http://www.salon.com/2012/05/14/our_real_first_gay_president/singleton/

Quote :

"including Buchanan’s May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote: 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. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection."

James Buchanan apparently.

[Edited on May 15, 2012 at 12:41 AM. Reason : ]

5/15/2012 12:30:17 AM

no u

5/15/2012 12:36:16 AM

I mean no straight guy would pose like that amirite

[Edited on May 15, 2012 at 12:50 AM. Reason : ~

5/15/2012 12:50:11 AM

His lover was a senator from Al too, who then became an ambassador.

I wonder if the media just didn't know back then they were gay, or just didn't care?

It's weird to think the left/right politics weren't always as divisive as they are now...

[Edited on May 15, 2012 at 1:00 AM. Reason : ]

5/15/2012 12:58:56 AM

The article claims "he was not far into the closet."

5/15/2012 1:08:57 AM

Quote :

"Buchanan's and King's close relationship prompted Andrew Jackson to call King "Miss Nancy" and "Aunt Fancy", while Aaron V. Brown spoke of the two as "Buchanan and his wife.""

Haha.

5/15/2012 1:11:17 AM

haha take that alabama!

5/15/2012 2:54:34 AM

5/15/2012 6:18:34 AM

http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=612832&page=5#15388945

5/15/2012 7:06:47 AM

dweedle wins

5/15/2012 7:17:24 AM

this is an interesting story

for an additional fun fact, look up where "aunt fancy" went to college

5/15/2012 8:43:02 AM

^BOOM ROASTED

5/15/2012 8:43:50 AM

^^ hahaha

5/15/2012 9:02:59 AM

Bwahahaha that's fantastic

5/15/2012 9:07:42 AM

how fitting

5/15/2012 9:49:16 AM

hahahhaa

I was totally hoping for UNC

but I must say his actual alma mater is even more appropriate, son.

5/15/2012 10:09:26 AM

What? Wiki says he did go to UNC. Where else did he go? Bob Jones University or something?

5/15/2012 10:10:48 AM

Quote :

"It's weird to think the left/right politics weren't always as divisive as they are now..."

whaaaaat


this is in 1844. shootings on the floor the of the capital happen. if we have different politics, we'll duel and get it over with. And 20 years later, we're all at war with each other.


say what you want about politics today vs. back then, but a bunch of people bitching on the internet is hardly as divisive as taking up arms.

5/15/2012 10:13:36 AM

Quote :

"What? Wiki says he did go to UNC. Where else did he go? Bob Jones University or something?"

Dickinson College.

5/15/2012 10:16:39 AM

^^^ haha, maybe someone on TWW changed it. He went to Dickinson college.

[Edited on May 15, 2012 at 10:17 AM. Reason : .]

5/15/2012 10:17:32 AM

HAHA, I actually found a couple of places on Wiki where it said he graduated from UNC-CH.

5/15/2012 10:20:04 AM

^, ^^, ^^^

we talkin bout "aunt fancy". william rufus king. not james buchanan.

let me help you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rufus_King

[Edited on May 15, 2012 at 10:21 AM. Reason : carrot]

5/15/2012 10:20:35 AM

Reading comprehension fail ITT

5/15/2012 10:23:33 AM

still the Dick in son college could be appropriate for Buchanan.

[Edited on May 15, 2012 at 10:26 AM. Reason : not his own son, that is...some other person's son. Like King. Yes?]

5/15/2012 10:25:12 AM

haha, best of both worlds:

The first gay President, a graduate of Dickinson College, having the buttsex with a graduate of UNC, where that tradition runs deep.


Also, King supported the Senate's gag rule.

[Edited on May 15, 2012 at 10:27 AM. Reason : ]

5/15/2012 10:25:43 AM

haha, yes indeed, reading comprehension fail.


still hilarious

5/15/2012 10:26:47 AM

Dude pops his collar. Obviously gay.

5/15/2012 11:35:57 AM

Quote :

"this is in 1844. shootings on the floor the of the capital happen."

What shootings were those?

5/15/2012 3:08:39 PM

I'm guessing he means the beatdown of Senator Charles Sumner with a cane. Which is kind of like a shooting... and happened in the 1850s

5/15/2012 3:17:44 PM

I knew about the beatdown.

I was unaware of anybody going Columbine in 1844 though.

5/15/2012 3:19:28 PM

Y'all hold still now while I get out mah powda horn.

5/15/2012 3:21:02 PM

Quote :

"for an additional fun fact, look up where "aunt fancy" went to college"

LOL excellent

5/15/2012 4:48:23 PM

moron, the term "homosexual" wouldn't even be coined for half a decade after that letter, and "gay" wouldn't get its present meaning until about 70 years after that; the notion of exclusive same-sex attraction wasn't really on anyone's radar until Richard von Krafft-Ebing started studying and writing about it.

5/15/2012 10:21:48 PM

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Quote :

"A macaroni (or formerly maccaroni)[1] in mid-18th century England, was a fashionable fellow who dressed and even spoke in an outlandishly affected and epicene manner. The term pejoratively referred to a man who "exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion"[2] in terms of clothes, fastidious eating and gambling. Like a practitioner of macaronic verse, which mixed English and Latin to comic effect, he mixed Continental affectations with his English nature, laying himself open to satire:"

Quote :

"The Macaroni Club Homosexual Scandals in 1772... "

http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/macaroni.htm

[Edited on May 16, 2012 at 12:48 AM. Reason : ]

5/16/2012 12:43:48 AM

Interesting.

5/16/2012 8:55:38 AM

brb going to make a macaroni necklace

5/16/2012 9:16:57 AM

^^^ omg the Yankee doodle song makes sense now!
I learned something new today.

5/16/2012 9:23:54 AM

oh god, imagine if the tea party crowd knew that yankee doodle was basically this song with a fife and drum

[Edited on May 16, 2012 at 9:54 AM. Reason : you better work]

5/16/2012 9:49:14 AM