Was Abe Lincoln Gay? (The blockbuster book that will change America’s history)

LA Weekly ^ | OCT. 29 - NOV. 4, 2004 | Doug Ireland

[Pokey78]

If the loving heart of the Great Emancipator found its natural amorous passions overwhelmingly directed toward those of his own sex, it would certainly be a stunning rebuke to the Republican Party’s scapegoating of same-sex love for electoral purposes. And a forthcoming book by the late Dr. C.A. Tripp — The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, to be published in the new year by Free Press — makes a powerful case that Lincoln was a lover of men.

Tripp, who worked closely in the 1940s and 1950s with the groundbreaking sexologist Alfred Kinsey, was a clinical psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés and establish that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence.

In his book on Lincoln, Tripp draws on his years with Kinsey, who, he wrote, "confronted the problem of classifying mixed sex patterns by devising his 0-to-6 scale, which allows the ranking of any homosexual component in a person’s life from none to entirely homosexual. By this measure Lincoln qualifies as a classical 5 — predominantly homosexual, but incidentally heterosexual."

Tripp also found, based on multiple historical accounts, that Lincoln attained puberty unusually early, by the age of 9 or 10 — early sexualization being a prime Kinsey indicator for same-sex proclivities. Even Lincoln’s stepmother admitted in a post-assassination interview that young Abe "never took much interest in the girls." And Tripp buttresses his findings that Lincoln was a same-sex lover with important new historical contributions.

[varina davis]

That's probably why Mary was so frustrated.

[I'm ALL Right!]

LOL

[capitan_refugio]

You are going to find that a bunch of the neo-confederates at FR are going to eat this stuff up.

[MeekOneGOP]

[BlueNgold]

Ridiculous. This "doctor" has an obvious agenda.

"...same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence"

You are correct, Sir.

[capitan_refugio]

When a person is consumed with hate, like the neo-confederate "bushpilot," any opportunity to pull down one of the objects of their hatred is seized upon. The neo-confederate cabal at FR has seriously researched and spread these rumors and innuendo around on dozens of threads.

They also contend that Lincoln had syphilis.

[capitan_refugio]

The neo-confederates at FR and the gay lobby (who may, in part, be one in the same) once claimed and frequently posted that Joshua Speed's "secret diaries" were found under the floorboards at the location they lived. These supposed diaries told the lurid tale of Lincoln's relationship with Speed. And now the diaries are in a "private collection" and can not be published.

Convenient, isn't it? The scary part is, these neo-confederates like bushpilot, nolu chan, 4conservativejustices, gianni, and GOPcapitalist parade around FR like "patriots" when, in fact, they are just purveyors of hate.

[skikvt]

What next? George Washington was a transsexual?

Well, he did wear a wig!!!

[capitan_refugio]

He is too much of a coward to show up on this thread. He likes the darker recesses of the "back room." Sort of like a cockroach.

[Zavien Doombringer]

Why did you post this garbage?

[Zavien Doombringer]

George Washington never wore wigs, niether did jefferson and a few others.

From the time he was a young man until his death he wore his hair in a military fashion, tided in the back in a small tail or "queue." Like many of his contemporaries who did not want to wear wigs when they became fashionable, he powdered his hair.

[ZULU]

"..Tripp, who worked closely in the 1940s and 1950s with the groundbreaking sexologist Alfred Kinsey.."

I believe Kinsey is a paedophilic fraud who has been recently exposed for bogus research and data.

Only a total moron would write such a book and only someone even less intelligent would read it.

[Zavien Doombringer]

see my post 171

[cookcounty]

If he was, he at least had the wisdom and decency to keep it in the bedroom.

[cookcounty]

Why are these people quoting an unscientific, child-molesting pervert like Kinsey, for crying out loud?

[Revolting cat!]

Fruity Abe? No way, he didn't have a moustache!

[Zavien Doombringer]

Hmmm, a newbie.

I can tell by your "Post-speak".

Though I may not agree with the article posted, the person who posted it is certainly past the probationary period, which you are not. Please continue lurking but refrain from posting until you are familiar with FR jargon and rules. Thank you,

Zavien Doombringer

1st Viking Kitten Airborne "We Zot those, where others fear to post!"

[Paladin2b]

The other thing to consider is contemporary comment: Abraham Lincoln was, from 1861 to 1865, the subject of millions and millions of words of abuse by newspaper editors, pamphleteers and propagandists, northern and southern. There is vitually no insult that he wasn't called or crime that he wasn't accused of during his Presidency, except that out of those millions of words, none of his contemporary enemies seemed to have bothered to accuse him of being a homosexual.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Well, I read the whole article and no where is there referenced a single source who claims to have engaged in, or have seen, or been told by another, of a single homosexual act in the whole of Lincoln's life.

[longfellow]

"why john is that a gun in your pocket or are you happy to see me? "