Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend

[+ deej]

I hadn't seen a pic, but google is your friend. Is this the guy?

 

http://static.flickr.com/5/4883241_1ddb40c41d_m.jpg

 

Not exactly a telling picture, is it?

[twinkboylover28]

I firmly believe no one should be "outed" against their will. I would never say someone is something that they don't say they are.

 

When the topic of Cooper's sexuality comes up, he says, "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."

 

Yet he has NO PROBLEM milking the suicide of his brother for all its worth, as well as cherry-picking many other aspects of his "personal life."

 

Sounds like a hypocrite.

[Jay Ganymede]

>Sounds like a hypocrite.

 

 

That's not very hypocritical at all. For example if I claim I don't care for chocolate however pick up a chocolate bar once in a while that does not make me a hypocrite.

[Guest zipperzone]

>

>I firmly believe no one should be "outed" against their will.

>I would never say someone is something that they don't say

>they are.

>

>When the topic of Cooper's sexuality comes up, he says, "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."

 

I am almost positive that a couple of years ago, before he became as well known as he is today, I read/heard (?) him say that he was gay. I recall being proud of him that he had the balls to say it (given the family background and all)

 

The fact that he now says that he just doesn't talk about his personal life indicates to me that he IS gay, doesn't want to admit it (any more) but at the same time doesn't want to lie about it. Otherwise, why wouldn't he just say No, I'm not?

 

I have also read that he favors the leather bar scene in NYC. Are any of our NY members able to confirm that. He must have been seen out and about by some of you.....

[Guest zipperzone]

>>Sounds like a hypocrite.

>

>

>That's not very hypocritical at all. For example if I claim I

>don't care for chocolate however pick up a chocolate bar once

>in a while that does not make me a hypocrite.

 

I agree - I don't see how his willingness to talk about some personal matters makes him a hypocrite at all.

 

But then again, we all know how twinkboylover28 as unusual views on a variety of subjects.

[BgMstr4u]

TBL28 says:

Yet he has NO PROBLEM milking the suicide of his brother for all its worth, as well as cherry-picking many other aspects of his "personal life."

Sounds like a hypocrite.

 

I hope Anderson Cooper is gay -- he's a great news announcer and a good reporter, his book is at the top of the NYT bestseller list, and he's one of the all-time handsomest guys around (IMHO).

 

So why beat him over the head for highlighting some parts of his life and avoiding others? Isn't that what most do when presenting ourselves?

 

I went to see Al Gore's "An Incovenient Truth" the other day, and darn it, it is as much about Al Gore as it is about global warming! He trots out the heartwrenching stories about his sister's death and his son's accident, and in the course of making a point about how fragile and precious life is, a perfectly valid point, he also pumps up his own life story in our minds. Perhaps the movie is a new form of campaign propaganda, the first that general audiences pay to see. If so, Gore is a genuine entrepreneur in politics! But -- surprise, surprise -- his self-revelations are selective. He -- oh the shock of it! -- has suppressed at least one other inconvenient truth -- the Clinton administration's failure to get out in front and fight the good fight on the Kyoto treaty in the Senate, which he glosses over.

 

My point is that to edit our self-presentation is in no way uncommon, nor is it particularly despicable. We are not required, it seems to me, to put elements of our lives we do not wish to highlight on display ourselves. If people want to criticize Gore, they should do their own legwork and write their own stories and not expect Gore to undermine his own case. If people want to tell the story about Anderson Cooper, well, perhaps they should do their own hard work, spend those endless nights in the leather bars of NYC, do their own research and then tell the story. And then maybe there would be some stories to tell about them as well!

 

It is lazy reporters from the White House to the court house who turn our media into a press-release headline service, and use their power to promote things they only half understand. Away with press-release journalism! Down with self-revelation news sourcing! Back to good old fashioned legwork and understanding your subject and its background before you write that tabloid headline and wreak destruction in its wake!

 

With all good humor...

[twinkboylover28]

>>Sounds like a hypocrite.

>

>

>That's not very hypocritical at all. For example if I claim I

>don't care for chocolate however pick up a chocolate bar once

>in a while that does not make me a hypocrite.

 

 

 

He's a TOTAL hypocrite. He declines comment about his sexual orientation citing he "doesn't talk about his personal life," yet goes on to write a million dollar book about his "PERSONAL LIFE." He cant have it both ways.

 

Either he does talk about his personal life... or he doesnt. Eating a chocalate bar has nothig to do with one's personal life.

[Jay Ganymede]

>Eating a chocolate bar has nothing to do with one's personal

>life.

 

 

It was an analogy. Next time I'll soil on it so you'll understand.

 

He is free to chose whatever he chooses to about his personal life. A hypocritical Anderson Cooper would be one who digresses in someone's personal life and preaches that his is off limits.

[twinkboylover28]

<<It was an analogy. Next time I'll soil on it so you'll understand.

 

 

Ouch.

 

A hypocritical Anderson Cooper would be one that says he "doesn't talk about his personal life" and then DOES!!

 

A hypocritical Anderson Cooper, when asked about his personal life such as his sexual orientation, would say he DOESNT TALK ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE yet write a detailed book ABOUT HIS PERSONALL LIFE!.

 

Sounds like a hypocrite to me!

[Yeswell]

Twinkboy is right: Anderson Cooper is a hypocrite. He's happy, indeed eager, to use his personal life if it can advance his career or sell books; he hides behind the idea of privacy when he thinks being honest would hurt his career. Why are people defending this closet case? And are things really so bad in American journalism that a mediocrity like Anderson Cooper is considered a good reporter?

[Jay Ganymede]

You guys are using the wrong adjective. Not hyprocritical at all.

