I remember traveling to New York and going into the clubs like, really quickly. On one level, it was incredibly terrifying, because you didn’t want to be found out. Then I was like, “Well, there’s no turning back!” When I was an undergrad student at Boston University, I felt like I was a secret agent as a gay man. In late high school and early college, I became sexually active. I'm Married to a Man-and Yes, I'm Still Bisexual.I would kind of shut down when I’d hear it I just didn’t think my friends and family would accept me. I thought, “If I’m gay, I’m gonna die.” My friends were all constantly saying fag, and they said it on TV all the time-it was in the vernacular, and it was not shocking. In high school, the plague hit, and everyone started dying.

I wasn’t hopeful about my future, and I did not think that there was a way that I would be able to reconcile with being an out gay person. It was the early ‘80s and there were no gay people on TV, no gay role models.

Why is this titillating to me?” Around 12 or 13, I realized what was actually happening-and I was devastated. I first started to recognize that I was gay in the men’s locker room at my dad’s tennis club. But he admits that t he recent 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots got him revisiting the subject, realizing that he doesn’t exactly plan to come out to Benjamin because: “He’ll see me-he’s a smart kid, he might already know.”Īhead, Andy Cohen reflects on how he came out of the closet-first to friends and family, and later publicly-and learned to embrace his identity, as told to. Well, would it be downsizing or upsizing?” (Did we mention the man is always working?)Ĭohen has opened up about earning a greater understanding of his sexuality both on television and in his memoir, Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture. 'They're the go-to resource for car shoppers with the largest selection of cars to choose from,' he says. Related StoriesĮxplaining that after Benjamin’s arrival, he swapped his bachelor-style convertible for an SUV, Cohen explains why he wanted to work with the company.

But his biggest struggle so far? “Just getting the hang of the car seat and collapsing the stroller-it’s impossibly easy but for some reason, I’m a moron,” Cohen jokingly told us while discussing his partnership with Autotrader, his latest of the many hats he wears in his career. In fact, Cohen tells that the former Sex and the City star pieced together his entire baby registry. For support, he turns to close friends like Parker, who has three children of her own. That doesn’t meant fatherhood hasn’t come without its challenges.

The first few Instagram photos he posted of little Benjamin drew plenty of criticism from dad-shamers the world over, but he took it in stride, calling them “judgy as f***.” In February, Cohen made waves-and uplifted an underrepresented LGBTQ minority-when he welcomed his first child, a baby boy named Benjamin Allen, via surrogate, later introducing him to the world in a very Andy sort of way: on the cover of People. Instead, he directs hilariously inappropriate questions toward straight people and leads memorable segments such as “ How To Tell If Your Boyfriend Is Gay.” People love Cohen, and his contagious smile and “sit on my couch” demeanor suggest that Cohen loves the world, too. While hosting major celebrities like Lady Gaga, Meryl Streep, Meghan McCain, and, yes, our very own Oprah on his show, Cohen has flipped a script that traditionally cast gay people as the butt of the joke. But more importantly, Cohen has secured his spot as one of the few LGBTQ superstars that informs the world about the beauty and challenges that gay men-and all members of the LGBTQ community-experience daily.

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