Obama First President To Pose On Cover Of Gay Mag

​It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. One week after the Houston voters rejected a non-discrimination ordinance out of fear for wig-wearing, bathroom-video-loving, faux-transgendered sex creeps who don't exist, President Barack Obama has become the first sitting United States President to be photographed for the cover of a gay magazine. Obama was named "Ally Of The Year" in the 2015 Out 100 issue of Out Magazine, and he gave an interview to Aaron Hicklin that touches on issues including Obergefell v. Hodges, Kim Davis, his administration's National HIV/AIDS Strategy, and his decision to mention Stonewall in his 2013 inauguration speech.

Full post after cut....................

 

Here's what Obama had to say about spreading the message of equality to some of our less progressive allies:

When we talk about LGBT issues, we emphasize the importance of universal human rights — the right to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly and the importance of non-violence, non-discrimination, and equality under the law — and those don't change or go away just because someone is a member of the LGBT community. So, while some people try to claim that homosexuality doesn't exist in their culture or that we are trying to impose "foreign" values, the truth is that LGBT people are members of all societies and the protection of human rights is a universal value. 

For a guy who didn't support marriage equality just a few years ago, dude's attitudes sound pretty evolved. There is also this simple, comforting message: 

Watching Sasha and Malia grow up, are you conscious of a generational difference in their attitudes to homosexuality versus the generation(s) before them? Absolutely. To Malia and Sasha and their friends, discrimination in any form against anyone doesn't make sense. It doesn't dawn on them that friends who are gay or friends' parents who are same-sex couples should be treated differently than anyone else. That's powerful. My sense is that a lot of parents across the country aren't going to want to sit around the dinner table and try to justify to their kids why a gay teacher or a transgender best friend isn't quite as equal as someone else. That's also why it's so important to end harmful practices like conversion therapy for young people and allow them to be who they are. The next generation is spurring change not just for future generations, but for my generation, too. As president, and as a dad, that makes me proud. It makes me hopeful.