other hotter younger hispanic meat in first class

@American Dreamer #38: actually, I think that it is rather trashy to not sit with your companion no matter where they are sitting and to never acknowledge them and appear cowardly to be seen with them. I find it surprising that Julio Cesar seems to be still around and continues to put up with it, but I don't know either of them nor what their relationship is.

I think that is why Anderson seems to go for much younger ones - they may be more likely to put up with this trashy way of being treated like a second class citizen. How many people in a normal relationship is going to put up with never being able to stand by your partners side?

Does anyone know Anderson Cooper? Its always, "I know someone that knows him". If hes gay, which he might be, good for him. Until he tells the world, its not our business. There is so much gossip about him and his men that what is the truth or what are lies.

@Grace:

Ah Anderson like to get his freak on with my hispanic brothers.

He can get his freak on with me anytime. I bet he can take it. He's had plenty of practice no?

Hola papicitos.

Julio here (Anderson's ex). Just want to set the record "straight" (bad choice of words I know but whateer):

I dumped Anderson he didn't dump me. I got tired of always flying second coach while he flew first class.

(Anderson used to joke to me he liked his papicitos "in the rear" and that was the only reason I flew coach but still.)

Point is even I couldn't satisfy Anderson. It was kind of like dating the Holland Tunnel. No matter how many of my friends I brought into the equation Anderson was never fulfilled. He should just move to Puerto Rico full time.

@Julio:

senior julio mi amigo, usted y sus amigos necesitan mi ayuda para las fiestas con el senor cooper. heh heh.

@Julio:

I don't appreciate your analogizing Anderson Cooper's sexual proclivities to me!

I am a widely respected means of transportation utilized by thousands of people daily in and out in and out (I guess that part of the analogy to Anderson is fair I suppose)

I for one am glad people are having this debate.

Anderson really wants to have his cake (or I guess his meat to be more precise) and eat it too.

CNN has been playing a series of commercials where ladies are salivating at the sight of Anderson on screen like he is some kind of casanova. It all seems so hypocritical and smarmy.

@Amanda:

I agree. Those commercials are so dumb. I laugh when I see them.

@Grace:

I just don't like the idea of "celebrity journalism" because every news story revolves around the celebrity journalist and not the news story.

If CNN didn't treat Anderson like a celebrity I think people would be less inquisitive of his personal life.

Take for example the rest of the 60 minute crew. Noone would guess that behind the calm demeanour of Leslie Stahl lies a lifelong S&M dominatrix!!!

Maybe CNN does treat Anderson like a celebrity, but who sent him to a trainer and tells him to wear those t-shirts? Anderson's idea?

@Greg:

Maybe its his idea. He wants to show the world hes not just a skinny white guy.

Has it occurred to you judgmental bitches that his sexual orientation is HIS business, and he doesn't owe it to any of you, or viewers, to make his sexuality the primary focus of his on air persona? I don't see viewers demanding to know if the guy is gay or not, just frustrated gays who are pissed because he won't link arms with them and fly a rainbow flag. Get the hell over it. Why do you need to be validated by Anderson Cooper coming out in a grandstanding manner? Whether you like it or not, AC is hugely popular, and it has nothing to do with his sexuality. I guess that's what bother you assholes the most - your biggest draw for attention is your gayness, and how boo hoo people are just homophobic if they don't embrace your sexual orientation. Find another aspect of yourself to promote and maybe people will be drawn to that. Maybe. Discriminatory bitches.

@amanda: So what if women 'salivate' over Anderson? He's hot and appeals to women as much as men. Jesus.

@bam-a-lam:

Anderson is NOT hugely popular:

the earth shattering news that is turning CNN upside down is that CNN came in FOURTH place in the nightly news in the first quarter 2009…way behind MSNBC for the first time. MSNBC is up 30% and Anderson's time slot is down 23%.

Fox News is the perennial leader but now the local news and MSNBC are both beating CNN. Maybe if Anderson did more than recite the news he would have more of a following.

My guess is that Anderson will be out of a job by the end of this year and back to barbacking and barebacking at a rundown Christopher Street gay bar by next year. I honestly think he'll be happier that way.

