Abe Lincoln, gay man?

i can't imagine actually going into a trench and moving a bunch of smelly corpses around to get a better photo. now that's determination.

speaking of lincoln kicking it, i saw "birth of a nation" on the big screen a few weeks ago and was struck again by how amazing is t he scene of lincoln's assassination in that film. a beautiful and exciting stretch of cinema.

[necessary disclaimers about how the film is otherwise quite ideologically repugnant etc.]

This of course doesn't mean Lincoln couldn't have preferred homosexual encounters to heterosexual ones...

anyway i like my american political heroes like i like my rifles: celibate.

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i don't think it's scattered bit of genius, i think it's through-and-through a quite amazing film, although that scene is a definite highlight. it is also a really disgusting bit of propaganda for race-hatred, and a falsification of american history.

i will try to work this phrase into several conversations this week.

I heart sinning.

I've read suggestions that Mary Todd Lincoln's were not inconsistent with tertiary syphilis. This doesn't prove anything about Lincoln's sexual preferences, but this wouldn't be the first case in which a man caught a VD from an extramarital partner and passed it on to his wife.

Mind you, seeing one's husband shot right in front of you would tend to unhinge most minds.

Particularly if the shooter then threw dead gay babies at you.

so if you're ambitious but straight-mannish, maybe i can help out.

http://gaycitynews.nyc/larry-kramers-search-heart-history/

http://www.out.com/art-books/2015/3/26/larry-kramer-historical-outings-american-people

cut to the chase: Kramer's historical novel (part 1!) sez Lincoln and many other presidents, Hamilton, Lafayette et al were queer

is Buchanan in there

(the closet)

too obvious maybe? Washington, tho.

in Burr, Vidal's narrator hints that Washington has a massive crush on Hamilton, and that the latter advanced because of his accepting the attentions of older men.

lol at this

Joshua Speed, the most important of Abe’s amours is copiously quoted and/ or paraphrased from documents Larry has examined: “From the first night we met I held him in my arms, each night for going on four years. And he held me in his arms even tighter. We were both big strapping young men and my big bed took quite a beating. If Billy came upon us, or Abner, in the middle of our occupations, they would throw a pillow at us. Oh how we laughed, all of us. Those were happy days. Abraham was twenty-eight. I was twenty-two.”

you have no romance in your heart

We were both big strapping young men and my big bed took quite a beating. If Billy came upon us, or Abner, in the middle of our occupations, they would throw a pillow at us. Oh how we laughed, all of us. Those were happy days.

I don't think I've read this Clickhole article

but I can tell it was written by the 'big jazz boy' person

http://www.yasminnair.net/content/larry-kramer-imitation-game-and-gay-obsession-exceptionalism

that's a heck of a url

per the NYT review today, Franklin, Jackson, Pierce, Buchanan, Samuel Clemens, all gay

Pierce was one of the cuter and more bibulous presidents.