Was chester arthur gay

But if you join me in Dublin on the evening of 21 May, I will try and convince you that it is also an important and even entertaining story to tell. This will mark, I hope, an important departure. Assuming the presidency after Garfield's assassination, Arthur's administration saw the largest expansion of the U.S.

Navy, the end of the so. More broadly, I am working on an article that expands on this notion, using Arthur and other queer migrants and intellectuals who travelled through Ireland before, during and after the revolution to make the case that we can write what might be termed a social history of ideas about queer sexuality in early 20th century Ireland.

He dug trenches for republicans in Kerry during the Irish Civil War and founded a commune in the California sand dunes during the s. Arthur was guilty of auto-messianic thinking: he fervently believed that he and his circle were going to change the world.

While historians have shown that queer sexuality was experienced in 19th century and early 20th century Ireland, I want to develop our understandings of how it was also discussed and conceptualised. He is to presidents what Ray Jackson was to Michigan’s Fab Five.

Some once lauded figures in the history of sexuality are now undergoing critical reassessments of their legacies, notably Magnus Hirschfeld, whose intellectual investment in eugenics has been analysed by Laurie Marhoefer in a recent study.

Forgive me if this sounds highly academic it kind of is highly academic. They do not provide a model for the contemporary world. Does it matter that prominent Irish republicans and the major sexologists of the 20th century had a mutual friend?

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He wrote poems about Irish republicans and developed an esoteric theory of human sexuality - all while living in a Dublin house that W. Yeats moved into when Arthur moved out. Chester A. Arthur III was a DTF Ivy League dropout, Irish Republican Army activist, experimental-film actor, commune leader, gold prospector, teacher at San Quentin, and bisexual sexologist.

Your pieces are consistently providing an interesting break to my working day. Neil C. 3 | Chester A. Arthur People rarely talk about Chester A. Arthur’s sexuality because people rarely talk about Chester A. Arthur.

At the Bad Gays event later in May, I will note similarly that Arthur, though never well-known like Hirschfeld, must have his ideas about human sexuality assessed critically. And he is, to my knowledge, the only person whose death was noted in both the s San Francisco gay press and the Irish local paper The Kerryman.

May 04, Discussion about this post Comments Restacks. This ultimately unfulfilled belief was one pillar of his ego, which contributed to him becoming, by several accountsa bad partner he married three times, including a marriage to the Irish American lesbian and historian Esther Murphy and an inveterate name-dropper in almost every single public utterance.

I will be speaking about Chester A. Chester A. He claimed to have slept with the early 20th century socialist and theorist of human sexuality Edward Carpenter, whom he was introduced to through the Irish communist Charlotte Despard.

Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, [b] – November 18, ) was the 21st president of the United States, serving from to He was a Republican from New York who previously served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield. Does it tell us anything about understandings of queer sexuality during the Irish revolution?

In my contribution to the event, I will suggest that it does. Look forward to the next one, really enjoying them. But I researched every single president for this list — and when people do get around to jawing on Chester A., the homosexual thing keeps popping up.

Although I will outline this idea in more detail at the talk, expressing why Arthur is not someone who should be claimed as an uncomplicated queer figure of Irish revolutionary history, I am primarily interested in his story for another reason.