This slideshow is a few weeks old, obviously, because it was posted for Independence Day, but there’s no wrong time to read about queer American history.
Some topics covered: Was James Buchanan the first gay president? How important was same-sex attraction to the transcendentalist movement? And, most importantly, just how early did San Francisco come to be known as “Sodom by the Sea”?
Okay, so they use the term “bromance” a lot, but still!
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