Barack Obama: ‘The First Gay Print’? - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• DID MICHELLE OBAMA FILE FOR DIVORCE AFTER BARACK ADMTED HE WAS GAY?
• HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
• THE EVOLUTN OF THE NATN’S ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
• NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
• WHY GAY RIGHTS MAY BE PRINT OBAMA’S BIGGT LEGACY
• PRINT OBAMA NSIRED PURSUG A GAY RELATNSHIP
• THIS MAN HAS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS GAY
• DID 'BARACK OBAMA'S STYLIST' REVEAL HE IS 'A GAY'?
• BARACK OBAMA: AMERI’S FIRST GAY PRINT?
• BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?

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

“I thk you n see mostly wh the se of gay marriage. Back to the ’90s, when he first enters the polil arena, he totally endors gay marriage.

He also says that he supports affirmative actn for gays and lbians.

Senate mpaign, addg, “but what I also believe is that we have an obligatn to make sure that gays and lbians have the rights of cizenship that afford them visatns to hospals, that allow them to transfer property to each other, to make sure they’re not discrimated agast on the job. ” He says homosexualy is not a choice and “for the most part, is nate.

HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT

” He wrote: “And I was remd that is my obligatn, not only as an elected official a pluralistic society but also as a Christian, to rema open to the possibily that my unwillgns to support gay marriage is misguid … that J’ ll to love one another might mand a different ncln. He also says, repeatedly, that he is agast gay marriage. And I thk that is an issue that I wrtle wh and thk about bee I have a whole host of iends who are gay partnerships.

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

” By July, the Commanr--Chief formally certifi that the ary is ready for the open service of lbian, gay and bisexual troops.

“That’s why we fend ee speech, and advote for polil prisoners, and nmn the persecutn of women, or relig mori, or people who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. Conversn therapy attempts to “rrect” homosexual or transgenr feelgs.

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.

NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’

”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.

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. 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.

WHY GAY RIGHTS MAY BE PRINT OBAMA’S BIGGT LEGACY

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. ” 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.

PRINT OBAMA NSIRED PURSUG A GAY RELATNSHIP

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. 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. Sce takg office, Print Obama and his Admistratn have ma historic stris to expand opportuni and advance equaly and jtice for all Amerins, cludg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Amerins. Insurance pani are no longer able to discrimate agast anyone due to a pre-existg ndn, and bee of the law, surers n no longer turn someone away jt bee he or she is lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.

Print Obama veloped and released the first prehensive Natnal HIV/AIDS Strategy for the Uned Stat 2010, updated through 2020, and is implementg to addrs the dispari faced pecially by gay and bisexual men of all rac and ethnici and transgenr women of lor.

THIS MAN HAS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS GAY

The Print signed bipartisan legislatn to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell on December 22, 2010, allowg gay, lbian, and bisexual Amerins to serve openly the Armed Forc whout fear of beg dismissed om service bee of who they are and who they love, puttg motn the end of a discrimatory policy that ran unter to Amerin valu. Over the next two years, the iative has veloped and evaluated strategi to prevent lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youth om beg homels or tervene as early as possible once they do bee homels.

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

Once the rince of noted gay rights activist Henry Gerber, the home was where the natn's first chartered LGBT rights anizatn, the Society for Human Rights, was formed 1924. Print Obama, "the first gay print, " zig-zags on gay marriage over time.

BARACK OBAMA: AMERI’S FIRST GAY PRINT?

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. 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.

BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE 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.