OUT Magazine LGBT 'Ally of the Year': Barack Obama

[William769]

Washington (CNN)—President Barack Obama's stance on LGBT issues has landed him on the cover of OUT magazine's OUT100 issue as "Ally of the Year."

Obama is the first sitting president to be photographed for the cover of an LGBT publication.

The President sat down for an interview with the magazine, in which he touched on various influences on his relationship with the LGBT community, both before and after taking office, as well as his administration's accomplishments on LGBT rights and how watching Sasha and Malia has shown him how attitudes have changed toward homosexuality across generations.

Obama said his mother's teachings that "every person was of equal worth" inspired his interest in focusing on LGBT rights during his administration, and thanked his openly gay Occidental professor and eventual friend, Dr. Lawrence Goldyn, for directly influencing the way he continues to think about all of these issues.

"He went out of his way to advise lesbian, gay and transgender students... and keep in mind, this was 1978," Obama told the magazine. "That took a lot of courage, a lot of confidences in who you are and what you stand for."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/10/politics/barack-obama-out-magazine-ally-of-the-year/index.html

[randys1]

1. For a minute there I thought you were gonna give Glenn Beck an early Xmas present

Out-ting Barack.

Voting rights, Gay rights, Women's rights AND African American/minority rights is everything to me, which is why I see a stark difference between the two parties.

This reminds us of the VAST difference, doesn't it.

[mcar]

2. K&R

[irisblue]

3. K&R

[pnwmom]

4. But wait. What is wrong with them? He didn't support gay marriage in 2008.

Shouldn't they have named Bernie Sanders first?

Don't they know who's their real ally?