Anderson Cooper Reveals Richard Gere Helped Him Realize He’s Gay
etcanada.comRichard Gere caused a sexual awakening in Anderson Cooper. Appearing this week on SiriusXM’s “Radio Andy” with his friend Andy Cohen, the CNN anchor revealed that seeing Richard Gere on Broadway as a kid helped him realize he was gay. READ MORE: Anderson Cooper Shares New Family Pic While Celebrating Wyatt’s 2nd Birthday “What was it like coming out to Gloria Vanderbilt?
I mean, your mom was friends with Truman Capote. You had Gore Vidal at your house. I mean, you grew up…,” Cohen remarked. “Yeah.
There were a lot of gays around,” Cooper said. “There were a lot of gays around and kind of famous gays,” Cohen continued, to which Cooper responded, “Actually.
When I was 11, a friend of my mom’s, a photographer named Paul Jasmin came with his boyfriend, uh, I guess his boyfriend who had a diamond embedded in his front tooth, which I thought was interesting.” “Which was way before anyone was doing that,” Cohen pointed out. “Yeah,” Cooper said. “We’re talking 1977.
