Journalist Garrett Glaser was the first “out of the closet” local TV news anchor and correspondent in the United States. He “came out” while on the air on the Channel 4 News at KNBC-TV, Los Angeles, on December 5th, 1994, when he was 41.

He grew up in Manhattan in the early 1960’s and knew he felt same-sex attractions by the age of eleven. He came out to his parents in 1967, at the age of 14. The first thing his mother told him was, “You are going to a psychiatrist right now, young man! We are going to nip this in the bud!”

Garrett received his high school diploma from New York’s Dalton School and worked his way through the undergraduate program at the City University of New York, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and Cinema Studies in 1975. His Master of Arts degree in Communication Management is from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication.