Life
anderson cooper
Anderson Cooper on how Richard Gere helped him realize he was gay as a child
Andy Cohen, on the latter’s Radio Andy. To mark Pride and the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, they broadcast from the Stonewall Inn in New York City.News presenter and journalist Cooper is famously the son of the late fashion designer, Gloria Vanderbilt. When he was a child, her gay friends, including Truman Capote and Gore Vidal, would visit her.On another occasion, the photographer Paul Jasmin and his boyfriend took Cooper, to see a Broadway performance of the play Bent.