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Contents:

• THE EVOLUTN OF THE NATN’S ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
• NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
• WHAT’S BEHD THE RIGHT’S ‘OBAMA IS GAY’ CONSPIRACYWHAT’S BEHD THE RIGHT’S ‘OBAMA IS GAY’ CONSPIRACY
• THIS MAN HAS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS GAY
• OBAMA WAS A COE-USG GAY HTLER, SAYS WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN HAWAIIAN CLASSMATE
• 'HARRY STYL HAD A GAY AFFAIR WH PRINT BARACK OBAMA' SAYS US MAGAZE
• DID US TABLOID NATNAL EXAMER CLAIM BARACK OBAMA AND HARRY STYL HAD A GAY AFFAIR? NO, NOT REALLY
• NEWSWEEK VER CLAR OBAMA ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’
• OBAMA TO NOMATE FIRST OPENLY GAY MILARY SERVICE SECRETARY
• HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT

THE EVOLUTN OF THE NATN’S ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’

Print Obama, "the first gay print, " zig-zags on gay marriage over time.

He has been clared Ameri’s “first gay print. 1996: While nng for the Illois Senate, Obama signs a qutnnaire for a gay Chigo publitn sayg he favors legalizg same-sex marriag.

Print to mentn gays and lbians an gural addrs and champns same-sex marriage. “I thk you n see mostly wh the se of gay marriage.

NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’

Back to the ’90s, when he first enters the polil arena, he totally endors gay marriage.

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.

WHAT’S BEHD THE RIGHT’S ‘OBAMA IS GAY’ CONSPIRACYWHAT’S BEHD THE RIGHT’S ‘OBAMA IS GAY’ CONSPIRACY

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.

THIS MAN HAS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS GAY

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? Books & the ArtsOctober 23, 2012What’s Behd the Right’s ‘Obama Is Gay’ ConspiracyThe wg-nuttery’s gaybag is not jt a ge phenomenon—’s part of an old Republin tradn of macho posturg agast Democrats. But here is somethg you may not know: Obama is gay.

Not only is he gay; he equented gay bath ho Chigo along wh his former chief of staff and current Chigo mayor, Rahm Emanuel. Pl, he was “married” to his Pakistani roommate while attendg Occintal College (one theorist says that the rg he wore at the time was a “homosexual symbol for ‘women stay away’”); had a e-fueled romance wh a right-wg activist and ex-nvict named Larry Sclair 1999 (who, of urse, wrote a book about ); and orchtrated the murrs of another gay lover and two gay associat om the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church jt before the Iowa uc 2008—all of which helps to expla why he married, the words of one Obama vtigator, a “mannish wife wh big, mcular arms. Google “Obama gay mors” and you get—hold on!

OBAMA WAS A COE-USG GAY HTLER, SAYS WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN HAWAIIAN CLASSMATE

” Or a blogger named Kev DuJan, who reports that Reggie Love, the former basketball player who served as Obama’s “body man, ” was actually the print’s lover, and that is “que clear that the years ahead Barack Obama will replace Elton John as the reigng party queen, gay in. Obama, Madsen says, had homosexual trysts wh Reprentative Artur Davis, Massachetts Governor Deval Patrick and Senate majory lear Bill Frist! Meanwhile, Pl Cameron of the Fay Rearch Instute, another right-wg anizatn dited to protectg the untry om the lik of Obama, told a rad dience on VCY Crosstalk that while “I’m not sure about the claims by var people who have reported that Obama has at least participated at tim wh them homosexual acts, this [support of gay marriage] certaly lends some crence.

'HARRY STYL HAD A GAY AFFAIR WH PRINT BARACK OBAMA' SAYS US MAGAZE

Cg a remark by Fox News host Greg Gutfeld that “Obama is now out of the closet” after the print announced his support for gay marriage, former Gee W.

DID US TABLOID NATNAL EXAMER CLAIM BARACK OBAMA AND HARRY STYL HAD A GAY AFFAIR? NO, NOT REALLY

Bh speechwrer David Fm blogged at the Daily Beast, “You nnot ‘get’ Gutfeld’s joke unls you ‘get’ that a large part of his dience arntly believ that Obama is fact gay, that his marriage is a sham, and that Mrs. But as much as the most extreme tal of the print’s supposed homosexualy have been nfed to the cranni of the Inter, mastream Republins routely voke the ia that Obama is, if not exactly gay, then ls of a man. Of urse, there’s nothg unual about the wg-nuttery fabritg stori to rally their fellow nuts, and nothg unual about the homophob among them, pecially on the relig right, attackg Obama as gay.

NEWSWEEK VER CLAR OBAMA ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’

But the persistent charg of his unmanls—as if all gay men are unmanly and all women fathearted—are part of a ske of Republin accatns and nuendo agast Democrats that go back s.

It isn’t always that Democrats are gay, exactly. Gay be a proxy for effemacy so that Republins, their antediluvian view of the world, n prent themselv as tough he-men, Democrats as weak girls. Though McCarthy’s stock tra was wild accatns agast alleged munists the Democratic admistratns of Roosevelt and Tman, he also brandished another, ls remembered weapon: homosexual bag, on the pretext that munists were often gay.

OBAMA TO NOMATE FIRST OPENLY GAY MILARY SERVICE SECRETARY

This nflatn of “treasono” wh “Democrats” and “gay” has proven to be a powerful one that seems to have had more legs than anti-munism by self. As David Johnson documents his history of polil gay bashg, The Lavenr Sre, once McCarthy publicized the accatns, his fellow Republins and their alli the right-wg prs joyoly leapt . But the subtler msage wasn’t that Democrats were gay.

HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT

Aga, was that Democrats were like gays—that is, the bizarre Republin equatn, they were womanly, pable of standg up to munists. Acrdg to Stevenson bgrapher Porter McKeever, an Eisenhower supporter actively spread the mor that Stevenson was gay, and someone even sent out an FBI impersonator to terview a iend of a Stevenson staff member about the ernor’s alleged homosexualy.

” In four years, Stevenson had gone om beg gay to beg a woman. ” Given his womanizg, Clton uldn’t be tarred as eher gay or feme, so the Republins ed another tactic: he was portrayed as havg been emasculated by Hillary, “the Lady Macbeth of Ltle Rock, ” as The Amerin Spectator lled her durg the 1992 mpaign.

They have been playg this game so long that ’s now their DNA, which is why every nservative crackpot n’t wa to tell you that Barack Obama is gay. Anyway, the weird thg is that Jerome isn't jt some hillbilly crackpot makg outrageo, homophobic claims at an NRA barbecue, but a Harvard-ted journalist who wr for World Net Daily, an ultra-nservative news anisatn that boasts headl like "Kids Drk 'Gay' Kool-Aid". Between beg a right wg media sensatn, he's found the time to wre a uple of books on Obama – books that allege he was molted as a child, is a Communist and, of urse, that he's gay.