7 Thgs to Know about Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s next PM, Who Is Half Indian & Openly Gay – VAGABOMB

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• IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
• LEO VARADKAR: GAY, HALF-INDIAN, NSERVATIVE – AND FAVOURE TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR
• AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE
• MAYOR PETE IS HALF RIGHT. THE U.S. DID HAVE A GAY PRINT, BUT HE SUCKED."I WOULD IMAGE WE'VE PROBABLY HAD EXCELLENT PRINTS WHO WERE GAY," SAID PETER BUTTIGIEG THIS WEEK. "DOUGHFACE" JAM BUCHANAN WASN'T ONE OF THEM. {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEJUNE 18, 2019/3:45 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:5871PX;WIDTH:4028PX;}BETTMANN / GETTY(ORIGAL CAPTN) HON. JAM BUCHANAN, 15TH PRINT OF THE UNED STAT, 1857-61. UNDATED PHOTOGRAPH.BY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEJUNE 18, 2019 / 3:45 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"MAYOR PETE IS HALF RIGHT. THE U.S. DID HAVE A GAY PRINT, BUT HE SUCKED.","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-06-18T19:45:04.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-06-18T19:45:04.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"LTER FABIAN BRATHWAE","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOUTH BEND MAYOR AND NOTED HOMOSEXUAL PETE BUTTIGIEG RECENTLY POSED THAT, BASED ON SHEER STATISTICS, AMERI HAS TOTALLY HAD A GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I WOULD IMAGE WE'VE PROBABLY HAD EXCELLENT PRINTS WHO WERE GAY—WE JT DIDN'T KNOW WHICH ON," BUTTIGIEG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE THG IS, WE PROBABLY DO KNOW OF AT LEAST ONE QUEER POTUS, BUT HE'S GENERALLY NSIRED ONE OF THE WORST PRINTS, IF NOT THE WORST, EVER. (THOUGH OUR CURRENT ONE IS GIVG HIM A SER N FOR HIS MONEY.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MEET JAM BUCHANAN: 15TH PRINT OF THE UNED STAT (OM 1857 TO 1861). CONFIRMED BACHELOR. DOUGHFACE.CHARL PHELPS CHG/CLASSICSTOCK/GETTY IMAG1850S PORTRAIT JAMES BUCHANAN 1791-1868 15TH AMERICAN PRESIDENT DEMOCRAT MODERATE BALANCE SLAVERY HOME WHEATON PENNSYLVANIA USA (PHOTO BY CHARL PHELPS CHG/CLASSICSTOCK/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GOOD OL' DOUGHFACE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A DOUGHFACE WAS A POPULAR TERM OF THE ERA FOR A NORTHERN POLICIAN WHO FAVORED SOUTHERN PRCIPL, I.E. SLAVERY. BUCHANAN IS OFTEN BLAMED FOR THE CIVIL WAR DUE TO HIS ACTN THE FACE OF SECSN. EVEN DURG HIS LIFETIME HE HAD TO FEND HIMSELF OM VIC ATTACKS CLAIMG HE WAS RPONSIBLE FOR THE SPLTERG OF THE NATN. THOUGH HE SISTED THAT HE DID THE RIGHT THG TILL THE DAY HE DIED AND THAT HISTORY WOULD ABSOLVE HIM, HISTORY HAS GIVEN THAT NOTN A HARD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUCHANAN, A NSTUTNAL ORIGALIST, BELIEVED THAT THE WHOLE QUTN OF SLAVERY ULD BE SETTLED BY FERRG TO THE JUDGMENT OF THE SUPREME COURT AND S TERPRETATN OF THE CONSTUTN. IN THE SE OF DRED STT V. SANDFORD, THE ENSLAVED STT WAS SUG FOR HIS EEDOM, ARGUG THAT HE HAD LIVED STAT AND TERRORI WHERE SLAVERY WAS ILLEGAL. BUCHANAN HOPED A BROAD SUPREME COURT CISN FAVOR OF KEEPG SLAVERY LEGAL WOULD MATA THE NATNAL PEACE—AS WE KNOW, DIDN'{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BEFORE HE TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE, BUCHANAN PERSUAD A NORTHERN SCOTUS JUDGE AND FELLOW PENNSYLVANIAN TO VOTE WH THE URT'S SOUTHERN MAJORY. TWO DAYS AFTER BUCHANAN'S GURATN, THE SUPREME COURT LED DRED STT V. SANDFORD THAT BLACK PEOPLE "NNOT BE, NOR WERE EVER TEND TO