Clinton erasure is par for the course. No one remembers him as the first black President, either.
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riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours agoi just checked and aparently it was Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir of iceland in 2013, altho technically they were prime minister, not president. the first president would have been Edgars Rinkēvičs in 2023.
of course these are only the first openly gay ones. while looking into this i saw that james buchanas in 1844 was the first known gay us president, altho they were closeted.
the list of openly gay heads of states is really short btw and well… only starts in 2013. im no one for girlbossing, but this both is quite sad and a positive sign for increasing queer acceptance en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_openly_LGBTQ_heads_of_…
btw iirc clinton was a presiden as well? so if trump gave clinton head, then clinton was a gay president before trump… unless its not gay to receive head?
Horsecook@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
altho iirc clinton was a presiden as well? so if trump gave clinton head, then clinton was a gay president before trump… unless its not gay to receive head?
Omg…that hadn’t even dawned on me. How the hell did that go right by me??? WHOOOOOSH!!!
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Lets hope queers choose to smash the state, not lead it.
zout@fedia.io 5 hours ago
There was also William the third of Orange, who first lived in the Netherlands where he had no wife but a lot of really close friends who would visit him frequent behind closed doors. He eventually married his cousin Mary Stuart and became the king of England and Scotland in 1689.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Ugh! So close! If only it had been “Donald the third of Orange”. Then it would be one of those things that you see on TV shows, where they tell a story of a really long time ago (in this case the 1680s), and they just use their normal characters to play the roles of historical figures.
I’m just imagining a Simpsonized version of trump, in 1689 royal garbs, being known as “Donald the third of Orange”.
sigh
The jokes write themselves when our president is a joke.