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.
Newly unearthed letter written by Barack Obama in 1982 reveals his bisexual, nonbinary arc
ally to the queer community.In a 1982 letter to his then-girlfriend Alex McLean, a 21-year-old Obama revealed that he frequently fantasized about having sex with men.“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,” Obama wrote in the letter.It’s a long-winded way for Obama to say he’s bisexual in theory, if not in practice.Obama also gave his thoughts on the gender binary in the letter.
Spoiler alert: he’s not a fan.“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.
But, in returning to the body, I see that I have been made a man, and physically in life, I choose to accept that contingency,” he added.Again, to put it in layman’s terms, it sounds like though Obama stuck to his gender assigned at birth, he might have explored a nonbinary identity if he’d grown up in a more open-minded era.These quotes come courtesy of biographer David Garrow, who wrote the 2017 Obama biography Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.
