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After nearly four years in office, many Americans still express 
frustration that much about Barack Obama remains a mystery as 
establishment media remain incurious about the Democratic 
president, while seemingly ready to dispatch crack investigative 
teams at a moment�s notice to probe into the personal lives of 
Republican figures such as Sarah Palin. Largely ignored in 2008 
was research by the Hillary Clinton campaign based on contacts 
developed with members of the church Obama attended for two 
decades, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. This is the 
first of a series of articles WND has developed from months of 
in-person interviews with church members who have known Barack 
and Michelle Obama over many years. The sources requested that 
their identities not be published because they believe their 
disclosures would put their security at risk.

NEW YORK � Ten years ago, the New York Times reported on a 
growing underground subculture in the black community known as 
Down Low, comprised largely of men who secretly engage in 
homosexual activity while living �straight� lives in public.

It�s within that subtext that opposition researchers for Hillary 
Clinton�s 2008 presidential campaign began investigating rumors 
that Rev. Jeremiah Wright was running a �matchmaking service� 
for members of his Trinity United Church of Christ known as the 
Down Low Club, which included Barack Obama.

Over the past several months, WND investigators have interviewed 
a number of members of the church who claim the president 
benefited from Wright�s efforts to help black men who engage in 
homosexual activity appear respectable in black society by 
finding them a wife.

The 2003 New York Times story, �Double Lives on the Down Low,� 
said that though many black men reject �a gay culture they 
perceive as white and effeminate,� they �have settled on a new 
identity, with its own vocabulary and customs and its own name: 
Down Low.�

The Times said that while �there are black men who are openly 
gay, it seems that the majority of those having sex with men 
still lead secret lives, products of a black culture that deems 
masculinity and fatherhood as a black man�s primary 
responsibility � and homosexuality as a white man�s perversion.�

The Down Low Club at Trinity �doesn�t have meetings, and it 
isn�t like the Rotary Club,� a source identified for this 
article as �Carolyn� explained to a WND investigator in Chicago.

�It was more that Wright served as a matchmaker,� said Carolyn, 
a 20-year member of Trinity who has played a role in church 
administration and knows the Obamas personally.

�He kept his eye on the young guys coming up in Trinity,� she 
said, �and if he spotted someone that acted or looked gay, then 
Wright would give them kind of a guidance counselor-type 
direction on how to keep down low � how to do the things they 
wanted to do, but then also getting married and looking 
�respectable� � being part of black society.�

To Trinity insiders, the Down Low Club was simply known as �the 
program.�

�That�s the terminology. At Trinity, you�re urged to �get with 
the program,�� explained a male beneficiary of the Down Low 
Club. �What that means is it�s OK to go ahead and have sex with 
men, just as long as you �get with the program� and marry a 
woman, somebody no straight guy would want to marry.�

The wife, the Down Low Club member explained, is �your �beard,� 
your cover � so you can look like you�re living a straight life, 
even though you�re not.�

The male source was a �computer consultant� who claims not to 
know �scratch� about computers. But �getting with the program� 
at Trinity meant he could keep living a �gay� life and receive 
lots of computer consulting work thrown his way by Trinity, as 
long as he was willing to marry an unattractive woman who 
otherwise might have ended up a lonely spinster with no means to 
provide for living.

Carolyn explained that for many black families, attending 
Trinity was a way out of poverty.

�Trinity was a chance to network,� she said. �The stuff preached 
was hateful, but about 70 percent of those who go there ignore 
the radical rhetoric and just trying to get ahead.�

Carolyn said Trinity �helped a lot of blacks get successful and 
connected.�

�That�s what Wright did for Obama,� she claimed. �He connected 
Obama in the community, and he helped Obama hide his 
homosexuality.�

Openly homosexual author and commentator Keith Boykin, a former 
White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, mentions Obama�s 
former pastor, Wright, on pages 264-265 of his 2005 book �Beyond 
the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America.� While 
Boykin doesn�t refer to the Down Low Club by name, he regards 
Wright as among a small group of ministers who are �coming to 
grips with sexuality and opening up a dialogue with 
heterosexuals, homosexuals, and bisexuals in the pews.�

