[lbo-talk] Gore Vidal: Lincoln Was, Like, Totally Gay

[mike larkin]

"The young Lincoln had a love affair with a handsome
youth and store owner, Joshua Speed, in Springfield,
Illinois. They shared a bed for four years, not
necessarily, in those frontier days, the sign of a
smoking gun—only messy male housekeeping.
Nevertheless, four years is a long time to be fairly
uncomfortable. The gun proved to be the letters that
passed between them when Joshua went home to Kentucky
to marry, while Lincoln was readying himself for
marriage in Springfield...."

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