BE, CIZENS" OF THE UNED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH ABRAHAM LLN'S ELECTN 1860, TALK OF SECSN GREW STRONGER, AND BUCHANAN PROVED HIGHLY EFFECTUAL AT STOPPG . HE ANGERED BOTH THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH WH HIS ERTIA AND CISN-MAKG; HE BLAMED NORTHERN ABOLNISTS FOR THE NFLICT AND FEND THE SOUTH AS BEG "JTIFIED," IF NOT LEGALLY ENTLED, TO "REVOLUTNARY RISTANCE."MPI/GETTY IMAG1856: A RTOON SHOWG AMERIN POLICIANS (OM LEFT) STEPHEN A DOUGLAS (1813 -1861), FORMER PRINT FRANKL PIERCE (1804 - 1869), PRINT JAM BUCHANAN (1791 - 1868) AND LEWIS CASS (1782 - 1866) FORCG SLAVERY DOWN THE THROAT OF A EOILER. THE EOILERS WERE OPPOSED TO THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT WHICH EXTEND SLAVERY THROUGHOUT THE WT TERRORI. (PHOTO BY MPI/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUCHANAN, SEND OM RIGHT, "FORCG SLAVERY DOWN THE THROAT OF A EOILER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BY THE TIME LLN TOOK OFFICE 1861, SEVEN STAT HAD SECED. TWO MONTHS AFTER BUCHANAN LEFT THE WHE HOE, THE CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT—SOME EVEN LLED "BUCHANAN'S WAR."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO YEAH, JAM BUCHANAN WAS KDA THE WORST. BUT WHAT MAK HIM GAY? MEET WILLIAM RUF DEVANE KG: 13TH VICE PRINT OF THE UNED STAT (FOR SIX WEEKS). U.S. SENATOR OM ALABAMA. ALLEGED LOVER OF JAM BUCHANAN.PHOTO BY © CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGWILLIAM RUF DE VANE KG (1786-1853) WAS A U.S. SENATOR OM ALABAMA FOR 31 YEARS AND THE MISTER TO FRANCE OM 1844-1846. HE WAS ELECTED AS VICE-PRINT UNR FRANKL PIERCE. HE WAS SWORN CUBA, WHERE HE WAS STAYG HOP OF ALLEVIATG THE TUBERCULOSIS THAT KILLED HIM JT WEEKS LATER. THE ONLY VICE-PRINT EVER SWORN ON FOREIGN SOIL, HE DIED BEFORE HE WAS ABLE TO SERVE. (PHOTO BY © CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WILLIAM R. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SHADY D.C. NTEMPORARI REFERRED TO KG AS "MISS NANCY" AND "AUNT FANCY," AS WELL AS BUCHANAN'S "BETTER HALF," "HIS WIFE," AND "MRS. B." THE TWO WERE SO SEPARABLE THEY WERE KNOWN AROUND TOWN AS THE "SIAME TWS," AND THEY LIVED TOGETHER FOR ABOUT 13 YEARS. BUCHANAN EVEN PLANNED TO N FOR PRINT 1844 WH KG AS HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}INED, KG'S FLUENCE ON BUCHANAN MIGHT EXPLA WHY THE PENNSYLVANIA LAWYER HAD SUCH AN AFFY FOR THE SOUTH. ONE BUCHANAN BGRAPHER NSIRS KG TO BE A POLIL MENTOR WHO LEFT "AN LIBLE IMPRSN ON HIM."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WHAT AN IMPRSN. WRG TO A IEND 1844, BUCHANAN LAMENTED BEG AWAY OM KG:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I AM NOW ‘SOLARY AND ALONE,’ HAVG NO PANN THE HOE WH ME. I HAVE GONE A WOOG TO SEVERAL GENTLEMEN, BUT HAVE NOT SUCCEED WH ANY ONE OF THEM. I FEEL THAT IS NOT GOOD FOR MAN TO BE ALONE; AND SHOULD NOT BE ASTONISHED TO FD MYSELF MARRIED TO SOME OLD MAID WHO N NURSE ME WHEN I AM SICK, PROVI GOOD DNERS FOR ME WHEN I AM WELL, AND NOT EXPECT OM ME ANY VERY ARNT OR ROMANTIC AFFECTN.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KG, FOR HIS PART, WROTE BUCHANAN THAT SAME YEAR THAT HE WAS "SELFISH ENOUGH TO HOPE YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PROCURE AN ASSOCIATE WHO WILL E YOU TO FEEL NO REGRET AT OUR SEPARATN. FOR MYSELF, I SHALL FEEL LONELY THE MIDST OF PARIS, FOR HERE I SHALL HAVE NO FRIEND WH WHOM I SHALL MUNE AS WH MY OWN THOUGHTS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS WOULD BE SUPER CUTE—LIKE, WHO GO "A WOOG" TO GENTLEMEN ANYMORE?