Cooper Comes Clean: Coming Out Wasn't Always So Easy for Gays Working in News Media
Category: QUEER VOICES
As recently as 1989, tolerance for gays and gay jounalists was hardly prevalent. I  would cringe at the gay jokes in the newsroom. A few years earlier I overheard a colleague tell a cameraman, "You better watch when you interview those gays. You don't want to catch AIDS, you know."
By Chuck Gomez, Contributor
Chuck Gomez is a playwright and former Emmy Award-winning jour..., 2012-07-07