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Government

Jul. 5, 2019

President James Buchanan and the gossip pages

Mayor Pete’s milestone candidacy will hopefully serve the cause of history by cashiering the unfounded and logically empty speculation that we’ve already had a gay president: James Buchanan.

James Attridge

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U Denver School of Law

James is an attorney and mediator in San Francisco. He is writing a book about presidential legal careers.

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President James Buchanan and the gossip pages

Another June, and pride was bustin' out all over, and not just on Market Street and Fifth Avenue. Allentown, Pennsylvania and Santa Fe, New Mexico both sponsored parades featuring dancing bears and Dorothy Gales. Rainbow flags are now a June tradition, right up there with graduations, weddings and the NBA finals. Corporate-sponsored floats proclaim to shocked, shocked, crowds that department stores and airlines have gay employees. There's nothing like a pride parade t...

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