You can take the bottom out of the leather bar but you can't take the leather bar out of the bottom. Thats what my gay uncle Milton always told me yesiree

What is barbacking? I know what barebacking is LOL

CNN's down in the ratings, but they aren't going to get rid of Anderson, Campbell Brown maybe, but not him because in spite of CNN's decline, Anderson does have a large following and compared to the rest of CNN's line up, he has pretty good total viewer/demo numbers. He's also considered to be the "face" of the network and I think they'd be reluctant to drop him outright.

And bravo to Bam-A-Lam's comment.

Maybe his sexual orientation isn't part of his on air persona, and he says he doesn't want to BE the news, but look at how much his orientation IS talked about. Not just this thread, but there are many others out there I am sure. Its talked about a lot.

I think the big mistake that Anderson made is agreeing to be a television anchor (or whatever you would call him).

I think he would be much happier…and much more interesting to the rest of us….as a full time investigative reporter in the field.

I also think if he was limiting to working in the field CNN wouldn't be so obsessed with turning him into a celebrity which in turn leads so many people to obsess over his sexual habits.

That being said I am looking forward to the Julio–Anderson s*x tape coming out soon!

@American Dreamer: I think Anderson was just glad to have a job why he agree to being an anchor. First the money is good. Second, he has said he thought he was going to be fired from CNN (they sent him on location with no crew and when he called the office Hemmer answered his phone).

@Greg:

if i were him i'd rather still be the host of the "Mole"

reality tv host must be a pretty cushy job

it is funny how close his career came to veering off in the wrong direction

one year you are hosting the mole and just a few years later you have a mega million dollar contract to host the news

it is partly talent but it is also partly luck

@american dreamer:

i remember there was an article in the new york post and a lot of blogs on the fact that Anderson Cooper flew first class on the flight back from a vacation in latin america but made his male companion (again, a much younger hispanic dude—not Julio) fly coach and Anderson waited for him outside the main waiting area so noone would realize they were together

How many times are you going to drop bullshit on us? What is your problem with the constant hateful lies to try to make Cooper sound like some pedophile? There was never any New York Post sighting of Anderson on a flight from Latin America. The New York Post had a sighting of Anderson getting off a shuttle in Washington and waiting patiently outside the shuttle for "an attractive Hispanic man" guy who'd been sitting in the back. There were no blog sightings to back the NYP sighting up at all. The NYP did NOT INCLUDE ANYTHING ABOUT AGE. There was nothing to indicate the guy wasn't Julio. The NYP did not indicate whether the shuttle had classes, or if like most shuttles to Washington there is no reserve seating and you have to scramble to get whatever seat you can grab. There was no statement that they were trying conceal they were together. The "waiting patiently" outside the shuttle for your companion to deboard and join you means people could see they were together.

We can't know the NYP sighting is true anyway. It's suspicious a sighting of Cooper arriving in Washington showed up at least a week after he'd left. The New York Post is Rupert Murdoch's rag and has printed obviously false items about Anderson before like the Brazilian airport one. When you read an item about someone from MSNBC or CNN in the NYP it's a bad idea to assume it's true or written fairly at all.

@greg:

Nobody knows that Julio and Anderson are still dating. There were rumors they broke up a while ago and are just friends now. Barry Diller is Diane Von Furstenberg's husband. Both Anderson and Julio have been spotted at Diane's events in the past. If they've broken up and were given separate invitations it makes sense they arrived separately and weren't hanging around together at the latest party. I don't know about you but I don't stick to the side of my ex-boyfriend when I go to a party. Anderson was sighted out eating lunch with a different guy that same visit to LA, which further suggests they aren't together now. They have been photographed standing and sitting around together in the past at events when they could see the camera, so it obviously isn't some sort of modus operandi to stay separate.

@max factor two:

"what i do know is they had a very hot and heavy physical relationship….lasted a short while…and Anderson dumped Julio very abruptly….from what I heard Julio was dropped as soon as the media picked up on it….Anderson treated him very rudely."

The media picked up on them years ago. Anderson gave him the thank you in the book back in 2005, and the media were already alert to him then. They were still being spotted together long after. There were reports they were living together. They were seen in Mexico together. They are still seen and photographed around each other now and were recently seen going off on vacation together. Looks to me like any break up was friendly.

