THE BACK PAGE humor lumn on evince that Abraham Lln was gay.
Contents:
- WERE LEWIS AND CLARK GAY?
- WAS LLN GAY?
- WAS ABRAHAM LLN OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?
- FURTHER PROOF THAT LLN WAS GAY
- A FAY HISTORY PROVIS MORE EVINCE THAT LLN WAS GAY
- WAS ABRAHAM LLN GAY?
- WAS ABRAHAM LLN GAY?
- HOW GAY IS LLN?
- WERE LLN AND NIXON GAY? THE ‘HISTORY’ BOOK THAT IS DIVIDG AMERI
WERE LEWIS AND CLARK GAY?
Rumors abound on the 16th print's sexualy. Here is the historil tth which suggt why Abraham Lln may have been gay. * lincoln lewis gay *
But if you don’t thk ’s absurd for one (historilly important) man to sire another, ’s jt a very tired anti-gay joke. Last summer, We Proceed On, the scholarly journal of the Lewis and Clark Trail Herage Foundatn me unr signifint fire after historian and archivist William Benemann published two says that speculated on the homo-erotic nature of the bond between the two Mr.
Many letter wrers cried the cln, llg gay “propaganda” and an “abomatn, ” — that “disparaged” our “Amerin hero” by suggtg anythg other than heterosexualy when speakg of the two men: “I am takg this opportuny to exprs my outrage and disappotment about the article that bmirched the good character of Captas Lewis and Clark. Tripp is not the first to argue that Lln was homosexual -- earlier wrers have parsed his iendship wh Joshua Speed, the young store owner he lived wh after movg to Sprgfield, Ill. He is, most famoly, the thor of "The Homosexual Matrix.
WAS LLN GAY?
* lincoln lewis gay *
" Published 1975, was a document of gay liberatn.
WAS ABRAHAM LLN OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?
Many historians are quick to say that men shared beds due to a bed shortage and that surely Lln, the savr of the Unn, uld not have been gay. The impulse to make Lln absolutely heterosexual reflects a discernible societal disfort wh the plexi of human sexualy. * lincoln lewis gay *
Sce the other print sometim thought to have been gay is the wretched Jam Buchanan, what gay activist wouldn't want to tra up to Lln? Sce Ksey nclud that early maturg boys tend to bee wty masturbators wh lots of homosexual experience, Tripp nclus the same of Lln.
One wonrs: What do mean to be homosexual? Tripp argu that a cultural nocence -- the word "homosexual" had not yet been ed -- allowed acts of physil closens between men that had no eper meang, as well as acts that did but uld pe scty.
FURTHER PROOF THAT LLN WAS GAY
"A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn 7, Page 13 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Was Lln Gay?.
A FAY HISTORY PROVIS MORE EVINCE THAT LLN WAS GAY
Was Abraham Lln Our First Gay Print? It's a persistent mor, and one that has some basis historil fact: was Abraham Lln gay?
WAS ABRAHAM LLN GAY?
Scholars have bated whether Lln suffered om a host of physil ailments, whether or not he was clilly prsed, and — perhaps most trigugly to some — if Abraham Lln was gay. Was Abraham Lln Gay? An accatn of this sort uld even lead to ser prison time, so ’s no surprise that the historil rerd om the 19th century is sparse openly gay public figur.
Ecce Homo?
WAS ABRAHAM LLN GAY?
He also wrote this b of ic verse, which turns on – of all thgs – gay marriage:. For many years, a kd of gay-revisnist history has been wrten, which this or that historil figure is held up to tense scholarly scty and clared by one activist historian or another to have been gay, transgenred, or bisexual.
It’s evable that virtually all of the proment homosexuals of the Victorian Age would go to extreme lengths to keep their affairs as private as possible, and this mak hont scholarship on the subject challengg at bt. Today, an vatn om one man to another to live and sleep together would almost evably be assumed to be homosexual nature.
HOW GAY IS LLN?
So was Abraham Lln gay? From the mixed rerds we do have, an distct picture n be drawn that pats the 16th print as anythg om a eply closeted homosexual to an enthiastic heterosexual. After readg about the evince about whether or not Abraham Lln was gay, vis our post on the fotten story of the Lln assassatn and tertg facts about Lln you’ve probably never heard before.
"Many historians are quick to say that men shared beds due to a bed shortage and that surely Lln, the savr of the Unn, uld not have been gay. The studied impulse to make Lln absolutely heterosexual reflects a discernible societal disfort wh the plexi of human sexualy and sexual orientatn, as well as eply embedd streaks of homophobia. As a sexologist, I pos that Lln was a Ksey 4 -- homosexual wh more than cintal oppose-sex ntact.
WERE LLN AND NIXON GAY? THE ‘HISTORY’ BOOK THAT IS DIVIDG AMERI
"But I am puzzled about one thg: William Herndon has not mentned or wrten anythg that would dite that Lln was gay.
William Herndon was my great-great-uncle, and he was gay, and he was Lln's lover.