Lyndon B Johnson served as the 37th President from 1963 to 1969 – amid showdowns over government persecutions of gay people. The late Joan Rivers added fuel to the conspiracy theory fire, when she joked of a gay President: “We already have it with Obama… you know Michelle is a tr***y”.Īlex Jones of Info Wars took the joke to heart – as did Pastor James David Manning, who prophesied that Vladimir Putin would ‘out’ Obama. Not every rumour about a President’s sex life is credible. The 44th and current President is a strong supporter of LGBT equality – and his emphatic support has sparked speculation among homophobes.Ĭonspiracy theorist Wayne Marsden claimed previously that Obama “used basketball pick-up games to pick up men”, and had “homosexual trysts with Representative Artur Davis, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Senate majority leader Bill Frist”.
