• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m sure Ernst Röhm thought the same thing

    If you need to go back 90 years to make a point, it might be a weak one.

    Reagan had gay members of his administration while he joked about the AIDS epidemic.

    Nixon had gay men in his administration, a fact he complained about on tape.

    Hoover crossdressed as head of the FBI, and he was at the heart of a fascist white terror during the 1950s.

    It’s strongly believed that James Buchanan was in a relationship with Senator Rufus King, while President.

    Reactionary attitudes towards sex did not seem to affect any of these economic elites.