Chicago-based author, businessman, speaker and HIV/AIDS activist 
J.L. King wrote a controversial book in 2005 called �On the Down 
Low: A Journey into the Lives of �Straight� Black Men who Sleep 
with Men.�

He was a guest on Oprah Winfrey�s Chicago-based TV show in 2004, 
which described him this way: �J.L. King had a life most would 
envy. He married his high school sweetheart, had two healthy 
children and was on the fast track to success. But, unbeknownst 
to his family and friends, he had a dark secret�he was living on 
the down low.�

Remember the choir director

Carolyn and the other members of Trinity who provided statements 
corroborating her testimony were insistent that WND conceal 
their identities as a condition of being interviewed.

�I�m still scared to discuss any of this,� Carolyn said.

�At Trinity, if you even hint at talking about Obama being gay, 
you are reminded of our dear departed choir director,� she said. 
�He was killed, and it wasn�t a robbery. The Christmas presents 
weren�t touched. The TV was not taken, nothing in the apartment 
was missing.�

Carolyn�s reference was to Donald Young, the 47-year-old 
homosexual choirmaster at Trinity who died of multiple gunshot 
wounds in his Chicago apartment Dec. 24, 2007.

Young�s murder was preceded Nov. 17, 2007, with the execution-
style murder of 25-year-old Larry Bland, another black gay 
member of Trinity United. He also was murdered in his home, 
dying of multiple gunshot wounds, according to his death 
certificate.

Just two days after the murder of Young, a third openly �gay� 
member of Wright�s church, Nate Spencer, reportedly died of 
septicemia, pneumonia and AIDS.

Sensational charges

As WND reported last month, a prominent member of Chicago�s 
homosexual community claims Obama�s participation in the �gay� 
bar and bathhouse scene was so well known that many who were 
aware of his lifestyle were shocked when he ran for president 
and finally won the White House.

In April, WND reported a federal judge dismissed a libel case 
against Larry Sinclair, a homosexual who claimed Obama�s 2008 
presidential campaign had paid to rig a polygraph test regarding 
Sinclair�s sensational charge that he had sex and used cocaine 
twice with Obama while Obama was an Illinois state senator. 
Sinclair tells his story in �Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: 
Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder.�

WND also reported former radical activist John Drew has said 
that when he met Obama when Obama was a student at Occidental 
College, he thought Obama and his then-Pakistani roommate were 
�gay� lovers.

In addition, rumors have swirled around Obama�s relationship 
with his personal aide and former �body man,� Reggie Love, who 
resurfaced on the eve of the Republican National Convention to 
support his old boss. Love resigned from the White House in 
November 2011 after compromising photographs of him as a college 
student received wide circulation.

WND also has documented in two separate articles, here and here, 
that Obama wore a gold band on his wedding ring finger from the 
time he attended Occidental College through his student days at 
Harvard Law School.

Shocking phone call

Sinclair gave an affidavit to the Chicago Police Department 
regarding contacts he says he had with Young just prior to 
Young�s murder.

According to Sinclair�s affidavit, published in its entirety 
beginning on page 56 of his book, he contacted Obama�s 
presidential campaign in September 2007. Sinclair says he 
requested that Obama correct claims he made about when he 
stopped abusing drugs to reflect use of crack cocaine during 
their sex encounters in November 1999.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama had stated famously 
he stopped using marijuana and cocaine in college, implying his 
drug abuse ended when he had completed his first two years of 
college at Occidental in Los Angeles.

Sinclair explained that when he made contact with the Obama 
campaign in September 2007, he provided callback numbers, in 
case the campaign wanted to get in touch with him.

Then, in late September or early October 2007, as Sinclair 
stated in his affidavit, he received a call from a male 
identifying himself as �Mr. Young,� who stated he was responding 
to calls Sinclair had made to the Obama campaign.

