History and Sexual Orientation

[monolith94]

Maybe John Brown was gay.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Drop the gay stuff and come at history, the White House, and sexuality from a different angle: Peter Lawford once famously said of Nancy Reagan that "she gave the best head in Hollywood." Was it true? Why not find out!

Just the thought is enough to make one shrivel up and disappear.

[Kepler]

He probably said it about Nancy Davis, but it would be a lot funnier to think of President Max Headroom's missus going down on the brat pack.

Isn't Buchanon the only bachelor president, and wouldn't that leave him wide open to political digs about his sexuality? It wouldn't be a very good political instinct to be gay and not have a wife as a beard.

My vote for most likely bisexual president is Bush I. Lots of hours with the Wiffenpoofs circling-jerking their way through Yale, and then he marries his mom? It's got Norman Bates all over it.

[monolith94]

Theodore Roosevelt like wrestling ALOT. And he spent ALOT of time out "hunting" with the boys.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Kepler

Isn't Buchanon the only bachelor president, and wouldn't that leave him wide open to political digs about his sexuality? It wouldn't be a very good political instinct to be gay and not have a wife as a beard.

Just because he was single in his presidency, does not necessarily call for questioning his sexual orientation.

In my first post, I mentioned other claims that could hold more ground than just saying "he was single" as to why his sexual orientation is still in question.

[General Ludd]

Are you making a thesis or a gossip column?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Osweld
Are you making a thesis or a gossip column?

Oh look, we have an amateurish troll.

[chequita guevara]

There was one other bachelor president as well. One of the early ones, can't remember who, though.

There is a lot of room to question Buchanon's orientation, but there's no real proof, which is what you'll need in order to "out" him. You'd have to get your hands on undisclosed or exceedingly rare primary sources to mak the case effectively. Many have tried, no one has prooven. Buchanon left no smoking gun.

[loinburger]

I think that Madison was a bachelor, but that Abby Adams was his companion. Whooo-eee!

[chequita guevara]

That sounds about right, except wasn't it Dolly Madison who saved the paintings from the White House when the Brits burned the city?

Maybe I'm confusing widower and bachelor. Jefferson had no first lady.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
There was one other bachelor president as well. One of the early ones, can't remember who, though.

There is a lot of room to question Buchanon's orientation, but there's no real proof, which is what you'll need in order to "out" him. You'd have to get your hands on undisclosed or exceedingly rare primary sources to mak the case effectively. Many have tried, no one has prooven. Buchanon left no smoking gun.

Yes -- my history professor has explained why it would be difficult.

I think now, I am going to choose my first choice topic:

The Emancipation Proclamation produced a revolutionary change in the society and economy of United States.
That is my thesis -- for now.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The Emancipation Proclamation produced a revolutionary change in the society and economy of United States.

I would argue the 13th or 14th Amendment was much more of a revolutionary change .

[Timexwatch]

Why does the paper even have to involve sex, much less homosexuality? It makes it sound like you have a big, gay axe to grind

[chequita guevara]

And I would argue that both the Amendments and the Proclamation merely recognized the state of affairs that was already in existence, that the Slaves of the South had already emancipate themselves by going on a general strike.

(The truth lies in a combination of all of the above).

[loinburger]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
That sounds about right, except wasn't it Dolly Madison who saved the paintings from the White House when the Brits burned the city?

It was either Dolly or Abby who went back to the White House for a later president (after either John or James was dead). It might have been Dolly staying around for Monroe, but I dunno--I forget when James Madison died.