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"There hasn't been a gay President" http://www.salon.com/2012/05/14/our_real_first_gay_president/ http://www.salon.com/2012/05/14/our_real_first_gay_president.

• untog 12y ago
  Shrug. There hasn't been a publicly gay President, which is what would in the context the OP is discussing.
  • smcl 12y ago
    If by "President" you mean the equivalent "head of a country's government" role then Iceland elected an openly gay Prime Minister in 2009[0]. But I'm guessing you're all meaning "US President" [0] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7862804.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7862804.stm
    • gknoy 12y ago
      That's neat! You're right, though, the OP was likely focusing on a US president. Not many US citizens look at other countries' heads of state as a role model to the same degree as our own.
  • jacquesm 12y ago
    NL doesn't have a president but our PM is openly gay and as far as I know nobody cares.
• mkr-hn 12y ago
  Homosexuality was still a crime in his day (up to 2003), so I doubt it was well-known if this is true.
• psuter 12y ago
  What an excellent article, thanks for sharing. "Despite such evidence, one reason why Americans find it hard to believe Buchanan could have been gay is that we have a touching belief in progress. Our high school history textbooks’ overall story line is, “We started out great and have been getting better ever since,” more or less automatically. Thus we must be more tolerant now than we were way back in the middle of the 19th century! Buchanan could not have been gay then, else we would not seem more tolerant now."
• afterburner 12y ago
  I can't believe what I'm reading there about facial hair.