Opn | Ameri has already had a gay print - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• 11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY
• OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
• WHO WAS OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?
• A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY

11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY

Buchanan, JFK, Clton, Obama, LBJ and more prumably gay U. )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.

Prints, ranked om least likely to most likely gay.

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.

OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT

) — which suggts he wasn’t gay.

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.

WHO WAS OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?

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.

There’s a ton of talk about Lln’s potential homosexualy. If any prumably regnized gay U. “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.

A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY

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.

” All this would be que peculiar if Buchanan was not gay.

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.