14th August 2023, Mumbai: Obama, then 21, wrote to Alex McNear in November 1982, with whom he had been in a relationship during his time at Occidental College in Los Angeles
The 44th US president and first Black president wrote: “In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life.
“You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination.”
He also wrote about his conflicting thoughts on gender: “My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men.
He delved into the topic of homosexuality and confessed that he ‘loves making love to men daily, but in the imagination,’ according to the redacted letter
He described homosexuality as a way to detach from the present and potentially evade the recurring theatrics of earthly existence
Obama Gay Sex Fantasy
Former President Barack Obama’s gay sex fantasy has been revealed in a newly-redacted 1982 letter to his ex girlfriend.
Obama, then 21, wrote to Alex McNear in November 1982, with whom he had been in a relationship during his time at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
‘In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life.’
Barack Obama’s record on LGBTQ+ rights
As president, Obama made some significant strides in advancing LGBTQ+ rights in the US.
In 2009, he signed a federal law which criminalised attacks based on the victim’s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity as hate crimes.
A year later, he repealed the discriminatory Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law, which allowed gay, lesbian, and bisexual Americans to serve openly in the Armed Forces.
Obama’s 2010 flagship Affordable Care Act reportedly made it easier for people living with HIV and AIDS to obtain private medical insurance, and supported efforts to ban conversion therapy against minors
Despite declaring that “I don’t think marriage is a civil right” in 2004, Obama also said he didn’t think homosexuality was a choice. Then, during his second presidential term, he celebrated the legalisation of same-sex marriage after the US Supreme Court struck down all state bans on same-sex marriage in 2015 and legalised same-sex unions in all 50 states.
Executive law to protect LGBTQ+
Obama also signed an executive order in 2014, protecting LGBTQ+ people from workplace discrimination, and ordered schools to allow transgender and gender non-conforming young people to use the bathroom facilities that align with their gender identity.
The rights of trans youth in particular have been sadly rolled back in Republican-controlled states across the US. Obama, a father of two, has been married to his wife Michelle since 1992.
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