—IF BUCHANAN HADN'T BEEN A TERRIBLE AND UNF LEAR WHO REIGNED OVER THE MOST DIFFICULT TIME THE NATN'S HISTORY WHILE DICKMATIZED BY THE SOUTH TO MAKG SOME REAL PISS-POOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE GOOD NEWS? WHILE JAM BUCHANAN IS GENERALLY NSIRED THE WORST PRINT EVER, HIS SUCCSOR IS OFTEN NSIRED THE BT. MUCH LIKE BUCHANAN—AND PRETTY MUCH ANY HISTORIL FIGURE—ABE LLN'S SEXUALY HAS BEEN A TOPIC OF BATE FOR AG. LLN ALSO HAD A SPECIAL MALE IEND WH WHOM HE SHARED CLOSE QUARTERS, JOSHUA FRY SPEED.BY FILSON HISTORIL SOCIETY - LLN LEGENDS BY EDWARD STEERS JR. (UNIVERSY OF KENTUCKY PRS, 2007), PUBLIC DOMA,{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JOSHUA FRY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1837, LLN MOVED TO SPRGFIELD, ILL., TO PURSUE A REER LAW. THERE, HE MET AND BEIEND SPEED; THEY BEME ROOMMAT AND REPORTEDLY SHARED THE SAME BED FOR FOUR YEARS. THAT WAS APPARENTLY SOMETHG MEN DID BACK THE MID-19TH CENTURY SCE SPACE WAS LIMED—OR WHATEVER REASONG HISTORIANS E TO BUNK THE MANY, MANY MORS OF LLN'S PURPORTED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE PRACTICE OF ERASG A PERSON'S QUEERNS, OR THE QUEER PEOPLE THEIR LIV, OM THEIR OFFICIAL HISTORY HAS MA G RETROACTIVE GAYDAR THAT MUCH HARR. AS HAVE SHIFTG VIEWS OF TIMACY AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A 2005 BGRAPHY ON THE 16TH PRINT CLAIMS THAT LLN ALSO HAD AN TIMATE RELATNSHIP WH HIS BODYGUARD, WH WHOM HE ALSO SHARED HIS BED THE ABSENCE OF HIS WIFE, MARY TODD. ALL ALL, LLN MAY HAVE SHARED HIS BED WH 11 DUS THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. WHO'S TO SAY IF HE SLIPPED ANY OF THEM HIS LLN LOG OR VED THEM TO HIS STIC B?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH BUCHANAN, THE EVINCE IS MORE OVERWHELMG. HE NEVER MARRIED AND HAD A LONGSTANDG RELATNSHIP WH THE SAME MAN, AND THEIR RRPONNCE—THAT WHICH WASN'T BURNED BY THEIR RPECTIVE NIEC AFTER THEIR ATHS—SUGGT MORE THAN JT THE UAL CLOSE MALE IENDSHIP OF THE EARLY 1800S.SSPL/GETTY IMAGUNITED STATES - MARCH 29: PHOTOGRAPH OF LLN (1809-1865) WHO WAS THE 16TH PRINT OF THE UNED STAT OF AMERI. HE JOED THE REPUBLIN PARTY 1858 AND WAS ELECTED PRINT TWO YEARS LATER. IN 1863, HE PROCLAIMED THE EMANCIPATN OF ALL SLAV THE SOUTHERN CONFERATE STAT AND LATER THAT YEAR RTATED HIS ANTI-SLAVERY VIEWS THE GETTYSBURG ADDRS. DURG HIS 1864 MPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTN, HE EMBRACED THE ABOLN OF SLAVERY. HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY ACTOR JOHN WILK BOOTH WHILST ATTENDG THE THEATRE 1865. (PHOTO BY SSPL/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ABE LLN, PUTTG THE "SPRG" {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“IN SOME WAYS, THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY WAS MUCH MORE OPEN TOWARDS PHYSIL TOUCH BETWEEN MEN AND EXPRSNS OF LOVE,” HISTORY PROFSOR RACHEL CLEV TOLD TIME THIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LLN'S QUEERNS IS HARR TO P DOWN, PECIALLY WHEN G A RATHER MORN TERPRETATN OF HOMOSEXUALY. AFTER ALL, HOMOSEXUALY AS A TERM DIDN'T EXIST UNTIL 1868, THOUGH AS A NCEPT 'S BEEN AROUND SCE TIME {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I THK THAT THERE WERE ALWAYS GRAY AREAS AND NUANC AND PLENTY OF POSSIBILI FOR MEN THE LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY TO HAVE SEX WH OTHER MEN AND NOT NSIR THEMSELV GAY,” CLEV {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CONSIRG HOW MUCH POLICIANS LOVE TO EQUIVOTE, MAYOR PETE IS PROBABLY/FELY ONTO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
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IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED

The son of an Indian immigrant has ma Irish history by beg the untry’s youngt and first openly gay prime Varadkar, 38, was formally elected taoiseach at a nfirmatn ceremony the Dáil Dubl after he won the Fe Gael party learship earlier this month. Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, beme the first openly gay ndidate the 2020 printial race Wednday, jog an already crowd field of Democratic hopefuls.

“I’m om the Midwt, so the issu of makg sure that we have a posive way forward for workers and fai the dtrial Midwt — this is not theoretil for me, ’s my home, ” Buttigieg Buttigieg were to overe the long odds and bee the Democratic nomee for print, he would be the first openly gay nomee and the first veteran of the Afghanistan War, where he served a tour as a Naval Rerve officer.

“I was well to adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay, ” Buttigieg wrote at the time.

MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT

The son of an Indian immigrant who me out as gay 2015 will be the next Irish prime mister, after he was voted lear of the untry’s ma erng Varadkar’s victory the Fe Gael learship ntt on Friday, which took place after outgog PM Enda Kenny announced his rignatn last month, marks another signifint step forward for equaly the untry, after 2015’s gay marriage well as beg Ireland’s first gay prime mister, Varadkar, 38, will also bee the untry’s youngt lear, and the first om an ethnic mory background. Although Varadkar’s centre-right polics are clearly nservative, he portrays the image of a new, progrsive Ireland, symbolised bt May 2015 when the Republic voted overwhelmgly favour of gay marriage. “I thk ’s really signifint that both his party and the media Ireland foced on his polici, rather than him simply beg a gay man who wants to lead the untry, ” said Brian Fnegan, the edor of Gay Communy News Dubl.

Irish policians were among the last sectors of our society to e out of the closet but now at least we’ve got one gay man and a lbian, Cathere Zappone, both the bet.

It don’t take much longer to disver that the popular unrstandg of Jam Buchanan as our natn’s first gay print riv om his relatnship wh one man particular: William Ruf DeVane Kg of Alabama. In the sh to make new meang of the past, I have e to unrstand why today has bee rigr to nsir Buchanan our first gay print.

LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM

But by then, an unrstandg of homosexualy as a sexual inty and orientatn had begun to take hold among the general public.

LEO VARADKAR: GAY, HALF-INDIAN, NSERVATIVE – AND FAVOURE TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR

” In the November 1987 issue of Penthoe Magaze, New York gossip lumnist Sharon Churcher noted the fdg an article headled “Our First Gay Print, Out of the Closet, Fally. Worse still, movg Buchanan and Kg om iends to lovers blocks the way for a person today to assume the proper mantle of beg our first gay print.

Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s mister for social protectn, is the strong favoure to replace Enda Kenny as Taoiseach of 38-year-old, who me out as gay durg the same-sex marriage referendum mpaign Ireland 2015, has dropped to 2/5 wh Paddy Power to bee the next lear of Fe Gael, which leads a mory he were to w, would mark a tone for the historilly very nservative untry.

25 ln mory ethnic to lead IrelandMr Varadkar, whose father is Indian, would be the first mory ethnic Taoiseach of Ireland as well as the first gay man to hold the would be the fourth openly gay prime mister the world after Belgium’s El Di Rupo, Iceland’s Johanna Sigurdardottir and Luxembourg’s Xavier Mister Leo Varadkar livers heartfelt speech llg for same-sex marriageThe polician me out a rad terview 2015 before the untry voted to make same-sex marriage said: “It’s not somethg that f me.

AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE

There has never been an openly gay print of the Uned Stat, but some historians have argued that Jam Buchanan, the only print who never shared the Whe Hoe wh a first lady, may have had feelgs for a member of the same sex. It would not have been unual, nor would have proved Buchanan not to have been gay, if they had married; history is filled wh homosexual men who married straight women.

MAYOR PETE IS HALF RIGHT. THE U.S. DID HAVE A GAY PRINT, BUT HE SUCKED."I WOULD IMAGE WE'VE PROBABLY HAD EXCELLENT PRINTS WHO WERE GAY," SAID PETER BUTTIGIEG THIS WEEK. 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JAM BUCHANAN, 15TH PRINT OF THE UNED STAT, 1857-61. UNDATED PHOTOGRAPH.BY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEJUNE 18, 2019 / 3:45 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"MAYOR PETE IS HALF RIGHT. 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(THOUGH OUR CURRENT ONE IS GIVG HIM A SER N FOR HIS MONEY.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MEET JAM BUCHANAN: 15TH PRINT OF THE UNED STAT (OM 1857 TO 1861). CONFIRMED BACHELOR. DOUGHFACE.CHARL PHELPS CHG/CLASSICSTOCK/GETTY IMAG1850S PORTRAIT JAMES BUCHANAN 1791-1868 15TH AMERICAN PRESIDENT DEMOCRAT MODERATE BALANCE SLAVERY HOME WHEATON PENNSYLVANIA USA (PHOTO BY CHARL PHELPS CHG/CLASSICSTOCK/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GOOD OL' DOUGHFACE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A DOUGHFACE WAS A POPULAR TERM OF THE ERA FOR A NORTHERN POLICIAN WHO FAVORED SOUTHERN PRCIPL, I.E. SLAVERY. BUCHANAN IS OFTEN BLAMED FOR THE CIVIL WAR DUE TO HIS ACTN THE FACE OF SECSN. EVEN DURG HIS LIFETIME HE HAD TO FEND HIMSELF OM VIC ATTACKS CLAIMG HE WAS RPONSIBLE FOR THE SPLTERG OF THE NATN. THOUGH HE SISTED THAT HE DID THE RIGHT THG TILL THE DAY HE DIED AND THAT HISTORY WOULD ABSOLVE HIM, HISTORY HAS GIVEN THAT NOTN A HARD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUCHANAN, A NSTUTNAL ORIGALIST, BELIEVED THAT THE WHOLE QUTN OF SLAVERY ULD BE SETTLED BY FERRG TO THE JUDGMENT OF THE SUPREME COURT AND S TERPRETATN OF THE CONSTUTN. IN THE SE OF DRED STT V. SANDFORD, THE ENSLAVED STT WAS SUG FOR HIS EEDOM, ARGUG THAT HE HAD LIVED STAT AND TERRORI WHERE SLAVERY WAS ILLEGAL. BUCHANAN HOPED A BROAD SUPREME COURT CISN FAVOR OF KEEPG SLAVERY LEGAL WOULD MATA THE NATNAL PEACE—AS WE KNOW, DIDN'{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BEFORE HE TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE, BUCHANAN PERSUAD A NORTHERN SCOTUS JUDGE AND FELLOW PENNSYLVANIAN TO VOTE WH THE URT'S SOUTHERN MAJORY. TWO DAYS AFTER BUCHANAN'S GURATN, THE SUPREME COURT LED DRED STT V. SANDFORD THAT BLACK PEOPLE "NNOT BE, NOR WERE EVER TEND TO BE, CIZENS" OF THE UNED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH ABRAHAM LLN'S ELECTN 1860, TALK OF SECSN GREW STRONGER, AND BUCHANAN PROVED HIGHLY EFFECTUAL AT STOPPG . HE ANGERED BOTH THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH WH HIS ERTIA AND CISN-MAKG; HE BLAMED NORTHERN ABOLNISTS FOR THE NFLICT AND FEND THE SOUTH AS BEG "JTIFIED," IF NOT LEGALLY ENTLED, TO "REVOLUTNARY RISTANCE."MPI/GETTY IMAG1856: A RTOON SHOWG AMERIN POLICIANS (OM LEFT) STEPHEN A DOUGLAS (1813 -1861), FORMER PRINT FRANKL PIERCE (1804 - 1869), PRINT JAM BUCHANAN (1791 - 1868) AND LEWIS CASS (1782 - 1866) FORCG SLAVERY DOWN THE THROAT OF A EOILER. THE EOILERS WERE OPPOSED TO THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT WHICH EXTEND SLAVERY THROUGHOUT THE WT TERRORI. (PHOTO BY MPI/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUCHANAN, SEND OM RIGHT, "FORCG SLAVERY DOWN THE THROAT OF A EOILER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BY THE TIME LLN TOOK OFFICE 1861, SEVEN STAT HAD SECED. TWO MONTHS AFTER BUCHANAN LEFT THE WHE HOE, THE CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT—SOME EVEN LLED "BUCHANAN'S WAR."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO YEAH, JAM BUCHANAN WAS KDA THE WORST. BUT WHAT MAK HIM GAY? MEET WILLIAM RUF DEVANE KG: 13TH VICE PRINT OF THE UNED STAT (FOR SIX WEEKS). U.S. SENATOR OM ALABAMA. ALLEGED LOVER OF JAM BUCHANAN.PHOTO BY © CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGWILLIAM RUF DE VANE KG (1786-1853) WAS A U.S. SENATOR OM ALABAMA FOR 31 YEARS AND THE MISTER TO FRANCE OM 1844-1846. HE WAS ELECTED AS VICE-PRINT UNR FRANKL PIERCE. HE WAS SWORN CUBA, WHERE HE WAS STAYG HOP OF ALLEVIATG THE TUBERCULOSIS THAT KILLED HIM JT WEEKS LATER. THE ONLY VICE-PRINT EVER SWORN ON FOREIGN SOIL, HE DIED BEFORE HE WAS ABLE TO SERVE. (PHOTO BY © CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WILLIAM R. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SHADY D.C. NTEMPORARI REFERRED TO KG AS "MISS NANCY" AND "AUNT FANCY," AS WELL AS BUCHANAN'S "BETTER HALF," "HIS WIFE," AND "MRS. B." THE TWO WERE SO SEPARABLE THEY WERE KNOWN AROUND TOWN AS THE "SIAME TWS," AND THEY LIVED TOGETHER FOR ABOUT 13 YEARS. BUCHANAN EVEN PLANNED TO N FOR PRINT 1844 WH KG AS HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}INED, KG'S FLUENCE ON BUCHANAN MIGHT EXPLA WHY THE PENNSYLVANIA LAWYER HAD SUCH AN AFFY FOR THE SOUTH. ONE BUCHANAN BGRAPHER NSIRS KG TO BE A POLIL MENTOR WHO LEFT "AN LIBLE IMPRSN ON HIM."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WHAT AN IMPRSN. WRG TO A IEND 1844, BUCHANAN LAMENTED BEG AWAY OM KG:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I AM NOW ‘SOLARY AND ALONE,’ HAVG NO PANN THE HOE WH ME. I HAVE GONE A WOOG TO SEVERAL GENTLEMEN, BUT HAVE NOT SUCCEED WH ANY ONE OF THEM. I FEEL THAT IS NOT GOOD FOR MAN TO BE ALONE; AND SHOULD NOT BE ASTONISHED TO FD MYSELF MARRIED TO SOME OLD MAID WHO N NURSE ME WHEN I AM SICK, PROVI GOOD DNERS FOR ME WHEN I AM WELL, AND NOT EXPECT OM ME ANY VERY ARNT OR ROMANTIC AFFECTN.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KG, FOR HIS PART, WROTE BUCHANAN THAT SAME YEAR THAT HE WAS "SELFISH ENOUGH TO HOPE YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PROCURE AN ASSOCIATE WHO WILL E YOU TO FEEL NO REGRET AT OUR SEPARATN. FOR MYSELF, I SHALL FEEL LONELY THE MIDST OF PARIS, FOR HERE I SHALL HAVE NO FRIEND WH WHOM I SHALL MUNE AS WH MY OWN THOUGHTS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS WOULD BE SUPER CUTE—LIKE, WHO GO "A WOOG" TO GENTLEMEN ANYMORE?—IF BUCHANAN HADN'T BEEN A TERRIBLE AND UNF LEAR WHO REIGNED OVER THE MOST DIFFICULT TIME THE NATN'S HISTORY WHILE DICKMATIZED BY THE SOUTH TO MAKG SOME REAL PISS-POOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE GOOD NEWS? WHILE JAM BUCHANAN IS GENERALLY NSIRED THE WORST PRINT EVER, HIS SUCCSOR IS OFTEN NSIRED THE BT. MUCH LIKE BUCHANAN—AND PRETTY MUCH ANY HISTORIL FIGURE—ABE LLN'S SEXUALY HAS BEEN A TOPIC OF BATE FOR AG. LLN ALSO HAD A SPECIAL MALE IEND WH WHOM HE SHARED CLOSE QUARTERS, JOSHUA FRY SPEED.BY FILSON HISTORIL SOCIETY - LLN LEGENDS BY EDWARD STEERS JR. (UNIVERSY OF KENTUCKY PRS, 2007), PUBLIC DOMA,{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JOSHUA FRY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1837, LLN MOVED TO SPRGFIELD, ILL., TO PURSUE A REER LAW. THERE, HE MET AND BEIEND SPEED; THEY BEME ROOMMAT AND REPORTEDLY SHARED THE SAME BED FOR FOUR YEARS. THAT WAS APPARENTLY SOMETHG MEN DID BACK THE MID-19TH CENTURY SCE SPACE WAS LIMED—OR WHATEVER REASONG HISTORIANS E TO BUNK THE MANY, MANY MORS OF LLN'S PURPORTED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE PRACTICE OF ERASG A PERSON'S QUEERNS, OR THE QUEER PEOPLE THEIR LIV, OM THEIR OFFICIAL HISTORY HAS MA G RETROACTIVE GAYDAR THAT MUCH HARR. AS HAVE SHIFTG VIEWS OF TIMACY AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A 2005 BGRAPHY ON THE 16TH PRINT CLAIMS THAT LLN ALSO HAD AN TIMATE RELATNSHIP WH HIS BODYGUARD, WH WHOM HE ALSO SHARED HIS BED THE ABSENCE OF HIS WIFE, MARY TODD. ALL ALL, LLN MAY HAVE SHARED HIS BED WH 11 DUS THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. WHO'S TO SAY IF HE SLIPPED ANY OF THEM HIS LLN LOG OR VED THEM TO HIS STIC B?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH BUCHANAN, THE EVINCE IS MORE OVERWHELMG. HE NEVER MARRIED AND HAD A LONGSTANDG RELATNSHIP WH THE SAME MAN, AND THEIR RRPONNCE—THAT WHICH WASN'T BURNED BY THEIR RPECTIVE NIEC AFTER THEIR ATHS—SUGGT MORE THAN JT THE UAL CLOSE MALE IENDSHIP OF THE EARLY 1800S.SSPL/GETTY IMAGUNITED STATES - MARCH 29: PHOTOGRAPH OF LLN (1809-1865) WHO WAS THE 16TH PRINT OF THE UNED STAT OF AMERI. HE JOED THE REPUBLIN PARTY 1858 AND WAS ELECTED PRINT TWO YEARS LATER. IN 1863, HE PROCLAIMED THE EMANCIPATN OF ALL SLAV THE SOUTHERN CONFERATE STAT AND LATER THAT YEAR RTATED HIS ANTI-SLAVERY VIEWS THE GETTYSBURG ADDRS. DURG HIS 1864 MPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTN, HE EMBRACED THE ABOLN OF SLAVERY. HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY ACTOR JOHN WILK BOOTH WHILST ATTENDG THE THEATRE 1865. (PHOTO BY SSPL/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ABE LLN, PUTTG THE "SPRG" {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“IN SOME WAYS, THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY WAS MUCH MORE OPEN TOWARDS PHYSIL TOUCH BETWEEN MEN AND EXPRSNS OF LOVE,” HISTORY PROFSOR RACHEL CLEV TOLD TIME THIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LLN'S QUEERNS IS HARR TO P DOWN, PECIALLY WHEN G A RATHER MORN TERPRETATN OF HOMOSEXUALY. AFTER ALL, HOMOSEXUALY AS A TERM DIDN'T EXIST UNTIL 1868, THOUGH AS A NCEPT 'S BEEN AROUND SCE TIME {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I THK THAT THERE WERE ALWAYS GRAY AREAS AND NUANC AND PLENTY OF POSSIBILI FOR MEN THE LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY TO HAVE SEX WH OTHER MEN AND NOT NSIR THEMSELV GAY,” CLEV {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CONSIRG HOW MUCH POLICIANS LOVE TO EQUIVOTE, MAYOR PETE IS PROBABLY/FELY ONTO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Jam Loewen, a proment Amerin soclogist and historian, has been outspoken his claims that Buchanan was the first gay print, wrg a 2012 say:. Loewen has argued that Buchanan's homosexualy is not often discsed morn tim bee Amerins do not want to believe that society was more tolerant of gay relatnships the 19th century than they are now.

