"He very much was within the gay community, which there is a thriving, even back then, a thriving gay community in that area, particularly the Diamonhead area," Pope went on to say. "We knew Barry, just as common knowledge that girls were never anything that he was ever interested in. As a young teenager, you know as a young girl, it was clear that he was strictly into men."
This is not the first time we have heard this type of rumor about President Obama's sexuality. Larry Sinclair, who says he met Obama in Chicago while he was serving in the Illinois legislature, claimed before the 2008 election that he had a sexual relationship with Obama, and that they did cocaine together. That story has largely been kept out of the mainstream media.