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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
People used all sorts of euphemisms before that to refer to their bachelor uncle, or those old maids who lived together. It's not as though no distinctions were drawn.
The point I'm trying to make is that while same-sex sex acts may have been more widely tolerated historically, openly living with another man instead of having a traditional family was another thing altogether. What you did for kicks was your own business, but your role as a husband and father was a public concern in pretty much every society in history.
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Maybe.
James Buchanan was a likely homosexual and was basically accepted as such while he was the President of the United States. It wasn't a secret. He lived with another man.