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• WAS RICHARD NIXON GAY?LET’S LOOK AT THE 37TH PRINT’S SEXUALYJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·7 M READ·MAY 1, 2020--3SHAREAT A WASHGTON D.C. DNER PARTY, A JOURNALIST DROPPED A FORK ON THE FLOOR. PICKG UP, SHE NOTICED THAT PRINT NIXON AND HIS CLOSE IEND BEBE REBOZO WERE HOLDG HANDS UNR THE TABLE.THE SCENE IS FOUND ALL THE BGRAPHI—WH A LOT OF OTHER TALK ABOUT THE TWO MEN. THEY ME ACROSS, AS AN AI TO LYNDON JOHNSON NOT, “CLOSE LIKE LOVERS.” BUT STILL SEEMS CREDIBLE TO THK THAT RICHARD NIXON WAS GAY.RICHARD NIXON (EDED)WASHGTON MONORED THE SUATN QUIETLY.
• OPN WAS NIXON GAY? NO, BUT THAT DON’T STOP THE MOR L.
• RUMORS SURFACE THAT NIXON WAS GAY
• FET RICHARD NIXON'S GAY LOVER: THIS IS J EDGAR HOOVER'S SECRET LOVE CHILD
• WERE LLN AND NIXON GAY? THE ‘HISTORY’ BOOK THAT IS DIVIDG AMERI
• DID NIXON HAVE A GAY AFFAIR WH A MAFIA FIXER? FET WATERGATE. A NEW BOOK CLAIMS AMERI'S MOST RPT PRINT HID A FAR MORE PERSONAL SNDAL...
• RICHARD NIXON ARGU GAYS ARE 'BORN THAT WAY' IN NEWLY-RELEASED WHE HOE TAP
• NEW BOOK SUGGTS RICHARD NIXON HAD A GAY AFFAIR
• RICHARD NIXON'S ANTI-GAY RANT: FORMER PRINT SLAMS TV SERI, ROMAN RULERS IN 1970S AUD
• BOOK REVEALS NIXON'S FEELGS ON GAY PEOPLE, WOMEN, KISSGER
• DID RICHARD NIXON HAVE A GAY AFFAIR WH A KEY BISYNE BSMAN?

WAS RICHARD NIXON GAY?LET’S LOOK AT THE 37TH PRINT’S SEXUALYJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·7 M READ·MAY 1, 2020--3SHAREAT A WASHGTON D.C. DNER PARTY, A JOURNALIST DROPPED A FORK ON THE FLOOR. PICKG UP, SHE NOTICED THAT PRINT NIXON AND HIS CLOSE IEND BEBE REBOZO WERE HOLDG HANDS UNR THE TABLE.THE SCENE IS FOUND ALL THE BGRAPHI—WH A LOT OF OTHER TALK ABOUT THE TWO MEN. THEY ME ACROSS, AS AN AI TO LYNDON JOHNSON NOT, “CLOSE LIKE LOVERS.” BUT STILL SEEMS CREDIBLE TO THK THAT RICHARD NIXON WAS GAY.RICHARD NIXON (EDED)WASHGTON MONORED THE SUATN QUIETLY.

” But still seems credible to thk that Richard Nixon was gay. ”Bonnie Angelo, a reporter for Time, lled as a se of “reprsed homosexualy.

But gay? Acrdg to a book to be released Tuday, "Nixon's Darkt Secrets, " the former print and his bt iend, Charl "Bebe" Rebozo, had a relatnship of a "possibly homosexual nature. “Was Nixon’s tough-guy attu toward gays jt a ver for his own homosexualy, bisexualy or asexualy?

”The book attempts to buttrs the homosexual allegatn by repeatg mors that the twice-divorced Rebozo, known as a ladi’ man, was gay. Others, evintly, are too good to, the flimsy report of Nixon's "gay affair". When I asked Fulsom about the media reactn, he said that acunts scribg his "explosive revelatns" that Nixon "rried on a sizzlg gay love affair" exaggerated his fdgs, and he admted that, whout any photos showg Nixon and Rebozo flagrante licto, there is "no evince actually happened.

OPN WAS NIXON GAY? NO, BUT THAT DON’T STOP THE MOR L.

(Summers, the thor who was Fulsom’s source that Nixon pal Rebozo was gay, also dug up this far-fetched tale.

