'I Make Love To Men Daily, But In The Imagination': Details of Obama's Private Letter to Ex-Girlfriend Revealed

Obama, 21 at the time, wrote to ex-girlfriend Alex McNear in November 1982 that his "mind is androgynous," according to the letter the NYP obtained from Obama biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow. Garrow recently discussed his 2017 biography on the former president, "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama," in an a Tablet Magazine interview, where he revealed how he obtained the letter.

"In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life," Obama wrote to McNear, according to the NYP. "You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination."

"My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men. But, in returning to the body, I see that I have been made a man, and physically in life, I choose to accept that contingency," the letter says, per the NYP.

McNear initially redacted one paragraph of the letter "about homosexuality" when she gave it to Garrow for use in the book, though she sold the original letter around the time of the biography's publication, enabling it to end up at Emory University, Garrow told Tablet in the Aug. 2 interview.