Ex-Gawker Writer Pats Himself on the Back for Helping Anderson Cooper Come Out

A rather laughable #humblebrag.

Depending how you feel about the spark that lit the Gawker-Peter Thiel battle, you’re either going to love a piece in The Guardian today by Brian Moylan or shake your head.

Under the headline “I  Helped Push Anderson Cooper Out of the Closet – And His Journalism Is Better For It,” Moylan revisits his dogged pursuit of that story for Gawker. He links this revisit to the outpouring of praise on social media this week for Cooper’s coverage of the Orlando massacre:

I’ve always been a proponent of outing public figures, especially those that live in a so-called glass closet, where many people know that they’re gay but they won’t acknowledge it publicly.

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