Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Hollywood Exec Says His Family Changed Biden's Mind on Gay Marriage
Lombardo told Variety that back in 2012, the Human Rights Campaign approached him asking if he and his husband, Sonny Ward, would be willing to host a meet-and-greet for Biden with LGBTQ+ people in the entertainment industry at their Los Angeles home.
Biden was then vice president, and he and President Barack Obama were running for a second term.While their first term had seen the revocation of "don’t ask, don’t tell" and the passage of an LGBTQ-inclusive hate-crimes law, same-sex marriages were still not legally recognized in most of the country, and the LGBTQ+ community wanted to see more from Obama and Biden.
