There doesn’t seem to be much doubt that he was molested by his Stalinist “mentor,” Frank Marshall Davis. That would seem to be what Obama’s poem, “Pop,” describes. Davis was a known pervert and self-confessed pederast.
Everything we know about him would contribute to making him into a homosexual, as well as a malignant narcissist.
Absent father. Abusive mentor. Communist grandfather. Neglected and abandoned by his mother.
Have you read about his Indonesian ‘nanny’? It was a male transvestite who was allowed to sleep in Barry’s room. One story the transvestite himself told involves Barry hitting him because he wouldn’t turn out the lights on command. So the tranny hit Barry back, and Barry screamed and cried at the top of his lungs. The mother ignored him—didn’t even come to see why he was caterwauling—because, as the tranny said, ‘She knew if I hit him, I had a good reason’.
The tranny was also a male prostitute. Does anyone believe the abuse didn’t start there?
As for girlfriends, Ayers had to use his own love-of-his-life girlfriend as the only one who appears in Dreams. He didn’t even try to change up the details; he just wrote very blatantly and openly about the woman he loved, who blew herself up by accident in the WeatherUnderground, including—almost intentionally, it seems—too much information for her to be mistaken for anyone else.
So no, Barry had no girlfriends. And yes, I think he’s gay. An absent father and an emotionally unavailable mother have that effect on certain boys.