“Tracy Morgan needs to respond to these allegations,” he wrote on the group’s website. Truth Wins Out director of social media Evan Hurst is calling on Morgan to address the allegations. The Ryman does not control the content presented by people appearing on its stage, nor does it endorse any of the views of, or statements made by, such persons.” Rogers put his Facebook post up Friday night, after the show, but it seems news began spreading after Truth Wins Out, a nonprofit organization that fight “anti-LGBT religious extremism,” posted it on their own website several days later and other outlets began to pick it up.Ī rep for Ryman Auditorim tells The Hollywood Reporter in a statement: “The Ryman Auditorium regrets that people were offended by statements made by Tracy Morgan during his June 3 appearance.
… I’m not angry … just very very, very disappointed.” He added that about 10-15 people walked out of the Ryman Auditorium, but he forced himself to stay put because “I knew if I got up … he won. He wanted to piss people off and get a rise. He was truly filled with some hate towards us.” His entire demeanor changed during that portion of the night. Rogers claims that “none of this rant was a joke. … Tracy then said he didn’t f–king care if he pissed off some gays, because if they can take a f–king d-ck up their a–… they can take a f–king joke.” Morgan allegedly added that “gay was something kids learn from the media and programming” (Rogers’ words).Ĭontinued Rogers: “He said if his son that was gay he better come home and talk to him like a man and not or he would pull out a knife and stab that little N (one word I refuse to use) to death. He took time to visit the bullshit of this bullying stuff and informed us that the gays needed to quit being pussies and not be whining about something as insignificant as bullying.” He said that there is no way a woman could love and have sexual desire for another woman, that’s just a woman pretending because she hates a f–king man. Morgan took it upon himself to mention about how he feels all this gay shit was crazy and that women are a gift from God and that ‘Born this Way’ is bulls-it, gay is a choice, and the reason he knows this is exactly because ‘God don’t make no mistakes’ (referring to God not making someone gay cause that would be a mistake).
“I have very thick skin when it comes to humor I can dish and I can take,” Rogers wrote. 'I am a dad.'Law & Order' Revival, 'Organized Crime' Renewed at NBC It's enabled me to love the people that I've loved and have the life that I've had.
"I think being gay is one of the great blessings of my life," Cooper added on "Full Circle." "And it made me a better person, it made me a better reporter. The two split in 2018 after nine years of dating, though they remain good friends. He co-parents with his former partner, nightclub owner Benjamin Maisani. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud," he wrote.Ĭooper has since welcomed a son, Wyatt Morgan Cooper, born Apvia surrogate. He came out as gay to the public on July 2, 2012, allowing friend and writer Andrew Sullivan to publish an email from him, saying it'd become clear that remaining silent on the topic had given the false impression that he had something to hide. He was also interested in getting married, but same-sex marriage was not legalized until 2015.Īfter graduating from Yale University in 1989, Cooper decided he didn't want to "waste any more time worrying about this" or "wishing I was some other way." The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which prohibited openly gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans from serving, was officially repealed in 2011. military, though out members of the gay community were not allowed to serve at the time. "A lot of the things I wanted to do at the time, you couldn't be gay," he said, citing an interest in joining the U.S.
"I think I really, truly accepted it – and not just accepted it, but fully embraced it and came around to really loving the fact that I was gay – would probably be right after college," he said. "I'm not sure I knew the word 'gay' at the time, but I realized something was up," Cooper said in a Q&A session Monday on CNN's "Full Circle," adding that he began to tell friends when he was in high school but still struggled through college with fully loving himself. Though he publicly came out almost 10 years ago, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper says he first knew "something was different" around the age of 6 or 7. Watch Video: Anderson Cooper welcomes son named after his late father