" He did the same to the 21 year old from the real world cast after he was done irrigating anderson's "plumbing" "

The Real World guy didn't get dumped because of media rumors. When the rumors started about Anderson and the Real World guy having dated it was already in the past and part of the gossip was that Anderson had dumped him after a couple months. If you watched any of Real World the only surprise is that Anderson might have put up with that guy for that long. He was OK sober, but he drank when he had any problem and when he drank he became a prick you'd want to dump.

Your argument in large part appears to be that because other gay journalists are closeted…or at least don't share their personal life….Anderson should be entitled to do the same.

No, that’s not really my point. My point is that there is no good reason for singling Anderson out all the time, and that he gets all the hostility and a hard time from the press while the other guys snigger away in their snug undisturbed closets. There’s no sense of context, equality or proportion. The closeted shouldn’t be allowed one scapegoat for the whole industry who takes all the abuse. They should be treated the same. If the Advocate was going to do a story about closeted gays in TV news they should have done the fair and useful thing and outed a lot of them, not just Anderson who the readers already knew about. It was crazy. The magazine was saying things like “Anderson’s missed his chance to take the lead on this” because Thomas Roberts had come out. It didn’t really make sense because Thomas was out of a job and hasn’t been able to find work in news since coming out, but on top of that it’s not as though Anderson was the only other possible guy who could take the lead. What about the mass of closeted they’d been talking about?

People like American Dreamer froth at the mouth and go crazy with hate over Anderson since he hasn’t announced he’s gay supposedly because we need a spokesman and role model in TV news, but that can’t really be their issue because they don’t give a damn about all the other guys in TV news who are less out and do less for the gay community.

I dont think anyone is challenging Anderson's RIGHT to keep quiet. But Dreamer and Will and the rest are simply exercising their right to judge whether that makes him (as Will puts it) a coward.

Everyone is challenging his right to keep quiet, including Dreamer and Will. He has been outed a billion times and every gay media source, a lot of commenters, people in the straight press and other people have written about why he shouldn’t be allowed to stay in the closet, or why he has an obligation to come out officially, or why not coming out officially isn’t “legitimate” for him.

Nobody’s asking questions like “don’t they all have an equal obligation to come out? or at least all have some obligation and an equal obligation among the quite successful ones?”, “why aren’t there complaints Esquire Magazine just had a big interview with Shep Smith where they were raving about Shep and didn’t ask one question about the gay rumors?”, “is it legitimate to only tell one guy he has to come out?”, or “why would he believe having a gay newsman come out is genuinely vital to gay rights when none of his peers are getting hassled to come out?”.

Anderson’s proven he’s not a physical coward, and he’s done a lot of things many people would find mentally frightening. I haven’t seen any of the same from, say, Headline News’ AJ Hammer. What’s AJ’s excuse? Celebrities won’t sit down with him if he’s announces he’s gay? People aren’t ready to accept an out gay guy doing entertainment reporting? He’s in danger of a hate crime paper cut while sitting on his butt in the studio? If anyone is being denounced as a coward why isn’t he at the top of the list?

Anderson's refusal to directly verbally address his sexuality does seem to me also to be an anachronistic throwback to earlier times.

Considering that it’s general practice among the gay men in TV news, I would say he’s actually right with the times in his profession. He’s in the clearest glass closet of any of them, so it actually looks like he’s one of the guys on the cutting edge comparatively speaking.

News anchoring is a conservative job where you are supposed to keep a stable old fashioned kind of image. News anchors are naturally going to be behind the curve socially.

The fact that Anderson clearly thinks being more openly gay would hurt his career is what makes some gays angry.

I don’t think so. A lot of gay performers and media people who have come out say it has hurt their career at times or they fear it might hurt their career, and I don’t see people frothing at the mouth over them expressing that.

More importantly don't you think that if he did address the three ton elephant (or should I say dildo) in the room the press would back off and it would just become another facet of his life like it did for Foster?

Jodie Foster never came out and she did not address her sexuality. She tossed in an ambiguous thank you to “Sydney” (which is commonly a guy’s name) among a bunch of other names at a tiny minor awards event out of guilt that she’d been cheating on her longtime partner and was about to dump her. If you actually consider that coming out then Anderson is out too. He gave a more public, notably intimate thank you to his boyfriend (who does not have a name like a girl) in his bestselling book. It was a better gesture too, because Julio didn’t have to wait about fifteen years in the shadows raising Anderson’s kids and then get dumped in order to get it. Jodie Foster’s career has been on hold for years so she’s barely been in the public eye or been interviewed for years, that’s why she has some space. Eventually she’ll do another movie and do interviews and then it WILL be a big issue. She’ll get asked again about her sexuality or romantic life and we’ll find out if she’ll discuss it. My guess is she’ll stick to her practice of explaining why she won’t discuss any of it for privacy reasons and there will be a big uproar in the gay press and lots of disappointed people.

