Jam Buchanan was the only US print who never married. Here's why historians believe he was also our first, and so far only, gay print." emprop="scriptn
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- PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
- IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
- 11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY
- 7 GAY PRINTIAL RUMORS YOU WON'T BELIEVE (BUT MAYBE SHOULD)WHICH PRINT'S BT IEND WROTE, "HIS THIGHS WERE AS PERFECT AS A HUMAN BEG ULD BE?"{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 DAN AVERYFEBARY 15, 2016/9:52 {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:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}MOLLY RILEY/AFP/GETTY IMAGTHE WHE HOE IS BLANKETED RABOW LORS SYMBOLIZG LGBT PRI WASHGTON ON JUNE 26, 2015. THE US SUPREME COURT LED FRIDAY THAT GAY MARRIAGE IS A NATNWI RIGHT, A LANDMARK CISN ONE OF THE MOST KEENLY AWAED ANNOUNCEMENTS S AND SPARKG SCEN OF JUBILATN. AFP PHOTO/MOLLY RILEY (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ MOLLY RILEY/AFP/GETTY IMAG)BY DAN AVERYFEBARY 15, 2016 / 9:52 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"7 GAY PRINTIAL RUMORS YOU WON'T BELIEVE (BUT MAYBE SHOULD)","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2016-02-15T14:52:41.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2016-02-15T14:52:41.000+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":"DAN AVERY","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;}IT'S PRINT'S DAY, WHEN WE SALUTE GEE WASHGTON (WHO WAS ACTUALLY BORN ON FEBARY 22) AND ALL OUR COMMANRS {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;}WHILE WE'VE NEVER HAD AN OUT PRINT (YET), GAY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN A PART OF PRINTIAL HISTORY SCE THE BEGNG. IN FACT, A GAY MAN ONCE SAVED THE PRINT'S {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;}ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1975, SARAH JANE MOORE PULLED A GUN ON PRINT GERALD FORD AS HE WAS LEAVG SAN FRANCIS'S ST. FRANCIS HOTEL. FORTUNATELY, OLIVER SIPPLE, A GAY MAN AND A RATED MARE WHO SERVED VIETNAM, WAS THERE TO GRAB MOORE’S HAND AS SHE {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;}HE ED HER SHOT AND SAVED FORD OM ASSASSATN, BEG A HERO TO THE LGBT MUNY..{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;}"FOR ONCE, WE N SHOW THAT GAYS N DO HEROIC THGS," SAID HARVEY MILK, THEN NNG FOR A SEAT ON THE SAN FRANCIS BOARD OF {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;}ONCE, LLG A PRINT GAY WAS MUCKRAKG. NOW MANY THE LGBT MUNY LOOK TO THE UNWRTEN HISTORY OF OUR LEARS FOR GLIMPS OF {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;}BELOW, CHECK OUT SEVEN TIM THE LGBT MUNY TERSECTED WH THE MANR {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;}GEE WASHGTON: FRIEND OF FRIEND OF DOROTHYGRAPHIARTIS/GETTY IMAGTHE WASHGTON FAY BY EDWARD SAVAGE (AMERIN, 1761 - 1817); OIL ON NVAS, 1789 - 96, OM THE NATNAL GALLERY, WASHGTON, DC THE WASHGTON FAY SS A ROOM OVERLOOKG THE POTOMAC RIVER WASHGTON, STUDYG AN ARCHECTURAL PLAN FOR THE FUTURE GRAND NSTCTN OF THE POL CY. (PHOTO BY GRAPHIARTIS/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;}GEE AND MARTHA WASHGTON NEVER HAD CHILDREN, AND HISTORIANS AGREE HE WAS MORE TERTED HER MONEY THAN HER FIGURE. BUT I ULDN'T FD ANY DIRECT EVINCE WASHGTON WAS {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;}ACRDG TO HISTORIAN THOMAS FOSTER'S SEX AND THE FOUNDG FATHERS, THOUGH, REPORTERS OFTEN ATTACKED FREEMASONS LIKE WASHGTON, CLAIMEG THEY WERE "ENGAGG ANAL PERATN WH WOON SPIK ED SHIP BUILDG.”{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 ANY SE, WE DO KNOW A GAY MAN WAS ONE OF WASHGTON'S CLOST {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;}FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STBEN (BELOW) WAS A PSSIAN ARY OFFICER WHO FLED EUROPE TO AVOID PROSECUTN FOR HOMOSEXUALY—EVEN BENJAM FRANKL KNEW OF VON STBEN’S OPEN SECRET.FOTOSEARCH/GETTY IMAGPORTRA OF FRIEDRICH WILHELM LUDOLF GERHARD AUGT VON STBEN ALSO KNOWN AS BARON VON STBEN, CIR 1744. (PHOTO BY FOTOSEARCH/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;}BUT HIS EXPERTISE TRAG AND TACTICS WAS MORE IMPORTANT TO THE FOUNDG FATHERS THAN WHO HE SLEPT {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;}VON STBEN ARRIVED AT VALLEY FE FEBARY 1778 AND QUICKLY TRAED THE MEN HOW TO PERFORM DRILLS, STAND AT ATTENTN, WIELD A BAYO AND QUICKLY RELOAD A MKET, AMONG OTHER SKILLS. WH HIS EXPERTISE AND DISCIPLE, VON STBEN WAS TEGRAL HELPG THE COLONIAL ARMY FEAT THE BRISH—AND SERVED AS GENERAL WASHGTON’S CHIEF OF STAFF THE FAL YEARS OF THE {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;}WASHGTON’S LAST ACT AS GENERAL WAS TO WRE VON STBEN A LETTER THANKG HIM PROFELY FOR ALL HE HAD {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;}JAM BUCHANAN: LIFELONG BACHELORSMH COLLECTN/GADO/GETTY IMAGENGRAVED PORTRA OF JAM BUCHANAN, AMERIN POLICIAN AND 15TH PRINT OF THE UNED STAT, 1834. FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. (PHOTO VIA SMH COLLECTN/GADO/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;}THE 15TH PRINT NEVER MARRIED, AND LIVED FOR MORE THAN A WH HIS BT IEND, WILLIAM RUF KG. CONTEMPORARI LLED THEM "THE SIAME TWS," AND TEASED THAT KG—NICKNAMED "AUNT FANCY"— WAS THE PRINT'S "BETTER HALF" AND "WIFE."