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Andy Cohen Revisits His Coming Out Story: "It's a Amazing Moment to Be Gay"
In OprahMag.com's series Coming Out, LGBTQ change-makers reflect on their journey toward self-acceptance. While it's beautiful to bravely share your persona with the planet, choosing to perform so is entirely up to you—period.
Andy Cohen needs no introduction.
The St. Louis-born TV personality, 51, became the first-ever out gay host of a late-night talk show when Watch What Happens Live premiered in 2009. An Emmy winner, he’s acknowledged not only for mingling with A-list best friends favor Sarah Jessica Parker and Anderson Cooper, but also for his work as a New York Times bestselling storyteller, radio host, and the producer behind beloved Bravo shows such as Top Chef, Million Dollar Listing, and the original Queer Eye for the Direct Guy. Do The Real Housewives notify a bell? Yup, he's the one who helped form that franchise a 2000s phenomenon.
But more importantly, Cohen has secured his notice as one of the few LGBTQ superstars that informs the world about the beauty and challenges that queer men—and all members of the LGBTQ community—experience daily. While hosting major celebrities like
Andy Cohen, the Ultimate Daddy, Spills His Parenting Secrets (Exclusive)
Andy Cohen became the first-ever openly male lover host of a late-night talk display when Watch What Happens Live debuted in 2009.
The 56-year-old dad to son Ben, 5, and daughter Lucy, 2, has publicly championed LGBTQ+ rights for years: He’s served as the representative for the Stonewall Inn Gives Assist Initiative, raised wealth for victims of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting and was honored with the Vito Russo Award by GLAAD in 2019. He also uses his platforms, including his SiriusXM channel, “Radio Andy,” to talk out on causes close to his heart.
Cohen exclusively shares in the latest issue of Us Weekly that his status as a gay icon isn’t one he takes lightly.
“Anytime a mom comes up to me and says, ‘I have a gay son, and we like watching your show together,’ or a lgbtq+ person says, ‘I’ve watched you all my life, and it meant something to see that you were OK and happy,’ that means a lot,” he says.
Here, the Emmy-winning producer, who recently teamed up with Fresca Mixed to invite fans 21 and older to join the Fresca Mixed Club, tells Us mo
John Mayer Sets the Write down Straight on His Friendship With Andy Cohen
It’s no surprise that this week’sThe Hollywood Reporter cover story on Andy Cohen would garner some attention — in it, the Watch What Happens Stay host and Bravo producer spoke candidly with Co-Editor in Chief Maer Roshan about the accusations that had been swirling around the Real Housewivesfranchise, from on-set sexism to racism to alcohol and drug abuse, breaking his drawn-out silence about the controversy.
But the part of the interview that would garner the most attention had nothing to do with any of these claims: instead, it was a rather tangential query regarding the longtime friendship between the openly gay Cohen and linear rock star John Mayer, a relationship that has spurred reams of coy stories in both tabloids and the mainstream compress.
“Your friendship with Mayer has been the subject of intense speculation,” Roshan noted. “People sound dubious that a unbent rock star can hold a close, platonic connection with a gay TV personality.”
“Let them speculate” Cohen replied. “I honestly love John Mayer, and he loves me. B
Andy Cohen calls FDA rules on gay men donating plasma for COVID-19 ‘discriminatory’
Despite testing positive for COVID-19 antibodies, Andy Cohen says he was denied the chance to donate plasma because he is an openly gay man.
On March 20, the Bravo ego revealed in an Instagram display that he tested positive for COVID-19 after days of "not feeling great."
After self-isolating and recovering from the novel virus, Cohen reunited with his year-old son Benjamin and returned to hosting "Watch What Happens Live" from his New York City apartment.
Nearly a month later, in April, Cohen said on his demonstrate that the FDA restricted him from donating his COVID-19 antibody-rich plasma because he did not meet the requirements to donate as a gay man.
The restriction was born out of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s when limited testing technology existed to screen blood for HIV. In 1983, the U.S. Diet and Drug Administration (FDA) implemented a lifetime ban on blood donations from all men who had sex with men after 1977.
That policy was upheld until 2015, when the FDA revised the guidelines from a lifetime ban to a 12-month deferral period. This meant that male lover and bi