was anderson cooper born gay
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. âBeing 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.