Sohale Siddiqi was Obama's gay roommate…according to these articles…
"I saw a transformation in the Barry I had met in Occidental," Siddiqi recalls about Obama's New York years. "He got very serious and less lighthearted, and our conversations were more about serious things."
https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-frontline-interview-sohale-siddiqi/
""They had an odd-couple relationship," says Razaq, a reporter for the London Evening Standard, showing me a picture of the pair sprawled on a mustard yellow sofa, a leather-jacketed and polo-sweatered Obama kicking back with an impressively moustached, skinny Pakistani. In the play, Siddiqi has been renamed Salim "Sal" Maqbool; in Obama's 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, he was recreated as a composite character named Sadik, mentioned in only a few pages."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/03/barack-obama-wild-drugtaking-roommate