I don’t think announcing he was gay would really end it for Anderson. He’s already been asked in interview if thinks making a sexuality declaration would give him some space and he said he doesn’t think so because then the press would just try to move along further and then he’d never have any privacy. I think there’s probably truth to that. There’s too much curiosity about his sex life in the gay community and too much jealous impulse to come up with juicy dirt on him for him to really be left in peace.

I appreciate all the feedback from various parties but the bottom line (sorry to keep using "bottom") is that Anderson is actively restricting certain aspects of his personal life including keeping his significant other in the shadows which to me and so many others is completely deplorable even for a public figure in this day and age.

True it is even more deplorable for someone like Senator Lindsay Graham Republican of South Carolina or so many other Republicans in Congress. Or other non-gay related hypocrisy like Mel Gibson's holier than thou attitude while he is engaged in an affair with another woman that led his wife to seek a divorce.

But I'm a little annoyed that so many of you are claiming I am so left of center. Just look at every article on this site..Jossip…on Anderson Cooper other than this one. All of them are poking fun at his sexuality. And it has been the subject of debate on the cover of the Advocate the most widely respected gay magazine and some other less reputable ones like Out Magazine.

When it reaches the point where even Kathie Lee Gifford is joking about it on the Today Show Anderson's continued efforts to hide his sexual proclivities seem almost pathological.

I was walking down Horatio Street a few weeks back and saw Anderson walking alone (on a Friday night no less!) in the opposite direction and a group of young gays who had probably just left the Community Center spotted Anderson and started hooting and hollering at him ridiculing him for being closeted Anderson barely flinched and kept walking. How sad that it has reached this point.

I think years from now he'll just be remembered as nothing more than one sad final vestige of the way things were…a 21st century Rock Hudson or Montgomery Clift.

How strange. How sad.

@american dreamer:
You don't know if Anderson has a significant other, and what his position is on this.

Being a public figure does not mean obligation to share anything and everything. Anderson has a right to restrict any aspects of his personal life, and it's not just his sexuality either. If you find that deplorable, then okay. Avoid him, dislike him. But it doesn't really have anything to do with you, it is about his personal life and he might have different priorities than you do. I think he should get to decide for himself on what to share and what reasons are important, whether someone dislikes him for it or not.

People are still homophobic in “this day and age”. As a private person and a journalist who travels internationally, who conducts interviews and moderates debates with these homophobic people as a part of his job, and who's aim and purpose is to be objective and not provide commentary or positions, i.e. not to be an activist, he has many reasons not to discuss it with the world at large, just like he doesn't discuss his other stances on political or controversial topics, or his involvement in them.

Why is it okay to mock his sexuality, or mock that he doesn't discuss his sexuality with people with no particular position in his life? It's mean, no matter that "the others are doing it too". That's no good reason. What has he done to you? He has no anti-gay positions which do affect others in their lives. Everyone should be able to live their lives as they want to.

I might like him to proclaim he's gay/an atheist/a democrat, it's still not my place to make him, or do it for him. He doesn't owe it to me, it has nothing to do with me. It doesn't make it right to publicly ridicule or vilify him if he doesn't do as I want him to, even if I think that that's deplorable or outdated, and it doesn't make him a coward for not giving in if I keep doing it because I can't let it go and focus on my own life and goals instead of meddling in others while not even knowing all the details.

It is definitely sad. How is this championing personal freedom and tolerance for everyone?

It is a very ugly American attribute, this hijacking of other's personal lives. In today's lack of culture, rudeness prevails, disrespect is the norm, and crude behavior is rewarded with celebrity. Anderson seems to be a very decent man. His life is his own, not part of a public agenda.

@Anon:

What do you mean I don't know what Anderson's "position" is?

We all know Anderson's favorite position!

