在一同刊发的采访中，奥巴马表示，在记忆中，自己碰到的第一个公开同性恋者身份的人是一位大学教授。在男女同性恋学生心中，他在校园里是一个励志人物。

In the accompanying interview Obama said that the first openly gay person he remembered meeting was a college professor who was an inspirational figure on campus for gay and lesbian students.

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甚至认为禁止同性恋入伍不公平的人也因认为国家顶级的法律学校不鼓励学生效忠国家而对其怒目相向。

Even people who think the ban on gays in uniform is unjust are affronted that the nation’s top law school should actively discourage its students from serving their country.

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晚年，他曾心生悔意地告诫学生：“如果你们打定主意要让父母失望，不必为成为同性恋而鼓足勇气，去从事艺术好了。”

In later years he ruefully advised his students: "If you really want to disappoint your parents, and don't have the nerve to be gay, go into the arts."

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Then we're going to talk exclusively about how we think about other people and then we'll talk about how we think about groups like Harvard students or gay people or black people.

然后我们会专门讲,我们对他人的看法,然后我们会讲我们对群体的看法,例如哈佛学生，同性恋者，黑人。

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