By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Newsweek on Sunday released the cover of its latest issue, a vibrant spread commemorating President Barack Obama's support of same-sex marriage, picturing the commander-in-chief with a rainbow-colored halo accompanied by the controversial headline, "The First Gay President."

In the cover story, author and gay activist Andrew Sullivan says president's multi-cultural heritage provided a common ground with the gay community, which likely helped him come to his stance on same-sex marriage.

“He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family," Sullivan said, "just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family."

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, the commander-in-chief Wednesday became the first sitting president to declare his support for gay marriage, telling ABC News it's "important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should