Newsweek magaze's latt ver proclaims Barack Obama the 'first gay print'. He'd rather foc on the enomy than his ntroversial new support for same-sex marriage. But that's a tough issue for him, as recent polls show.
Contents:
- BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?
- NEWSWEEK COVER: OBAMA 'FIRST GAY PRINT'
- THE EVOLUTN OF THE NATN’S ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
- NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
- BARACK OBAMA: AMERI’S FIRST GAY PRINT?
- OBAMA WAS A COE-USG GAY HTLER, SAYS WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN HAWAIIAN CLASSMATE
- BARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER SAYS HE'S FELY GAY MEDIATHE FORMER US PRINT'S SIBLG HAS RPOND TO HIS FENSE OF LGBTQ-THEMED BOOKS CHILDREN'S LIBRARIBARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER KENYA HAS REPORTEDLY RPOND TO THE FORMER US PRINT'S EFFORT TO PROMOTE THE CLN OF LGBTQ-THEMED BOOKS SCHOOL LIBRARI BY SUGGTG THAT HIS HALF-SIBLG IS HOMOSEXUAL."THIS MAN IS FELY GAY," MALIK OBAMA PURPORTEDLY SAID ON MONDAY A SCE-LETED TWTER MSAGE. THE POST, WHICH WAS REPORTED BY MULTIPLE MEDIA OUTLETS, ME RPONSE TO A LETTER WHICH BARACK OBAMA NOUNCED THE BANNG OF NTROVERSIAL BOOKS CHILDREN'S LIBRARI, CLUDG AT LEAST ONE THAT FEATUR GRAPHIC ILLTRATNS OF GAY SEXUAL ACTS.THE FORMER PRINT PRAISED LIBRARIANS HIS TWTER POST, SAYG THEY WERE ON THE "ONT L" OF AN EVERYDAY FIGHT TO "MAKE THE WIST POSSIBLE RANGE OF VIEWPOTS, OPNS AND IAS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE." HE ADD, "TODAY, SOME OF THE BOOKS THAT SHAPED MY LIFE - AND THE LIV OF SO MANY OTHERS - ARE BEG CHALLENGED BY PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WH CERTA IAS OR PERSPECTIV."OBAMA WENT ON TO PROMOTE A MPAIGN LLED UNE AGAST BOOK BANS, AN EFFORT BY THE AMERIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATN TO NONT CREASG MANDS TO CENSOR NTENT THAT CRICS EM APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN.PARENTS HAVE TARGETED BOOKS THAT ALLEGEDLY CLU PORNOGRAPHIC OR PEDOPHILIC MATERIAL. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE TLE FEND BY US MEDIA OUTLETS AS "THE MOST BANNED BOOK AMERI," LLED 'GENR QUEER', FEATUR GRAPHIC IMAG AND SCRIPTNS OF CHILDREN ENGAGED HOMOSEXUAL RELATNS."MICHELLE AND I WANT TO THANK THE LIBRARIANS FOR THEIR UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE EEDOM TO READ," OBAMA SAID. "I HOPE YOU'LL READ MY LETTER TO THEM, AND JO ME REMDG ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN -- AND EVEN SOME PEOPLE YOU THK MIGHT NOT -- THAT THE EE, ROBT EXCHANGE OF IAS HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT THE HEART OF AMERIN MOCRACY."MALIK OBAMA, WHO HAS THE SAME FATHER AS THE EX-PRINT, VISED THE WHE HOE SEVERAL TIM DURG HIS BROTHER'S FIRST TERM OFFICE. HOWEVER, HE LATER CLAIMED THAT BARACK OBAMA WAS "LD AND THLS" AND BLASTED HIM FOR ABANDONG HIS KENYAN FAY. "WHAT I SAW WAS THE KD OF PERSON THAT WANTS PEOPLE TO WORSHIP HIM," MALIK OBAMA TOLD THE NEW YORK POST 2020. "HE NEEDS TO BE WORSHIPED, AND I DON'T DO THAT. I AM HIS OLR BROTHER, SO I DON'T DO THAT."() !FUNCTN(D,I){IF(!D.GETELEMENTBYID(I)){VAR J=D.CREATEELEMENT("SCRIPT");;";VAR W=D.GETELEMENTBYID(I);(J);}}(DOCUMENT,"POCKET-BTN-JS");BARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER SAYS HE'S FELY GAY MEDIABARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER SAYS HE'S FELY GAY MEDIA
- BARACK OBAMA: AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRINT?