Like someone said earlier Anderson is nothing more than a complete coward. Anyone who actively hides their homosexuality…lives their life in the shadows…refuses to bring their significant other to public events….just because they fear the backlash is a complete and total coward.

But like I said earlier Anderson isn't even an investigative journalist anymore. He is just the talking head who recites the nightly news to ever declining ratings (and when he goes on the road his scripts are written for him). He's not worth the waste of time.

I honestly think the only reason he hasn't come out is that he is ashamed of being a uber bottom and he knows declaring his sexuality will also be declaring he's an uber bottom and he is kind of ashamed by it.

@fiona:

But Anderson is throwing himself out there….opening up every other aspect of his personal life except his sexual proclivities.

Have you read his book? Or the articles he writes for Detail Magazine? Or his conversations on tv show or on Regis & Kelly? He is constantly talking about all aspects of his personal life except the most important one.

Like I said earlier if he kept everything private like Sam Champion or Sam Shepherd or so many other gay tv personalities I would respect his privacy.

But the hypocrisy of constantly throwing his personal life in our face like he is some of celebrity…while CNN continues passing him off as a casanova….is truly pathetic.

Maybe if you feel so strongly about it you can act as his "beard" at public events. Just don't touch Anderson. He thinks girls are icky.

Why do you consider his sexuality the most important element of his life?

You don't know what this hypothetical Anderson's significant other's position on Anderson not discussing him is. Maybe he doesn't want to be in the spotlight. Either way, he can make his own choices.
And, ha ha. I get it. He's gay! That's hilarious.

You don't know his motives or reasoning, you don't what this backlash would be and since it wouldn't be directed at you but at him he should be allowed to decide on the issue for himself. He doesn't answer questions on his sexuality, but he doesn't claim to be straight either. He's thanked Julio in his book, goes to gay bars, does not avoid gay people, does not steer away from gay stereotypes. Anderson's done plenty of dangerous things on his job, just because he doesn't share your agenda on this does not make him a coward.

He's still a journalist, that is his job officially, and the job he's trying to do. If you think he's a teleprompter reader who is bad at his job at that then that is a different problem, and I disagree. You're wasting an awful lot of time on him then.

Privacy is not *all or nothing*. His life, his boundaries. He's allowed to talk about certain things and still not have it be right for people to demand to know everything else about him and interrupt his privacy.

He's not constantly discussing his personal life. As Adam said before, his book was mostly about his work with only some aspects about the Vanderbilts that had already been discussed by the media and his mother when they happened. I doubt his work as a journalist is going to be affected by people knowing that Nene is his favourite housewife or him not liking his hair being grey, but homosexuality is kind of more relevant and a hot button issue to most people than those things are.

But I'm a little annoyed that so many of you are claiming I am so left of center. Just look at every article on this site..Jossip…on Anderson Cooper other than this one. All of them are poking fun at his sexuality. And it has been the subject of debate on the cover of the Advocate the most widely respected gay magazine and some other less reputable ones like Out Magazine.

Are you actually reading any of the posts that are addressed to you?

The Advocate article has already been talked about here (not the cover one – that one was just about them raving about what a sexy silver fox he is). If you examine the Jossip articles, Out, the Advocate, etc you will find some HUGE differences between what they are doing and what you are doing. They are making some sly AFFECTIONATE jokes at Cooper at the same time as acknowledging that they’d particularly like him to come out is because they admire and like him so much as a professional and a personality. On top of that, they ARE NOT LYING and inventing ugly stories or trying to turn people off him by exploiting negative stereotypes about gays. You are being hateful, not affectionate. You’re saying you hate everything about him as a person and professional – why do you even want him to come out then? If he is such a horrible being what would be the benefit of having him publicly say he’s gay? YOU HAVE BEEN LYING repeatedly even about things that can be easily checked online like newspaper articles. You have been playing on gay stereotypes, trying to blur the line between gay and pedophile and trying to spread obviously untrue stories that would fit in anti-gay hate literature.

When it reaches the point where even Kathie Lee Gifford is joking about it on the Today Show Anderson's continued efforts to hide his sexual proclivities seem almost pathological.

Kathie didn’t make jokes, she tried not to laugh because a viewer suggested she date Cooper. So what? There are lots of gays the industry know are closeted and if one of them or Jodie Foster had been suggested to a straight in the media there would have been the same sort of reaction.

