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Old is Gold. 🌈

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[Jared Shult @jared_shult]

Yes because I’m not in a fucking cult

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump’s hit list. He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us. They have not found a crime - they are simply trying to find one.

He isn't coming after me because of mean tweets, but because I am considering running for President.

He hates that I consistently call him out. He is simply the most corrupt President in American history.

We have nothing to hide. 

Mr. President, come after me. I am not going anywhere. 

The country is watching.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Can’t afford your rent or mortgage?

How selfish.

The President has a ballroom to build.

[The Truth Walker @TheTruthWalkerQ]

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[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A gay First Lady? Yes, we've already had one, and here are her love letters.

In 1930, a wealthy widow named Evangeline Simpson Whipple was buried at her request in Italy next to the love of her life — a woman with whom she had a relationship that spanned nearly 30 years.

That woman, Rose Cleveland, had served as First Lady. The letters, preserved by the caretaker at Evangeline’s Minnesota home, are collected in a book, “Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918,” and make clear that they were more than just friends, according to its editors.

When Grover Cleveland took office in 1885, he was a nearly 50-year-old bachelor, a fact that almost derailed his campaign when rumors spread that he had fathered a child out of wedlock. (He had.) Protocol for unmarried or widowed presidents called for a female relative to fill the role of First Lady.

In stepped his sister, Rose. She was seen as an important counterbalance to her brother’s scandalous baggage: She was respectable, well-educated, a former teacher at a women’s seminary and the author of serious books.

As First Lady, she was frustrated with public scrutiny of her necklines and a ban on her going to private dinners or public markets. Fourteen months in, Rose was relieved of her duties when the president married his 21-year-old ward, Frances Folsom. Rose returned to her family estate in Upstate New York.

Rose met Evangeline Simpson in the winter of 1889-1890, less than a year after her brother left office for the first time. (Cleveland is the only two-term president not to have served his terms consecutively.) They probably met in Florida, where both spent the season making the rounds among the nation’s wealthier families. Rose was 43 and never married. Evangeline was probably 33 and had inherited a fortune from a late husband nearly five decades her senior.

The love letters begin in April 1890, once the two returned to their respective homes.

Rose writes:

“My Eve! Ah, how I love you! It paralyzes me ... Oh Eve, Eve, surely you cannot realize what you are to me. What you must be. Yes, I dare it, now, I will not longer fear to claim you. You are mine by every sign in Earth & Heaven, by every sign in soul & spirit & body — and you cannot escape me. You must bear me all the way, Eve ...”

Then, in May:
“You are mine, and I am yours, and we are one, and our lives are one henceforth, please God, who can alone separate us. I am bold to say this, to pray & to live to it. Am I too bold, Eve — tell me? ... I shall go to bed, Eve — with your letters under my pillow.”

Rose and Evangeline’s relationship was undoubtedly sexual, in addition to loving and intimate, Ehrenhalt said. One letter describes “long rapturous embraces” that “carry us both in one to the summit of joy, the end of search, the goal of love!”

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

According to local legend, King Charles II once made a careless joke that may have cost him a large piece of land. He was said to have teased his mistress, Nell Gwyn, for sleeping late, then offered her “all the land she could ride around before breakfast.” It sounded like a playful challenge, probably made with the confidence of a man who thought she would still be in bed by morning.

But Nell was not exactly the type to waste an opportunity. The story says she woke early, mounted her horse, and rode around a wide stretch of royal hunting ground before breakfast. When Charles came to the table, she was already there, having completed the ride and claimed the land promised to her. That area later became associated with what is now known as Bestwood Park in Nottinghamshire.

Whether the story happened exactly as told is hard to prove, and it survives more as local tradition than confirmed court record. Still, it fits the popular image of Nell Gwyn as witty, quick-thinking, and not easily outplayed. Charles may have meant it as a joke, but in the story, Nell turned that joke into land before he had even finished breakfast.

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[Andrea Zuvich @17thCenturyLady]

Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St. Albans, the illegitimate son of Charles II and Nell Gwynne, was born on 8 May 1670. He married Lady Diana de Vere in 1694, and the couple had 12 children. This portrait of him is from c.1690 and by Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723), Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[James II did nothing wrong @James_II_1688]

Charles II and James II/VII

[LGBTQ Shrink @DrRonHolt]

Happy 4th of July.

[Pukicho @pukicho]

Fuck it. Pride month two

[Plantagenet @Plantagenet1455]

The marriage between Henry VII and Elizabeth of York on this day in 1486, united the Houses of Lancaster and York. This strategic alliance was orchestrated primarily by Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort, and Elizabeth Woodville, Elizabeth of York's mother. #History

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

William the Conqueror became the Duke of Normandy on this day in 1035, and he held that position until 1087.

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

She end up surprising them 😳💀

[LGBTQ Shrink @DrRonHolt]

PRIDE isn’t ending….

[Past-Times Living History @history_past]

#OTD 29 Jun 1509

#Tudor Dynasty matriarch #MargaretBeaufort died at @wabbey

Her final months saw her grit & determination desert her, mourning the loss of her beloved son #HenryVII

A great patron & supporter of education, founding 2 Cambridge Colleges

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