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7/17/2025, 10:22:55 PM No.510657827
Former President Barack Obama said on a Wednesday podcast that male friendship groups should have a homosexual friend.
Obama made the claim on his wife Michelle Obama’s “IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson,” during an episode in which the couple also refuted divorce rumors. The former president seemed to argue that having a gay friend was crucial to create an inclusive community.
“One of the most valuable things I learned as a guy was I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren’t out a lot — who became one of my favorite professors — and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was ignorant,” the former president said. “You need that! To show empathy and kindness.”
“And by the way, you need that person in your friend group so that if you then have a boy who is gay or non-binary or what have you, they have somebody that they can go, ‘Okay, I’m not alone in this,’ right?” he added. “So that, I think, is — creating that community — I know it’s corny, but that’s what they need.”
The former president, when he was 21-years-old, wrote to his ex-girlfriend Alex McNear that he “make[s] love to men daily, but in the imagination,” according to a letter the New York Post obtained from Obama biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow.
“In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life,” Obama wrote to McNear, according to the NYP. “You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination.”
https://ijr.com/obama-thinks-every-male-friend-group-should-have-a-gay-buddy/
Obama made the claim on his wife Michelle Obama’s “IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson,” during an episode in which the couple also refuted divorce rumors. The former president seemed to argue that having a gay friend was crucial to create an inclusive community.
“One of the most valuable things I learned as a guy was I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren’t out a lot — who became one of my favorite professors — and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was ignorant,” the former president said. “You need that! To show empathy and kindness.”
“And by the way, you need that person in your friend group so that if you then have a boy who is gay or non-binary or what have you, they have somebody that they can go, ‘Okay, I’m not alone in this,’ right?” he added. “So that, I think, is — creating that community — I know it’s corny, but that’s what they need.”
The former president, when he was 21-years-old, wrote to his ex-girlfriend Alex McNear that he “make[s] love to men daily, but in the imagination,” according to a letter the New York Post obtained from Obama biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow.
“In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life,” Obama wrote to McNear, according to the NYP. “You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination.”
https://ijr.com/obama-thinks-every-male-friend-group-should-have-a-gay-buddy/
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