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Contents:

• BARACK OBAMA: AMERI’S FIRST GAY PRINT?
• HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
• THE EVOLUTN OF THE NATN’S ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
• DID 'BARACK OBAMA'S STYLIST' REVEAL HE IS 'A GAY'?
• OBAMA'S GAY LIFTYLE BEFORE HE BEME PRINT
• CLAIM: OBAMA HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BEE PRINT
• CLAIM: OBAMA HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BEE PRINT
• CLAIM: OBAMA HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BECOME PRESIDENT - CHIGO HOMOSEXUAL MUNY SHOCKED HE ULD KEEP SECRET!!!
• OBAMA HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BEE PRINT
• CLAIM: OBAMA HID ‘GAY LIFE’ TO BEE PRINT
• HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BEE PRINT | TENNSEE VALLEY TALKS

BARACK OBAMA: AMERI’S FIRST GAY PRINT?

Barack Obama: Ameri’s First Gay Print? "Barack Obama: Ameri’s First Gay 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.

HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT

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.

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

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

Today, jt over a later, he has done more for gay rights than any other US print.

OBAMA'S GAY LIFTYLE BEFORE HE BEME 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.

CLAIM: OBAMA HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BEE PRINT

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.

CLAIM: OBAMA HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BEE PRINT

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. Print Obama, "the first gay print, " zig-zags on gay marriage over time. He has been clared Ameri’s “first gay print.

CLAIM: OBAMA HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BECOME PRESIDENT - CHIGO HOMOSEXUAL MUNY SHOCKED HE ULD KEEP SECRET!!!

1996: While nng for the Illois Senate, Obama signs a qutnnaire for a gay Chigo publitn sayg he favors legalizg same-sex marriag.

OBAMA HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BEE PRINT

Print to mentn gays and lbians an gural addrs and champns same-sex marriage. A proment member of Chigo's homosexual muny claims Barack Obama's participatn the "gay" bar and bathhoe scene was so well known that many who were aware of his liftyle were shocked when he ran for print and fally won the Whe Hoe.

"It was prepostero to the people I knew then to thk Obama was gog to keep his gay life secret, " said Kev DuJan, who was a gossip lumnist Chigo for var blogs when Obama was livg the cy as a muny anizer and later a state senator.

"Nobody who knew Obama the gay bar scene thought he uld possibly be print, " said DuJan. DuJan, founr and edor of the Hillary Clton-supportg webse, told WND he has first-hand rmatn om two different sourc that "Obama was personally volved the gay bar scene. "If you jt hang out at the bars, the olr guys who have been equentg the gay bars for 25 years will tell you the stori, " DuJan said.

CLAIM: OBAMA HID ‘GAY LIFE’ TO BEE PRINT

"Obama ed to go to the gay bars durg the week, most often on Wednday, and they said he was very much to olr whe guys.

HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BEE PRINT | TENNSEE VALLEY TALKS

He's homosexual. "It is mon knowledge the Chigo gay muny that Obama actively vised the gay bars and bathho Chigo while he was an Illois state senator, " Madsen told WND.