Could the first Republican president of the United States of America have been gay? This is a real interesting read.

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Could the first Republican president of the United States of America have been gay? This is a real interesting read.

Originally shared by Halle Eavelyn

Fascinating - but not surprising.  What is always interesting is the holes in people's public lives - their private journey...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sylvia-rhue-phd/a-family-history-provides-more-evidence-that-lincoln-was-gay_b_2169482.html

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Erica Joy said…
I was fine until magical conversation that yields magical and heretofore unknown information about Lincoln's lawyer magically appears. It's all too pat.
November 26, 2012 at 9:01 PM
Jason ON said…
I agree it's a little too perfect. I'd like to see some evidence to support the assertion: a letter, a diary, anything. I will agree, family stories are like fish stories (they always get bigger in the retelling) so it might be a family myth that was passed on. In the meantime, it's an interesting question.
November 26, 2012 at 9:06 PM
Jason ON said…
Sure we can we can exhume the body and do a DNA check. You can't check for gay in DNA.  (ha! I rhymed!)
November 26, 2012 at 9:14 PM
Ian “Drop Bear” Ridgwell said…
Oh come now. The concept of Gay wasn't even real then. Sure homosexuality was buy not "gay". 

Maybe he had male lovers, but even then I don't think the term gay is appropriate as it doesn't hold meaning in that time space.

There are many cases where what is considered sex by one culture is not by another. So they share intimate experiences with each other that simply don't translate into our cultural experience as anything less than sexual encounters.

Then gain, maybe he was gay, I really wouldn't care either way.
November 26, 2012 at 9:44 PM
Bryce Miller said…
People would have continued to dismiss Jefferson's history as gossip if not for the DNA tests. With Lincoln's activities there won't likely ever be such concrete evidence, but I don't need it to understand that Lincoln obviously had some intimate relationships with other males throughout his life. Were there some sexual experiences with some of them? I say, of coarse there was. Many cultures try to hide how naturally and frequently this can and has happened throughout all of history, but that veil of fantasy does not change how things really work and it shouldn't try.
December 1, 2012 at 3:22 PM
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