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Is Don Lemon Of CNN Gay? Who is partner, boyfriend or husband, salary, net worth
Many international TV personalities are really talking about their true sexuality. Donald Davis Lemon, a CNN anchor known by the stage name Don Lemon, has just joined the league of gay journalists who aren’t ashamed to go public with who they are. Don made this known to the public in his new book titled Transparent, an autobiography where he scratched out the trauma he had to endure as a child growing up, which included sexual abuse, discrimination within the black community, homophobia and his perpetual estrangement from his biological father.
Don is a popular African-American television personality and professional journalist who is best known for his Tonight with Don Lemon program on CNN.
Salary and net worth
Don Lemon is one of many well-paid television personalities on CNN. According to the records, he earns an annual salary of $125,000 and his hard work and dedication has earned him several awards and nominations like the Emmy Award which he won due to his good reports in the real estate market. Don has been featured in several popular American magazines, we can easily say that he is in the league of the richest TV personalities in the world with an estimated net worth of enviable 3 million dollars.
Is CNN’s Don Lemon gay? Who is the partner, boyfriend or husband?
In his new book, Transparent, CNN news/television anchor Don Lemon talks to the public about his life and sexuality and in an interview with The New York Times, Don admitted to being gay. Through his actions, Don joined the league of gay TV anchors that includes MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts and Rachel Maddow along with myriad others. His book was originally intended to be an inspirational play but as he worked on it he was motivated to go public with his sexuality, he also discussed his lifelong estrangement from his father.
According to Don, his CNN colleagues have always known about his sexuality, but his new book is just a way to make it more public. He also believes you couldn’t write an inspirational book and hide your identity. The CNN anchor revealed that it wasn’t so easy for him to wake up and decide to go public with his sexuality. He said he got really scared at one point and almost deleted the part of his book that talked about his sexuality because he knew people might shun it, especially the black community. He concluded by saying that it would be really great for every gay person to openly declare their sexuality. He used an example by saying that if he had seen more people come out gay,
Incidents in Don’s personal life were really difficult, he went through many tribulations and was sexually abused during his childhood. According to his observations, when he was eight years old, a male neighbor sexually assaulted him. He made this known during one of the live conferences between members of Bishop Eddie Long’s parishioners on September 25, 2010. The CNN anchor faced a series of controversies when he came out as gay. He discussed how he was treated in the early days, the harsh discrimination that plagued black people, the homophobia and the misery he experienced because he didn’t dare to face his mother with the truth for the first thirty years of his life. Eventually he worked up the courage to tell his family about his sexuality and they
Moving on to her marital status and relationships, There was a time when the CNN personality was rumored to be married to Stephanie Ortiz, but this information remained a rumor for a long time as it was not confirmed by any of the parties involved and since Don Lemon has come out publicly as gay, the information seems to be very far from the truth. The most believable news is that the anchor is married to her boyfriend John Byrne who is a choreographer.
In 2017, Don Lemon was rumored to be dating Tim Malone, a sales executive, and the duo were pictured together holding hands in public.
