Barebackers for Barack!

Blazing Cat Fur reminds me of Larry Sinclair: "Obama on the Down Low."

And here's this, from Andrew "Milky Loads" Sullivan, "Obama Lets Go of Fear":

I do not know how orchestrated this was; and I do not know how calculated it is. What I know is that, absorbing the news, I was uncharacteristically at a loss for words for a while, didn't know what to write, and, like many Dish readers, there are tears in my eyes.

So let me simply say: I think of all the gay kids out there who now know they have their president on their side. I think of Maurice Sendak, who just died, whose decades-long relationship was never given the respect it deserved. I think of the centuries and decades in which gay people found it  impossible to believe that marriage and inclusion in their own families was possible for them, so crushed were they by the weight of social and religious pressure. I think of all those in the plague years shut out of hospital rooms, thrown out of apartments, written out of wills, treated like human garbage because they loved another human being. I think of Frank Kameny. I think of the gay parents who now feel their president is behind their sacrifices and their love for their children.

The interview changes no laws; it has no tangible effect. But it reaffirms for me the integrity of this man we are immensely lucky to have in the White House. Obama's journey on this has been like that of many other Americans, when faced with the actual reality of gay lives and gay relationships. Yes, there was politics in a lot of it. But not all of it. I was in the room long before the 2008 primaries when Obama spoke to the mother of a gay son about marriage equality. He said he was for equality, but not marriage. Five years later, he sees - as we all see - that you cannot have one without the other. But even then, you knew he saw that woman's son as his equal as a citizen. It was a moment - way off the record at the time - that clinched my support for him.

Oh brother.

No wonder they call him "Excitable Andy."

It was calculated, Andrew. Coldly calculated. See Lonely Con, "Obama’s Gay Marriage Distraction Paid Off."

More from No More Mister Nice Blog, "WILL 'SECRETLY GAY' BECOME THE NEW 'SECRETLY KENYAN'?" And following the links takes us to American Digest:

Gee whiz. I wonder if Obama will come out or not. He could of course avoid taking a "position" simply giving Andrew Sullivan one hot evening in the Lincoln Bedroom and leaking the photographs to Blueboy.com, but some things are just too revolting to evolve into.

Also at Astute Bloggers, "PREDICTION: AFTER OBAMA LOSES THE ELECTION HE WILL THEN DIVORCE MICHELLE...AND MARRY A MAN!"

BONUS: GOProud has this: "GOProud Statement on President Obama’s Remarks Regarding Marriage Equality" (via Memeorandum). (GOProud is a dirtbag organization and it's shameful that these pricks get as much traction on the right as they do. See, "Guess Who's Coming to CPAC?")

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