Today, I learned that according to the historian and sociologist, James W. Loewen, the Fifteenth President of the United States was gay. The following is an exact quote from his final lecture in EVERYTHING YOU’VE BEEN TAUGHT IS WRONG, Fact, Fiction and Lies in American History….
James Buchanan, our only unmarried President was homosexual. In fact, he wasn’t very far in the closet. For many years in Washington, while he was serving as a Democrat in the U.S. Senate, he lived with William Rufus King the Democratic Senator from Alabama. The two men were inseparable, in fact, folks referred to them as “The Siamese Twins�.
Andrew Jackson dubbed King “Miss Nancy�, which was a term used back then for effeminate male. A guy named Aaron Brown who was a prominent Democrat, writing to in fact Mrs. James Polk, the President’s wife, referred to him as Buchanan’s “better half�,� his wife�, and “Aunt Fancy rigged out in her best clothes�.
Have I proven it yet? Let me give you a little more…
In 1844, King was appointed minister to France, so he’s going to leave Buchanan, and he writes to Buchanan “I am selfish enough to hope that you will not be able to procure an associate who will cause you to feel no regret at our separation. And after King left, Buchanan wrote to a close friend 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 of them.
I submit to you, he was gay.
Buchanan was in fact engaged to Miss Coleman, who was the daughter of a wealthy iron maker, probably the richest single family in Lancaster. He was engaged to her for several weeks in the late summer and autumn of 1819. However, he showed so little interest in her that rumor mongers in Lancaster suggested he was only in love with her because of her money. And, she broke off the engagement eventually because as a friend of hers put it, “Mr. Buchanan did not treat her with that affection that she expected from the man she would marry�.
According to Loewen, Buchanan was not a successful President—and he was pro-slavery, but I thought it was interesting that we have already had a gay President.
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