- NEWSWEEK LLS OBAMA 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT' ON VER
- NEWSWEEK COVER: 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT'
- IS OBAMA THE 'FIRST GAY PRINT' AS NEWSWEEK PROCLAIMS?
- THIS MAN HAS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS GAY
BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?
He has been clared Ameri’s “first gay print.” * barack obama first gay president *
"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.
NEWSWEEK COVER: 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 halo. Obama, Sullivan wr, "had to disver his black [...] * barack obama first gay president *
"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.
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.
THE EVOLUTN OF THE NATN’S ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
Obama Was A Coe-Usg Gay Htler, 'Ex-Classmate' Claims * barack obama first gay president *
”“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. 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.
"The acpanyg ver story was wrten by Andrew Sullivan, the popular--and openly gay--polil blogger. 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.
NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
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 marriage. Obama 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 implitns. The 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 marry. His 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." The boundary-phg May 21 Newsweek issue featurg Obama, available Monday, after Time magaze's ver last week, which featured an attractive 26-year-old mother breastfeedg her toddler son. The ver sparked strong reactns across the world last week and led a Newsweek spokperson to tell the New York Post that the magaze's edor Ta Brown had viewed the ver as a challenge. "When Ta saw the Time ver, she lghed and said, 'Let the gam beg,'" the spokperson told the Post. * barack obama first gay president *
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.
BARACK OBAMA: AMERI’S FIRST GAY PRINT?
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. Obama’s path to beg the LGBTQIA+ muny’s bt iend was all but evable. Perhaps was his missn om the o… * barack obama first gay president *
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? Print Obama, "the first gay print, " zig-zags on gay marriage over time.
OBAMA WAS A COE-USG GAY HTLER, SAYS WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN HAWAIIAN CLASSMATE
<p>Brown, whose tenure as edor at Newsweek has seen an array of ntroversial vers, will rpond tomorrow wh the ver above, pegged to Andrew Sullivan's piece on Obama's support for same-sex marriage: "The First Gay Print."</p> * barack obama first gay president *
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.
BARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER SAYS HE'S FELY GAY MEDIATHE FORMER US PRINT'S SIBLG HAS RPOND TO HIS FENSE OF LGBTQ-THEMED BOOKS CHILDREN'S LIBRARIBARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER KENYA HAS REPORTEDLY RPOND TO THE FORMER US PRINT'S EFFORT TO PROMOTE THE CLN OF LGBTQ-THEMED BOOKS SCHOOL LIBRARI BY SUGGTG THAT HIS HALF-SIBLG IS HOMOSEXUAL."THIS MAN IS FELY GAY," MALIK OBAMA PURPORTEDLY SAID ON MONDAY A SCE-LETED TWTER MSAGE. THE POST, WHICH WAS REPORTED BY MULTIPLE MEDIA OUTLETS, ME RPONSE TO A LETTER WHICH BARACK OBAMA NOUNCED THE BANNG OF NTROVERSIAL BOOKS CHILDREN'S LIBRARI, CLUDG AT LEAST ONE THAT FEATUR GRAPHIC ILLTRATNS OF GAY SEXUAL ACTS.THE FORMER PRINT PRAISED LIBRARIANS HIS TWTER POST, SAYG THEY WERE ON THE "ONT L" OF AN EVERYDAY FIGHT TO "MAKE THE WIST POSSIBLE RANGE OF VIEWPOTS, OPNS AND IAS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE." HE ADD, "TODAY, SOME OF THE BOOKS THAT SHAPED MY LIFE - AND THE LIV OF SO MANY OTHERS - ARE BEG CHALLENGED BY PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WH CERTA IAS OR PERSPECTIV."OBAMA WENT ON TO PROMOTE A MPAIGN LLED UNE AGAST BOOK BANS, AN EFFORT BY THE AMERIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATN TO NONT CREASG MANDS TO CENSOR NTENT THAT CRICS EM APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN.PARENTS HAVE TARGETED BOOKS THAT ALLEGEDLY CLU PORNOGRAPHIC OR PEDOPHILIC MATERIAL. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE TLE FEND BY US MEDIA OUTLETS AS "THE MOST BANNED BOOK AMERI," LLED 'GENR QUEER', FEATUR GRAPHIC IMAG AND SCRIPTNS OF CHILDREN ENGAGED HOMOSEXUAL RELATNS."MICHELLE AND I WANT TO THANK THE LIBRARIANS FOR THEIR UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE EEDOM TO READ," OBAMA SAID. "I HOPE YOU'LL READ MY LETTER TO THEM, AND JO ME REMDG ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN -- AND EVEN SOME PEOPLE YOU THK MIGHT NOT -- THAT THE EE, ROBT EXCHANGE OF IAS HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT THE HEART OF AMERIN MOCRACY."MALIK OBAMA, WHO HAS THE SAME FATHER AS THE EX-PRINT, VISED THE WHE HOE SEVERAL TIM DURG HIS BROTHER'S FIRST TERM OFFICE. HOWEVER, HE LATER CLAIMED THAT BARACK OBAMA WAS "LD AND THLS" AND BLASTED HIM FOR ABANDONG HIS KENYAN FAY. "WHAT I SAW WAS THE KD OF PERSON THAT WANTS PEOPLE TO WORSHIP HIM," MALIK OBAMA TOLD THE NEW YORK POST 2020. "HE NEEDS TO BE WORSHIPED, AND I DON'T DO THAT. I AM HIS OLR BROTHER, SO I DON'T DO THAT."() !FUNCTN(D,I){IF(!D.GETELEMENTBYID(I)){VAR J=D.CREATEELEMENT("SCRIPT");;";VAR W=D.GETELEMENTBYID(I);(J);}}(DOCUMENT,"POCKET-BTN-JS");BARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER SAYS HE'S FELY GAY MEDIABARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER SAYS HE'S FELY GAY MEDIA
Over nearly two s polics, Print Obama has staked out changg posns on gay rights. Here are the biggt ton. * barack obama first gay president *
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.
