The Washgton Post has a story today about Ameri's first gay first lady. She was Grover Cleveland's sister Rose, who acted as his first lady bee he was elected whout a wife. In the summer of 1910, Evangele Simpson Whipple told the retaker of her home not to move anythg her absence. The wealthy…
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- A GAY FIRST LADY? Y, WE’VE ALREADY HAD ONE, AND HERE ARE HER LOVE LETTERS.
- WASHGTON POST: AMERI’S FIRST GAY FIRST LADY REVEALED
- AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE
A GAY FIRST LADY? Y, WE’VE ALREADY HAD ONE, AND HERE ARE HER LOVE LETTERS.
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When bachelor (and mored gay lover of William Ruf Kg) Buchanan beme print 1857, Lane took up the post of first lady. Pete Buttigieg’s hband, Chasten, uld make history by beg the First Gentleman of the Uned Stat if the Democratic hopeful ws 2020, but the honor of beg the ial gay First Signifint Other of the Uned Stat already belongs to someone else. The revelatn of Rose and Evangele’s love affair also unrsr an important fact that had been lost to history: a gay woman sat as First Lady of the Uned Stat.
Then, read how some historians believe Jam Buchanan was the first gay print of the Uned Stat. The Washgton Post has a story today about Ameri’s first gay first lady.
WASHGTON POST: AMERI’S FIRST GAY FIRST LADY REVEALED
Rose Cleveland was not the only gay first lady.
In Bros, which may or may not be the first major gay rom-, Billy Eichner’s character is workg on another big first, openg the first major LGBTQ history mm. As part of that job, he spends much of the film discsg whether var historil figur were gay, cludg Abraham Lln and the ancient Egyptian pairg of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum.
(In both of those s pends who you ask, and what you mean by “gay. And Pete Buttigieg's hband, Chasten, would be not only the first "first gentleman" but the first gay one should Mayor Pete w the princy. 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.
AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE
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. 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. 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.