Let’s look at right-wingers calling Obama ‘gay’

<p>What I&rsquo;m hearing is a very politically progressive young man of 1983 who has probably been reading a lot of Foucault, etc., thinking about all sexuality as &lsquo;socially constructed&rsquo;, as the lingo went. That leaves him trying to explain why he&rsquo;s straight.</p> <p>He notes he&rsquo;s not &ldquo;manly&rdquo; in the way that term is often defined. He may be floating the idea of some bisexuality in his nature. But he is&nbsp;<em>anti</em>-gay in suggesting that gay men are &lsquo;removed from the present&rsquo;. I wouldn&rsquo;t expect a gay man to say that.</p> <h1>There&rsquo;s certainly a vague &lsquo;queerness &rsquo;around Obama.</h1> <p>This was part of his appeal: he was a different kind of male. Running against Hillary Clinton in 2008, Obama was famously seen as more &lsquo;feminine&rsquo; than she was. As the scholar&nbsp;<a href="https://suffolk.academia.edu/FrankRudyCooper?swp=tc-au-628693" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Frank Rudy Cooper</a>&nbsp;wrote in a&hellip;</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/queertheory/lets-look-at-the-right-wingers-calling-obama-gay-661226e709dc"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>