The Bird Show.

June is Pride Month, so we've got some historical gossip with my segment.

Ye old gossip, but this time we're just making it gay.

So a lot of LGBTQ plus history is still somewhat unconfirmed because of just how taboo and secretive.

It's been up until, you know, somewhat recently.

And this is the story of the first lady who apparently had a same

sex relationship while she was in the white house hear ye hear ye come forth all instagram bettys

and crypto bros for the most salacious gossip in the whole village abby's done the work to bring you the old gossip.

Now, the U-Haul wasn't officially invented until 1945, but if it had been,

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her alleged lover, Lorena Hickok, would probably have been

early adopters.

Let me introduce you to the supposed situation ship between FDR's wife and an associated press journalist.

It's the 1930s. America is in the middle of the Great Depression and Eleanor Roosevelt is probably in the middle of her gay awakening. She and FDR had

six kids, separate bedrooms, and the kind of emotional intimacy you usually reserve for your

tax accountant. So naturally, Eleanor starts to rely on her emotional support lesbian friend.

Enter Lorena Hickok. Lorina was a Pulitzer caliber journalist from South Dakota who

had short hair, preferred pants and chain smoking, which means she was basically a walking rejection

of gender norms and impractical clothing. That's a batty for the 1930s. Back in the day, heck yeah.

All right, so she meets Eleanor while covering the Roosevelt's for the Associated Press,

and instead of filing a story, she falls in love.

Eleanor, meanwhile, is out here playing the role of the perfect wife in First Lady

and slowly realizing, hmm, maybe the only thing I'm straight about is my posture.

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