“It’s not something in your mind — ‘Oh, I want to do this alone.’ But I like being alone,” explains Cohen. “I didn’t want to wait. To meit would have to be a very special person to say, ‘Let’s do this together.’ And I would love that, and that person could be having coffee down the street at this moment and I’ll meet him soon.”
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And his approach to dating will likely shift a bit, now that he has a child’s interest to take into account.
“I think that Iwill probably be looking fordifferent types of guys,” Cohen tells PEOPLE. “I’ll be looking for guys you want to bring home to Mom or bring home to your son.”
“It’s not going to be a revolving door of ‘This is your new uncle,’ ” says the star, whosplit from boyfriend Clifton Dassuncaolast March.
Cohen tells Cagle that he “always knew [he] wanted a family” but “as a gay man, I never thought it was in the cards for me.”
“When I came out to my parents in 1988, my mom said she had to mourn the life that I wasn’t going to be able to have. And that life meant getting married and having kids,” he recounts.
“[At that time] people were dying of AIDS; [that’s] what was happening in the gay community. So all theseyears later, gay men are raising familiesand getting married. There were points where I thought that it was too late for me or that I was really focused on my career, and I was having too much fun to think about it. It was still there nagging at me in the back of my head.”
“Turning 50 also played a big part. I just realized that now was the time. From the time I decided, ‘Okay, I’m doing this,’ which was December 2017, for the entire year of 2018 I lived my life as though it was my last year on the planet,” Cohen continues. “I knew that I was turning a page on that chapter in my life. It’s not to saythat I can’t go to a party anymore, but things are changing.”
For Cohen’s life as a new dad, pick up the latest issue ofPEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
source: people.com
