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A person’s sexual orientation and gender identity can affect their social outlooks — that’s why we’ve compiled this list of 20 trailblazing LGBTQ+ news anchors and journalists, some of who. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who came out publicly as gay in , said he first knew "something was different" around the age of 6 or 7. Find CNN's New Day Saturday gay anchor Victor Blackwell's coming out story.

Know his age, height, biofacts, and if he is married to a wife. Anderson Cooper is opening up about when he realized he was gay — and when he "really, truly accepted it." Answering viewer questions on CNN's Full Circle Monday, Cooper, 53, said that he. The list "American LGBTQ journalists" has been viewed times.

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This list has members. See also American journalists, American LGBTQ writers, LGBTQ journalists by nationality. Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, ) is an American television journalist. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news broadcast Anderson Cooper °. A Baltimore native, a Howard grad, and a gay, Black man, Blackwell discusses the importance of identity and how, at the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality, he has found himself more comfortable than ever.

I think people know their truth, but we should be careful to create an environment that allows them to live it, to speak it, to say it. Blackwell answered questions from Howard University students about working his way up the TV totem pole, covering the Ferguson uprisings after the murder of Michael Brown and giving advice about watching difficult footage such as the footage that caught Memphis Police Officers beating Tyre Nichols in January.

Nichols died from his injuries days later. I think the ability to talk to anybody, and ask the right questions, sometimes the uncomfortable questions, and the questions that make me uncomfortable sometimes, is what my added value is to this team. I did not see a lot of out, gay people in any of these roles. Though Blackwell got his first job at 21, he did not come out as publicly gay until This decision, he says, fragmented his life experiences as he could not show up as his entire self in all places.

Blackwell credits his experiences at Howard as an institution and space of both professional development and personal growth. You are a representative of people who invested in you and those who will come after you and try. Facebook Twitter Print Share. Victor Blackwell at CNN. Article ID: More In