{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;}WHEN KG, REPORTEDLY SOMETHG OF A FOP, WAS APPOTED AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE, BUCHANAN WROTE A IEND:{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."{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;}HE ADD THAT HE DIDN'T THK WAS GOOD FOR HIM TO BE ALONE AND "I SHOULD NOT BE ASTONISHED TO FD MYSELF MARRIED TO SOME OLD MAID WHO N NURSE ME WHEN I AM SICK ... 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;}BUCHANAN ACTUALLY MA KG HIS VICE PRINT (THE ONLY BACHELOR VP AMERIN HISTORY), BUT KG DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS SIX WEEKS AFTER BEG SWORN {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’M SURE THAT BUCHANAN WAS GAY," SAYS HISTORIAN JAM W. LOEWEN. "THERE IS CLEAR EVINCE THAT HE WAS GAY. AND SCE I HAVEN’T SEEN ANY EVINCE THAT HE WAS HETEROSEXUAL, I DON’T BELIEVE HE WAS BISEXUAL."{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;}ABRAHAM LLN: HIDG THE LLN LOGMATHEW B. BRADY/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN/GETTY IMAGUNITED STATES - CIRCA 1865: AT HIS SEND GURATN, PRINT ABRAHAM LLN WORE A MAGNIFICENT AT (SHOWN HERE) SPECIALLY CRAFTED FOR HIM BY BROOKS BROTHERS. HAND STCHED TO THE AT'S LG WAS AN TRITE SIGN FEATURG AN EAGLE AND THE SCRIPTN, "ONE COUNTRY, ONE DTY." SADLY, WAS ALSO THIS AT LLN WAS WEARG WHEN HE WAS ASSASSATED ON THAT FATEFUL EVENG AT FORD'S THEATER. MATHEW BRADY--NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORD ADMINISTRATION (PHOTO BY MATHEW B. BRADY/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN/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;}THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR FAMOLY SHARED A BED WH JOSHUA SPEED FOR FOUR YEARS, BUT THE KENTUCKY NGRSMAN WASN'T HIS ONLY MALE PANN.UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/UNIVERSAL IMAG GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGJOSHUA FRY SPEED, 1814 –1882 AND HIS WIFE LUCY GILMER FRY, 1788 – 1874. JOSHUA FRY SPEED, GENERAL STORE -OWNER WH HIS CLOSE IEND ABRAHAM LLN, REAL TATE VTOR, PLANTATN OWNER AND KENTUCKY REPRENTATIVE. FROM THE CENTURY MAGAZE, PUBLISHED 1887. (PHOTO BY: UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/UNIVERSAL IMAG GROUP 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;}JOSHUA FRY SPEED, 1814 –1882 AND HIS WIFE LUCY GILMER FRY, 1788 – {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;}WHEN LLN MOVED TO THE ILLOIS ONTIER HIS 20S, HE MOVED WH BILLY GREENE, WHO ACHED THE FUTURE PRINT GRAMMAR AND SHARED A NARROW {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;}"WHEN ONE TURNED OVER THE OTHER HAD TO DO LIKEWISE," REMARKED GREENE, WHO ALSO WAXED POETIC ABOUT LLN'S PHYSIQUE: "HIS THIGHS WERE AS PERFECT AS A HUMAN BEG ULD BE."{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;}GET A ROOM, {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;}FRANKL D. ROOSEVELT: I MARRIED A LBIANKEYSTONE FEATUR/GETTY IMAG1936: FRANKL DELANO ROOSEVELT (1882 - 1945) THE 32ND PRINT OF THE UNED STAT OM 1933-45. A DEMOCRAT, HE LED HIS UNTRY THROUGH THE PRSN OF THE 1930'S AND WORLD WAR II, AND WAS ELECTED FOR AN UNPRECENTED FOURTH TERM OF OFFICE 1944. (PHOTO BY KEYSTONE FEATUR/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;}DID THE ROOSEVELTS HAVE A MARRIAGE BEREFT OF ROMANTIC ARDOR? WAS ELEANOR A LBIAN? WE'LL PROBABLY NEVER KNOW. BUT 'S TERTG TO NOTE THAT MORS ABOUT HER SAME-SEX DALLIANC CIRCULATED EVEN WHILE THEY WERE THE WHE {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;}MRS. ROOSEVELT WAS CLOSE IENDS WH SEVERAL LBIAN UPL, CLUDG NANCY COOK AND MARN DICKERMAN, BUT WAS LORENA HICKOK WHO WAS HER OTHER {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 TWO WROTE THOANDS OF LETTERS TO EACH OTHER, MANY OF WHICH HAVE A ROMANTIC {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;}"HICK MY ART—I NNOT GO TO BED TONIGHT WHOUT A WORD TO YOU," ELEANOR WROTE. "I FELT A LTLE AS THOUGH A PART OF ME WAS LEAVG TONIGHT. YOU HAVE GROWN SO MUCH TO BE A PART OF MY LIFE THAT IS EMPTY WHOUT YOU... I WISH I ULD LIE DOWN BI YOU TONIGHT & TAKE YOU MY ARMS."KEYSTONE/GETTY IMAG1946: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (1884 - 1962) AMERIN THOR, LECTURER, AMBASSADOR, SOCIAL ACTIVIST AND WIFE OF THE 32ND PRINT FRANKL D ROOSEVELT. A REPRENTATIVE TO THE UNED NATNS, SHE IS LISTENG THROUGH HEADPHON DURG A NFERENCE AT THE TEMPORARY UN HEADQUARTERS AT LAKE SUCCS, NEW YORK. (PHOTO BY KEYSTONE/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;}"I’VE BEEN TRYG TO BRG BACK YOUR FACE — TO REMEMBER JT HOW YOU LOOK," SHE ADD. "FUNNY HOW EVEN THE ART FACE WILL FA AWAY TIME. MOST CLEARLY I REMEMBER YOUR EY, WH A KD OF TEASG SE THEM, AND THE FEELG OF THAT SOFT SPOT JT NORTHEAST OF THE RNER OF YOUR MOUTH AGAST MY LIPS."{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;}HISTORIAN DORIS KEARNS GOODW WROTE THAT "WHETHER HICK AND ELEANOR WENT BEYOND KISS AND HUGS" ULD NEVER BE KNOWN FOR THE CERTA, BUT "DAY AFTER DAY, MONTH AFTER MONTH, THE TONE THE LETTERS ON BOTH SIS REMAS FERVENT AND LOVG."{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;}ROOSEVELT’S GRANDDGHTER NA GIBSON SAID, "I HAVE NO IA WHETHER LORENA HICKOCK HAD A HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH MY GRANDMOTHER OR NOT. AND MY FEELG ABOUT THAT IS, KD OF, 'WHO R?'... IF THEY ULD MAKE EACH OTHER HAPPY, ANY WAY, THEN THAT’S WHAT’S IMPORTANT."{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;}JOHN F. KENNEDY: BEYOND MARILYNNATNAL ARCHIVE/NEWSMAKERS381091 27: PRINT JOHN F. KENNEDY SPEAKS AT A PRS NFERENCE AUGT 1, 1963. (PHOTO BY NATNAL ARCHIVE/NEWSMAKERS){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;}JFK'S OLST AND BT IEND WAS KIRK LEMOYNE BILLGS, KNOWN AS "LEM." THE TWO BEME FAST IENDS PREP SCHOOL AND, AFTER GRADUATN, THEY TRAVELED TO EUROPE {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;}THEY REMAED CLOSE UNTIL KENNEDY'S ASSASSATN—BILLGS HAD HIS OWN ROOM THE WHE HOE, AND JOE KENNEDY SR. LLED HIM "A SEND SON." (WHICH IS ODD NSIRG JFK HAD TWO BROTHERS).{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;}REPORTEDLY, LEM ONCE MA A PASS AT KENNEDY WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG: ACRDG TO THE 2008 BOOK JACK AND LEM, KENNEDY LIGHTLY REBUFFED HIM, SAYG, "I'M NOT THAT KD OF BOY."CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGJOHN F. KENNEDY, "DUNKER" THE DOG, AND LEM BILLGS AT THE HAGUE, DURG THEIR EUROPE TRIP. (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;}JOHN F. KENNEDY, "DUNKER" THE DOG, AND LEM BILLGS AT THE HAGUE, DURG A EUROPEAN {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;}BUT 2015'S ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: RFK JR. AND THE DARK SI OF THE DREAM, JERRY OPPENHEIMER CLAIMS THEY HAD A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP "THAT CLUD ORAL SEX, WH JACK ALWAYS ON THE RECEIVG END."{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;}LAWRENCE J. QUIRK, WHO WORKED WH BILLGS ON KENNEDY’S FIRST NGRSNAL MPAIGN 1946, TOLD OPPENHEIMER, "JACK WAS LOVE WH LEM BEG LOVE WH HIM AND NSIRED HIM THE IAL FOLLOWER-ADORER."{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;}RICHARD NIXON: TRICKY DICKWASHGTON BURE/GETTY IMAGAUGT 1968: AMERIN POLICIAN RICHARD NIXON (1913-1994) GIV THE 'V' FOR VICTORY SIGN AFTER RECEIVG THE PRINTIAL NOMATN AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN, MIAMI, FLORIDA. (PHOTO BY WASHGTON BURE/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;}I HONTLY NEVER HEARD GAY MORS ABOUT RICHARD NIXON BEFORE REARCHG THIS ARTICLE, BUT 2011'S NIXON'S DARKT SECRETS: THE INSI STORY OF AMERI’S MOST TROUBLED PRINT, DON FULSOM SUGGTS THE PRINT'S RELATNSHIP WH GANGSTER CHARL "BEBE" REBOZO WAS OF A "POSSIBLY HOMOSEXUAL NATURE."ARTHUR SCHATZ/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN/GETTY IMAGVIEW OF AMERIN POLICIAN AND REPUBLIN PARTY PRINTIAL NOMEE (AND SOON TO BE US PRINT) RICHARD NIXON (1913 - 1994) (LEFT) AS HE STANDS ON A BOAT OWNED BY HIS IEND, BANKER CHARL REBOZO (ALSO KNOWN AS BEBE REBOZO, 1912 - 1998), KEY BISYNE, FLORIDA, AUGT 1968. (PHOTO BY ARTHUR SCHATZ/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN/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;}NIXON AND REBOZO ON REBOZO'S BOAT. {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;}HE REUNTS STANC OF THE TWO CUDDLG TIMATELY AND HOLDG HANDS UNR A DNER {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;}OTHER HISTORIANS HAVE DISUNTED FULSOM'S CLAIMS AS GOSSIP, BUT THE MEN WERE VERY CLOSE: REBOZO, A BAGMAN FOR THE MAFIA, WAS AT NIXON'S SI WHEN HE {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;}BARACK OBAMA: COKED-UP GAY HTLERCHIP SOMOVILLA/GETTY IMAGWASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 24: U.S. PRINT BARACK OBAMA PRENTS ENTERTAER AND ARTIST BARBRA STREISAND WH THE PRINTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM DURG A CEREMONY THE EAST ROOM OF THE WHE HOE NOVEMBER 24, 2015 WASHGTON, DC. OBAMA PRENTED THE MEDAL TO THIRTEEN LIVG AND FOUR POSTHUMO PNEERS SCIENCE, SPORTS, PUBLIC SERVICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, POLICS AND ARTS, (PHOTO BY CHIP SOMOVILLA/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;}THERE HAVE BEEN MANY BIZARRE MORS ABOUT PRINT OBAMA—MOST OKED UP BY DISGNTLED NSERVATIV. LIKE WAYNE MADSEN, WHO CLAIMS THAT OBAMA AND FORMER WHE HOE CHIEF-OF-STAFF RAHM EMANUEL WERE LONGTIME MEMBERS OF CHIGO'S GAY MEN’S {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;}MADSEN ALSO CLAIMS OBAMA HAD AFFAIRS WH PRINTIAL BODYGUARD REGGIE LOVE, SENATE MAJORY LEAR BILL FRIST AND MASSACHETTS GOVERNOR DEVAL PATRICK, 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 