Anderson Cooper Reveals How Richard Gere Helped Him Realize He's Gay: 'I Couldn't Speak'

Was this before or after the gerbil incident?

I love Anderson's NY high society Gayling stories...

"He recalled meeting his mom Gloria Vanderbilt's gay friends as a kid, such as Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and photographer Paul Jasmin, who along with his boyfriend, took a young Cooper to see a Broadway show. "

Makes me feel so middle class 🙄

Nepotism and glasses do a lot for a soul.

I love Anderson. I always have. I always will. No one else compares.

"Was this before or after the gerbil incident? "

"Anderson Cooper Reveals How Richard Gere Helped Him With Training His First Pet Gerbil, "Buttplug"

This is extremely relatable for gays of a certain generation except for the part where he got to *go backstage and meet him*.

"This is extremely relatable for gays of a certain generation"

Yeah, there was always excitement at our house when Mother had Truman Capote over for cocktails 😏

[quote]"And this was Richard Gere in 1977.

Except it was late 1979.

I saw the show in April of 1980 and in the opening scene, an actor appears nude and walks across the stage with an enormous erection. The audience gasped. Unlike Anderson, I got my Playbill signed that night by Gere, even though he was ill during the performance. He was stunningly beautiful up close.

"No one else compares."

Oh Mary R6--you should get out more if this guy is your paragon.

An erection, R8? That would be a first for a Broadway production. The only erection on stage I ever heard tell of was some crappy OOB play called "Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side."

^ I think "Oh, Calcutta" sported some hard ons

He was already grey at 11.

Seems like there would have been some kind of obscenity ordinance against actual erections on stage at that time.

They took an 11year-old to see Bent? Eleven? EMEVEN!!!???? That’s waaaaayyyy to heavy for one so young. We’re they crazy?

They were about to 'out' Miss Gere in around 1987 so it was quickly arranged to 'marry' her to the biggest carpet muncher in Hollywood, Cindy Crawford.

Anderson Cooper turned 10 in 1977, not 11.

@r14, No, they were sophisticated 😉

The play was on Broadway in 1979, not 1977.

He has a four-month old from an ex?

^ Live in ex... It's complicated 🙄

So he was 12. Better.

I assume the hard-on was accidental. The show must go on!

I think Coopers rambling conflated 1977 with Looking for Mr. Goodbar which he mentions, and trampled over the fact that Bent was 1979.

R14 see R12

More gerbil stories, please.

The gerbil story was fabricated by a rival actor jealous of the success Gere was enjoying at the moment. Making shit up and smearing it all over always works in a backwards under-educated country like the US.

[quote] "They took an 11year-old to see Bent? Eleven? EMEVEN!!!???? That’s waaaaayyyy to heavy for one so young. We’re they crazy?"

I'm all for introducing kids to live theatre (I'm sure it wasn't Cooper's first time seeing live theatre), but I agree. The nudity, and the subject matter are too much for an eleven year-old. Even if "things were different" then. But the story is cute, anyway.

Wow--R25 seeks to make a crack at the US by using the Richard Gere gerbil story. Oh, Mary--you're trying too hard.

Coincidentally, even though I now identify as gay, I discovered masturbation by imagining my pillow was Cindy Crawford (around the time she was married to Richard Gere).

there must be some kind of way out of here

^ Says the guy who sits his ass on a US based Gay forum to act above it all 😂

^ For r25

It's unbelievable that R5 is what passes for wit here now.

Who says I was acting above it all, Mary R30? Project much? And I could argue your ass is parked on the same "US based Gay forum."

^ Because I'm in the US, Jackass

Uh-huh, and? Boy, are you stupid, R34.

@r32, Maybe DL isn't right for you. You and your doublewide seem much too grand for us

@r35, and you're an unfuckable little bitch

What a comeback, R37! Now fuck off, you silly gash.

^ The poors are up early this morning 🙄

@r38, Better run along you'll be late for your shop-bottom shift at Macy's

Not sure where you get your info, R39--oh, wait, I do--out your ample ass. You're also up early this morning, need I point out, gashie.

^ Have a lovely day at the mall, loser 😂

Okay, stupid, R42! 😂 Now run along, cunt, and let the adults post.

My mum had a crush on Gere too. I don't get the appeal all that much.

Hey, r43, fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son, but I guess we're too late

Oh, dear, R45 is talking to herself again.

@r44, He was pretty hot young, but his total lack of body hair was always kind of weird to me

TMI. Nobody wants to know that you fapped to Richard Gere’s image. And then to tell him about it is stupid because it forces him to react to that information.

"TMI. Nobody wants to know that you fapped to Richard Gere’s image."

Oh, Mary R48--where exactly are you posting on?

Richard Gere “helped” me, too.

[quote] Paul Jasmin, who along with his boyfriend, took a young Cooper to see a Broadway show.

GROOMER!!!

Stud

So, Anderson spent his formative teen years jerking of to memories of shirtless Richard Gere?

Count on it, R53.

^ Hi, Anderson 😉

R14 they were probably grooming him

^ His mother let him go 🙄

R57 that selfish bitch didn’t know what to do with AC

R26 you know how they say “girls mature faster than boys”? The same applies to gays.

[quote] there must be some kind of way out of here

Said the Bishop to the actress.

For me it was Rick Springfield, but yeah a young Richard Gere would have totally worked for me too

Didn't Gere take out a large newspaper ad declaring I'M NOT GAY! back in the day? He sounds insufferable.

Miss Anderson is ancient, rich, and nellie!

And happy.

He’s such a fucking loser. No one wants to know what some 12 year old journalist was jerking off to.

I always read here that Sly Stallone started the gerbil rumor.

R65 AC is a loser? Lmao! Wtf are you?

Stallone or Burt Reynolds.

I'm watching LFMG for the first time. I have lots of thoughts but let's start with: Why is Richard Gere's Tony wearing a jock strap? Is this a thing straight guys wore in the 70's?

AWWWWWWW