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Contents:

• NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
• NEWSWEEK COVER: OBAMA 'FIRST GAY PRINT'
• NEWSWEEK LLS OBAMA 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT' ON VER
• WHO WAS OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?
• NEWSWEEK COVER: 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT'
• BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?
• NEWSWEEK VER LLS BARACK OBAMA 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT'
• IS OBAMA THE 'FIRST GAY PRINT' AS NEWSWEEK PROCLAIMS?
• NEWSWEEK'S OBAMA 'FIRST GAY PRINT' COVER STIRS CONTROVERSY
• NEWSWEEK'S NEXT COVER: OBAMA 'FIRST GAY PRINT'
• OBAMA ON NEWSWEEK MAGAZE VER AS 'FIRST GAY PRINT'
• OUR REAL FIRST GAY PRINT
• GAY

NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’

It won't be nearly as ntroversial as Time magaze's breastfeedg ver, but Newsweek's May 21 issue clar Barack Obama the untry's "first gay print. "The acpanyg ver story was wrten by Andrew Sullivan, the popular--and openly gay--polil blogger. The magaze even giv the manr--chief a rabow, Sullivan wr, "had to disver his black inty and then rencile wh his whe fay, jt as gays disver their homosexual inty and then have to rencile wh their heterosexual fay.

"The full ver story is not yet onle, but a blog post published earlier this week, Sullivan wrote that Obama's support of gay marriage brought him to tears:I do not know how orchtrated this was; and I do not know how lculated is. What I know is that, absorbg the news, I was uncharacteristilly at a loss for words for a while, didn't know what to wre, and, like many Dish rears, there are tears my let me simply say: I thk of all the gay kids out there who now know they have their print on their si. I thk of the centuri and s which gay people found impossible to believe that marriage and cln their own fai was possible for them, so cshed were they by the weight of social and relig prsure.

I thk of the gay parents who now feel their print is behd their sacrific and their love for their terview chang no laws; has no tangible effect. Obama's journey on this has been like that of many other Amerins, when faced wh the actual realy of gay liv and gay relatnships. I was the room long before the 2008 primari when Obama spoke to the mother of a gay son about marriage equaly.

NEWSWEEK COVER: OBAMA 'FIRST GAY PRINT'

That's why we elected New Yorker, which is also out wh a ver story on gay marriage, took a b more subtle approach wh s May 21 issue. News stori:• How Whe Hoe gay marriage claratns are affectg other Democratic ndidat• Time breastfeedg ver sparks ntroversy• Will Obama's Julia celebrate a gay marriage?

NEWSWEEK LLS OBAMA 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT' ON VER

May 13, 2012— -- It won't be nearly as ntroversial as Time magaze's breastfeedg ver, but Newsweek's May 21 issue clar Barack Obama the untry's "first gay print. Sullivan's ver story is not yet onle, but a blog post published earlier this week, Sullivan wrote that Obama's support of gay marriage brought him to tears:I do not know how orchtrated this was; and I do not know how lculated is.

WHO WAS OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?

News stori: • How Whe Hoe gay marriage claratns are affectg other Democratic ndidat • Time breastfeedg ver sparks ntroversy • Will Obama's Julia celebrate a gay marriage?

WASHINGTON – Followg Print Barack Obama's public announcement backg gay marriage last week, Newsweek magaze has featured him on s ont ver wh the headle, "The First Gay Print. "Wh Obama's face pictured lookg skyward and a rabow-lored halo above his head, the ntroversial ver leads to a story wrten by gay wrer Andrew Sullivan -- a self-scribed polil nservative -- who analyz the print's backg of gay said Wednday he supported gay marriage, reversg his posn on a ntroversial social issue jt six months before the November electn and adoptg a stance ght wh uncerta polil print said that after years of lengthy discsns wh iends and fay, cludg his wife and two young dghters, he now "personally" believ gays and lbians should have the right to views are direct ntrast to those of prumptive Republin printial nomee Mt Romney, who reerated Saturday that he believ "marriage is a relatnship between one man and one woman.

NEWSWEEK COVER: 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT'

You may have seen the other ntroversial newsmagaze ver this week, the one where Newsweek dubbed Print Obama “The First Gay Print“.

BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?

But as Jim Loewen at the History News Network would like to remd , even if Obama were gay, he wouldn’t be the first: more than 150 years before the Uned Stat had s first black print, had s first homosexual manr chief. (MORE: Gay Marriage the Swg Stat: Where Will Obama’s ‘Evolutn’ Matter?

Loewen is one of several historians who believe that Jam Buchanan, who served om 1857 to 1861, was fact our first gay print. (MORE: In Gay Marriage Reversal, Print Obama Fac Risk on All Sis). And while Loewen not that Obama’s stance on gay marriage is a wele parture om our recent past, to tout morn Amerin society as more tolerant than any our history is a claim that has yet to pass the tt of time.