GAY MAN, LARRY SCLAIR, CLAIMS HE PERFORMED ORAL SEX ON OBAMA THE BACK A LIMO 1999, WHILE THEN-ILLOIS STATE SENATOR SMOKED CRACK. SCLAIR SAYS THEY HAD A SEND ENUNTER WHEN OBAMA SHOWED UP AT HIS HOTEL ROOM THE NEXT {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 TAILS OF THE ALLEGED TRYST ARE SCLAIR'S SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK, BARACK OBAMA & LARRY SCLAIR: COE, SEX, LI & {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 LASTLY, A WOMAN CLAIMG TO BE BARACK OBAMA'S HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE, TOLD RELIG NSERVATIVE JAM DAVID MANNG THAT THE FUTURE PRINT WAS KNOWN AS GAY WHEN THEY WERE {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 AS A YOUNG TEENAGER... AS A YOUNG GIRL... WAS CLEAR TO ME THAT BARRY WAS STRICTLY TO MEN," MIA MARIE POPE SAID OF HER "IEND," WHOM SHE ALSO LLED A DG ADDICT AND "PATHOLOGIL LIAR."{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;}"HE WAS HAVG SEX WH THE OLR WHE GUYS, AND THAT’S HOW HE WAS GETTG HIS E TO BE ABLE TO EEBASE," SHE TOLD {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;}ACTUALLY, PRINT OBAMA HAS TROUBLE GETTG BED WH OLD WHE GUYS—JT LOOK AT {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
- OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
- AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE
- A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.
- THERE WON’T BE A GAY PRINT 2021. SO WHAT DO BUTTIGIEG’S CAMPAIGN TELL US?
- WHO WAS OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?
PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
Pete Buttigieg said "statistilly, 's almost certa," the U.S. has had a gay print. Many historians disagree * is there a gay president *
Some of the most popular theori about whether there has ever been a gay print surround Print Jam Buchanan, one-term print om 1857-1861.
“It might be more accurate to say that there may have been prints the past who sired men, or had sexual experienc wh men… they wouldn’t have necsarily intified as gay a 21st century sense. For Buttigieg to say that another print may have been gay the way that ’s unrstood the 21st century, “’s jt farcil, ” Balcerski says. Even if the two had some sort of attractn to other men, they wouldn’t have intified as gay bee that notn of livg as an out gay man didn’t exist, both historians say.
IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay Democratic ndidate for print of the Uned Stat to mount a major mpaign, emerged as one of the lears the Democratic Party’s early nomatn ntts * is there a gay president *
“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 says. “I fd that the early 19th century, ironilly, almost prents an era where the same kds of pathologi [agast gay men] that will be prent all the way through the pre-Stonewall era aren’t que place yet. Balcerski says ’s important to chronicle gay history, but he says popular theori about the lik of Buchanan and Lln are too simplistic.
“As we bee more and more terted broang the tt, so to speak, of LGBT history, what we fd is we’ve taken people, who for one reason or another, don’t f to a normative pattern of heterosexual marriage and we basilly put this label on them as gay, ” Balcerski says. On the mpaign trail, he speaks of beg gay terms of fay valu, emphasizg he is a lovg, mted same-sex marriage, and what his ndidacy says about cln and equaly Ameri today.
11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY
Do the evince prented here suggt the possibily of the existence of gay U.S. prints? Let's fd out if the mors are te, * is there a gay president *
“Pete’s succs so far this mpaign reprents an evolutn Amerin polics, upendg tradnal notns of electabily and provg that Ameri is ready to elect s first openly gay print, ” Ellt Imse, munitn director at the LGBTQ Victory Fund, said.
7 GAY PRINTIAL RUMORS YOU WON'T BELIEVE (BUT MAYBE SHOULD)WHICH PRINT'S BT IEND WROTE, "HIS THIGHS WERE AS PERFECT AS A HUMAN BEG ULD BE?"{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 DAN AVERYFEBARY 15, 2016/9:52 {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:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}MOLLY RILEY/AFP/GETTY IMAGTHE WHE HOE IS BLANKETED RABOW LORS SYMBOLIZG LGBT PRI WASHGTON ON JUNE 26, 2015. THE US SUPREME COURT LED FRIDAY THAT GAY MARRIAGE IS A NATNWI RIGHT, A LANDMARK CISN ONE OF THE MOST KEENLY AWAED ANNOUNCEMENTS S AND SPARKG SCEN OF JUBILATN. AFP PHOTO/MOLLY RILEY (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ MOLLY RILEY/AFP/GETTY IMAG)BY DAN AVERYFEBARY 15, 2016 / 9:52 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"7 GAY PRINTIAL RUMORS YOU WON'T BELIEVE (BUT MAYBE SHOULD)","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2016-02-15T14:52:41.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2016-02-15T14:52:41.000+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":"DAN AVERY","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;}IT'S PRINT'S DAY, WHEN WE SALUTE GEE WASHGTON (WHO WAS ACTUALLY BORN ON FEBARY 22) AND ALL OUR COMMANRS {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;}WHILE WE'VE NEVER HAD AN OUT PRINT (YET), GAY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN A PART OF PRINTIAL HISTORY SCE THE BEGNG. IN FACT, A GAY MAN ONCE SAVED THE PRINT'S {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;}ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1975, SARAH JANE MOORE PULLED A GUN ON PRINT GERALD FORD AS HE WAS LEAVG SAN FRANCIS'S ST. FRANCIS HOTEL. FORTUNATELY, OLIVER SIPPLE, A GAY MAN AND A RATED MARE WHO SERVED VIETNAM, WAS THERE TO GRAB MOORE’S HAND AS SHE {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;}HE ED HER SHOT AND SAVED FORD OM ASSASSATN, BEG A HERO TO THE LGBT MUNY..{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;}"FOR ONCE, WE N SHOW THAT GAYS N DO HEROIC THGS," SAID HARVEY MILK, THEN NNG FOR A SEAT ON THE SAN FRANCIS BOARD OF {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;}ONCE, LLG A PRINT GAY WAS MUCKRAKG. NOW MANY THE LGBT MUNY LOOK TO THE UNWRTEN HISTORY OF OUR LEARS FOR GLIMPS OF {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;}BELOW, CHECK OUT SEVEN TIM THE LGBT MUNY TERSECTED WH THE MANR {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;}GEE WASHGTON: FRIEND OF FRIEND OF DOROTHYGRAPHIARTIS/GETTY IMAGTHE WASHGTON FAY BY EDWARD SAVAGE (AMERIN, 1761 - 1817); OIL ON NVAS, 1789 - 96, OM THE NATNAL GALLERY, WASHGTON, DC THE WASHGTON FAY SS A ROOM OVERLOOKG THE POTOMAC RIVER WASHGTON, STUDYG AN ARCHECTURAL PLAN FOR THE FUTURE GRAND NSTCTN OF THE POL CY. (PHOTO BY GRAPHIARTIS/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;}GEE AND MARTHA WASHGTON NEVER HAD CHILDREN, AND HISTORIANS AGREE HE WAS MORE TERTED HER MONEY THAN HER FIGURE. BUT I ULDN'T FD ANY DIRECT EVINCE WASHGTON WAS {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;}ACRDG TO HISTORIAN THOMAS FOSTER'S SEX AND THE FOUNDG FATHERS, THOUGH, REPORTERS OFTEN ATTACKED FREEMASONS LIKE WASHGTON, CLAIMEG THEY WERE "ENGAGG ANAL PERATN WH WOON SPIK ED SHIP BUILDG.”{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 ANY SE, WE DO KNOW A GAY MAN WAS ONE OF WASHGTON'S CLOST {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;}FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STBEN (BELOW) WAS A PSSIAN ARY OFFICER WHO FLED EUROPE TO AVOID PROSECUTN FOR HOMOSEXUALY—EVEN BENJAM FRANKL KNEW OF VON STBEN’S OPEN SECRET.FOTOSEARCH/GETTY IMAGPORTRA OF FRIEDRICH WILHELM LUDOLF GERHARD AUGT VON STBEN ALSO KNOWN AS BARON VON STBEN, CIR 1744. (PHOTO BY FOTOSEARCH/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;}BUT HIS EXPERTISE TRAG AND TACTICS WAS MORE IMPORTANT TO THE FOUNDG FATHERS THAN WHO HE SLEPT {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;}VON STBEN ARRIVED AT VALLEY FE FEBARY 1778 AND QUICKLY TRAED THE MEN HOW TO PERFORM DRILLS, STAND AT ATTENTN, WIELD A BAYO AND QUICKLY RELOAD A MKET, AMONG OTHER SKILLS. WH HIS EXPERTISE AND DISCIPLE, VON STBEN WAS TEGRAL HELPG THE COLONIAL ARMY FEAT THE BRISH—AND SERVED AS GENERAL WASHGTON’S CHIEF OF STAFF THE FAL YEARS OF THE {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;}WASHGTON’S LAST ACT AS GENERAL WAS TO WRE VON STBEN A LETTER THANKG HIM PROFELY FOR ALL HE HAD {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;}JAM BUCHANAN: LIFELONG BACHELORSMH COLLECTN/GADO/GETTY IMAGENGRAVED PORTRA OF JAM BUCHANAN, AMERIN POLICIAN AND 15TH PRINT OF THE UNED STAT, 1834. FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. (PHOTO VIA SMH COLLECTN/GADO/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;}THE 15TH PRINT NEVER MARRIED, AND LIVED FOR MORE THAN A WH HIS BT IEND, WILLIAM RUF KG. CONTEMPORARI LLED THEM "THE SIAME TWS," AND TEASED THAT KG—NICKNAMED "AUNT FANCY"— WAS THE PRINT'S "BETTER HALF" AND "WIFE."{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;}WHEN KG, REPORTEDLY SOMETHG OF A FOP, WAS APPOTED AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE, BUCHANAN WROTE A IEND:{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."{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;}HE ADD THAT HE DIDN'T THK WAS GOOD FOR HIM TO BE ALONE AND "I SHOULD NOT BE ASTONISHED TO FD MYSELF MARRIED TO SOME OLD MAID WHO N NURSE ME WHEN I AM SICK ... 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;}BUCHANAN ACTUALLY MA KG HIS VICE PRINT (THE ONLY BACHELOR VP AMERIN HISTORY), BUT KG DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS SIX WEEKS AFTER BEG SWORN {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’M SURE THAT BUCHANAN WAS GAY," SAYS HISTORIAN JAM W. LOEWEN. "THERE IS CLEAR EVINCE THAT HE WAS GAY. AND SCE I HAVEN’T SEEN ANY EVINCE THAT HE WAS HETEROSEXUAL, I DON’T BELIEVE HE WAS BISEXUAL."{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;}ABRAHAM LLN: HIDG THE LLN LOGMATHEW B. BRADY/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN/GETTY IMAGUNITED STATES - CIRCA 1865: AT HIS SEND GURATN, PRINT ABRAHAM LLN WORE A MAGNIFICENT AT (SHOWN HERE) SPECIALLY CRAFTED FOR HIM BY BROOKS BROTHERS. HAND STCHED TO THE AT'S LG WAS AN TRITE SIGN FEATURG AN EAGLE AND THE SCRIPTN, "ONE COUNTRY, ONE DTY." SADLY, WAS ALSO THIS AT LLN WAS WEARG WHEN HE WAS ASSASSATED ON THAT FATEFUL EVENG AT FORD'S THEATER. MATHEW BRADY--NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORD ADMINISTRATION (PHOTO BY MATHEW B. BRADY/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN/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;}THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR FAMOLY SHARED A BED WH JOSHUA SPEED FOR FOUR YEARS, BUT THE KENTUCKY NGRSMAN WASN'T HIS ONLY MALE PANN.UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/UNIVERSAL IMAG GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGJOSHUA FRY SPEED, 1814 –1882 AND HIS WIFE LUCY GILMER FRY, 1788 – 1874. JOSHUA FRY SPEED, GENERAL STORE -OWNER WH HIS CLOSE IEND ABRAHAM LLN, REAL TATE VTOR, PLANTATN OWNER AND KENTUCKY REPRENTATIVE. FROM THE CENTURY MAGAZE, PUBLISHED 1887. (PHOTO BY: UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/UNIVERSAL IMAG GROUP 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;}JOSHUA FRY SPEED, 1814 –1882 AND HIS WIFE LUCY GILMER FRY, 1788 – {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;}WHEN LLN MOVED TO THE ILLOIS ONTIER HIS 20S, HE MOVED WH BILLY GREENE, WHO ACHED THE FUTURE PRINT GRAMMAR AND SHARED A NARROW {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;}"WHEN ONE TURNED OVER THE OTHER HAD TO DO LIKEWISE," REMARKED GREENE, WHO ALSO WAXED POETIC ABOUT LLN'S PHYSIQUE: "HIS THIGHS WERE AS PERFECT AS A HUMAN BEG ULD BE."{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;}GET A ROOM, {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;}FRANKL D. ROOSEVELT: I MARRIED A LBIANKEYSTONE FEATUR/GETTY IMAG1936: FRANKL DELANO ROOSEVELT (1882 - 1945) THE 32ND PRINT OF THE UNED STAT OM 1933-45. A DEMOCRAT, HE LED HIS UNTRY THROUGH THE PRSN OF THE 1930'S AND WORLD WAR II, AND WAS ELECTED FOR AN UNPRECENTED FOURTH TERM OF OFFICE 1944. (PHOTO BY KEYSTONE FEATUR/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;}DID THE ROOSEVELTS HAVE A MARRIAGE BEREFT OF ROMANTIC ARDOR? WAS ELEANOR A LBIAN? WE'LL PROBABLY NEVER KNOW. BUT 'S TERTG TO NOTE THAT MORS ABOUT HER SAME-SEX DALLIANC CIRCULATED EVEN WHILE THEY WERE THE WHE {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;}MRS. ROOSEVELT WAS CLOSE IENDS WH SEVERAL LBIAN UPL, CLUDG NANCY COOK AND MARN DICKERMAN, BUT WAS LORENA HICKOK WHO WAS HER OTHER {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 TWO WROTE THOANDS OF LETTERS TO EACH OTHER, MANY OF WHICH HAVE A ROMANTIC {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;}"HICK MY ART—I NNOT GO TO BED TONIGHT WHOUT A WORD TO YOU," ELEANOR WROTE. "I FELT A LTLE AS THOUGH A PART OF ME WAS LEAVG TONIGHT. YOU HAVE GROWN SO MUCH TO BE A PART OF MY LIFE THAT IS EMPTY WHOUT YOU... I WISH I ULD LIE DOWN BI YOU TONIGHT & TAKE YOU MY ARMS."KEYSTONE/GETTY IMAG1946: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (1884 - 1962) AMERIN THOR, LECTURER, AMBASSADOR, SOCIAL ACTIVIST AND WIFE OF THE 32ND PRINT FRANKL D ROOSEVELT. A REPRENTATIVE TO THE UNED NATNS, SHE IS LISTENG THROUGH HEADPHON DURG A NFERENCE AT THE TEMPORARY UN HEADQUARTERS AT LAKE SUCCS, NEW YORK. (PHOTO BY KEYSTONE/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;}"I’VE BEEN TRYG TO BRG BACK YOUR FACE — TO REMEMBER JT HOW YOU LOOK," SHE ADD. "FUNNY HOW EVEN THE ART FACE WILL FA AWAY TIME. MOST CLEARLY I REMEMBER YOUR EY, WH A KD OF TEASG SE THEM, AND THE FEELG OF THAT SOFT SPOT JT NORTHEAST OF THE RNER OF YOUR MOUTH AGAST MY LIPS."{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;}HISTORIAN DORIS KEARNS GOODW WROTE THAT "WHETHER HICK AND ELEANOR WENT BEYOND KISS AND HUGS" ULD NEVER BE KNOWN FOR THE CERTA, BUT "DAY AFTER DAY, MONTH AFTER MONTH, THE TONE THE LETTERS ON BOTH SIS REMAS FERVENT AND LOVG."{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;}ROOSEVELT’S GRANDDGHTER NA GIBSON SAID, "I HAVE NO IA WHETHER LORENA HICKOCK HAD A HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIP WH MY GRANDMOTHER OR NOT. AND MY FEELG ABOUT THAT IS, KD OF, 'WHO R?'... IF THEY ULD MAKE EACH OTHER HAPPY, ANY WAY, THEN THAT’S WHAT’S IMPORTANT."{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;}JOHN F. KENNEDY: BEYOND MARILYNNATNAL ARCHIVE/NEWSMAKERS381091 27: PRINT JOHN F. KENNEDY SPEAKS AT A PRS NFERENCE AUGT 1, 1963. (PHOTO BY NATNAL ARCHIVE/NEWSMAKERS){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;}JFK'S OLST AND BT IEND WAS KIRK LEMOYNE BILLGS, KNOWN AS "LEM." THE TWO BEME FAST IENDS PREP SCHOOL AND, AFTER GRADUATN, THEY TRAVELED TO EUROPE {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;}THEY REMAED CLOSE UNTIL KENNEDY'S ASSASSATN—BILLGS HAD HIS OWN ROOM THE WHE HOE, AND JOE KENNEDY SR. LLED HIM "A SEND SON." (WHICH IS ODD NSIRG JFK HAD TWO BROTHERS).