�This first call shocked me in that this �Mr. Young� asked me 
why I had not asked Senator Obama to disclose sexual encounters 
I had with Mr. Obama in 1999,� Sinclair�s affidavit reads. �I 
was shocked as I had never mentioned to the campaign or anyone 
working for the campaign any sexual encounters. The call ended 
with Mr. Young stating I would hear from someone in a few days.�

Sinclair claims it was in a second call from �Mr. Young� that he 
began to suspect the man had been sexually intimate with Obama. 
Sinclair said he drew that conclusion �by the tone of the 
conversation� and by its �sexual nature.�

In late October 2007, Sinclair received a text message from �Mr. 
Young� stating Young �was intimately involved with Senator Obama 
and that Obama was discussing with him and his pastor how to 
publicly acknowledge Senator Obama�s drug use in 1999.�

The text message also indicated Obama wanted to make sure 
Sinclair had not discussed the sexual encounters or drug use 
with any media at that time.

In November 2007, Sinclair received a second text message from 
�Mr. Young,� advising him that Obama would publicly correct his 
statement as to the last time he used drugs and that Sinclair 
did not need to concern himself with publicly disclosing it.

Then, in early December 2007, Sinclair received his last contact 
with �Mr. Young,� with Young making it clear Obama had no 
intention of acknowledging publicly his use of crack cocaine in 
1999.

After Young was murdered, Sinclair had several contacts with 
Young�s family.

�In several telephone conversations with his sisters, brothers, 
nieces and others, I was reassured that the family of Donald 
Young believed he was murdered to protect Barack Obama,� 
Sinclair wrote. �It also became clear, right from the start that 
members of the Young family were truly fearful of speaking out 
publicly, to this day, they fear for their own personal, 
physical safety.�

On July 17, 2010, the supermarket tabloid The Globe published an 
interview with Norma Jean Young, the 76-year-old mother of the 
slain choirmaster, in which she expressed fear that her son was 
murdered to protect Obama.

�What was the cause of my son�s death?� Norma Jean Young asked 
in the Globe interview. �I�m very suspicious that it may have 
been related to Obama. Donald and Obama were very close friends. 
Whatever went on with this is very private. I am suspicious of a 
cover-up!�

She insisted there is �more to the story,� calling on Chicago 
police to ramp up their investigation.

�I do believe they are shielding somebody or protecting 
somebody,� she told The Globe.

Asked who would benefit from a cover-up, Norma Jean Young said, 
�It could be anyone, including Obama.�

Shortly after the Globe interview was published, Norma Jean 
Young left Chicago and lived for a while in Peoria, Ill. Her 
current residence is unknown.

The murders of Donald Young and Larry Bland remain today open 
cases of unsolved homicide.

SOUND OFF ON CLAIMS FROM CHICAGO THAT OBAMA HAS HOMOSEXUAL PAST

Thank you WND for having the courage to pursue stories like this 
when no one else will (54%, 698 Votes)
It isn't shocking. He was mentored by bisexual, communist 
pornographer Frank Marshall Davis (17%, 224 Votes)
Obama has proven to be perverse in every other way. Why would it 
be surprising for his sexuality to be perverse? (16%, 209 Votes)
It's no more bizarre than having a president with a Marxist and 
Muslim background (9%, 123 Votes)
I just don't know what to think (1%, 18 Votes)
Other (1%, 10 Votes)
I love it! This is the kind of unhinged, perverse, yellow 
journalism that will help re-elect Obama (1%, 7 Votes)
You can't believe what anybody in Chicago says (0%, 6 Votes)
Don't be ridiculous. This man's been married happily for 20 
years today with 2 beautiful children (0%, 3 Votes)
I'm shocked WND would even dignify such an absurd and offensive 
accusation (0%, 3 Votes)
Why is he hiding? He should just come out of the closet (1%, 2 
Votes)

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