In the 1980s, I saw the cross-cutting cleavages. Such is the discourse of our current run-and-gun, shoot-first, TwitbookIstaTikTok social media era.īut, I’d like to ask most of us who grew up in the 1970s, or in my case those confusing 1980s where androgyny, gender and homophobia met at some awkward intersection and the letters “A-I-D-S” added a large spectre of fear, a question: Were any of us without sin? Square jaw. Others may use this to further demonize the former President or try to diminish his accomplishments. Now they are definitely going to be those who will say that Obama may get a “woke pass” because of these revelations.
“Like many teenage boys in those years, my friends and I sometimes threw around words like ‘fag’ or ‘gay’ at each other as casual put-downs – callow attempts to fortify our masculinity and hide our insecurities.” - quote from A Promised Land A man who became the most forward-thinking chief executive on LGBTQ issues in our nation’s history wrote candidly:
