Dpe the Newsweek Cover Claim, Jam Buchanan Was Our First Gay Print |

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• GAY MEN AND THE PRINTS WHO LOVED THEMBTIPRINTS HAVE LONG HAD GAY ADVISERS. BUT ’S ONLY RECENTLY THAT THE LEAR OF THE EE WORLD HAS FELT SECURE ENOUGH TO LET BE KNOWN THAT HE’S IENDS WH THEM.JAM KIRCHICKUPDATED OCT. 23, 2020 11:00AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 24, 2014 5:45AM EDT THE DAILY BEASTSOMETIM THE SIGNIFINCE OF AN EM THE NEWS N BE MEASURED BY HOW LTLE ATTENTN ATTRACTS. TO SEE HOW FAR THE E OF GAY RIGHTS HAS PROGRSED SUCH A REMARKABLY SHORT PERD OF TIME, NSIR THE FOLLOWG SENTENCE BURIED AN OTHERWISE BANAL ASSOCIATED PRS REPORT ABOUT BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA’S VATN PLANS OVER THE RECENT FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIFORNIA. “THEY ARE STAYG WH WHE HOE RATOR MICHAEL SMH AND HIS PARTNER, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SPA JAM COSTOS, AT THEIR VATN HOME.”NOT LONG AGO, THE NOTN OF THE FIRST COUPLE SPENDG A LONG WEEKEND WH A GAY ONE, LET ALONE ADVERTISG TO THE PRS, WOULD HAVE PRENTED THE WHE HOE CHIEF OF STAFF WH A PR HEADACHE. WOULD THE PUBLIC READ TOO MUCH TO ? WOULD SIGNAL SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE? HOW WILL PLAY PEORIA? NOW, NOBODY BATS AN EYE.AMERIN PRINTS HAVE LONG HAD GAY IENDS AND ADVISERS, MANY OF WHOM HAVE OCCUPIED POSNS NOT SO STEREOTYPILLY SWISH AS WHE HOE RATOR. ONE ULD NCEIVABLY START THE LIST WH WILLIAM KG, WHO SERVED AS VICE PRINT TO FRANKL PIERCE, AND IS SPECULATED BY SOME HISTORIANS TO HAVE BEEN THE LOVER OF PRINT JAM BUCHANAN. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, HOWEVER, THEIR HOMOSEXUALY WAS A CLOSELY GUARD SECRET, REVEALED UNTENTNALLY OR AS A RULT OF EMBARRASSG SNDAL. IT IS ONLY VERY RECENTLY THAT THE LEAR OF THE EE WORLD HAS FELT SECURE ENOUGH TO LET BE KNOWN THAT HE’S IENDS WH IENDS OF DOROTHY.JAM KIRCHICK
• OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
• THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’
• U.S. 'PROBABLY HAD EXCELLENT PRINTS WHO WERE GAY,' BUTTIGIEG SAYS
• 7 POLICIANS WHO'VE FACED GAY RUMORS
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
• WHO WAS OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?

GAY MEN AND THE PRINTS WHO LOVED THEMBTIPRINTS HAVE LONG HAD GAY ADVISERS. BUT ’S ONLY RECENTLY THAT THE LEAR OF THE EE WORLD HAS FELT SECURE ENOUGH TO LET BE KNOWN THAT HE’S IENDS WH THEM.JAM KIRCHICKUPDATED OCT. 23, 2020 11:00AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 24, 2014 5:45AM EDT THE DAILY BEASTSOMETIM THE SIGNIFINCE OF AN EM THE NEWS N BE MEASURED BY HOW LTLE ATTENTN ATTRACTS. TO SEE HOW FAR THE E OF GAY RIGHTS HAS PROGRSED SUCH A REMARKABLY SHORT PERD OF TIME, NSIR THE FOLLOWG SENTENCE BURIED AN OTHERWISE BANAL ASSOCIATED PRS REPORT ABOUT BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA’S VATN PLANS OVER THE RECENT FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIFORNIA. “THEY ARE STAYG WH WHE HOE RATOR MICHAEL SMH AND HIS PARTNER, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SPA JAM COSTOS, AT THEIR VATN HOME.”NOT LONG AGO, THE NOTN OF THE FIRST COUPLE SPENDG A LONG WEEKEND WH A GAY ONE, LET ALONE ADVERTISG TO THE PRS, WOULD HAVE PRENTED THE WHE HOE CHIEF OF STAFF WH A PR HEADACHE. WOULD THE PUBLIC READ TOO MUCH TO ? WOULD SIGNAL SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE? HOW WILL PLAY PEORIA? NOW, NOBODY BATS AN EYE.AMERIN PRINTS HAVE LONG HAD GAY IENDS AND ADVISERS, MANY OF WHOM HAVE OCCUPIED POSNS NOT SO STEREOTYPILLY SWISH AS WHE HOE RATOR. ONE ULD NCEIVABLY START THE LIST WH WILLIAM KG, WHO SERVED AS VICE PRINT TO FRANKL PIERCE, AND IS SPECULATED BY SOME HISTORIANS TO HAVE BEEN THE LOVER OF PRINT JAM BUCHANAN. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, HOWEVER, THEIR HOMOSEXUALY WAS A CLOSELY GUARD SECRET, REVEALED UNTENTNALLY OR AS A RULT OF EMBARRASSG SNDAL. IT IS ONLY VERY RECENTLY THAT THE LEAR OF THE EE WORLD HAS FELT SECURE ENOUGH TO LET BE KNOWN THAT HE’S IENDS WH IENDS OF DOROTHY.JAM KIRCHICK

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. 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).

OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT

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. 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. While acceptance of LGBT people may feel like only h s stri recent years (and may still be set back), homosexualy has always been a part of Ameri.

Son of Print John Adams, Charl Adams his youth beme a protégé of Friedrich von Stben and would grow fortable his own homosexualy. “I am gay and I fly the flag of pri and liberty for all of , ” Ross said, acrdg to Lanr, who says Ross revealed she was part of an unrground gay and lbian muny the late 18th century. While servg as ambassador to France, was Frankl who reced strategist Baron Friedrich von Stben to provi his expertise to the rebelln, spe knowg the soldier’s homosexualy.

THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’

Of urse, AIDS activist and wrer Larry Kramer lists Frankl among the Amerin historil figur he believ were gay, so maybe Frankl was more than an ally. Senator om Alabama, William Ruf Devane Kg is nsired by many to have been the natn’s first gay vice print, acrdg to the Washgton Bla. The only bachelor to ever be elected print of the Uned Stat, Jam Buchanan by multiple acunts engaged gay relatnships and may be remembered history as the first gay print.

Kennedy has claimed that fluoridated water is “dggg” children, HIV do not e Aids and chemils the water are makg people gay or transgenr as well as phg nonsensil nspiracy theori about wifi and 5G cellular the son of former attorney general Robert Kennedy, and nephew of former print John F Kennedy, Kennedy has ed anguish to one of Ameri’s most storied polil dynasti wh his toxic 2019 three relativ wrote an opn lumn for the Poli webse nmng his anti-vacce advocy, which they held partially rponsible for a measl Congrsnal Integry Project ntends that Kennedy is a “Republin stooge” who is beg embraced by the far right an attempt to damage Bin. "Hoover thought many left-leang Amerins posed a threat to the natn, and he thought the same of gay people -- even though there's reason to believe Hoover was gay himself and a long-term relatnship wh ai Cly Tolson.

U.S. 'PROBABLY HAD EXCELLENT PRINTS WHO WERE GAY,' BUTTIGIEG SAYS

"Many loyal Amerins, by reason of stabily, alholism, homosexualy, or prev tennci to associate wh Communist-ont groups, are untentnally secury risks, " Ike himself wrote, although he also admted feelg guilty over his treatment of Vannberg. Civil Service Commissn lifted the orr 1975, and the Department of Defense, which had ed to ny secury clearanc to gays and lbians, gradually ceased s "tensive qutng of gays... JohnsonKennedy and Johnson may have never thought their civil rights law would be terpreted as protectg LGBT people, but Kennedy, at least, would probably approve -- his bt iend was a gay man, Lem Billgs.

Also, the EEOC has held that Tle VII's protectns extend to discrimatn agast gay, lbian, and bisexual employe, if the discrimatn aris out of genr stereotyp. " Its Office of Civil Rights will therefore vtigate such claims, offerg a means of relief for transgenr and, to some extent, lbian, gay, and bisexual CarterCarter, who intifi as a "born-aga" Christian, is proof that ep relig fah need not go hand hand wh homophobia.

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

7 POLICIANS WHO'VE FACED GAY RUMORS

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

Clton's efforts to end the ban on gays, lbians, and bisexuals the armed forc met wh strong ristance om ary lears and members of Congrs.

To date, there have been five openly LGBTQ+ people who have served as a natnal head of ernment, Iceland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Serbia -- but gay, bisexual, lbian, and even transgenr lears have guid natns sce time immemorial.

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

That he sat on the throne named Neferkare leads many scholars to believe the tale Kg Neferkare and General Sase, which scrib a gay relatnship between a pharaoh and his general, was fact about Pepi, though Egyptologists ntue to bate if the story was tth or fictn.

WHO WAS OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?

The dictator of the cy of Athens 514, Hipparch had ma a sexual advance toward the openly gay Harmodi and was rejected multiple tim, acrdg to historian Thucydis.

The ler of England om 1087 to 1100, Kg William II was gay, acrdg to the wrer Eadmer, though effemate mannerisms and fashn choic seemed his primary evince. The grand de of Tny om 1621 until 1670, Ferdando married and produced children, but also quarreled wh his mother, Maria Madla of Atria, about whether homosexualy should be outlawed.

Likely Ameri's first gay print, Democrat Jam Buchanan won the electn of 1856 -- rallyg support om the slaveholdg stat the origal Southern Strategy. In addn to beg the first openly gay prime mister of the island natn, the 38-year-old was the youngt head of ernment for the untry and the first member of an ethnic mory to hold the post (his father is an Indian immigrant).