)Although the Hoover--drag mor has been wily discreded, has nohels entered popular folklore — poetic retributn agast the homophobic G-man whose sex-filled dossiers terrorized Washgton for half a century. It is no accint that the recent enzy of historil gay "outgs" — whether of Lln or Hoover or Nixon — is takg place when homosexualy has e out of the closet and same-sex marriage has bee a proment part of the legislative agenda many plac.

RUMORS SURFACE THAT NIXON WAS GAY

Now the gay mors are beg draped over Richard Nixon, the dark, homophobic two-term print doomed by the 1972 Watergate the upg b Nixon's Darkt Secrets, former UPI Whe Hoe reporter Don Fulsom, armed wh new eyewns terviews and documents, suggts a shockg "homosexual nature" the relatnship between Nixon and his bt iend Bebe Rebozo, the print's alleged mob bagman who was at Nixon's si when he there is no evince of any sexual enunters—as wh the Hoover mors played out the new Clt Eastwood movie J. For example, Fulsom reveals three stanc of the two men holdg hands, sometim public, one time unr a dner table, somethg Nixon did rarely, if ever, wh wife quot a former Time reporter who scribed a long hand-holdg terlu that led her to scribe the relatnship as "reprsed homosexualy. First was ‘FBI director J Edgar Hoover was a secret cross-drser and a closet gay.

First was ‘Anti-Communist Senator Joe McCarthy was a reprsed homosexual. ’ Now we have ‘Richard Nixon had a secret homosexual lover. Why trars on the ro bt markets are actg like a load of adolcent girls 31/07/12 'Whatever tak': Yet aga, the markets fall for the empty words of Euro lears 30/07/12 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE But let’s get back to Print Nixon and the man wh whom he ‘may have had’ a homosexual relatnship.

FET RICHARD NIXON'S GAY LOVER: THIS IS J EDGAR HOOVER'S SECRET LOVE CHILD

’ the answer is not that they were closet gay. Nobody knows if they – or anyone else – are or were ‘secretly’ homosexual.

So nobody knows if the three were gay, any more than we n know if the first three married Wtmster policians you n name are ‘secretly gay. ’ All we n say is that their lifetim there was no evince that Nixon, Hoover or McCarthy were homosexual.

Anyway, if they were that was their own private bs, not ours: or are the left-wgers makg the charg agast Nixon tryg to say that homosexual activy is as sndalo as rpet-bombg Cambodia? Secret gay lovers?

WERE LLN AND NIXON GAY? THE ‘HISTORY’ BOOK THAT IS DIVIDG AMERI

A basels accatn that he was a ‘secret’ homosexual isn’t one of ’s book jt as a new film about J Edgar Hoover opens the cemas. I hardly have to tell you that the pot of the film is to prent the crime-btg, Commie-spy huntg, FBI chief Hoover, as a reprsed – or perhaps active – homosexual.

What the film is dog is leechg onto the famo claims that Hoover was a secret gay who ed to go to parti drsed as a woman.

The Greek wrer Taki vers this his lumn the January edn of Chronicl, the Amerin paleo-nservative magaze: ‘Twenty years or so after he died, the mour was started about [Hoover’s] cross-drsg gay i by a woman’ – Taki means San Rosentiel, and no you’ve never heard of her – ‘who was known even among her radil circle for her fabritns and Baron Munchsen-like tal. Hoover was openly homophobic, didn’t tst Jews, and was acced of beg a racist durg the civil-rights troubl of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s.

DID NIXON HAVE A GAY AFFAIR WH A MAFIA FIXER? FET WATERGATE. A NEW BOOK CLAIMS AMERI'S MOST RPT PRINT HID A FAR MORE PERSONAL SNDAL...

’And boy did Rosenthiel know how to egg-up a smear: she claimed she had seen a man she was sure was Hoover several tim at homosexual i at the Plaza Hotel New York, drsed as woman, wearg a black wig and havg sex wh teenaged boys who were readg the claims are ludicro. But picturg J Edgar as gay, that’s box office. All I know is that at the time of her early ath she still had the picture of J Edgar hidn away, bee I found , nsirg what is passg as ‘evince’ for the relatnships of right-wgers such as Hoover, here is what we have about Hoover and my mother – and is a lot more solid evince than anyone has that Hoover and Tolson were homosexual, Hoover liked betiful dark haired young women such as Dorothy Lamour.

