“How great for Mr. Cooper that he will celebrate Independence Day liberated, finally, from the preposterous burden of having to pretend to be something he’s not. Whatever they tell themselves, public figures who haven’t followed his lead are still prisoners. The closet is still a closet, even if it’s a duplex on Fifth Avenue or a mansion in Beverly Hills.”
— Daniel Mendelsohn, a writer and critic, in a column for The New York Times reflecting on Anderson Cooper‘s understated coming out
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