BARACK OBAMA: AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRINT?
* barack obama first gay president *
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 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.
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? Barack Obama: Ameri’s First Gay Print?
NEWSWEEK LLS OBAMA 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT' ON VER
"Barack Obama: Ameri’s First Gay Print? As Right Wg Watch first reported, Mia Marie Pope told right-wg preacher Jam David Manng that she believ that Obama was not only active wh the gay muny, but also a heavy e er durg his years Hawaii. He would get wh the olr whe gay men, and this is how we jt pretty much had the imprsn that that's how he was procurg his e.
NEWSWEEK COVER: 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT'
In May, "Coach" Dave Dbenmire implied Obama was "openly gay" or "better yet, openly bisexual" a News Wh Views broadst, nothg that the print's "face seems to really light up when he begs to talk about the gay agenda.
"In fall 2012, gossip lumnist turned Tea Party thor Jerome Corsi alleged that the print had been actively volved Chigo's gay bar and bathhoe You GoDumbt Anti-Queer StatementsPopular the CommunyYou May Like. The former US print's siblg has rpond to his fense of LGBTQ-themed books children's librariBarack Obama's brother Kenya has reportedly rpond to the former US print's effort to promote the cln of LGBTQ-themed books school librari by suggtg that his half-siblg is homosexual. "This man is fely gay, " Malik Obama purportedly said on Monday a sce-leted Twter msage.
IS OBAMA THE 'FIRST GAY PRINT' AS NEWSWEEK PROCLAIMS?
The post, which was reported by multiple media outlets, me rponse to a letter which Barack Obama nounced the banng of ntroversial books children's librari, cludg at least one that featur graphic illtratns of gay sexual former print praised librarians his Twter post, sayg they were on the "ont l" of an everyday fight to "make the wist possible range of viewpots, opns and ias available to everyone.
For example, one tle fend by US media outlets as "the most banned book Ameri, " lled 'Genr Queer', featur graphic imag and scriptns of children engaged homosexual relatns. Our historic Print is squanrg an historic his mpaign, Barack Obama ma some dac promis to the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny. When he was elected last November, we had every reason to hope that there would no longer be a gay Ameri and a straight Ameri.
Over the summer, he posthumoly award the Printial Medal of Freedom to Harvey Milk, the first openly gay Amerin polil official who was murred some thirty years ago by a fellow member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors. He has appoted some openly gay and lbian people to important jobs his Admistratn, most recently, David Huebner, the proment gay attorney, who will bee the U. On the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall rebelln--the seri of protts that marked the formal birth of the gay liberatn movement June 1969--Print Obama ved 300 gay and lbian lears to the Whe Hoe for a receptn, where he gave one of his tramark speech about "hope" and "change, " honorg the historic mment of LGBT activists and pledgg to "not only be your iend, " but also "an ally and a champn and a Print who fights wh you and for you.
THIS MAN HAS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS GAY
Electn Day 2008 was one of the greatt days of my life, notwhstandg the paful setbacks that me wh the passage of anti-gay ballot iativ California, Arizona, Florida, and Arkansas.
It's gratifyg to hear "gay and lbian" clud the Print's speech, but 's tratg to know that gay and lbian ncerns and perspectiv are largely absent om his Admistratn's policy agenda.