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

[joanna bujes]

Here's where folks lose me. Why does this show that Lincoln was gay? Bi 
sexual maybe, if we have to put a label on things. Why do we have to 
label people this way. I think it's really weird.

Joanna

mike larkin wrote:


>"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 gunonly 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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>http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/050103roco02 
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