With our first black president, what about our first gay? Or woman?

Marc Oppenheimer speculates about the who and when for our nation's first female, Hindu, Muslim, east Asian and even atheist presidents.

He's surely right that atheists are at the end of the line, behind gays, at least, in their likelihood to inhabit the Oval Office.

BUT... Oppenheimer's a historically-challenged idiot on gay presidents.

Lincoln was NOT a "closeted gay."

Period.

The author who claimed that a couple of years ago was grinding a gay PR ax and misinterpreting early Victorian male conversation.

Likely gay and non-closeted? His predecessor, James Buchanan. He and his apparent lover Alabama's Sen. Yancey, were even referred to -- all the way up to Andrew Jackson -- as "Miss Nancy and Sen. Yancey."

And, we still have letters between the two that make clear that, even in light of the degree of intimate conversation shared by early Victorian era males, they were more than just close friends.