Joanna
Michael Perelman wrote:
>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.
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>On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:30:33PM -0800, joanna bujes wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Joanna
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>>mike larkin wrote:
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>>>"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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