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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the 2012 White House Correspondents Association Dinner held at a hotel in Washington, DC, USA, on 28 April 2012.
Monday, May. 14, 2012

Open quoteHe had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family.Close quote

  • ANDREW SULLIVAN,
  • a journalist giving a statement about his piece in Newsweek, the cover of which features Barack Obama with a rainbow halo, arguing that there are similarities between the president and the homosexual community
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