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

[Michael Perelman]

I worked on a farm in Germany one summer.  We slept several to a bed, but I never saw 
anything like sex.  It seemd to be taken as commonplace.  Might it have been the same 
in Lincoln's time.

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:30:33PM -0800, joanna bujes wrote:
> 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...."
> >
> >http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/050103roco02 
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Michael Perelman
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California State University
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