CNN’s Don Lemon Says He’s Gay
Don Lemon, a weekend anchor on CNN Newsroom, has a highly personal memoir coming out next month. It’s called Transparent, and it will reveal, among other things, that Lemon is gay and suffered sexual abuse as a child. Lemon hasn’t kept his sexuality a secret; his colleagues at CNN have long known that he’s gay. But as he recently told The New York Times, he thinks the news will surprise a lot of people–and he’s aware that “going public in his book carries certain risks.”
“I’m scared,” Lemon told the Times. “I’m talking about something that people might shun me for, ostracize me for.”
Maybe. But so far, at least, people seem to be rallying around Lemon. TheTimes notes that “he has been assured of support by CNN”–the network has already booked him as a guest on Monday’s edition of CNN Newsroom, and he’ll be on The Joy Behar Show on sister network HLN this week.
