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President Barack Obama has landed on the cover of OUT magazine’s OUT100 issue as “Ally of the Year.” Obama is the first sitting president to be photographed for the cover of an LGBT publication.
The President sat down for an interview with the magazine, in which he touched on various influences on his relationship with the LGBT community, as well as his administration’s accomplishments on LGBT rights and how watching Sasha and Malia has shown him how attitudes have changed toward homosexuality across generations. Obama said his mother’s teachings that “every person was of equal worth” inspired his interest in focusing on LGBT rights during his administration, as well as his openly gay Occidental professor and eventual friend, Dr. Lawrence Goldyn.
The President said he knew there had been a remarkable “attitude shift in hearts and minds across America” even before the Supreme Court decision that the right to marry should be granted to LGBT, citing the generational difference he sees with his own daughters and their friends.
The President said “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 couple should be treated any differently. That’s powerful,” adding that what he called “harmful practices” for young people like conversion therapy should be ended.
During Obama’s 2008 campaign, he said he did not support same-sex marriage, a stance which he reiterated on various occasions until 2012, despite saying he supported it in 1996 when he was a state Senate candidate.
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