Obama Is First Gay President

Posted by Elina Uphoff on Sunday, April 28, 2024

We’ve seen history made, writes Andrew Sullivan in Newsweek. When President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, he made his years of “evolution” look much more like a sort of patient intelligent design—and now he’s positioned himself to make once-unthinkable strides toward true equality for gay Americans. The immediate, or even long-term, consequences of Obama’s personal position are “impossible to judge,” Sullivan writes, but it seems clear that the president landed on the side of gay-marriage rights at least in part because of his own quest for an identity. “Barack Obama had to come out of a different closet,” Sullivan writes. “He had to discover his black identity ... just as gays discover their homosexual identity.”

Read it at Newsweek

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