George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.
I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?
Everyone I dated was gay.
I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.
Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.
When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.
I didn't know what gay was until I lived in New York for 10 years. You know, I was just underexposed in that regard.
But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.