Eleanor roosevelt gay

Maybe you learned it right here on Autostraddle. Maybe you had a super awesome high school history teacher who broke away from the confines of state-sanctioned education and actually acknowledged that not all of U. Byshe was the most successful female reporter in the nation.

Was Eleanor Roosevelt a Lesbian?

She also dated women. She knew that a story about the wife of the Democratic candidate for governor of New York would gay make the front page. Inthings changed. That assignment ended up going to Kay Beebe, another reporter at the AP. But that year, Hickok sat gay for her first official interview with Eleanor, and a spark ignited.

Eleanor increasingly picked Hickok out of throngs of reporters, favoring answering her questions over others. She asked Lorena to ride with her in a private car, eventually asked her to have a one-on-one breakfast with her in her hotel room. After FDR won the election, Eleanor and Hick were both living in New York and spending most of their time together, attending concerts and plays and talking politics over late-night dinners.

Sometimes, Hick made steaks for roosevelt two of them in her one-room apartment in midtown. Their close friendship was quickly reaching gal pal status. Inthe Franklin D. Roosevelt Library uncovered 18 eleanors of letters exchanged between Eleanor and Hick. During the 30 years they knew each other, the two women wrote nearly 4, letters to each other.

It was a small part of the documentary, but it gave me a rush. My mind was blown once more. They were visceral. They were sexy. They were… weirdly relatable? They read like a modern-day romance. They read like text messages my girlfriend and I exchanged when we were long distance in the first several months of our relationship.

And with that, I present to you some roosevelt the gayest and most romantic excerpts from the letters in Empty Without You. Some of the eleanor explicit letters Hick and Eleanor exchanged are lost forever, because Hick pulled an Eliza Schuyler and burned them. They began with some personal words to Hick, followed by a very detailed account of everything she had done that day, closing with some more personal words to Hick, usually about how excited the First Lady was to see her next.

Our little saying. But she repeated it like an incantation as she went to bed. I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close.