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TV journalistAnderson Cooper shared that he knew he was gay from his young age, but in a new interview, he revealed the moment of training in which a famous film star helped him to know with certainty. When Cooper was 11 years old, he attended a room he called "the most gay thing you could imagine", and he featured an actor who, at the time, was just starting to make a Name in films. Read the continuation to find out which Hollywood Heartthrob had such a strong effect on Cooper's first life and how he answered when the anchor told him the story.

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Cooper's mother isGloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer and heir to the Vanderbilt family. In a June 24Interview with her friendAndy Cohen, Cooper said: "There were a lot of gays around him", thanks to the social circle of his mother. When Cooper was 11 years old, he went to see the Broadway playingCurve With two of her mother's gay friends, one of whom was a photographerPaul Jasmin.

"If someone does not know the playCurve, these are two homosexuals in the concentration camp, "said Cooper onAndy radio. "I mean the opening scene ... it's the most gay thing you can imagine."

Curve, which was created in 1979, played a 30 -year -oldRichard Gere. At that time, Gere had recently played inLooking for Mr. Goodbar andDays of paradise;American Gigolo, who turned out to be his first escape from a man, was created during the game race.

"It was so beautiful," said Cooper about Gere. "And I'm here. My mother was not gone. It was just me and my mother's two gay friends."

Cooper described the opening scene of the play during the interview. "Literally the opening scene ofCurve, there is a guy in bed who picked up a guy the previous night, and the guy he picked up comes out of bed, completely naked, then puts a SS Stormtrooper uniform. "He continued:" I just remember being like "Oh my God, I'm gay ... I'm totally gay."

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Cooper explained that Jasmin knew Gere because he had done photography duringAmerican Gigolo, then they were able to speak to him after the show.

"We are behind the scenes and Richard Gere is shirtless in his locker room," said Cooper. "I couldn't talk. And I had my playbill and I wanted to do it autographs, but I was too - I just couldn't stop looking at his chest."

Fortunately, Cooper and Gere were able to speak for years later when Cooper had become a successful journalist. "And so, forward, I don't know, 10 years ago, I interviewed Richard Gere and I took out thePlaque, I had thePlaque However, and I told him the whole story and I made him sign: "Cooper shared." He was very tickled with it. ""

Cooper was on the way toRealizing that he was gay for years before the performance ofCurve, as he explained onFull circle in 2021.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"I was probably, I don't know, seven years old, when I realized," he said. "I'm not sure I know the word" gay "at the time, but I realized that something was happening. Something was different. I was probably, yes, six or seven." He continued: "I think I really have it, really accepted - and not only I accepted it, but I fully adopted it and, you know, really came to love the fact that I was probably gay Just after university. "

The father of two added: "I think being gay is one of the blessings of my life. And that made me a better person. It made me a better journalist. Especially when you grow, you You feel as if you were the outside of things, and you are a kind of observer of things, or not necessarily in the dominant current, you see society from a slightly different point of view. "

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