Former President Barack Obama claimed to have an “androgynous” mind and bragged about “making love to men daily, but in my imagination,” in a 1982 letter to an ex-girlfriend obtained by The New York Post.
Barack wrote to Alex McNear in November 1982: “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. You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination.
“My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men. But, in returning to the body, I see that I have been made a man, and physically in life, I choose to accept that contingency.”
McNear dated Obama during his year at Occidental College in Los Angeles,
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, David Garrow, blew the whistle on this shocking story in his book, “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama” in 2017.
The book was forgotten in the media frenzy over the Trump administration, but what he said in a recent interview with Tablet turned heads.
Q: How did you get those three women, Obama’s college and law school girlfriends, to give you Obama’s love letters to them, and what was the most surprising thing you found in them?
A: With Alex [McNear, Obama’s girlfriend at Occidental College], I think she wanted to have her role known. So when Alex showed me the letters from Barack, she redacted one paragraph in one of them and just said, “It’s about homosexuality.”
And then sometime, right about when Rising Star came out, Alex indirectly sold the original, sold those letters, and they ended up at Emory.
So Emory put out a press release saying, “We’ve gotten these rare letters by Barack Obama.”
And no mention of this paragraph that was too sensitive. None of the papers mentioned it. Emory didn’t mention it.
So I sent one of my oldest friends, Harvey Klehr—Harvey was the guy going back to 1980 when I was trying to solve who fingered [Dr. King’s close advisor] Stanley Levison, how was it known to the FBI that Stan had been.
Q: A communist.
A: Yes. So I emailed Harvey, said, “Go to the Emory archives.”
He’s spent his whole life at Emory, but they won’t let him take pictures.
So Harvey has to sit there with a pencil and copy out the graph where Barack writes to Alex about how he repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men.
Now, Genevieve [Cook, Obama’s girlfriend in New York], Genevieve’s just a free spirit.
I went to Australia to meet her. And she had had a—let me think about how best to say this—she had a subsequent relationship there in Australia that was troubled, and so she was living in a very low-visibility context.
So we drove down and stayed with her and her partner for three days in the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne. And she was keeping a journal during her relationship with Barack, so she had all sorts of stuff.
Sheila, though, it’s unclear.
Q: What became of Alex?
A: Alex, I haven’t heard from in about two years. There’s a wonderful woman named Margot Mifflin who was part of that whole crowd, who teaches journalism at CUNY.
Margot and her husband, they’re sort of the most active of the Oxy [Occidental] crowd.
Now, Alex was living in … I’m not very good on the Hamptons, is Sag Harbor right? Her mother was alive then. I think when she sold the letters to Emory, her excuse was that she needed money to help out with the mother’s medical conditions.
”I have a very clear memory of Alex being embarrassed about selling the letters.
But I can’t line up chronologically when that was in time related to when Barack starts calling Sheila again.
Q:Do you think that he starts calling her again because he needs to keep her close because she knows too much of his story, and she becomes a wild card if she no longer feels a tie to him?
A: I think that’s accurate.
Obama ‘as insecure as Trump,’ claims biographer whose book revealed ex-prez ‘repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men’ https://t.co/BjdXjsPyiK pic.twitter.com/J5WV1BdvkZ
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