{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;}REPORTEDLY, LEM ONCE MA A PASS AT KENNEDY WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG: ACRDG TO THE 2008 BOOK JACK AND LEM, KENNEDY LIGHTLY REBUFFED HIM, SAYG, "I'M NOT THAT KD OF BOY."CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGJOHN F. KENNEDY, "DUNKER" THE DOG, AND LEM BILLGS AT THE HAGUE, DURG THEIR EUROPE TRIP. (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;}JOHN F. KENNEDY, "DUNKER" THE DOG, AND LEM BILLGS AT THE HAGUE, DURG A EUROPEAN {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;}BUT 2015'S ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: RFK JR. AND THE DARK SI OF THE DREAM, JERRY OPPENHEIMER CLAIMS THEY HAD A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP "THAT CLUD ORAL SEX, WH JACK ALWAYS ON THE RECEIVG END."{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;}LAWRENCE J. QUIRK, WHO WORKED WH BILLGS ON KENNEDY’S FIRST NGRSNAL MPAIGN 1946, TOLD OPPENHEIMER, "JACK WAS LOVE WH LEM BEG LOVE WH HIM AND NSIRED HIM THE IAL FOLLOWER-ADORER."{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;}RICHARD NIXON: TRICKY DICKWASHGTON BURE/GETTY IMAGAUGT 1968: AMERIN POLICIAN RICHARD NIXON (1913-1994) GIV THE 'V' FOR VICTORY SIGN AFTER RECEIVG THE PRINTIAL NOMATN AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN, MIAMI, FLORIDA. (PHOTO BY WASHGTON BURE/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;}I HONTLY NEVER HEARD GAY MORS ABOUT RICHARD NIXON BEFORE REARCHG THIS ARTICLE, BUT 2011'S NIXON'S DARKT SECRETS: THE INSI STORY OF AMERI’S MOST TROUBLED PRINT, DON FULSOM SUGGTS THE PRINT'S RELATNSHIP WH GANGSTER CHARL "BEBE" REBOZO WAS OF A "POSSIBLY HOMOSEXUAL NATURE."ARTHUR SCHATZ/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN/GETTY IMAGVIEW OF AMERIN POLICIAN AND REPUBLIN PARTY PRINTIAL NOMEE (AND SOON TO BE US PRINT) RICHARD NIXON (1913 - 1994) (LEFT) AS HE STANDS ON A BOAT OWNED BY HIS IEND, BANKER CHARL REBOZO (ALSO KNOWN AS BEBE REBOZO, 1912 - 1998), KEY BISYNE, FLORIDA, AUGT 1968. (PHOTO BY ARTHUR SCHATZ/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN/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;}NIXON AND REBOZO ON REBOZO'S BOAT. {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;}HE REUNTS STANC OF THE TWO CUDDLG TIMATELY AND HOLDG HANDS UNR A DNER {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;}OTHER HISTORIANS HAVE DISUNTED FULSOM'S CLAIMS AS GOSSIP, BUT THE MEN WERE VERY CLOSE: REBOZO, A BAGMAN FOR THE MAFIA, WAS AT NIXON'S SI WHEN HE {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;}BARACK OBAMA: COKED-UP GAY HTLERCHIP SOMOVILLA/GETTY IMAGWASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 24: U.S. PRINT BARACK OBAMA PRENTS ENTERTAER AND ARTIST BARBRA STREISAND WH THE PRINTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM DURG A CEREMONY THE EAST ROOM OF THE WHE HOE NOVEMBER 24, 2015 WASHGTON, DC. OBAMA PRENTED THE MEDAL TO THIRTEEN LIVG AND FOUR POSTHUMO PNEERS SCIENCE, SPORTS, PUBLIC SERVICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, POLICS AND ARTS, (PHOTO BY CHIP SOMOVILLA/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;}THERE HAVE BEEN MANY BIZARRE MORS ABOUT PRINT OBAMA—MOST OKED UP BY DISGNTLED NSERVATIV. LIKE WAYNE MADSEN, WHO CLAIMS THAT OBAMA AND FORMER WHE HOE CHIEF-OF-STAFF RAHM EMANUEL WERE LONGTIME MEMBERS OF CHIGO'S GAY MEN’S {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;}MADSEN ALSO CLAIMS OBAMA HAD AFFAIRS WH PRINTIAL BODYGUARD REGGIE LOVE, SENATE MAJORY LEAR BILL FRIST AND MASSACHETTS GOVERNOR DEVAL PATRICK, 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 GAY MAN, LARRY SCLAIR, CLAIMS HE PERFORMED ORAL SEX ON OBAMA THE BACK A LIMO 1999, WHILE THEN-ILLOIS STATE SENATOR SMOKED CRACK. 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WAS CLEAR TO ME THAT BARRY WAS STRICTLY TO MEN," MIA MARIE POPE SAID OF HER "IEND," WHOM SHE ALSO LLED A DG ADDICT AND "PATHOLOGIL LIAR."{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;}"HE WAS HAVG SEX WH THE OLR WHE GUYS, AND THAT’S HOW HE WAS GETTG HIS E TO BE ABLE TO EEBASE," SHE TOLD {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;}ACTUALLY, PRINT OBAMA HAS TROUBLE GETTG BED WH OLD WHE GUYS—JT LOOK AT {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
* is there a gay president *
“If Ain Amerins were sort of disproportnately cled to not vote for somebody who is gay, you would thk that would have shown up there as well, ” said David Barker, director of the Center for Congrsnal and Printial Studi at Amerin Universy Washgton. Man, ” wh Buttigieg’s same-sex marriage, and said Amerins are “still not ready to elect a gay guy kissg his hband on the bate stage [as] print. )Consirg how much people love to speculate on who might and might not be gay — I thk ’s replaced baseball and oby as Ameri’s favore pastime — I was surprised I uldn’t fd a sgle list out about the potential closeted homosexualy of the U.
Apologi to Elanor Roosevelt who would’ve ma the cut if I really need to fudge thgs… and also to Harry Tman, whose ployg of the Enola Gay was gog to be my emergency 11th pick if I uldn’t fd anyone better.
