Did 'Barack Obama's Stylist' Reveal He Is 'a Gay'? |

Contents:

• HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
• DID MICHELLE OBAMA FILE FOR DIVORCE AFTER BARACK ADMTED HE WAS GAY?
• OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY: 'I AM JT NOT VERY GOOD AT BULLSHTG'
• DID 'BARACK OBAMA'S STYLIST' REVEAL HE IS 'A GAY'?
• THIS MAN HAS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS GAY

HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT

Thompson dited himself to helpg build support for Obama on the liberal Lakeont on the North Si of Chigo, which clud the uber-gay neighborhood of Boystown centered on North Halsted that time, Obama had very ltle gay support to speak of. Thompson, who is gay, wanted to fix that. ”Durg the four-hour drive, Obama took the opportuny to ask Thompson some qutns about the gay muny that had been perlatg his md durg the mpaign.

For stance, he was cur to know why was so important to the gay muny to be nsistently mentned by name. Thompson explaed that this kd of explic regnn was important bee there were still many people who thought legal rights for gays and lbians wasn’t a legimate nversatn. That was no longer the se for Ain Amerins or women, but for the gay muny, remaed te, at least certa segments of society.

DID MICHELLE OBAMA FILE FOR DIVORCE AFTER BARACK ADMTED HE WAS GAY?

And yet he had never heard of the event that many nsir the birth of the morn gay rights movement: the rts that took place at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village 1969, when the LGBT muny fought back agast police timidatn and arrt and mand legal equaly.

OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY: 'I AM JT NOT VERY GOOD AT BULLSHTG'

It wasn’t long after marriage for gay upl had bee legal Massachetts, and the vilently anti-gay Key kept tryg to ba Obama to discsg the subject. “This muny is expectg you to stand bi them, ” she Obama ma clear to Verdich that he’d be stickg wh his, other words, began his polil journey sympathetic to gay rights, but not eply rmed about them.

Today, jt over a later, he has done more for gay rights than any other US print. The historic succs, on his watch and wh his help, meant that LGBT rights, and marriage equaly specifilly, would be at the center of the legacy he’d leave gay rights advot, the Obama princy got off to an spic start. Warren had been an outspoken supporter of Proposn 8, the California ballot iative that had brought marriage for gay upl to an immediate halt jt two months earlier, cshg the spir of the gay muny California and natnwi.

DID 'BARACK OBAMA'S STYLIST' REVEAL HE IS 'A GAY'?

” It seemed like an argument the relig right ed to e: that “homosexuals” weren’t beg barred om marryg. The phback om gay lears, bloggers, and anizatns was fast and the Whe Hoe, too, the memo created a firtorm.

If the new admistratn argued that a “heightened scty” standard of review were required for laws that classified based on sexual orientatn, would be difficult jtifyg the nstutnaly of DOMA, or any other law that sgled out gay or lbian Wolfson, print of Freedom to Marry and known as the godfather of the movement, ma a forceful se to the Whe Hoe to apply heightened scty—first to Ta Tchen the office of public engagement and later to Obama nfidante Valerie Jarrett—always acpanied by a strong pch for gog all the way and enunciatg support for marriage.

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell had been repealed and gays were servg openly the ary.

THIS MAN HAS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS GAY

The admistratn had joed gay advot the urtroom argug for DOMA to be stck down. The latter had been a movement victory, wh the gay prs phg hard and advot and ordary same-sex upl alike speakg out, while quiet nversatns between advot and Whe Hoe officials were simultaneoly takg place.

“Opposn to gay marriage was particularly strong the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he gdggly accepted the unsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his posn to support civil unns rather than marriage, which he would term a ‘sacred unn’, ” Axelrod wr. As a ndidate for the Illois state senate 1996, Obama said he favored same-sex marriage rponse to a qutnnaire om a Chigo-area gay and lbian newspaper.