There was once a time when President Barack Obama used homophobic slurs as a teenager, a choice that he is now “profoundly ashamed” of.
The former President made this surprising admission in A Promised Land, his new memoir, which hit shelves on Wednesday, November 17.
In the book, Barack is honest about his how his LGBTQ views have changed over the years, admitting that his “attitudes toward gays, lesbians, and transgender people hadn’t always been particularly enlightened” in the years before he entered politics.
It took going to college to change his perspective. Barack reveals that, as a teenager, he and his friends “sometimes threw around” homophobic slurs at each other as “casual put-downs—callow attempts to fortify our masculinity and
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