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Across the country, gay bars — often a fixture of queer nightlife — have been shuttered at an alarming pace. More than 45% closed between 2002 and 2023. But the closing of gay bars is prompting some to reimagine queer nightlife, argues Amin Ghaziani, a professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. Sabri Ben-Achour: So let’s start with this idea of the disappearing gay bar. This comes down to economics that I think are very relatable to a lot of businesses. It’s not that they’re not viable as a business, it’s that they’re getting priced out.

If you're gonna be a master of sneaky pete, a master meddler, you'd better be sure your sneaky schemes work. Obama's didn't. Which is how he's found himself in this predicament, according to New York Post columnist, Miranda Devine, who cited findings from a new book by a couple of reporters: It used to be said that President Joe Biden was serving former President Obama’s third term, that his former boss was controlling him from the home he had bought in DC’s ritzy Kalorama neighborhood, two miles from the White House. The feeling was that Obama was the real leader...

Barack Obama and Jennifer Aniston, two of the most iconic figures in their respective fields, recently became the center of an unexpected dating rumor. The story sparked massive speculation online, leaving fans questioning the authenticity of these claims. But what’s really going on? Here’s everything you need to know about the viral rumors connecting the former U.S. president and the beloved Hollywood actress.

this story has been burning up the internet all day. Haven't seen anything on cable news yet. https://x.com/i/status/1882496853859782957

As desperate, phony, and even dangerous of a campaign Democrats ran this year, and as embarrassing as the outcome was for all of them, nobody came out looking more pathetic than Barack Obama. From 2024’s vantage point, is there any way to look at his legacy but as a tragic blight on American history? In the final months of the campaign, Obama seemed to know the outcome of the election would say just as much about him as it would about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or Donald Trump. And, like all realistic Democrats, he knew that the nominee he supported...

Obama on Christmas morning. Trump posted a photo of himself smiling at Obama on Inauguration Day in 2017 captioned: When you see the guy who said ‘you’ll never be president’ at your inauguration. Barack Obama repeatedly said Trump will never be president. In 2016 Obama trolled Trump and suggested he would never become president.

President-elect Donald Trump’s most striking characteristics today are clarity, confidence, and calm. This is extraordinary in a man renowned for chaos, confusion, and the thin-skinned hurling of demeaning insults. But it is a truth that needs to be acknowledged and accounted for to understand what we are witnessing as Trump prepares to resume the presidency. His press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 16 revealed a man almost preternaturally at ease with himself, his mission, his domestic support, and his acceptance abroad. His tone was measured, even somewhat humble, despite some bragging. When he dismissed questions, as he justifiably did once...

The power play is here. Former president Barack Obama has raised questions about the structure of President Biden’s reelection campaign, discussing the matter directly with Biden and telling the president’s aides and allies the campaign needs to be empowered to make decisions without clearing them with the White House, according to three people familiar with the conversations. Obama grew “animated” in discussing the 2024 election and former president Donald Trump’s potential return to power, one of the people said, and has suggested to Biden’s advisers that the campaign needs more top-level decision-makers at its headquarters in Wilmington, Del. — or...

VIDEOThe big new rumor swirling around former President Barack Obama is that he’s… gay. This comes thanks to a former girlfriend who shared the contents of a letter Obama once wrote her in which he mentions fantasizing about having sex with other men. But as Obama explains during this phone call in to The Jimmy Dore Show, the letter was just a ruse he like to deploy in order to get liberal white women into bed.

Former President Barack Obama once wrote that he fantasized about having sexual relations with other men, biographer David Garrow said in an interview published on Wednesday. The former president expressed his fantasies in a letter to a girlfriend at the time, Garrow told Tablet magazine in the interview. That letter has been redacted and is currently in the possession of Emory University, according to Garrow.

Malik Obama, the well-known half-brother of Barack Obama, caught eyeballs Monday on social media with a reaction he gave to a posted letter in which the former president praised librarians and complained of the ‘banning’ of certain types of books, including ones that push LGBTQ+ propaganda. One infamous piece of LGBTQ+ work that has raised concerns for many school parents is “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” a book that features numerous graphic images and descriptions of homosexual conduct; this despite it being written for and distributed to children. Seemingly lamenting the treatment the story has consequently received, mainstream news outlets such...

Even before he left office in January 2017, President Barack Obama had laid grand plans to build a presidential library on the South Side of Chicago. As early as 2015, the Chicago City Council (and Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former chief of staff from 2009 to 2010) announced that “the City defers to the sound judgment of the President and his Foundation as to the ultimate location of the Presidential Library.” Obama ultimately decided to build on 19.3 choice acres in historic Jackson Park, designed in 1871 by great American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. By that time, Obama’s “library”...

Former President Barack Obama, in his latest memoir, criticized Americans for liking “cheap gas and big cars” more than they care about “the environment” – even during a catastrophic event like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Former first lady Michelle Obama was desperate never to be photographed wearing a bikini while serving as first lady, according to her husband’s new book. Barack dished the dirt about his life partner in The Promised Land, the narcissist’s recently published memoirs, making it known that it was among her top priorities as first lady to never be photographed in a bikini. “She was serious. ‘This is one of my main goals as first lady. I will not be photographed by the paparazzi in a bathing suit.’ And she succeeded,” Barack wrote in his book. Perhaps Michelle, a very handsome...

Obama - "When There's a Vacancy, the President is to Nominate Someone and the Senate is to Consider"

Mayor Pete Buttigieg doesn’t believe he’ll be the first gay president if elected in 2020. “I would imagine we’ve probably had excellent presidents who were gay — we just didn’t know which ones,” he told “Axios on HBO.” “I mean, statistically, it’s almost certain.” Asked if he possibly knew which commander-in-chief was playing for the other team, the Democratic hopeful said: “My gaydar even doesn’t work that well in the present, let alone retroactively. But one can only assume that’s the case.”

The Obamas were spotted just outside DC Saturday night at a Beyonce and Jay-Z concert dancing to a song called “Ni**as in Paris.”

Users on an anonymous image board discovered there appears to be a sperm cell drawn onto Barack Obama's forehead in his official presidential portrait, which now hangs in the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. Some may simply discount it as a vein, but oddly enough the artist who painted this portrait, Kehinde Wiley, has a history of adding semen into his art: [See examples in the article]

On Thursday evening, precisely 49 days, five hours and 11 minutes after Barack Obama was no longer the president of the United States, the conspiracy-enthusiastic site Gateway Pundit posted a new story: "Breaking: Malik Obama Tweets Alleged Barack Obama Birth Certificate In Kenya" Gateway Pundit never met an anti-Obama or anti-Hillary-Clinton story that it didn’t like. On any number of occasions, the site’s articles have been demonstrably false, as collated by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters. Despite that — or perhaps because of its ferocious defenses of then-candidate Donald Trump over the course of 2016 — an employee of...

Barack Obama's attorney general Eric Holder says the former president is itching for a public return to politics. “It’s coming,” he told reporters Tuesday while discussing the new National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), according to Politico. “He’s coming,” added Holder, whom Obama asked to chair the NDRC last year. "And he’s ready to roll. [Obama] will be a more visible part of the effort.” Holder said he had discussed Obama fundraising for the NDRC and interacting with state lawmakers on the group’s behalf with the former president. The former attorney general also predicted Republicans would shed state legislative seats in...