Quote (penoyman @ May 9 2016 07:28am)
We is get a gay president for the first time in history?
It's pretty likely we've already had one in the career bachelor James Buchanan.
Ever since a prominent academic declared that America's 15th president, James Buchanan, was probably homosexual, the possibility has become a part of the conversational record, if not the definitive historical record, regarding U.S. commanders-in-chief.
Buchanan occupied the White House in 1857-1861. Here is some of the information underlying the claim that he was gay — a possibility put forward in the 1999 book, "Lies Across America," by sociologist James W. Loewen.
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Consider the case of President Buchanan. For many years in Washington, he lived with William Rufus King, Senator from Alabama. The two men were inseparable; wags referred to them as "the Siamese twins." Andrew Jackson dubbed King "Miss Nancy"; Aaron Brown, a prominent Democrat, writing to Mrs. James K. Polk, referred to him as Buchanan's "better half," "his wife," and "Aunt Fancy ... rigged out in her best clothes.”" When in 1844 King was appointed minister to France, he wrote Buchanan, "I am selfish enough to hope you will not be able to procure an associate who will cause you to feel no regret at our separation." After King's departure, Buchanan wrote to a Mrs. Roosevelt about his social life:
I am now "solitary and alone," having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them.
King and Buchanan's relationship, though interrupted from time to time by their foreign service, ended only with King's death in 1853.
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http://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/144754#sthash.Hx2o9cnq.dpuf