The Titanic seems to have had a secret sordid gay history

Presidential aide Archibald Butt in 1909, left, and artist Francis Davis Millet in 1910. (Photos: Library of Congress/Archives of American Art/Smithsonian Institution)

Let’s be clear up front: No one knows for sure whether Archibald Butt and Francis Davis Millet were in a romantic relationship. In the times and society in which they lived, for such a thing to become known would have…