Michael Waters reviews Jam Kirchick’s book “Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton,” which chronicl the panic over queer polil fluence Washgton, D.C., om the Princy of Frankl D. Roosevelt to that of Bill Clton.
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WHAT MA WASHGTON, D.C., THE “GAYT AND MOST ANTIGAY CY AMERI”
In Bros, which may or may not be the first major gay rom-, Billy Eichner’s character is workg on another big first, openg the first major LGBTQ history mm.
As part of that job, he spends much of the film discsg whether var historil figur were gay, cludg Abraham Lln and the ancient Egyptian pairg of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. (In both of those s pends who you ask, and what you mean by “gay. Bgrapher Ian Kelly was able to rroborate two referenc om Casanova's memoir, The History of My Life, which Casanova had same-sex relatns:"The morn ncept of bisexualy, no ls than of homosexualy, didn't really exist the 18th century, and the nceptn of sexual preference was on the whole a much more fluid affair.
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