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• WAS RICHARD NIXON GAY?LET’S LOOK AT THE 37TH PRINT’S SEXUALYJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·7 M READ·MAY 1, 2020--3SHAREAT A WASHGTON D.C. DNER PARTY, A JOURNALIST DROPPED A FORK ON THE FLOOR. PICKG UP, SHE NOTICED THAT PRINT NIXON AND HIS CLOSE IEND BEBE REBOZO WERE HOLDG HANDS UNR THE TABLE.THE SCENE IS FOUND ALL THE BGRAPHI—WH A LOT OF OTHER TALK ABOUT THE TWO MEN. THEY ME ACROSS, AS AN AI TO LYNDON JOHNSON NOT, “CLOSE LIKE LOVERS.” BUT STILL SEEMS CREDIBLE TO THK THAT RICHARD NIXON WAS GAY.RICHARD NIXON (EDED)WASHGTON MONORED THE SUATN QUIETLY.
• RUMORS SURFACE THAT NIXON WAS GAY
• OPN WAS NIXON GAY? NO, BUT THAT DON’T STOP THE MOR L.
• RICHARD NIXON ARGU GAYS ARE 'BORN THAT WAY' IN NEWLY-RELEASED WHE HOE TAP
• DID NIXON HAVE A GAY AFFAIR WH A MAFIA FIXER? FET WATERGATE. A NEW BOOK CLAIMS AMERI'S MOST RPT PRINT HID A FAR MORE PERSONAL SNDAL...
• ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
• RICHARD NIXON'S ANTI-GAY RANT: FORMER PRINT SLAMS TV SERI, ROMAN RULERS IN 1970S AUD
• CYNTHIA NIXON: I'M GAY BY CHOICE
• WERE LLN AND NIXON GAY? THE ‘HISTORY’ BOOK THAT IS DIVIDG AMERI
• NEW BOOK SUGGTS RICHARD NIXON HAD A GAY AFFAIR
• DID RICHARD NIXON HAVE A GAY AFFAIR WH A KEY BISYNE BSMAN?
• BOOK REVEALS NIXON'S FEELGS ON GAY PEOPLE, WOMEN, KISSGER
• WE HAVE HAD A GAY PRINT, JT NOT NIXON

WAS RICHARD NIXON GAY?LET’S LOOK AT THE 37TH PRINT’S SEXUALYJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·7 M READ·MAY 1, 2020--3SHAREAT A WASHGTON D.C. DNER PARTY, A JOURNALIST DROPPED A FORK ON THE FLOOR. PICKG UP, SHE NOTICED THAT PRINT NIXON AND HIS CLOSE IEND BEBE REBOZO WERE HOLDG HANDS UNR THE TABLE.THE SCENE IS FOUND ALL THE BGRAPHI—WH A LOT OF OTHER TALK ABOUT THE TWO MEN. THEY ME ACROSS, AS AN AI TO LYNDON JOHNSON NOT, “CLOSE LIKE LOVERS.” BUT STILL SEEMS CREDIBLE TO THK THAT RICHARD NIXON WAS GAY.RICHARD NIXON (EDED)WASHGTON MONORED THE SUATN QUIETLY.

Now the gay mors are beg draped over Richard Nixon, the dark, homophobic two-term print doomed by the 1972 Watergate the upg b Nixon's Darkt Secrets, former UPI Whe Hoe reporter Don Fulsom, armed wh new eyewns terviews and documents, suggts a shockg "homosexual nature" the relatnship between Nixon and his bt iend Bebe Rebozo, the print's alleged mob bagman who was at Nixon's si when he there is no evince of any sexual enunters—as wh the Hoover mors played out the new Clt Eastwood movie J. For example, Fulsom reveals three stanc of the two men holdg hands, sometim public, one time unr a dner table, somethg Nixon did rarely, if ever, wh wife quot a former Time reporter who scribed a long hand-holdg terlu that led her to scribe the relatnship as "reprsed homosexualy.

