No. Books have already been published about Abe's sexuality and the letters are quoted in them. Like in Tripp's book "The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln". Historians and scholars in higher education have also gone through them. We're talking dozens. This documentary features over a dozen itself. The circumstantial evidence isn't "scant" it's overwhelming. Combined with the direct evidence of Abe sleeping with numerous men, when he had no other reason to do it, cannot just be conveniently dismissed.
Another point to add is that we have contemporary examples of people living in ultra conservative societies and they do things like hold hands with other men because they live in societies that don’t have public displays of affection. It’s gay to us because you’re supposed to only do that with your women, but they don’t have that concept.
Can you please get other conspiracy theory struggle post out of here.
I agree that the naive posters are the ones who are the posters who keep using the excuse of it being normal and common for grown single men who can afford their own beds to consistently spoon with eachother. They seem like the kind of guys that got tricked into doing some stuff by an in closet friend or mentor. Not a dig.
They said when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation he immediately took his dentures out.......
Exactly. If Abe was poor back then, or it was extremely cold outside, then fair enough. But neither apply here. He was president when he slept with his bodyguard Derickson. Presidents aren't poor, poor men can't afford to hire bodyguards in the first place, and this was at their summer house. These weren't winter months. Yeah, writing about his thighs was telling. He'd know firsthand what they looked like because his face was between them.
Evidence Ted Haggard is heterosexual. -5 biological children
Please stop telling me about the documentary I introduced to you that you did not watch."Mainstream historians generally hold that Lincoln was heterosexual,[2][3] noting that the historical context explains any of the supposed evidence,[4] that he had romantic ties with women, and that he had four children in an enduring marriage to a woman.[5]"
Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia
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Your side contains all the conspiracy theorists on this subject, and a movie which collects a few fringe historians with arguments of the facts that are so weak they cannot convince the rest of the historians.
Pot kettle black.
Tripp wrote that particular book. I've already mentioned other historians like Jean Baker. The documentary itself has over a dozen historians featured in it. You continue to play dumb. SMH.'Dozens' huh?
Then why does Amazon only mention Tripp in the book's description?
Yes it can be.
He preferred the company and companionship with men. That's not disputed or uncommon for the time.
What is disputed the context of 'sleeping with.'
In modern times that term is a clearly mean to outright say there's a sexual relationship, but there's no evidence that at any point Lincoln had sex with anyone he 'slept in the bed' with.
You have a very interesting view of the word 'overwhelming.'
Vanity Fair.
"Leftists want you to believe Lincoln was bisexual, so you should believe Lincoln was bisexual."
