The evolutn of the natn's 'first gay print' | CNN Polics

Contents:

• DID 'BARACK OBAMA'S STYLIST' REVEAL HE IS 'A GAY'?
• DID MICHELLE OBAMA FILE FOR DIVORCE AFTER BARACK ADMTED HE WAS GAY?
• THIS MAN HAS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS GAY
• DAVID AXELROD REVEALS THE TTH ABOUT OBAMA AND GAY MARRIAGE
• HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
• BARACK OBAMA: AMERI’S FIRST GAY PRINT?
• PRINT OBAMA NSIRED PURSUG A GAY RELATNSHIP
• THE EVOLUTN OF THE NATN’S ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
• WHAT’S BEHD THE RIGHT’S ‘OBAMA IS GAY’ CONSPIRACYWHAT’S BEHD THE RIGHT’S ‘OBAMA IS GAY’ CONSPIRACY
• OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY: 'I AM JT NOT VERY GOOD AT BULLSHTG'

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

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 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.

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

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. ” 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.

In a moment that some might expect om the current gaffe-prone Democrat print, many flocked to the vio as some sort of proof that Barack Obama was gay, or that his wife Michelle was secretly a man. Back to the ’90s, when he first enters the polil arena, he totally endors gay marriage. 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. I lled him up to fd out where the accatns me So how did you stumble across the allegatns that Obama is gay? Larry wrote a book about havg two homosexual enunters wh Obama 1999, when Obama was state 's not the most reliable of sourc, though.

THIS MAN HAS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS GAY

Rumours were that Young had been havg a homosexual relatnship wh Obama and was murred so the story uldn't get ’ve also talked a lot about the myster weddg rg Obama wore his youth.

DAVID AXELROD REVEALS THE TTH ABOUT OBAMA AND GAY MARRIAGE

A lot of people suggt was eher to keep women away, or to act as some kd of wk-wk gay, that, or jt a fashn accsory, I suppose. Candoo has been married and has children, but he wouldn't be the first guy history to have a fay and be gay or bisexual.

Then, when I started preparg terviews for The Obama Natn, I was told stori about Obama beg gay almost om the first nfintial terview I had. I believe he will do everythg he n to try and achieve that goal, you've mentned this guy Jeremiah Wright before, who arrang "down-low" marriag of gay men to women who n't fd a hband. I also read your article that suggted Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed Benghazi, was also gay.

I didn't say he was gay outright, I jt said there was a lot of evince that suggted he was gay. I may have mentned the article that there was at least one cint where, Pakistan, our embassy held a gay pri day and ed a rt you thk the rts Benghazi were ed by people fdg out about ambassador Stevens’ sexualy? I've read articl where people suggt your obssn wh Obama reflects your latent homosexualy.

HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT

I'm not antagonistic towards gays – I've had many gay iends – but I'm not gay So what's the big al if Obama's gay or not? I had you down as some homophobic whackjob who wanted to prove Obama was gay out of hatred for homosexuals. The majory of people aren't gog to re if he is gay, but he has to be forthright about .

BARACK OBAMA: AMERI’S FIRST GAY PRINT?

They knew they had to be open about that issue, so they tried to turn to an aspect of his ol, youthful persona, but I thk they viewed his homosexualy as a liabily, so they lied about . In his new memoir "Believer: My Forty Years Polics, " longtime Obama adviser David Axelrod adms that the print supported gay marriage privately back 2008 but ncealed his posn for polil is a fact that many progrsiv have long spected, but no one Obama's ner circle has ever admted publicly -- until now.

RELATED: Axelrod: Obama 'irrated' by Romney ll"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 "Believer. ”Durg the 2008 mpaign, many nservativ highlighted Obama's answer to a 1996 qutnnaire while he was the Illois state senate as a more thentic wdow to his views on gay marriage.

Yet as a ndidate for print, Obama routely ced his Christian fah as the ma impet for his opposn to marriage years later, as print, Obama started tellg the prs he was "evolvg" on the issue and his support for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and champng of a host of other pro-LGBT proposals gave activists heart that he would eventually fully embrace gay marriage. The print was champg at the b to announce his support for the right of gay and lbian upl to wed — and havg watched him stggle wh this issue for years, I was ready, too, " wr Axelrod.

PRINT OBAMA NSIRED PURSUG A GAY RELATNSHIP

Newsweek once gave Barack Obama the tle of “First Gay Print” on s May 21, 2012, ver as he was heavily foced on issu like legalizg gay marriage across thor of the article was gay wrer, Andrew Sullivan, who wrote, “When you step back a ltle and asss the rerd of Obama on gay rights, you see, fact, that this was not an aberratn. ” Jason Whlock believ that beg the gay muny’s biggt ally was perhaps his missn om the outset. “Tyg the journey of black people to the e of lbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenrs is Obama’s most endurg and impactful legacy, ” Whlock says.

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

One of the books parents are fightg to ban om their children’s school librari is lled "Genr Queer: A Memoir, " which picts numero gay sex acts. He also referenced Jam Baldw and Walt Whman, who are two of the most famo gay wrers Amerin history. 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.

”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.

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

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.

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

“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.