Our real first gay president
Don't believe what Newsweek's cover tells you: The first gay president was James Buchanan more than a century ago
Monday, May 14, 2012 6:09 PM UTC 105Politics American History, Gay Rights
Jim Loewen
Politics American History, Gay Rights
Mr. Loewen is a sociologist and historian. He is the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, and Teaching What Really Happened: How To Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History, among other books.
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