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

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• NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
• NEWSWEEK COVER: OBAMA 'FIRST GAY PRINT'
• PLURALY OF VOTERS SAY THEY'RE READY FOR A GAY PRINT BUT AMERI IS NOT: POLL
• NEWSWEEK LLS OBAMA 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT' ON VER
• NEWSWEEK COVER: 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT'
• NEWSWEEK VER CLAR OBAMA ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’
• NEWSWEEK'S NEXT COVER: OBAMA 'FIRST GAY PRINT'
• BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?
• NEWSWEEK: THE FIRST GAY PRINT

NEWSWEEK VER: 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, 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.

NEWSWEEK COVER: OBAMA 'FIRST GAY PRINT'

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.

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?

PLURALY OF VOTERS SAY THEY'RE READY FOR A GAY PRINT BUT AMERI IS NOT: POLL

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. 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. 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?

While a pluraly of registered voters say they are ready to have a gay or lbian lear the Whe Hoe, most don't believe that the rt of the untry is on the same page. Acrdg to a new poll om Poli/Morng Consult, 50 percent of voters said they were eher fely ready (33 percent) or probably ready (17 percent) for the electn of a gay or lbian print. Nearly a quarter of rponnts said they were fely not ready, and 13 percent said they were probably not ready for such a when asked if they thought the untry as a whole was ready for a gay or lbian print, most voters said no.

NEWSWEEK LLS OBAMA 'THE FIRST GAY PRINT' ON VER

Forty-five percent of those polled said they untry was eher fely not (24 percent) or probably not (21 percent) ready for an openly gay manr chief. Rponnts' outlook got even bleaker when asked about whether they believed their neighbors were ready for a gay or lbian print. That par wh 46 percent who said their neighbors were eher fely not or probably not on board wh a gay or lbian person the Whe Poli/Morng Consult poll, released Wednday morng, surveyed nearly 2, 000 registered voters om October 25 to 28 and has a marg of error of 2 percentage the first time any printial electn, voters may have the opportuny to st their ballot 2020 for an openly gay ndidate.

Democrat Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is the first openly gay man to n for print. A new poll found that a pluraly of voters are ready for a gay print but that the untry is not. WASHINGTON – 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.

NEWSWEEK COVER: '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 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 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 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.

Brown, whose tenure as edor at Newsweek has seen an array of ntroversial vers, will rpond wh the above, pegged to Andrew Sullivan's piece on Obama's support for same-sex marriage: "The First Gay Print.

NEWSWEEK VER CLAR OBAMA ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’

(Also on POLITICO: 20 gay rights ton). It’s easy to wre off Print Obama’s announcement of his support for gay marriage as a polil ploy durg an electn year.

“When you step back a ltle and asss the rerd of Obama on gay rights, you see, fact, that this was not an aberratn.

NEWSWEEK'S NEXT COVER: OBAMA 'FIRST GAY PRINT'

” And Print Obama has much mon wh the gay muny.

“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, ” Sullivan wr. Newsweek, which has recently bee a ndu for ntroversy wh s ver art choic, drew more attentn wh the but of s latt issue clarg Print Obama to be “the first gay print.

BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?

” The ver, featurg Obama anoted wh a rabow halo above his head, ma s arrival on newsstands Monday and the wake of Obama’s claratn last week that he is personally favor of gay marriage. The ver article, by proment Newsweek polil wrer and outspoken gay muny member Andrew Sullivan, lv to Obama’s past and asserts that given his background, his claratn of support for gay marriage should e as no surprise.

Drawg parallels between the sense of isolatn felt by many growg to acceptg their homosexualy and Obama’s stggle to assert his own racial inty his early years, Sullivan wholeheartedly celebrat Obama’s cisn. To have the print of the Uned Stat affirm my humany — and the humany of all gay Amerins — was, unexpectedly, a watershed. ” Sullivan, should be noted, was also one of the first voic wh the media llg for gay marriage, wh his proment 1989 ver story the New Republic, “The Case for Gay Marriage.

” “It’s one of the richt ironi of our society’s bld spot toward gays that sentially nservative social goals should have the appearance of beg so radil, ” Sullivan wrote back 1989.

NEWSWEEK: THE FIRST GAY PRINT

“But gay marriage is not a radil step. Given that gay relatnships will always exist, what possible social goal is advanced by amg the law to enurage those relatnships to be unfahful, unveloped, and secure? ” Obama’s claratn alongsi a turng pot for gay marriage the urt of public opn, wh a recent Gallup poll fdg that, for the first time the poll’s history, a majory of Amerins support the legalizatn of gay marriage, 53% to 45%.