CNN 名嘴 Anderson Cooper 向公众公开其同志身份！

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Anderson Cooper publicly delares he is gay
CNN 名嘴 Anderson Cooper 向公众公开其同志身份！

July 03, 2012 8:05AM

CNN Journalist Anderson Cooper has said, ''The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be.''
CNN 记者 Anderson Cooper 说：事实上，我是同志，我过去是，我一直是！

                               
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ONE of the best-known faces in global television news, Anderson Cooper, has publicly declared he is gay.
作为全球知名的电视新闻网记者，Anderson Cooper 日前向公众公开其同志身份。

The CNN journalist wrote in an online letter that he had kept his sexual orientation private for personal and professional reasons, but came to think that remaining silent had given some people a mistaken impression that he was ashamed.
他在互联网发表的一封公开信中写到：出于对个人和的考虑，他一直刻意隐瞒他的性取向，但是如今他对于有关于他性取向的传言，而他本人一直保持沉默，为此他感到很羞愧。

"The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself and proud," he wrote in the letter, published by Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Beast.
【事实上，我是同性恋，过去一直是，将来也是，我对自己的性取向很自信很幸福也很骄傲】，他的这些话被发表在Daily Beast上。

Cooper, the son of Gloria Vanderbilt, had long been the subject of rumours about his sexual orientation. He said that in a perfect world, it wouldn't be anyone's business, but that there is value in "standing up and being counted."
一直以来都有关于 Cooper 是同志的传言，他说，按理说，他的性取向和其他任何人无关，但是在现实社会上，站起来承认自己是同志有很积极的作用。

"I still consider myself a reserved person and I hope this doesn't mean an end to a small amount of personal space," he wrote. "But I do think visibility is important, more important than preserving my reporter's shield of privacy."
我还是一个很低调的人，我希望我公开我的同志身份这件事不影响我享有一定的个人生活隐私。但是我坚信勇敢的亮出我的同志身份很重要，比我要保护我作为记者而保留一定的隐私更加重要。

CNN said it would not comment, and that Cooper was on assignment and there were no plans for Cooper to discuss it on the air.
CNN官方表示对此事不置评论，也没有计划在电视上发表相关的声明。

Few national television news reporters have publicly acknowledged being gay, with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and CNN's Don Lemon perhaps the best known.
公开其同志身份的全国的电视新闻记者还很少有。MSNBC的 Rachel Maddow 和 CNN的 Don Lemon 算是最知名的了。

Cooper's show, "Anderson Cooper 360," received an award this year from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
Cooper 的节目 【Anderson Cooper 360】今年曾经获得了来自【同性恋联盟】的一个【反对诽谤】奖。

"Even prior to coming out publicly, Anderson's terrific work has raised awareness of inequalities facing LGBT people, said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick. "He's a role model to millions and now will inspire countless others."
其实在他向公众公开性取向以前，Anderson 就致力于让公众了解【同性恋所面对的歧视和不平等问题】，Andreson 的所作所为将是无数人的楷模。

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http://www.samesame.com.au/news/ ... -always-will-be.htm

Ending years of speculation, one of CNN’s brightest stars has come out as gay, instantly becoming the most prominent openly gay TV journalist ever seen.

“The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud,” Anderson Cooper wrote to the Daily Beast blog writer Andrew Sullivan, who is a long-standing close friend of the 45-year-old anchorman.

“Even though my job puts me in the public eye, I have tried to maintain some level of privacy in my life,” he explains of his reluctance to come out earlier. “Part of that has been for purely personal reasons. I think most people want some privacy for themselves and the people they are close to.”
尽管，我的工作性质让我成为公众人物，但是我一直试图在一定程度上保留一些私生活，我认为大多数人都希望自己和自己亲近的人有一些隐私不被完全曝光给大众。

But: “I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. There continue to be far too many incidences of bullying of young people, as well as discrimination and violence against people of all ages, based on their sexual orientation, and I believe there is value in making clear where I stand.”
但是，最近我意识到社会要想朝人热门平等的方向迈进，历史证明，只有每个人都完全的像公众现身才能够推进历史。一直以来，连续不断的，有【和性取向相关】的青少年收到欺辱，各个年龄段的人收到歧视和暴力的事件。我相信，站出来可以表明我的立场是很重要的。

Rumours about Cooper’s sexuality have been rife for years – even before he came out, Out magazine put him on their list of influential LGBT Americans, and he’s even been a gay magazine coverboy before.

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Why Anderson Cooper Coming Out Matters

Matt Bomer's sex-symbol status in 'Magic Mike' also helps shatter Hollywood's glass ceiling.

Anderson Cooper came out of the closet publicly Monday (July 2), and the news was greeted not by surprise or bewilderment, but with an amused smile. "Finally," the Internet sighed, and then everyone went back to work like nothing much had happened. That's because it didn't. Not really — Cooper simply confirmed what we all already knew.
Anderson Cooper 昨天出柜！本应该是一个重大的新闻，但是每个听到这个消息的人都会意的一笑，是啊，这早已不是什么新闻啦。

Which is not to say that his public acknowledgement isn't important. As Andrew Sullivan, the Daily Beast political writer to whom Cooper gave permission to run his wonderfully worded coming-out statement, points out, "The visibility of gay people is one of the core means for our equality." And Cooper's admission is certainly a step in the right direction for LGBT visibility. After all, who better to have in your corner than a respected, Emmy-winning journalist popularly known as "the Silver Fox"?
这并不是说他跟公众出柜这件事不重要。同志出柜对于推进同权运动有着至关重要的作用。Anderson Copper 这一步有助于让同志人群更加可见。有这么一个重要的人物公开站在同志这一边，肯定要比备受尊敬的知名新闻节目主持人要好得多。

