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.
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.