Rose Cleveland
From QueerBio.com
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1846 - 1918
Occupation
Politics, Academic
Description
Acting First Lady of the United States for the fourteen months, being sister to President Grover Cleveland who was a bachelor until he married in 1886. Principal of the Collegiate Institute of Lafayette, Indiana, a writer and lecturer, and the editor of the Chicago-based magazine Literary Life. Had a long term lesbian relationship with Evangeline Marrs Simpson, living together in Italy and as revealed in the erotic correspondence between the two.
Further Reading/Research
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/20/she-was-once-first-lady-she-is-buried-next-her-longtime-female-partner
- http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/aspectsofqueerexistence/aspectsofqueerexistencerosecle
- http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=23
- https://www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/rose-cleveland
