Gay print 20 years off, says former U.S. Congrsman Barney Frank | Rters

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• 11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY
• WHO WAS OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?
• OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
• AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE
• EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
• 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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11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY

)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. There was a sarstic New Yorker wre-up of why Thomas Jefferson might’ve been gay last year.

)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.

WHO WAS OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?

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.

OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT

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. Google Jam Buchanan and you evably disver the assertn that Amerin history has clared him to be the first gay print. 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.

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

And why do Amerins seem fixated on makg Buchanan our first gay print? 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.

EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS

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

The media soon ught wd of the ia that we may have had a “gay print.

” 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. Updike creatively imaged the boardghoe life of Buchanan and Kg, but he admted to fdg few “trac of homosexual passn.

PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED

This leav today wh the popular nceptn of Jam Buchanan as our first gay print. Centuri of reprsn of homosexualy the Uned Stat has erased untls number of Amerins om the story of LGBT history. More than anythg else, this impulse explas why Amerins have transformed Jam Buchanan to our first gay print.

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

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.

You may have seen the other ntroversial newsmagaze ver this week, the one where Newsweek dubbed Print Obama “The First Gay Print“. But as Jim Loewen at the History News Network would like to remd , even if Obama were gay, he wouldn’t be the first: more than 150 years before the Uned Stat had s first black print, had s first homosexual manr chief.

(MORE: Gay Marriage the Swg Stat: Where Will Obama’s ‘Evolutn’ Matter?

RICHARD GRENELL NOW HIGHT-RANKG OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL US ERNMENT HISTORY

Loewen is one of several historians who believe that Jam Buchanan, who served om 1857 to 1861, was fact our first gay print.

And while Loewen not that Obama’s stance on gay marriage is a wele parture om our recent past, to tout morn Amerin society as more tolerant than any our history is a claim that has yet to pass the tt of time.

Mayor Pete, we're here to a recent terview, you said that "statistilly 's almost certa" that Ameri has had gay prints, but when prsed for nam, you murred, sayg, "My gaydar don't even work that well the prent, let alone retroactively.

PRINTIAL PROCLAMATN--LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PRI MONTH

"Ours works very well ed, although we no longer refer to as "gaydar" but LGBTTQQIAAP-dar. Now, as a public service to you, we have ranked 14 prints acrdg to their gay potential.

EisenhowerGay: Pated gay: None of the landsp had fy Inx: 9Thomas JeffersonGay: Kept a mockgbird named Dick. Spent the morn equivalent of $120, 000 on we durg his first term as gay: May have served claret wh Inx: 14John Qucy AdamsGay: Regularly skny-dipped Tiber Creek, a Potomac River gay: Decled to have nu selfi Inx: 17Lyndon JohnsonGay: Referred to his penis as Jumbo, makg him Ameri's first size gay: Lady Bird was his wife, not his drag Inx: 21Andrew JohnsonGay: Sewed his own bpoke gay: Never asked anybody if he looked fat Inx: 28William McKleyGay: Wore a red rnatn boutonniere his lapel at all tim and kept a bouquet of rnatns on his gay: Inx: 35Ronald ReaganGay: Voted Most Nearly Perfect Male Figure by the Universy of California 1940 and posed nearly nu for a sculpture gay: Did actual work on his Inx: 42Gerald FordGay: Met his future wife while workg as a male mol (wowza, see image).

Appeared on the ver of gay: Turned down the ver of Inx: 48Warren HardgGay: Threw parti for his Airedale terrier, Laddie Boy, who had a llar ma om Gold Rh gay: No actual teapots were volved Teapot Inx: 56Calv CoolidgeGay: Had pet nari named Snowflake, Nip and Tuck. Liked to have his slp massaged wh petrolm jelly while eatg gay: Breakfast clud Inx: 61Chter A. He said no to gay: He checked them out before turng them Inx: 70Abraham LlnGay: Shared a bed wh his iend Joshua Speed for three and a half years.

MEMORANDUM ON ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD

" Both men had their papers burned after gay: Oh, e on, he's Inx: 100Louis Bayard is the thor of the novel Courtg Mr. “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. Ined, the Uned Stat has also had a gay vice print and, maybe more surprisgly, a gay senator om stunts takg U. 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.

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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.

The ia that some people, cludg policians and social lears, are gay was not news or shockg to our forefathers. 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.

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Jam Loewen, a proment Amerin soclogist and historian, has been outspoken his claims that Buchanan was the first gay print, wrg a 2012 say:. "There n be no doubt that Jam Buchanan was gay, before, durg, and after his four years the Whe Hoe.

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.

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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.

Lln has e unr speculatn as well as havg had gay or bisexual affectns, but he did marry and father four children.

Our Natn has ma great stris fulfillg the fundamental promis of eedom and equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI+) Amerins, owg to the learship of generatns of LGBTQI+ dividuals.

PETE BUTTIGIEG: I’M NOT NNG TO BE THE GAY PRINT OF THE UNED STAT

Pete Buttigieg believ he probably won’t be the first gay print if he’s elected 2020. Mayor was asked how he’d rpond to crics who ll him too young, too liberal and too gay. I would image we’ve probably had excellent prints who were gay — we jt didn’t know which on, ” Buttigeig said.

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.

PRINTIAL PROCLAMATN -- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PRI MONTH, 2014

“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.

“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. But by the standard of morn gay inty, no print would f to that tegory. ” Both Balcerski and Clev say gay inty needs to be seen through the lens of the era.

“Did Jam Buchanan or Abraham Lln intify as gay the morn sense of the term?

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The 19th century was an era before homosexualy was medilly classified as a disorr or perversn. “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.