Anderson Cooper: "The Fact Is, I'm Gay." - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
Here I was, writing about Tom Cruise, and this happens. I’m am very, very glad that Mr. Cooper has come out, frankly, but I understand and can respect his hesitancy. I just finished the EW article they talked about and how the whole process of coming out has changed. But, at the same time, is it truly necessary?
It shouldn’t be.
Where I’m torn is that kids need role models. They really do. And people in the public eye can do a world of good, if, in some way, let teens today know, well, basically, “it gets better.”
I can respect Anderson. He kept quiet because he could be hanged in Saudi Arabia. The mere fact that he continues to talk to Kathy Griffin is evidence of his queer-ness besides.
I am working on a novel and, one day, would love to have a bestseller. And I think about my partner of 12 years and what that kind attention would do to him. He is a massively private man (yet strangely, can make friends every twenty feet…blindfolded) and doesn’t deserve to be thrusted out into the public like that. We joke about me once thinking about becoming a pastor. He would have to be, like the First Lady, the Pastor’s Wife. There are many unwritten but totally expected aspirations of that role. Things that were not mentioned within the wedding vows.
So, good for your Anderson. Now? Go back to being the man we get our news from. God, he looks like my college roommate. And I crushed on him too.
Peace,
Roo
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