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Don Lemon, 53 News anchor The host of CNN Tonight and self-proclaimed “Twitter king,” Lemon is fearless, whether the topic is Donald Trump, gun violence, racism, or homophobia. He came out publicly in 2011 in a New York Times interview about his memoir, Transparent, which details his youth in Louisiana and the years he spent working his way into the echelons of national broadcast news. Even before that, he revealed on-air that he’d been molested as a child. In typical...

A Media Matters investigation found that major news networks have been largely ignoring the Trump administration’s attacks on LGBTQ rights. While several new anti-LGBTQ initiatives were announced in the past few weeks, four of the major broadcast and cable news networks did not cover them at all, while the other two spent less than 11 minutes in total covering the initiatives over a 10-day period. Media Matters cited three attacks on LGBTQ rights from this past month. First, the Department of...

Having to work on New Year’s Eve is the worst – but CNN host Don Lemon was definitely making the best of it. The CNN host anchored the network’s annual NYE countdown show alongside co-host Brooke Baldwin – and the pair kept up their reputation for getting fully involved in the festivities. On last year’s show he had vented on-air about his love life, saying: “I always live my life to the very fullest but I need a bit more balance...