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While the jury is still out on whether or not President Obama will keep his promise to lift the ban on gays serving openly in the military, he has to date done more to help the lives of thousands of LGBTQ Americans than all other U.S. presidents combined. As of now, President Obama has signed a gay-inclusive hate crimes bill into law and ordered all hospitals receiving taxpayer money to allow same-sex partners the right to visit their loved ones in the hospital. This portrait was created from photographs taken by artist Christopher Oakley at an October 2008 campaign rally in Asheville, NC. |