RUMORS SURFACE THAT NIXON WAS GAY

Acrdg to a book to be released Tuday, "Nixon's Darkt Secrets, " the former print and his bt iend, Charl "Bebe" Rebozo, had a relatnship of a "possibly homosexual nature.

When I asked Fulsom about the media reactn, he said that acunts scribg his "explosive revelatns" that Nixon "rried on a sizzlg gay love affair" exaggerated his fdgs, and he admted that, whout any photos showg Nixon and Rebozo flagrante licto, there is "no evince actually happened. )Although the Hoover--drag mor has been wily discreded, has nohels entered popular folklore — poetic retributn agast the homophobic G-man whose sex-filled dossiers terrorized Washgton for half a century. It is no accint that the recent enzy of historil gay "outgs" — whether of Lln or Hoover or Nixon — is takg place when homosexualy has e out of the closet and same-sex marriage has bee a proment part of the legislative agenda many plac.

OPN WAS NIXON GAY? NO, BUT THAT DON’T STOP THE MOR L.

"Hoover thought many left-leang Amerins posed a threat to the natn, and he thought the same of gay people -- even though there's reason to believe Hoover was gay himself and a long-term relatnship wh ai Cly Tolson. "Many loyal Amerins, by reason of stabily, alholism, homosexualy, or prev tennci to associate wh Communist-ont groups, are untentnally secury risks, " Ike himself wrote, although he also admted feelg guilty over his treatment of Vannberg.

Civil Service Commissn lifted the orr 1975, and the Department of Defense, which had ed to ny secury clearanc to gays and lbians, gradually ceased s "tensive qutng of gays...

RICHARD NIXON ARGU GAYS ARE 'BORN THAT WAY' IN NEWLY-RELEASED WHE HOE TAP

JohnsonKennedy and Johnson may have never thought their civil rights law would be terpreted as protectg LGBT people, but Kennedy, at least, would probably approve -- his bt iend was a gay man, Lem Billgs.

DID NIXON HAVE A GAY AFFAIR WH A MAFIA FIXER? FET WATERGATE. A NEW BOOK CLAIMS AMERI'S MOST RPT PRINT HID A FAR MORE PERSONAL SNDAL...

Also, the EEOC has held that Tle VII's protectns extend to discrimatn agast gay, lbian, and bisexual employe, if the discrimatn aris out of genr stereotyp.

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

" Its Office of Civil Rights will therefore vtigate such claims, offerg a means of relief for transgenr and, to some extent, lbian, gay, and bisexual CarterCarter, who intifi as a "born-aga" Christian, is proof that ep relig fah need not go hand hand wh homophobia.

RICHARD NIXON'S ANTI-GAY RANT: FORMER PRINT SLAMS TV SERI, ROMAN RULERS IN 1970S AUD

In 1976, as a ndidate, he had ma clear he would sign a gay rights bill, and 1977, durg his princy, the first-ever gay and lbian legatn vised the Whe Hoe to discs policy issu wh admistratn officials.

He has famoly said, "I never knew of any word or actn of J Christ that discrimated agast anyone, " and has endorsed marriage ReaganReagan's greatt effect on the gay populatn was undoubtedly his rponse, or lack thereof, to a disease that took the liv of many gay men. Although the former actor was apparently personally fortable wh gay people, he drew much of his support om the antigay relig right, such as Jerry Falwell and his so-lled Moral Majory, and officials his admistratn clud such notor homophob as Gary Ber and Pat Buchanan.

CYNTHIA NIXON: I'M GAY BY CHOICE

"In 2012, Nixon, who had intified as bisexual, went on the rerd and nfirmed that bisexualy is not a choice after takg a lot of heat for sayg was her choice to be a "gay" relatnship wh Maroni. I believe we all have different ways we me to the gay muny and we n't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed to one cultural narrative which n be unclive and disempowerg. Nero, of urse, was, a public way, wh a boy then adds, "By God, I am not gog to have a suatn where we pass along a law ditg, 'Well, now, kids, jt go out and be gay.

