News
2006-09-13
Anchor of CNN's
Headline News comes out
CNN's Thomas
Roberts comes out
CNN anchor Thomas
Roberts acknowledged that he is gay while speaking at
CNN anchor Thomas
Roberts acknowledged that he is gay while speaking at
the annual convention for the National Lesbian and Gay
Journalists Association in Miami last weekend.
According to Boston-based journalist Johnny Diaz,
Roberts was speaking on a panel when he made the
announcement, saying it was the "biggest step" he had
taken to really being out in public and that he had
slowly been coming out at CNN over the past several
years.
Diaz reports that
Roberts said he was proud of his partner and that
staying in the closet was a difficult thing for a national
news anchor. "When you hold something back, that's all
everyone wants to know," Diaz quotes Roberts as saying
in a report on his blog, Beantown Cuban.
Unfortunately,
those tuning in to see Roberts will no longer find him on
CNN Headline News. Reuters reported Tuesday that a shuffling
of desk chairs at CNN for budgetary reasons will mean
the cancellation of the 4–6 p.m. newscast
coanchored by Roberts. He and his coanchor, Kathleen
Kennedy, are reportedly being reassigned. (The
Advocate)
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