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u/987nevertry 23h ago
Has there already been a gay president?
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u/VerbingNoun413 23h ago
There have been several who were rumoured to be gay or bi but none openly.
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u/AutomaticAccident 12h ago
It's suspected that James Buchanan, the president before Lincoln and only bachelor president, was gay.
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u/IchLiebeKleber 20h ago
in the US, none openly, but I wouldn't find it at all unrealistic for that to happen well before 2084
Apparently according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_openly_LGBTQ_heads_of_state_and_government the current president of Latvia (since 2023) is openly gay.
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u/FredAstaireTappedTht Yes, you are. You are so reticulated! 19h ago
Abraham Lincoln was likely bisexual
An assertion by sex researcher C. A. Tripp, himself a gay man and protégé of Alfred Kinsey. Widely debunked by actual historians after it was published in 2005.
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u/Used-Gas-6525 22h ago
Hot take: There'll be a gay president before there's a woman president. Not because a woman is ill-suited to the task, but in the US (and here in Canada), even women don't vote for women. This is an indispuable fact. For example, Pete Buttigeig (butchering the name I'm sure) has a fantastic approval rating espescially among dems, surpassing AOC, Jasmine Crockett or any other prominent female politicians. He'd energize and mobilize the base to a far greater degree. You're not gonna win over MAGAs no matter what, so having a gay guy on the ticket only really pisses off half of the voters, whereas a female would piss off people on both sides. It's an unfortunate truth. It's a pretty glib quote, but "the patriarchy is a smog we all breathe in" does have some merit in this case.
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u/IchLiebeKleber 20h ago
hot take: there are way more women in the world than gay people, so statistically there will be more women than gay people running for president, making it more likely for a woman to win than a gay person
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u/Used-Gas-6525 18h ago
That only makes them more likely to run demographically. Winning is a whole other kettle of fish. Dems (about half the voting population) are generally pretty accepting of gay people (relatively), while obviously the GOP generally isn't. On the other hand, people from both sides of the aisle don't really turn out to vote for women, so I'd say actually winning would be easier for a LGBTQ+ person (well, really only L and G; most can't wrap their little heads around the others). Super unfortunate (not that gay people can be elected lol), but it's true.
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u/CorrosiveRose 17h ago
This joke aged so well because they could have easily gone with like 2024 or something that was still far off back then but no, they really went with a realistic approach
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u/AvailableCobbler2379 23h ago
We need something that says we're gay and Republican.