{"id":6783,"date":"2011-05-19T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2011-05-19T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:22:24","slug":"cnns-don-lemon-says-hes-gay-in-new-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6783","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon Says He&#8217;s Gay in New Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Don Lemon<\/strong>, a weekend anchor on CNN Newsroom, has a highly personal memoir coming out next month. It&#8217;s called &#8216;Transparent&#8217;, and it will reveal, among other things, that <strong>Lemon<\/strong> is gay and suffered sexual abuse as a child.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lemon<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t kept his sexuality a secret; his colleagues at CNN have long known that he&#8217;s gay. But as he recently revealed, he thinks the news will surprise a lot of people&#8211;and he&#8217;s aware that &#8220;going public in his book carries certain risks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m scared, I&#8217;m talking about something that people might shun me for, ostracize me for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe. But so far, at least, people seem to be rallying around <strong>Lemon<\/strong>. The Times notes that &#8220;he has been assured of support by CNN&#8221;&#8211;the network has already booked him as a guest on Monday&#8217;s edition of CNN Newsroom, and he&#8217;ll be on The Joy Behar Show on sister network HLN this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Lemon, a weekend anchor on CNN Newsroom, has a highly personal memoir coming out next month. It&#8217;s called &#8216;Transparent&#8217;, and it will reveal, among other things, that Lemon is gay and suffered sexual abuse as a child. Lemon hasn&#8217;t kept his sexuality a secret; his colleagues at CNN have long known that he&#8217;s gay. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}