Gay-rights activist and award-wng thor Larry Kramer is 79 and failg health, but that won’t fe the impact of his latt bombshell project: the first 800-page stalment of a two-part history of Ameri that tells of the secret gay life of figur om Alexanr Haton, Gee Washgton and Abraham Lln to Mark Twa, Herman Melville and Richard Amerin People: Volume 1, subtled Search for My Heart, has taken nearly 40 years to plete and may prove to be one of the most provotive historil, or psdo-historil, acunts of Amerin, who is -founr of Aids servic group Gay Men’s Health Crisis and the Aids Coaln to Unleash Power (Act Up), as well as a chronicler of queer life wh plays cludg The Normal Heart and The Dty of Me, said the book is a labour of love signed to unter what he feels to be the excln of gays – or gay life – om history books.

There has never been any history book wrten where the gay people have been the history om the ’s ridiculo to thk we haven’t been here for ever. ”The Amerin People, Volume I: Search for My Heart is g nsternatn among historians, who say there is ltle evince to back Kramer’s Chernow, thor of an epic 2004 bgraphy of Alexanr Haton – the statman Kramer claims was at least bisexual if not entirely gay – utns agast “ransackg history service of a polil agenda” also claims that John Wilk Booth assassated Abraham Lln not bee he was unhappy that the South was losg the civil war, but bee Lln had spurned him.

RICHARD NIXON ARGU GAYS ARE 'BORN THAT WAY' IN NEWLY-RELEASED WHE HOE TAP

We ll gaydar – the thg straight historians don’t have.

He had a huge gay life. The thor sisted should clu gay sex; Streisand retorted that her tentn was “to promote the ia of everyone’s right to love. Gay or straight!

NEW BOOK SUGGTS RICHARD NIXON HAD A GAY AFFAIR

”The Amerin People is likely to rankle wh historians as there is no evince many of historil figur were gay. He claims Lln bgrapher Doris Kearns Goodw beme “hysteril” at the suggtn of homosexual tennci the print but this was, he add an terview wh NPR, “only bee she didn’t wre first” book, which has been labelled as a novel to avoid legal plitns, has divid US reviewers.

RICHARD NIXON'S ANTI-GAY RANT: FORMER PRINT SLAMS TV SERI, ROMAN RULERS IN 1970S AUD

Whether is absolutely accurate or not, The Amerin People speaks to a need across gay and straight muni to revise historil acunts om which sexual orientatn was absent. “The gay historil timele tends to go back as far as Osr Wil and no further, ” said Hickl. ”From some quarters there have been lls for a exclively gay branch of archaeology directed solely at tablishg sexual orientatn (Kramer claims trac of semen found the stools of English settlers prove his pot) where gay rights warrrs sought to fe themselv as gay fiance of the stigma around Aids, Hickl nsirs that sexual orientatn is no longer a sgular marker of inty.

BOOK REVEALS NIXON'S FEELGS ON GAY PEOPLE, WOMEN, KISSGER

Thirty five years sce HIV/Aids was intified there is still no cure, and vlence agast gay people is creasg several parts of the world. “We should have our own army as gays, ” he told The Advote. Did Nixon have a gay affair wh a Mafia fixer?

Print had a ser drk problem, beat his wife and — by the time he was gurated 1969 — had lks gog back two s to the Mafia, cludg wh New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello, then Ameri's most powerful the most extraordary claim is that the homophobic Nixon may have been gay himself. If te, would provi a fascatg sight to the motivatn and behavur of a notorly secretive argu that Nixon may have had an affair wh his bt iend and nfidant, a Mafia‑nnected Florida wheeler-aler named Charl 'Bebe' Rebozo who was even more crooked than book, Nixon's Darkt Secrets, is out next month — by cince at the same time as the UK release of a new film directed by Clt Eastwood about another supposed closet gay among Washgton's 20th-century hard men.

DID RICHARD NIXON HAVE A GAY AFFAIR WH A KEY BISYNE BSMAN?

It was, the reporter judged, sufficiently timate to suggt 'reprsed homosexualy'. A fellow Miami rint told Nixon bgrapher Anthony Summers that Rebozo was fely part of the cy's gay muny. Summers and -wrer Robbyn Swan, however, qutn whether there is enough evince to suggt Nixon was gay.

'They held hands on ocsn, and both men had problems wh nsummatg physil relatnships wh women, but we found no evince that Nixon was actively homosexual, ' Summers told me this week. Print Richard Nixon's stance on the gay and lbian muny, among other disclosur.