Actually, it’s a pretty open secret that Lincoln slept in the same bed with other men. Look it up.
Yeah, and I shared a bed with my brother many times. Doesn't mean I had poop sex with him.
Most people did pile into bed together. In those times it had nothing to do with sex but a serious lack of accommodations, when traveling, back when there was no such thing as Holiday Inn. Not to mention it was warmer that way, though bedbugs were common. Another item frequently kept tucked under the bed was a thundermug- a bedpan for use to avoid the cold outdoors. Imagine multiple strangers using that, too.
Beds were valuable items, in wills often passed on to heirs, especially those with mattresses stuffed with feathers rather than the more common sweet bedstraw, a fragrant herb that cleaves to itself, or the poorest - plain old straw. The beds were made of wood frames with rope strung through in a gridlike pattern to support the matress- which was just a big sack. The straw filled ones were emptied out and the stuffing burned from time to time to get rid of bugs. The ropes would of course stretch when weight was on them, and if there had been more than one guest weighing the thing down overnight, it might get very slack. The next day you would have to pull out a handy wood gadget kept at the foot of the bed and insert it in the ropes and give it a good twist to tighten them back up... Hence the phrase “Sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite.”
Inns in those days would often place two or three travelers to a bed because of lack of space. There wasn’t any secret about it.
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That happened a lot back then, but not because they were homos.