[RockHard]

Some of you guys are so brainless. In show business, "not wanting to talk about my personal life" is code speak for "I don't want to talk about my sex life." Nobody, not even public figures, are required to answer questions concerning sex. The problem is so few people have any manners.

 

My favorite response to a stranger who has the nerve to ask me about my sex life: "It's none of your fucking business, asshole."

[Guest zipperzone]

>And are things

>really so bad in American journalism that a mediocrity like

>Anderson Cooper is considered a good reporter?

 

I suppose you would prefer Nancy Grace?

[+ deej]

>My favorite response to a stranger who has the nerve to ask me

>about my sex life: "It's none of your fucking business,

>asshole."

 

My favorite response to that is "Why? You interested?"

 

Or "Does your wife give head?" }( (If my sex life is up for discussion, so is his!)

[+ Tom Isern]

If Anderson Cooper is cowering in the closet he's doing a very bad job of it. I've seen him emerge from a restaurant on the 8th Avenue strip, hail a cab for a companion (who looked a lot like the guy in the pic), kiss him on the lips in broad daylight, and send him on his way. Anderson "openly" dated a gay male friend of mine for several months last year.

[RockHard]

"My favorite response to that is "Why? You interested?""

 

I have friends who use this line, too. I don't because I'm afraid the answer might be an affirmative. And I'm just not that easy. :-)

 

ps I don't think Mr. Cooper has any relationship with the closet. He just knows how to smartly handle the tabloid-sex-obsessed press, and the idiot readers who drool over this shit.

[Guest PWIT]

I didn't expect that response from an escort Tom. Are you not in the secret keeping business? Confirmation of an outing from an escort gives me a bad vibe. But I do like your pics and contribution to this site.

[Rod Hagen]

I don't have the link, but the photo's everywhere. What do you guys think?

[Jay Ganymede]

>I didn't expect that response from an escort Tom. Are you

>not in the secret keeping business? Confirmation of an outing

>from an escort gives me a bad vibe. But I do like your pics

>and contribution to this site.

 

Come again? Go back, jot down all your ideas, arrange them in a logical order and come back with a reasonable explanation of why Tom Isern's "opinion," as he never claimed to sleep with Mr.. Cooper, of Mr.. Cooper's sexuality gives you a bad vibe. The readers of your opinion will then have a platform on which to stand on to say your bad vide is unworthy of the situation comparative to their personal opinions.

[+ Axiom2001]

Who gives a rat's ass? He, Anderson, is a very cute, unmarried guy! If he's gay, it's his sole business and nobody else's; if he has a boyfriend, so be it. It is hope that he can live to be who he is without being under the microscope of gays and the acute scrutiny of homophophic, repressive America (USA) in general.

 

To all of you who are wanting him to reveal his sexuality openly: have you? Were you 150% out while on the job? And before castigating others who have Not acknowledged "I'm coming out! I want the world to know!" put yourself in her or his shoes!

 

PS Both Anderson and his purported boyfriend look good!

[stripfan]

Getting back to the original question...I think if the guy in the pic posted by deej is AC's BF then Coop has done very well for himself. I am trying to picture him doing Anderson 360. I would like to see that on Larry King.

 

 

 

stripfan }(

[IceFireWizard]

>I didn't expect that response from an escort Tom. Are you

>not in the secret keeping business?

 

Talking about discreet and having a BIG MOUTH :o

[Lankypeters]

I'd like to watch them go at it too.

 

But more to the point: If Anderson came out, it would come as little surprise as it's fairly widely said he is gay. There might be some ripples in response to the announcemnt, which soon would smooth out. Anderson could continue as the successful reporter he is. And gays, especially young guys coming of age, would have a positive role model.

 

It's not as if he's a movie star, e.g. Cruise, Affleck, Damon, et al, who are afraid no one will believe their love scenes with women if they come out. Not that they're gay, of course. Just hypothetical illustrations.

 

Anderson doesn't do love scenes on the air. I wish he did.

 

One wonders if Anderson's brother may have been gay. Suicide is high among adolescents and late adolescents, though his brother was just beyond those categories. Still, he might have been unhappily gay in a less approving time. Didn't he ask his mother, just before he committed suicide, if people could change?

 

 

 

 

Lankypeters

[Yeswell]

You mean that things are so bad that the choice is between Anderson Cooper and Nancy Grace? In that case, I'd definitely choose him.

[Guest PWIT]

>>I didn't expect that response from an escort Tom. Are you

>>not in the secret keeping business? Confirmation of an

>outing

>>from an escort gives me a bad vibe. But I do like your

>pics

>>and contribution to this site.

>

>Come again? Go back, jot down all your ideas, arrange them in

>a logical order and come back with a reasonable explanation of

>why Tom Isern's "opinion," as he never claimed to sleep with

>Mr.. Cooper, of Mr.. Cooper's sexuality gives you a bad vibe.

>The readers of your opinion will then have a platform on which

>to stand on to say your bad vide is unworthy of the situation

>comparative to their personal opinions.

>

Jay, was refering to Tom's comment: "I've seen him emerge from a restaurant on the 8th Avenue strip, hail a cab for a companion (who looked a lot like the guy in the pic), kiss him on the lips in broad daylight, and send him on his way. Anderson "openly" dated a gay male friend of mine for several months last year."

 

It gives me a bad vibe Jay. This is not a thesis and I do not feel the need to defend a personal perspective. Granted, vibes are subjective and it is not intended as an an argument to convince others to have the same view. It is my personal vibe and whether deemed unworthy by others is really not my concern.

 

OK..before anyone thinks I am being pissy, I am not. It just looks that way in print.

 

OH....and Jay, I enjoy your pics too! Have you made appearances at a San Francisco theatre? You look very familiar.