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September 12, 2005
Cooper Profile
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There has been a lot of chatter on the Internet about the fact that Cooper may or may not be gay, and Village Voice columnist Michael Musto has taken pleasure in quoting the gay magazine Metrosource, which has referred to Cooper as “the openly gay news anchor.” It has been assumed in certain circles in New York partly because he lives what looks to some to be a gay social life. He’s often seen at parties with Barry Diller, and he’s friends with the lead singer from the outré gay rock band the Scissor Sisters. And then there was the tempest in a teapot regarding a slightly heated interview last fall with Jerry Falwell about gay marriage. Some Cooper-obsessed bloggers insist that the anchor outed himself on the air, taking the gay side of the debate and saying, “We pay taxes.” They claim CNN originally posted a transcript with the “we” and then later changed it to “You pay taxes.” Cooper has maintained all along that he said “you.”
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Posted on September 12, 2005 02:40 PM by scisso160.
Filed in Music Blog under scissor sisters.
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He's certainly a very pretty man. Those eyes are beautiful! But I thought in the US it was the kiss of death to be out in the media unless prepared to inhabit the shady world of 'Queer Eye...' type shows or, if you're an actor, bit parts if you're lucky playing, ooh let's guess, homosexuals?
Despite Hollywood's latest fashion for 'celebrity gay' - which is more hollow than most female pop stars' stomachs after a night of hard vomiting following a day's meal of two crackers and ten pints of water - US TV has a long way to go before it simply accepts gay people and lets them get on with their jobs whatever their jobs might be. When we got the character of Willow in Buffy, I was hopeful; alas, we haven't seen such complex characters in fiction TV since then. So the idea of a gay news anchor over there, is at least, cause for some hope that the US might yet pull itself out of the techno-medievalist funk it's been in since Bush first took power, and which really began to kick off after 9/11.
From over the pond, all this fuss over is he isn't he seems rather quaint and old-fashioned. And us Brits with our ill-deserved and outdated reputation for prudery and Victorian values, eh? Some would get quite a shock! x
Posted by: Spicy Cauldron at March 15, 2006 05:14 AM
