What were Thomas Jeffersons views on homosexuality?

Answer 1

Sally Hemmings would probably give this question a resounding "NO" if she could. (She was a slave of Jefferson and a half sister to his deceased wife when he made her his mistress. They had a "long term relationship" and quite a few children.)

Answer 2

America's founding fathers, like the first 15 emperors of Rome, were not just either homosexual or bisexual; each was a prodigious vector of disease and death among African slaves.Through micro-competition of host DNA with random intracellular foreign DNA obtained through polarized species copulation, and through the sexual consumption of domesticated animals priorto their use as a food source, disease- heretofore unknown among the Native American- began its spread across the Western Hemisphere.

Thomas Jefferson, known for his rape and impregnation of slave girls as young as nine years old, was also openly bisexual. As President, Jefferson had a personal mandate ordering that the strongest of slaves should penetrate him both anally and orally at least once a week. According to historians, Jefferson openly spoke to colleagues concerning "the fluid of life and energy within the loins of the African male slave" and how "this fluid should be consumed by every White man as an elixir of health."1

Certainly by the time of Jefferson's presidency, the Negro slave in America had become accustomed to the daily abuses of Whites- though never always tolerant. Many slaves assumed that this religion of Christianity favored the white race and, as a consequence, spent their lives as slaves seeking the love of some distant Jesus supposedly belonging to the slave owner. For other slaves, however, this was not the case.

1. Of note here is that prior to his election as President and during his tenure as Governor of Virginia in 1779, Jefferson did introduce bills to punish homosexual sodomy with the penalties of banishment and even castration. Historians now agree that such action by then Governor Jefferson only served as coverup, and that Jefferson, as a "closeted queer" politician, actually represents a clear cut example of the bisexual/homosexual influence in early American democracy .

Answer 3

No. Everything points to the fact that he wasn't. After his wife died he had a relationship with Sally Hemming, a slave. They had 6 children. Nothing in secondary sources tells historians that he was bisexual.