Was amelia earhart gay
Amelia Earhart is remembered for many things, but the ins-and-out of her marriage is not one of them, which is just the way she wanted it, according to a letter sent to her husband George P. Putnam.
Pioneering aviatrix Earhart's letter outlying her idea of what their marriage will be has resurfaced online after NBC's resident presidential historian Michael Beschloss shared it on Twitter.
After tweeting an image of Earhart's trip to the White House in , the same year she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Beschloss went on to share an image of the letter, gaining over 2, likes.
The letter itself was written in , just before their marriage and it is little-known, likely in part to its publication being in an out-of-print book titled Letters from Amelia.
Readers have been both intrigued and entertained by Earhart's matter-of-fact attitude to how she sees their marriage and future together. Penning letters may be a forgotten communication, but their relationship seemed to be that of a very modern one—an open relationship of sorts, with Earhart de
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Last week, Los Angeles writer Amanda Hess rediscovered the letter and posted about it to her Tumblr site. It got hundreds of likes. From there, writers picked up the story at Feministing, The Frisky, Jezebel, Women's Voice for Change("Redefining Life After 40"), and elsewhere.
"Earhart’s prenup has been quoted before," Hess wrote a couple days later for Slate, "but it seems to have struck a chord at this particular indicate in relationship history." This morning it spread to the op-ed page of the Los Angeles Timesand probably onward.
When conditions are right, old news can become new news.
At Feministing:
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Amelia Earhart's Underground Flying Society, (a.k.a. the Amelia's) was a lesbian social club based out of Lebanon, N.H., serving the Upper Valley area of Vermont and New Hampshire, and beyond. Reachable via an unnamed post-office box, the club began in and provided members not only with much sought after social, leisure, and entertainment opportunities, but also a unique community of peers for discussion and activities around political, educational, health, and legal issues of importance to women and lesbians. The organization often overlapped with feminist and lesbian print shop and publishing company, Fresh Victoria Press, and the Amelia's often used the New Vic building for their meetings.
The Amelia Earhart's Underground Flying World Records consist of over 25 issues of the "Amelia's Newsletter" from ; two clippings covering news related to the team, including the repeated vandalization of their "Upper Valley Lesbians" Adopt-A-Highway Program sign; a audiocassette of interviews for an oral history of the Amelia's; and a VHS ta
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N Terrace St, Atchison, KSAmelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, ; disappeared July 2, ) was the first female Solo pilot over Atlantic in
She was an American aviation pioneer and author.[Note 1] Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.[Note 2] She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. It has been noted that Earhart was close to the Austrian-Argentine bisexual painter Mariette Lydis.
Born in Atchison, Kansas, Earhart developed a passion for adventure at a young age, steadily gaining flying encounter from her twenties. In , Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane (accompanying pilot Wilmer Stultz), for which she achieved celebrity status. In , piloting a Lockheed Vega 5B, Earhart made a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat. She received the United States Distin