Showing posts with label CNN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CNN. Show all posts

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Anderson Cooper: Not a ‘big deal’ for 16-year-old Courtney Stodden to marry 51-year-old Doug Hutchison

Cooper spoke on the marriage in a segment on his show titled RidicuList.

“Now a lot of people are making a bunch of noise about how the girl Courtney Stodden is a minor and how there’s a 35-year age difference between them,” Cooper said. “Blah blah blah…I don’t see what the big deal is.”

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Monday, May 16, 2011

CNN Anchor Comes out of the Closet

And its not that silver fox Anderson Cooper.

Don Lemon who wrote a book detailing his work and life- which includes him coming out as a gay man, talks with The New York Times about being gay and black.

“It’s quite different for an African-American male,” he said. “It’s about the worst thing you can be in black culture. You’re taught you have to be a man; you have to be masculine. In the black community they think you can pray the gay away.” He said he believed the negative reaction to male homosexuality had to do with the history of discrimination that still affects many black Americans, as well as the attitudes of some black women.