Posted on 04/29/2017 9:33:20 AM PDT by springwater13
Former President Barack Obama considered being homosexual as a young man, according to a forthcoming biography of the president.
The biography by David Garrow, “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama,” is set to come out on May 9. Garrow wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., and is a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post.
In a chapter about the former president’s two years at Occidental College, Garrow reveals a close relationship Obama had with an openly gay assistant professor named Lawrence Goldyn.
“Goldyn made a huge impact on Barry Obama,” Garrow wrote in the book. “Almost a quarter century later, asked about his understanding of gay issues, Obama enthusiastically said, ‘my favorite professor my first year in college was one of the first openly gay people that I knew…He was a terrific guy” with whom Obama developed a ‘friendship beyond the classroom.'”
The biographer added, “Goldyn years later would remember that Obama ‘was not fearful of being associated with me’ in terms of ‘talking socially’ and ‘learning from me’ after as well as in class.”
“Three years later, Obama wrote somewhat elusively to his first intimate girlfriend that he had thought about and considered gayness, but ultimately had decided that a same-sex relationship would be less challenging and demanding than developing one with the opposite sex,” Garrow wrote. “But there is no doubting that Goldyn gave eighteen-year-old Barry a vastly more positive and uplifting image of gay identity and self-confidence than he had known in Honolulu.”
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Barry loves Reggie.
Just Barry’s oblique way of confirming what everyone already knows about him.
You have to laugh.
Barry’s first post-presidency limited modified hangout.
What a jerk.
Proves it's a choice, not something they are born with.
Perhaps his modified limited hangout will be chopped off and he’ll reappear as Barbara?
Yeah, “considered”. Just like “didn’t inhale”. May as well come out all the way, Mr. Bath House.
As he said, they were his “Goldyn years”.
well, I am surprised. Cause he’s pretty gay to me.
GOOD THING THIS DIDN’T COME OUT BEFORE THE ELECTIONS. /S
Considered? I thought we’ve been told it’s not a choice. WTH? Guess he never re-considered? ;-)
His children probably would not care; it’s en vogue now a days.
If he “considered being gay” then it’s a choice and not something you’re born with.
Why haven’t the lefties latched on to this and tried to clarify it?
What the bastard really means is he considered GOING PUBLIC with his homosexuality and decided it would ruin his presidential ambitions, so he kept quiet. Until now.
How long before he comes out as the first bisexual president? It’ll be an emotional moment with a 2 hour Diane Sawyer interview and probably boost his speaking fees to $1 Million.
He might even get his own reality show with Michelle and Valerie.
Shazam!
Shazam!
Shazam!
/HomoGomer
Oh, and he just confirmed the real reason Mooch is so angry all the time.
Their wedding photos make it clear she thought she was getting a real prize. What a bitter disappointment.
Go that route. How would our nation move forward without Michelle?
Maybe this bio is the trial balloon. Recall that recently in Chicago Obama said that if some of the things he did in high school had been known, he likely wouldn’t have been POTUS. Well the drug issues were known...so what might Barry have had in mind...?
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