Was Jam Buchanan the First Gay Print?

Contents:

• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
• 11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY
• 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

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

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. 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. 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.

But history also remembers Ai of Han for his effive homosexualy. 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.

Richard the Lnheart has been picted as gay books and films, most famoly by Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter. Much of the talk of his purported homosexualy stems om the time he spent wh Kg Phillip II of France 1187. He would produce no heirs of his own and was plagued by mors of homosexualy his lifetime.

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

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. Historians say the mother once gave her son a list of reported gay people and said that they should be burned.

Many historians believe the men were engaged a homosexual relatnship, not unmon the era.

It was briefly a gay old time the Whe Hoe wh Lln succeedg Buchanan office. Likely Ameri's first gay print, Democrat Jam Buchanan won the electn of 1856 -- rallyg support om the slaveholdg stat the origal Southern Strategy. Oh, and he was openly gay.

11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY

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). 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?

WHO WAS 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. ” 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.

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

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. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn. ”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive.

” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay.

”He is one of jt a few openly gay heads of state the world. She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual!

”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.

“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters.