Twitter
Facebook
Obama and gay marriage on Newsweek cover
President Barack Obama’s public embrace of same-sex marriage last week in an interview with ABC News has resulted in a cool New Yorker cover and now this cool Newsweek cover has been unveiled.
Andrew Sullivan’s article inside is a must-read.
Here is an excerpt:
The interview, by coincidence, came the day after North Carolina voted emphatically to ban all rights for gay couples in the state constitution. For gay Americans and their families, the emotional darkness of Tuesday night became a canvas on which Obama could paint a widening dawn. But I didn’t expect it. Like many others, I braced myself for disappointment. And yet when I watched the interview, the tears came flooding down. The moment reminded me of my own wedding day. I had figured it out in my head, but not my heart. And I was utterly unprepared for how psychologically transformative the moment would be. To have the president of the United States affirm my humanity—and the humanity of all gay Americans—was, unexpectedly, a watershed. He shifted the mainstream in one interview.
Click HERE to read the rest of Sullivan’s piece.
Comments
(All comments are reviewed before being published, and I review submissions several times per day.)
VDUFFORD says:
I wish I could agree with the way the cover was executed…I hated it!
Tina brown should have known this would have been more effective on many levels if executed in Illustration by an Illustrator such as Brad Holland, Anita Kunz or Mel Odom would have done something more effective with this SO important and historic cover.
It looked cheap and obvious a photoshop solution to a complex issue.The rainbow hallo thing may have worked if executed with some real thought,intelligence and style .
Illustrator Mel Odom could have pulled this off and made it really memorable. As this was a historic moment for both the President Obama and the LGBT community.
I served my time as an Illustrator and would have loved to have taken a shot at this cover!