Celebrities tweet their support for Anderson Cooper.
娱乐界人事对此事表示支持。

Cooper had long been in what many call the "glass closet" — a phrase used for a person who is known to be gay but is not out publicly — and is the latest to step out, after "Big Bang Theory" star Jim Parsons, "Magic Mike" actor Matt Bomer and "Star Trek" actor Zachary Quinto all threw open the closet door in quick succession and with little fanfare earlier this year.
Cooper早就被称作【Glass Closet】，一个专门的术语，用来形容那些还没有像公众公开的知名同志。在【宇宙大爆炸】的主演Jim Parsons出柜，【神奇麦克】的Matt Bomer 出柜，【星际巡航】的 Zachary Quinto 这些演艺界名人的出柜都丝毫没有引起粉丝的恐慌。

In terms of visibility and the shifting attitudes toward LGBT people, particularly gay men, in the media, Bomer and Cooper now find themselves in different but equally game-changing roles.
随着公众对同性恋人群态度的转变，尤其是男同性恋，娱乐界，Bomer和Cooper的出柜有着十分重要的积极作用。

For four seasons, Bomer has found great success playing a (straight) career thief-turned-FBI consultant on USA's hit "White Collar," and this past weekend, the actor — who has three children with his longtime partner, Simon Halls — was featured as a straight, married and often in the buff stripper in "Magic Mike," which debuted to a better-than-expected $39.2 million at the box office.


Women accounted for 73 percent of the "Mike" earnings, and in the lead-up to the film's release, Bomer's sexuality was far less of a conversation topic than his Ken doll good looks and images of the star in various stages of undress. In Buzzfeed's funny photo post on the "50 Reasons to See Magic Mike," Bomer accounted for 13 of them — six of which were awarded to his six-pack abs alone and another five to a film still of a woman grabbing his bare backside.

Whether female audiences felt the same type of affection for Bomer that they did for his fellow "Mike" supporting players Alex Pettyfer, Joe Manganiello and Adam Rodriguez is something I can't speak to (as a gay guy, I went, in part, for him), but it seems they were able to suspend their disbelief long enough to effectively ogle the handsome actor. His success represents progress on a major front: There is a mainstream, openly gay sex symbol working in Hollywood right now, something that would have been unimaginable just a decade ago.

Bomer's success in many ways also puts to bed the question of whether a gay actor can play a realistic straight character, which was posed, quite controversially, by Newsweek in an article titled "Straight Jacket."

Cooper, too, is not without female fans, who admire him for his good looks, apparent smarts and commanding television presence. His brand of reporting also can be expressly authoritative — he has embedded himself with active soldiers, gotten roughed up by rioters in Egypt and visited the sites of natural disasters — a quality that is not always ascribed to gay men.

As he mentions in his email to Sullivan, Cooper travels often to dangerous places, and while he doesn't say it outright, he sometimes finds himself in places where being openly gay is more than just ridiculed; he goes to places where it is illegal and puts him in even more serious danger. Interestingly, his good friend Kathy Griffin alluded to that fact (and spoke pretty directly about his sexuality without saying the words) in a 2010 interview with the Washington Blade, saying, "Anderson has this great line where he says, 'I don't want to be the news, I want to report the news.' And so that's why, even though I'm the biggest mouth in the world, I actually don't talk about his personal life, because you have to keep in mind he goes into third world countries where it's a very different culture, so, you know."

It seems likely that Cooper was holding on to his open secret until he'd felt he'd proven something, until he was in a place where his work spoke so loudly for itself that his command as a newsman could not be questioned.

It's the same with Bomer. If he'd been out in 2010, would the Newsweek writer who dismantled openly gay actor Jonathan Groff's performance as a straight choir captain on the heightened-by-nature "Glee" by saying, "When he smiles or giggles, he seems more like your average theater queen, a better romantic match for Kurt than for Rachel," have found a way to undermine his performance on "White Collar"?

Maybe, but at this point it would only be for the sake of causing a stir, and that's really the point here. Hollywood's glass closet is shattering because the notion of it is increasingly outmoded. Each time a man steps forward to prove that you can be gay and a heartthrob movie star (Bomer), be gay and be the lead on TV's biggest sitcom (Parsons) and be gay and be one of the most respected men in news (Cooper), there's less reason for the next generation to hide in plain sight.

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“Even though my job puts me in the public eye, I have tried to maintain some level of privacy in my life,” he explains of his reluctance to come out earlier. “Part of that has been for purely personal reasons. I think most people want some privacy for themselves and the people they are close to.”
尽管，我的工作性质让我成为公众人物，但是我一直试图在一定程度上保留一些私生活，我认为大多数人都希望自己和自己亲近的人有一些隐私不被完全曝光给大众。

But: “I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. There continue to be far too many incidences of bullying of young people, as well as discrimination and violence against people of all ages, based on their sexual orientation, and I believe there is value in making clear where I stand.”
但是，最近我意识到社会要想朝人热门平等的方向迈进，历史证明，只有每个人都完全的像公众现身才能够推进历史。一直以来，连续不断的，有【和性取向相关】的青少年收到欺辱，各个年龄段的人收到歧视和暴力的事件。我相信，站出来可以表明我的立场是很重要的。

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Oh God! He came out two years ago and I guess he didn't get enough attention so he's doing it again?
Why do us gays think we have to [come out]? You don't hear traight guys saying [I fuck women] who cares?
That's personal stuff we DON'T need to advertise our sexuality!!!!
Keep your damn sex prefferences in the bedroom!

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