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The hoopla over the college football star's coming-out is 'not strange to me at all,' says Cooper. By Ran Aubrey Frazier. February 12 2014 6:20 PM EST. âBeing born gay is one of the great blessings of my life,â Anderson Cooper proclaimed to a crowd of nearly 6,000 at University of Texas at Arlington Monday evening.ooper bristled at a question about whether it was strange in 2014 that the athlete's coming-out was such a major news story. It's not strange to me at all, he replied, before citing hangings in Iran and floggings in Nigeria as examples of the oppression many LGBT people face around the world.
'He'd been considering breaking the news [about being gay] since same-sex marriage became legal in the state of New York last summer,' a source told the Enquirer. 1  Wedding bells: CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is reportedly planning to marry his long-term boyfriend, gay club owner Ben Maisani. Here they are pictured leaving David Barton Gym in 2010.