Cooper is not hiding, he’s just not discussing. He hides less than any of the closeted people in news. He hasn’t lied, he hasn’t bearded, he isn’t embarrassed about talking about gay interests all the time, he uses noticeable gay expressions, he goes to gay events and gay establishments.

I was walking down Horatio Street a few weeks back and saw Anderson walking alone (on a Friday night no less!) in the opposite direction and a group of young gays who had probably just left the Community Center spotted Anderson and started hooting and hollering at him ridiculing him for being closeted Anderson barely flinched and kept walking. How sad that it has reached this point.

At this point why would we believe this or any other story you tell? You have lied over and over.

I think years from now he'll just be remembered as nothing more than one sad final vestige of the way things were…a 21st century Rock Hudson or Montgomery Clift.

He’ll be remembered as a Vanderbilt with a successful news career who didn’t lie about his sexuality. How will all the other gays in news who aren’t out to public be remembered? As cowards who let one guy take all the heat?

But like I said earlier Anderson isn't even an investigative journalist anymore. He is just the talking head who recites the nightly news to ever declining ratings (and when he goes on the road his scripts are written for him). He's not worth the waste of time.

I don’t think you understand the meaning of “investigative journalist”. Anderson was a combat and disaster reporter for years, not an investigative journalist. His 60 Minutes and CNN investigative specials in narco-trafficking, the environment, street gangs, and other topics mean he does do investigative journalism now.

He had great ratings through the primary and elections. A lot of people appreciated his neutral approach. His ratings aren’t really that low now, the ratings of his competitors have just been higher than normal on some nights. With emotions running high about the economy a greater than usual number of people are being drawn to the rants of commentators.

He writes his own material when he is covering events on location. If there are news stories happening elsewhere when he is on location the people at headquarters with all the resources do the research on those and send him the stories. He writes his own material for 60 Minutes. When a crisis happens he does breaking news coverage for hours coming up with everything himself on the fly without a teleprompter.

Like I said earlier if he kept everything private like Sam Champion or Sam Shepherd or so many other gay tv personalities I would respect his privacy.

The other gay TV personalities talk about their lives and interests during newscasts. The black ones talk about their black perspective but not about their gay perspective. Shep Smith has been the focus of high profile interviews where he has talked about his background. Sam Champion has done interviews and talked about his background (for example: http://blogs.usaweekend.com/wh.....matte.html). Here is Sam ducking the gay issue in an interview: “Do you think Middle America cares about gay anchorpeople?” “Wow. I don’t know if they think about that. I know I don’t.” (source: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/20344/). They don’t keep everything private. You have no legitimate reason for hating Anderson and having no problem with the others.

But the hypocrisy of constantly throwing his personal life in our face like he is some of celebrity…while CNN continues passing him off as a casanova….is truly pathetic.

Anyone who is a news personality, whether it is Sam Champion or Anderson Cooper, is a celebrity.

CNN isn’t “passing him off as a casanova”. He became a sex icon naturally without them doing it. Lots of people started crushing on him when he was a correspondent. Blogs like Gawker started following him and making a lot of comments about his attractiveness. Fan groups developed and he was named in People’s sexiest men issues. He’s been on Vanity Fair’s best dressed issue several times. A lot of men and women swoon over him. Even female and male celebrities like Eva Mendez, Rene Zellwegger, Tim Gunn and Neil Patrick Harris gush about their crushes on him. CNN doesn’t try to pass him off as straight, but it would be stupid for them to pretend that when the public see him they don’t focus on his sex appeal a lot.

American Dreamer is more THE American Idiot, more THE Ugly American than the sympathetic bystander she pretends to. I still believe you are a hating straight chick and not a member of the LGBT community or one of its supporters at all. Did you read Adam's comments at all? Do you listen? You are totally obsessed with Anderson Cooper and your constant juvenile posts about Cooper's "position" are revealing.
Why would a newsperson go around talking about who he sleeps with? Ridiculous.
Cooper does plenty of stories on the struggle of gay Americans; did you catch tonight's program? The 11-year-old sweet child who was hounded and bullied to suicide because he was different? I know you did because you are a nutcase who is not a viewer but rather, I suspect, a stalker.
Again, did you see the story on the child tonight, you deaf one?
If you don't like him, don't watch him.