Although has long been mored that Richard Nixon had a homosexual affair wh his close iend Bebe Rebozo, Buchanan is still the most likely ndidate for first, and only, gay Amerin print. Thanks to his vol support of gay marriage, Print Barack Obama did earn the tle briefly, albe symbolilly, a May 2012 Newsweek magaze article, wrten by Andrew Sullivan. Ta Brown, edor--chief for Newsweek at the time, explaed the term and the ver photo of Obama wh a rabow halo superimposed over his head by tellg news se Poli, "If Print Clton was the ‘first black print’ then Obama earns every stripe that ‘gaylo’ wh last week’s gay marriage proclamatn.

IRISH PM LEO VARADKAR IS GAY, NSERVATIVE — AND OF INDIAN ORIG

South Bend mayor and noted homosexual Pete Buttigieg recently posed that, based on sheer statistics, Ameri has totally had a gay print.

"I would image we've probably had excellent prints who were gay—we jt didn't know which on, " Buttigieg thg is, we probably do know of at least one queer POTUS, but he's generally nsired one of the worst prints, if not the worst, ever.

That was apparently somethg men did back the mid-19th century sce space was limed—or whatever reasong historians e to bunk the many, many mors of Lln's purported practice of erasg a person's queerns, or the queer people their liv, om their official history has ma g retroactive gaydar that much harr. “I thk that there were always gray areas and nuanc and plenty of possibili for men the late 19th and 20th century to have sex wh other men and not nsir themselv gay, ” Clev said.

"THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD

Leo Varadkar uld not have been an openly gay polician India, leave alone prime Irish have elected a new Taoiseach, or Prime Mister, whose name is Leo Varadkar and whose father was an Indian immigrant. If we, as a natn, slap ourselv on our backs on the achievements of our gay immigrants, while crimalizg those back home, that hypocrisy needs to be talked about. Tth is, we nnot celebrate Varadkar’s polil succs whout also notg, the evable same breath, that he is Ireland’s first gay mister.

The symbolic importance of this nnot be over-emphasised a untry where homosexuals and lbians have been ridiculed, bullied and killed for their sexual preferenc. Priyam, a 28 year old gay person I spoke to, poted out that “majorarianism is creasgly fg standards for moraly India. Varadkar, himself, had this to say about his sexual orientatn, when he first me out as gay 2015: “It’s not somethg that f me.

Robbie Lawlor, a Dubl based activist and former Mr Gay Ireland, workg on HIV awarens, put his fger on the button when he said, “All that symbolism is great, but wh great shame as his polil views are very nservative. Varadkar’s stat as the son of an Indian immigrant should be far ls important – to India and the world – than the fact that he is agast women’s reproductive rights, has monstrated a track rerd of beg anti-workg class and even has rervatns agast gay people adoptg children.

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Still, Varadkar’s ascensn to the top job polics is as much a vote favour of Ireland’s liberal crentials, which crimalized homosexualy 1993 and legalised same sex marriage 2015. Even if all hell fally breaks loose and Kaliyug shows s te lours, the possibily of an openly gay or lbian polician India is remote. While Pete Buttigieg's mpaign for the Democratic printial nomatn has ma history and drawn substantial support, a new poll dit that only half the untry is ready for a gay a Poli/Morng Consult poll of registered voters released Wednday, "50 percent of rponnts said they were eher fely or probably ready to have a manr chief who is openly gay, pared wh 37 percent who said they were eher fely or probably not ready, " Poli reports.

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When asked if their neighbors were ready for a gay print, only about one-quarter of rponnts said y, and 46 percent said fely or probably not.

Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., is the first out gay ndidate for the Democratic printial nomatn (Fred Karger ma a n for the Republin nomatn 2012).

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He has recently moved up polls Iowa, whose Febary 3 uc will be the first vote the natn on the Democratic the fact that he's gay "may be an issue for some voters as he remas ntentn for the 2020 Democratic printial nomatn, " Tyler Sclair, Morng Consult's vice print, told Poli.

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"Notably, 58 percent of Republins, 32 percent of pennts, and 22 percent of Democrats say they aren't ready for a gay or lbian print. However, when Obama was nng for his first term, the polls were more enuragg about the possibily of a Black print than they are for a gay print now. She beme the first lear of any untry the Balkans to attend a gay pri march, sayg “For me, this is a way to make an active ntributn to alg wh stereotyp and prejudic.

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One of the most strikg moments was when a journalist a media pack chasg him down the street cried, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual! All hail Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the first gay Prime Mister of Iceland, and the first LGBTI lear of a untry anywhere the world.

As one would expect, most gay world lears have belonged to progrsive parti and pursued progrsive agendas, mirrorg the beliefs of the people that elected them.