Posted on 07/13/2024 8:20:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There's nothing new in historians claiming that Abraham Lincoln was bisexual or gay. The "theory" took root in the 1970s during the gay awakening and has hung around on the fringes of historical scholarship ever since.
Now, a serious documentary purports to "prove" the point using newly unearthed letters, documents, and photographs. Abraham Lincoln slept in the same bed with men — a common practice in 1840s America where a judicial circuit rider like Lincoln would have been forced to share a bed with other travelers while practicing law — and also wrote "passionately" about male friends and acquaintances.
What the film, “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln,” can't prove is that Lincoln had sexual relations with anyone but his wife Mary, who bore him four male children with only Robert living to adulthood.
The 1840s was a far different era with different mores and morals. Male friends bonded on an entirely different level than males do today. The fear of being seen as "gay" hardly existed in the 1840s. Men spoke and wrote more intimately of men than friends do today. It wasn't sexual. The intimacy and love were as intense as male-female bonds but without the sex.
Looking at Lincoln's actions through the lens of hypersexual 21st-century America, it's easy for a filmmaker with an agenda to "prove" Lincoln's sexual orientation. But this is a case of historical relativity. Reporting on Lincoln's sleeping arrangements with men is evidence of nothing. Sleeping with men later in his life wasn't a sign of gayness either. The film might reveal new attitudes by Lincoln toward his friends, but there's no "smoking gun" where Lincoln expresses his desire for sex with any man. If there were, the gay lobby wouldn't be able to shut up about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
You are a sick individual. Go away.
Its called reality. Try dealing with it.
FU. You don’t know shut from 160 years ago. Surprised you weren’t in Butler OA today jerk.
Stop posting to me asshole.
More of the communist strategy of historical revisionism...
Its easy to know if you read some actual history which you clearly haven’t done.
By the way cocksucker, I’m gonna keep responding every single time you post to me.
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