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

Contents:

• THE EVOLUTN OF THE NATN’S ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
• HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
• DID MICHELLE OBAMA FILE FOR DIVORCE AFTER BARACK ADMTED HE WAS GAY?
• OBAMA WAS A COE-USG GAY HTLER, SAYS WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN HAWAIIAN CLASSMATE
• DID 'BARACK OBAMA'S STYLIST' REVEAL HE IS 'A GAY'?
• NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
• PRINT OBAMA NSIRED PURSUG A GAY RELATNSHIP
• WHY GAY RIGHTS MAY BE PRINT OBAMA’S BIGGT LEGACY
• BARACK OBAMA: AMERI’S FIRST GAY PRINT?
• BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?

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

Print Obama, "the first gay print, " zig-zags on gay marriage over time. 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.

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.

HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS 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.

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

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.

OBAMA WAS A COE-USG GAY HTLER, SAYS WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN HAWAIIAN CLASSMATE

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. 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.

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

” 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.

” 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.

NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’

“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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

PRINT OBAMA NSIRED PURSUG A GAY RELATNSHIP

"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.

WHY GAY RIGHTS MAY BE PRINT OBAMA’S BIGGT LEGACY

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.

BARACK OBAMA: AMERI’S FIRST GAY PRINT?

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?

Print Obama nsired pursug a homosexual relatnship when he was llege after meetg an openly GAY profsor wh whom he shared a iendship 'beyond the classroom'Print Obama nsired pursug a gay relatnship acrdg to a new book Risg Star: The Makg of Barack ObamaWhile at Occintal College Los Angel Obama 1980 he had a close relatnship wh openly gay profsor Lawrence GoldynGoldyn was 'funny, engagg' and 'wore the really right bright yellow pants and open-toed sandals'Obama wrote to his first timate girliend a few years later that he thought about and nsired gayns But Obama ultimately cid that a same-sex relatnship would be ls challengg and mandg than velopg one wh the oppose sex Published: 18:10 BST, 3 May 2017 | Updated: 21:29 BST, 3 May 2017. Print Obama nsired pursug a gay relatnship while he was a llege stunt, acrdg to a new 1000-pl page tome by a Pulzer prize-wng bgrapher. 'Almost a quarter century later, asked about his unrstandg of gay issu, Obama enthiastilly said, "my favore profsor my first year llege was one of the first openly gay people that I knew…He was a terrific guy.

' When the Advote, a leadg gay and lbian magaze, asked print Barack Obama 2009 who had most profoundly fluenced his ias about gays and lbians, he send person - after his mother -was his polil science profsor at Occintal College, Lawrence Goldyn, here visg the print the Oval Office. Goldyn has sce bee a doctorIt was the wter of 1980 when Obama took a polil science urse at Occintal tght by the openly gay profsor, a 1973 graduate of Reed College Oregon wh a PhD om Stanford. ' Goldyn was one of the first gay people that Obama knew and Obama said the 'strong iendship that veloped helped to te me.

BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?

'Goldyn would remember that Obama was not fearful of beg associated wh years later, wr the thor, 'Obama wrote somewhat elively to his first timate girliend that he had thought about and nsired gayns but ultimately cid that a same-sex relatnship would be ls challengg and mandg than velopg one wh the oppose sex. 'The Advote, a leadg gay and lbian magaze asked Print Obama 2009 who had most profoundly fluenced his ias about gays and lbians, the send person he named - after his mother - was Lawrence Goldyn. 'He was the first openly gay profsor that I had ever e ntact wh, or openly gay person of thory that I had e ntact wh.

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.

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.