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Pete Buttigieg said "statistilly, 's almost certa," the U.S. has had a gay print. Many historians disagree

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

Was his close iendship wh William Ruf Kg jt that, or was evince that he was the natn's first gay chief executive? * 1st gay president and husband *

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. Was each man “gay, ” or somethg else? 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. 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.

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” 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. 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.

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. The tete-a-tete found their letters is among the most tertg I have seen om policians of this you, as a scholar, have reason to believe or spect that eher Buchanan or Kg was gay or bisexual? The classifitn of heterosexualy and homosexualy as sexual orientatns do not bee wispread until the end of the 19th century.

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I adm that the kd of answer we want is elive -- gay, bisexual, straight -- and I am hant to impose a ntemporary worldview on 19th century social relatns... By this lens, I don't see the evince for Buchanan beg eher gay or bisexual, and I generally read him as "straight-actg, straight-lookg, " spe the claims of others who thk him clearly to be gay.

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I thk we stand on firmer ground wh Kg, about whom the evince suggts that he was gay. That this half of the rrponnce (Buchanan to Kg) do not survive is unfortunate, but has more to do wh Kg as a rerd keeper and the ravaged state of post-war Alabama than anythg "emotnally non-heterosexual, " I take that you mean homoerotic. Keepg md the logistics of provg this for certa, we n reasonably nclu that Jam Buchanan was gay (th he would be our "first gay Print").

“Miss Nancy” and “Aunt Fancy”: Gay, Liberal, Lears of the Free World; …and Mid 1800’s Democrats. In terms of firsts, we n’t prove other past Prints or Vic weren’t gay, but there is no evince to suggt any before Buchanan and Kg were.

Real First Gay Print Was Jam Buchanan? Not everyone fully aggrs Buchanan was gay, but to be fair people thought Rock Hudson and Liberace (who was oddly nservative spe the name) were straight. Was Jam Buchanan Gay?

OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A 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... * 1st gay president and husband *

Put simply, historians are almost posive that Buchanan and Kg were gay and a relatnship, although is easier to prove their relatnship than other specifics.

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Jam Buchanan was a gay liberal who favored Big Government. Pete Buttigieg believ he probably won’t be the first gay print if he’s elected 2020.

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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.

Has had a gay print–by the morn fn. “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.

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