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psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés and establish that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence.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.

[xuberalles]

Next thing we'll hear is that Lincoln hung out at outhouses for hours on end and subverted his presidential duties.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Yes. Everyone in the course of human history up to 100 years ago was gay?

Why? Because they're dead and can't defend themselves from being "outted".

This nonsense is really getting tiresome.

[unspun]

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psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés rationalize sexual sin and establish promoted the empirically unsupported excuse that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a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

[Condor51]

The exact same 'Lincoln Was Gay' tripe was being spewed four years ago. Wait....! Four years ago was 2000. Hmmm what was going on then? Oh yeah - an ELECTION!

Gee, these homo Dem 'experts' wouldn't be trying to subliminally influence the Christian Conservatives to not vote by equating Republicans and Gays, now would they?!?!

Naaaaah.....

/sarcasm

[bilhosty]

Yes, you can be gay and be Good Republican. However, I think this is a crock. The gay community always overplays their hand on this. They want it to be true and therefore it is true in there mind.

AS far as the story of two men sleeping together this was common in those days and does not imply being gay. Anyone who has been to a restored inn from those days knows that the rooms had numerous bed and people would plop down in what ever bed was available. this included men and women in the same room and strangers on the same bed. For two young men who grew up on the frontier in those times and were struggling to support themselves, I do not think it strange that they would share the same room. And, as they shared the same room given the nature of lodging they would share the same bed. After all they grew up hard and in log cabins where there was not much space and sleeping together would be common and normal.

[Publius6961]

it would certainly be a stunning rebuke to the Republican Party’s scapegoating of same-sex love for electoral purposes.
...this is just sick...

No. it is hilarious.

This doofus author is blissfully unaware that the Democrat and Republican parties effectively switched identities in total during the latter part of the 19th century , just as the Socialists morphed into today's "Democrat" party.

Thus, being ignorant of history not only dooms him to repeating its mistakes, but also makes him look like a total idiot, albeit a master of sophistry.

[Army Air Corps]

Also, these folks, as stated by others in this thread, base their conclusions on altered perspectives. That is to say that people at that time were not as we are today. many in modern society are "remote" emotionally and at the same time over sexualised. This causes many modern people to read any form of affection as automatically sexual in nature. Thus, such people would read terms of endearment in letters as some sort of a "secret code" that proves that a person is either AC or DC. Pretty damned sad.

[xuberalles]

Normal? I thought rubbing sticks caused fires. Woodsey owl told me that's bad news.

[sneakers]

Is nothing sacred?

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

Washington did not were a wig, ever. A myth. Now Jefferson . . .

[mtntop3]

This is yet another attempt by the homosexual/gay lobby to make them seem more normal

Through their usual craven attempts to demean and destroy everyone above them - which is most everyone. The Ten Commandments stand in stark contrast to them.

[Cult of Personality]

Funny queer or funny ha ha? Umm Humm.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

Whatever happened to the 'J. Edgar Hoover Is Gay' story? We probably never hear about it anymore because the MSM declared it so and it became 'common knowledge' ten years ago. I still don't believe it.

[raybbr]

"The author C. A. Tripp, who is said to have just completed co-authorship of a book speculating that Abraham Lincoln had gay encounters, has died of cancer. He was 83. Tripp is best known for his 1975 book The Homosexual Matrix (McGraw-Hill), in which he attempted to dispel popular misconceptions about homosexuality. It sold nearly half a million copies...Tripp is survived by his companion, Vacharin Prasertthai"

WHO WAS THE FAMOUS SEXOLOGIST, DR TRIPP?

TRIPP, APPARENTLY A CLOSET HOMOSEXUAL WHOSE "COMPANION" HAS A COMMON MALE ASIAN NAME, WAS AN EXPERT WITNESS IN MAJOR LEGAL CASES TOUCHING ON SEX. YET IN HIS TELEVISION INTERVIEW TRIPP IS AN ADMITTED ZOOPHILE WHO VIEWED HIS OWN SEX WITH DOGS AS NORMAL AND WHO ARGUED DOGS NEED/DESIRE SEX WITH HUMANS. (Transcribed 5th MAY 1998, pp. 40-41)



"DR TRIP: If you go out and masturbate dogs - I was very good at this when I was a boy-the dog will love you to pieces because the dog has no efficient way to masturbate. He loves the orgasm as much as anybody else but he can't self produce it. Now you just do this a time or two. The dogs do various things. You try this on all the neighborhood dogs, they all turn out to be different. Some dogs will always expect or try to talk you into doing it. They'll come to you. Other dogs will come to any human and say, please touch me here in a certain kind of way."

Ridiculous. This "doctor" has an obvious agenda.

Boy, I'd have to agree with you.

[Cultural Jihad]

Odd how the homosexual activists always try to associate famous people with a perverted sexuality, but then claim that the same perverted sexuality is not germane to news stories of famous or common criminals.

[bmwcyle]

We are all gay. We just have not been outed. /sarcasm

[thegreatbeast]

Despicable. We should pass a constitutional amendment allowing the flogging of such vile creatures who wallow in such demented and tainted vaporous musings. Scatalogical necrophilia.

[wasp69]

As much as I dislike President Lincoln, there is no way in hell I can stomach something as disgusting as this.

[Sam Cree]

"it would certainly be a stunning rebuke to the Republican Party’s scapegoating of same-sex love for electoral purposes."

Scapegoating's not exactly the term; while Republicans are rightly against redefining marriage to include homosexual couples, I'm sure most of us just wish the issue would go away, and quickly.

Leftist minds think in terms of scapegoating, but their assumption that others think similarly is wrong.