” That sounds, tabloid speculatn and beg one of the most pro-gay rights prints ever isn’t enough to ph him any higher on the list than last. That beg said, a book lled Jack and Lem dug ep to his lifelong iendship wh a gay man named Lem Billgs… and at least threw some iffs to the mix.
OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
Was his close iendship wh William Ruf Kg jt that, or was evince that he was the natn's first gay chief executive? * is there a gay president *
)Sce the man who was clost to LBJ for 25 years turned out to be gay on the down low (he had a wife and six kids; they separated a few years after the sndal) — speculatn surfaced that maybe there was somethg between Johnson and Jenks. If the past ten years have tght anythg, ’s the lour a polician ralli agast gay rights, the more likely he is to wd up gettg ught sgg “Glory, Glory Hole-allujah.
In 1953, Eisenhower signed Executive Orr 10450, which classified gays and lbians as potential natnal secury threats and banned them om workg for the ernment. But I rearched every sgle print for this list — and when people do get around to jawg on Chter A., the homosexual thg keeps poppg up. It's Print's Day, when we salute Gee Washgton (who was actually born on Febary 22) and all our Commanrs we've never had an out print (yet), gay people have been a part of printial history sce the begng.
In fact, a gay man once saved the print's September 22, 1975, Sarah Jane Moore pulled a gun on Print Gerald Ford as he was leavg San Francis's St. Fortunately, Oliver Sipple, a gay man and a rated Mare who served Vietnam, was there to grab Moore’s hand as she ed her shot and saved Ford om assassatn, beg a hero to the LGBT muny.. "For once, we n show that gays n do heroic thgs, " said Harvey Milk, then nng for a seat on the San Francis Board of, llg a print gay was muckrakg.
AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE
As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * is there a gay president *
Friedrich Wilhelm von Stben (below) was a Pssian ary officer who fled Europe to avoid prosecutn for homosexualy—even Benjam Frankl knew of von Stben’s open his expertise trag and tactics was more important to the Foundg Fathers than who he slept Stben arrived at Valley Fe Febary 1778 and quickly traed the men how to perform drills, stand at attentn, wield a bayo and quickly reload a mket, among other skills. "Roosevelt’s granddghter Na Gibson said, "I have no ia whether Lorena Hickock had a homosexual relatnship wh my grandmother or not.
"Richard Nixon: Tricky DickI hontly never heard gay mors about Richard Nixon before rearchg this article, but 2011's Nixon's Darkt Secrets: The Insi Story of Ameri’s Most Troubled Print, Don Fulsom suggts the print's relatnship wh gangster Charl "Bebe" Rebozo was of a "possibly homosexual nature.
Other historians have disunted Fulsom's claims as gossip, but the men were very close: Rebozo, a bagman for the Mafia, was at Nixon's si when he Obama: Coked-Up Gay HtlerThere have been many bizarre mors about Print Obama—most oked up by disgntled nservativ.
A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY
While openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr world lears are still a rary, there are a few who are breakg barriers. * is there a gay president *
Like Wayne Madsen, who claims that Obama and former Whe Hoe Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel were longtime members of Chigo's gay men’s also claims Obama had affairs wh printial bodyguard Reggie Love, Senate Majory Lear Bill Frist and Massachetts Governor Deval Patrick, and others. A gay man, Larry Sclair, claims he performed oral sex on Obama the back a limo 1999, while then-Illois state senator smoked crack. Sclair says they had a send enunter when Obama showed up at his hotel room the next tails of the alleged tryst are Sclair's self-published book, Barack Obama & Larry Sclair: Coe, Sex, Li & lastly, a woman claimg to be Barack Obama's high school classmate, told relig nservative Jam David Manng that the future print was known as gay when they were teens.
“If elected, you would be the first openly gay print of the Uned Stat, ” Stephen Colbert said to Pete Buttigieg after the mayor of South Bend, Ind., clared his ndidacy.
While the characterizatn of beg openly gay or “out” is relatively new, the fact is the Uned Stat has already had a gay print whose ntemporari knew : Jam Buchanan. Andrew Jackson referred to Kg as “Miss Nancy”— a phemism for a gay ntemporari lled Kg Buchanan’s “better half, ” and one ngrsman referred to him as “Mrs.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Supporters say that Pete Buttigieg’s ntributn to history will be dimished if the takeaway is that the untry shgged when the first openly gay man had a ser shot at the princy. * is there a gay president *
At most uld suggt Buchanan was not openly discsg this moment, we fet that beg gay the mid-19th century did not tomatilly exclu a man om natnal learship. S., sorry, Pete Buttigieg, you n’t aim to be the first gay print, although you uld be the first married gay print.
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.
WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.
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.
THERE WON’T BE A GAY PRINT 2021. SO WHAT DO BUTTIGIEG’S CAMPAIGN TELL US?
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. Poll of the week: A new Qunipiac Universy poll fds that 70% of voters (cludg 86% of Democrats and pennts who lean Democratic) say they are open to electg a gay print. The same poll also disvered, however, that only 36% of voters (cludg 40% of Democrats and pennts who lean Democratic) thk the Uned Stat is ready to elect a gay print.
WHO WAS OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?
It’s also possible that some voters are not willg to adm to homophobia, while signalg by sayg sentially, “I’m ready, but others may not be. I should note that pollg on whether the untry is ready for a gay print differs signifintly om pollg on whether Amerins thought the untry was ready for a black print 2007 or a woman print 2015. Intertgly, all three stanc, more voters said they were ready for a black, female or gay print than thought the untry was ready for one.
But even if Amerins are more tolerant of gay Amerins than voters thk they are, more are prejudiced agast gay Amerins than they were agast black Amerins 2007 or women 2014. Today, about a quarter of all voters (cludg 10% of Democrats) told Qunipiac that they weren’t open to vote for a gay man for print.
About 35% of Amerins openly admted the 2018 General Social Survey that they thought “homosexual sex relatns” were almost always or always wrong. The percentage of Amerins who say they would vote for a gay person for print is up 15-20 pots sce 2007, pendg on the poll you look at. Further, ’s possible that if Buttigieg be succsful on the mpaign trail, then Amerins may bee even more open to the ia of a gay print.