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

Contents:

• DID 'BARACK OBAMA'S STYLIST' REVEAL HE IS 'A GAY'?
• DID MICHELLE OBAMA FILE FOR DIVORCE AFTER BARACK ADMTED HE WAS GAY?
• BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?
• NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
• THIS MAN HAS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS GAY
• OBAMA WAS A COE-USG GAY HTLER, SAYS WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN HAWAIIAN CLASSMATE
• PRINT OBAMA NSIRED PURSUG A GAY RELATNSHIP

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

"And now, there’s Barack Obama, dubbed “the first gay print” by Newsweek over the weekendThe acpanyg say was penned by The Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan, who wr that " four years Obama went om beg JFK on civil rights to beg LBJ: om givg upliftg speech to actg ways to make the spirg words a realy. "Sullivan, who is gay, scrib Obama’s “evolutn” on gay rights as the latt example of Obama “leadg om behd and playg the long game. ”Sullivan also draws a parison between the gay experience and Obama’s own search for racial inty:“Barack Obama had to e out of a different closet.

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

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.

The Ameri he grew up had no space for a boy like him: black yet enveloped by lovg whens, tranged om a father he longed for (another mon gay experience), hurtlg between beg a Barry and a Barack, needg an Amerin racial inty as he grew olr but chafg also agast and over-embracg at tim. ”“This is the gay experience: the disvery adulthood of a muny not like your own home and the stggle to belong both plac, whout displacement, whout alienatn. Obama learned to be black the way gays learn to be gay.

BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?

”The full say is onle here; the magaze go on sale "First Gay Print" ver on the heels of a different provotive ver by Time Magaze, which last week ed a photo of a woman breast-feedg her young son to illtrate s ver story on "attachment parentg. “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. 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.

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.

THIS MAN HAS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS GAY

"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.

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.

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

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?

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.

PRINT OBAMA NSIRED PURSUG A GAY RELATNSHIP

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. 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.

What first ma you thk that Obama is gay? 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. There’s a big culture of homosexualy polics Chigo.