In that clip, Nixon acced the popular TV seri "All the Fay" of "glorifyg homosexualy, " before notg, "I don't even want to shake hands wh anybody om San Francis! Still, 2011, Don Fulsom's book Nixon's Darkt Secrets: The Insi Story of Ameri's Most Troubled Print, claimed that the former print had engaged a gay affair wh Charl "Bebe" Rebozo, a Florida banker apparently wh ti to the You GoAbraham Llnvia WikiCommonsThe 16th print of the Uned Stat has long been mored to have been gay.

WERE LLN AND NIXON GAY? THE ‘HISTORY’ BOOK THAT IS DIVIDG AMERI

Richard NixonAP UPI Whe Hoe reporter Don Fulsom, who penned the new memoir Nixon's Darkt Secrets, suggted a "homosexual nature" the relatnship between the former U.

" Barack ObamaBRENDAN SMIALOWSKI via Getty ImagHilary CltonSean Gardner via Getty ImagHistorilly anti-gay pund Bryan Fischer ma ments on his rad show last September that Hilary Clton uld be "our first lbian print.

NEW BOOK SUGGTS RICHARD NIXON HAD A GAY AFFAIR

Loewen wrote about Buchanan's alleged homosexualy his book Li Across he stated, "I'm sure that Buchanan was gay, " and poted to Buchanan's relatnship wh William Ruf Kg, a senator om Washgton Bla add: Loewen said ntemporary rerds dite the two men were separable, and wags would refer to them as "the Siame tws.

DID RICHARD NIXON HAVE A GAY AFFAIR WH A KEY BISYNE BSMAN?

Print had a ser drk problem, beat his wife and — by the time he was gurated 1969 — had lks gog back two s to the Mafia, cludg wh New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello, then Ameri's most powerful the most extraordary claim is that the homophobic Nixon may have been gay himself.

If te, would provi a fascatg sight to the motivatn and behavur of a notorly secretive argu that Nixon may have had an affair wh his bt iend and nfidant, a Mafia‑nnected Florida wheeler-aler named Charl 'Bebe' Rebozo who was even more crooked than book, Nixon's Darkt Secrets, is out next month — by cince at the same time as the UK release of a new film directed by Clt Eastwood about another supposed closet gay among Washgton's 20th-century hard men. 'They held hands on ocsn, and both men had problems wh nsummatg physil relatnships wh women, but we found no evince that Nixon was actively homosexual, ' Summers told me this week. You so obvly nnot be gay, was her implitn, bee this is good was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop s unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular unrstandg of orientatn was that was somethg you were born wh, somethg you uldn’t change.

BOOK REVEALS NIXON'S FEELGS ON GAY PEOPLE, WOMEN, KISSGER

But what feels most accurate to say is that I’m gay – but I wasn’t born this people may fd their sir changg directn - and n't jt be explaed as experimentatn (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)In 1977, jt over 10% of Amerins thought gayns was somethg you were born wh, acrdg to Gallup. Throughout the same perd, the number of Amerins who believe homosexualy is “due to someone’s upbrgg/environment” fell om jt unr 60% to ias reached cril mass pop culture, first wh Lady Gaga’s 2011 Born This Way and one year later wh Macklemore’s Same Love, the chos of which has a gay person sgg “I n’t change even if I tried, even if I wanted to. ” Around the same time, the Human Rights Campaign clared unequivolly that “Beg gay is not a choice, ” and to claim that is “giv unwarranted crence to roundly disproven practic such as nversn or reparative therapy.

WE HAVE HAD A GAY PRINT, JT NOT NIXON

”People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backwardAs Jane Ward not Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, what’s tertg about many of the claims is how transparent their speakers are wh their polil motivatns. “Such statements, ” she wr, “fe blogil acunts wh an obligatory and nearly ercive force, suggtg that anyone who scrib homosexual sire as a choice or social nstctn is playg to the hands of the enemy.