CNN anchor Don lemon Comes out as a Gay Man

 Anchor CNN Don Lemon has come out as a gay man, in his new book a disclosure he knows has a risk.

While the memories of the lemon, entitled "Transparent", also cover his career as a journalist, he is prepared for a large part of the reaction to focus on more personal issues, which include growing up without a father and his revelation that he has been sexually abused as a child.

In his book, lemon 45 years wrote of having lived with "dark, ugly secrets" that took years to bring into light.

Black being gay feel even worse, he said in an interview Monday, "because of how the black community perceives a homosexual person." An African-American male is taught that they must be male.

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"And our community is imbued with religion, with the Church preaching against homosexuality." I prayed for a lot growing that I change, I would be right, "he says. "But any point I was, how I requested and denied that I was, it is still there.

Lemon said it would be naive to believe that the public will not have strong opinions about what he wrote, and he is braced for some people to react negatively.

"But it is important for everyone to tell the truth about who they are," he said, adding that CNN has been "very supportive" of his decision to go to the public.

A few national television news anchors have publicly recognized gay, with Rachel Maddow of MSNBC perhaps the best known.

Lemon, who serves as a correspondent and the anchors "CNN Newsroom" over the weekend prime-time, has joined the network in 2003. "Transparent" will come out next month.