NEWSWEEK VER LLS BARACK OBAMA 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT'

Brown, whose tenure as edor at Newsweek has seen an array of ntroversial vers, will rpond wh the above, pegged to Andrew Sullivan's piece on Obama's support for same-sex marriage: "The First Gay Print. (Also on POLITICO: 20 gay rights ton). It’s easy to wre off Print Obama’s announcement of his support for gay marriage as a polil ploy durg an electn year.

“When you step back a ltle and asss the rerd of Obama on gay rights, you see, fact, that this was not an aberratn.

IS OBAMA THE 'FIRST GAY PRINT' AS NEWSWEEK PROCLAIMS?

” And Print Obama has much mon wh the gay muny.

“He had to disver his black inty and then rencile wh his whe fay, jt as gays disver their homosexual inty and then have to rencile wh their heterosexual fay, ” Sullivan wr. "And now, there’s Barack Obama, dubbed “the first gay print” by Newsweek over the weekendThe acpanyg say was penned by The Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan, who wr that " four years Obama went om beg JFK on civil rights to beg LBJ: om givg upliftg speech to actg ways to make the spirg words a realy.

"Sullivan, who is gay, scrib Obama’s “evolutn” on gay rights as the latt example of Obama “leadg om behd and playg the long game. ”Sullivan also draws a parison between the gay experience and Obama’s own search for racial inty:“Barack Obama had to e out of a different closet. He had to disver his black inty and then rencile wh his whe fay, jt as gays disver their homosexual inty and then have to rencile wh their heterosexual fay.

NEWSWEEK'S OBAMA 'FIRST GAY PRINT' COVER STIRS CONTROVERSY

The Ameri he grew up had no space for a boy like him: black yet enveloped by lovg whens, tranged om a father he longed for (another mon gay experience), hurtlg between beg a Barry and a Barack, needg an Amerin racial inty as he grew olr but chafg also agast and over-embracg at tim.

”“This is the gay experience: the disvery adulthood of a muny not like your own home and the stggle to belong both plac, whout displacement, whout alienatn.

Obama learned to be black the way gays learn to be gay. ”The full say is onle here; the magaze go on sale "First Gay Print" ver on the heels of a different provotive ver by Time Magaze, which last week ed a photo of a woman breast-feedg her young son to illtrate s ver story on "attachment parentg. Like Mt Romney, Print Obama no doubt wish the same-sex marriage qutn would fa to the background so that issu more important to most Amerins – say, the enomy – uld bee the foc of mpaign ’s unlikely to happen this g ver of Newsweek magaze portrays Obama wh a rabow halo and proclaims that he’s the “first gay print.

NEWSWEEK'S NEXT COVER: OBAMA 'FIRST GAY PRINT'

Barney Frank (D) of Massachetts – the first openly-gay member of Congrs – says, that Obama’s g out on behalf of same-sex marriage this past week won’t make much difference November’s electn. " Still, Obama’s end to “evolvg” on gay marriage – though may generate enthiasm among his liberal base, cludg gay activist fund-raisers – will ntue to generate cril ment, cludg om some mentators on the left. “His embrace of gay marriage was not a profile urage, ” New York Tim lumnist Mreen Dowd wrote over the weekend.

OBAMA ON NEWSWEEK MAGAZE VER AS 'FIRST GAY PRINT'

”This has put Obama a neck-and-neck posn wh prumptive GOP nomee Mt Romney – ahead by jt 2 percentage pots the Real Clear Polics pollg whether or not Obama is “the first gay print” may make ltle difference e November. Newsweek magaze's May 21, 2012, ver featur Print Obama as "The First Gay Print" for a ver report by wrer Andrew Sullivan. | (Newsweek)The newt issue of Newsweek is the most recent magaze ver to create ntroversy over the pictn of socially sensive issu by llg Print Obama "The First Gay Print.

OUR REAL FIRST GAY PRINT

The issue was available on newsstands Monday and ls than a week after the Print gave an exclive terview wh ABC where he stated that his views on same-sex marriage had "evolved" and that he was currently favor of such ver was rponse to the article by gay muny lear and Newsweek polil wrer Andrew Sullivan. In his article, Sullivan ma the claim that given Obama's track rerd should have e as no surprise that he me out favor of gay marriage. Sullivan has long been a champn of gay rights and was one of the first public figur to advote for gay marriage.

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Sullivan had prevly wrten about gay marriage 1989 when he wrote the ver story for the New Republic, "The Case for Gay Marriage. In 2012, Newsweek ran a magaze ver llg Barack Obama “Ameri’s First Gay Print. ” The article gleefully ld Obama for his support and endorsement of gay marriage.

Tyg the journey of black people to the e of lbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenrs is Obama’s most endurg and impactful legacy. The first gay print is a master of ceptn, nfn, and hidg the closet.

Four days after Print Barack Obama affirmed his support of gay marriage on Good Morng Ameri, the edors at Newsweek are ready to anot him wh a new tle, "The First Gay Print.