 Lemon lives in an apartment in Harlem and has another home in Sag Harbor on Long Island, New York.During an on-air interview with members of Bishop Eddie Long's congregation in September 2010, Lemon discussed being sexually molested when he was five or six by a neighbor teenage boy, and that it was not until he was thirty that he told his mother about it.In his 2011 memoir, "Transparent", Lemon publicly came out as gay—having been out in his personal life and with close colleagues—becoming "one of the few openly gay black men in broadcasting."