Virginia-Highland Resident Don Lemon Talks About New Book, Coming Out
CNN anchor with coming-out memoir to appear Wednesday at Outwrite.
Coming-out memoirs are hardly breaking news. But a CNN news anchor and Virginia-Highland resident revealing himself to be gay? And telling the world that as a boy he was sexually molested by an older youth? Doesn’t happen so often. “I’m black and I’m gay, a double minority,” as Don Lemon put it. That’s partly why the newsman from Baton Rouge decided to write “Transparent.” He wanted to inspire young people overwhelmed by challenges to be true to themselves and their goals. He wanted to prove it’s possible for a gay and black person to achieve success in mainstream society. “Since I was knee-high to a duck, I’ve known that I was gay,” Lemon writes in “Transparent.” Many coming-out memoirs are written for the gay audience and focus on …
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lorna hastings
2:08 am on Monday, November 12, 2012
You're a smart and handsome black man and most people don't remember you for being gay , but for being someone who's truthful to who you're no matter how long it took you to come out ...love you Don gay or straight . more ›