Let’s look at right-wingers calling Obama ‘gay’
<p>What I’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 ‘socially constructed’, as the lingo went. That leaves him trying to explain why he’s straight.</p>
<p>He notes he’s not “manly” in the way that term is often defined. He may be floating the idea of some bisexuality in his nature. But he is <em>anti</em>-gay in suggesting that gay men are ‘removed from the present’. I wouldn’t expect a gay man to say that.</p>
<h1>There’s certainly a vague ‘queerness ’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 ‘feminine’ than she was. As the scholar <a href="https://suffolk.academia.edu/FrankRudyCooper?swp=tc-au-628693" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Frank Rudy Cooper</a> wrote in a…</p>
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