The things you can learn on Cash Cab, I swear: This morning, the dashing host of Cash Cab Ben Bailey asked a lucky passenger who the 15th President of the United States was. The contestant, without hesitating one second, shouted “President Buchanan!” referring of course to Pennsylvania native and Anthony Hopkins lookalike James Buchanan, also the only president to never marry. The contestant earned an additional $100 on the meter, and then commented “I believe he was our only openly gay president.” Our only what now? Openly gay whodayamean? This, my friends, called for a quick Wikipedia search.

Believe it or not, there is an entire page of Wiki devoted to the Sexuality of James Buchanan! Now, after reading, it appears that we never really had an OPENLY gay president, rather just your typical male president who never got married and lived with another gentleman, Alabama Senator William Rufus King, whom Buchanan himself described as a “very gay, elegant looking fellow.” Hmm….

I bring this to your attention not only because this would make a fantastic Showtime miniseries (if they answered HBO’s Sex and the City with Queer as Folk, surely this would be the perfect John Adams follow-up), but more importantly to bring to your attention my new favorite nickname. On the Buchanan-King coupling, the Wiki article claims:

The two men were inseparable; wags referred to them as “the Siamese twins.” Andrew Jackson dubbed King “Miss Nancy,” and Aaron Brown, a prominent Democrat, writing to Mrs. James K. Polk, referred to him as Buchanan’s “better half,” “his wife,” and “Aunt Fancy.”

Hence the reason for this post:

AUNT FANCY.

THE END.