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He was a terribly neglectful husband, but very enamored of his wife. By most accounts, when he DID take time from political life to spend any days at home with his wife, he was all over her.

MOST letters written in that day and age were penned in eloquent language, and men openly discussed their love and affection for one another because no homophobic stigma was ever assigned to men with affectionate friendships or family relations. They openly expressed themselves in writing because they could not openly express softer feelings with public actions. The whole “manly man” thing meant that you show strength and stoicism, but males of all ages were encouraged to communicate openly in letters of personal correspondence.

Letters from even the poorest of Civil War soldiers are incredibly expressive and romantic. It was a different time, and the culture was different. Abraham Lincoln could very well have been a gay man, but one could as easily claim that he had a foot fetish or a thing for farm animals, too. It’s a random speculation with no evidence whatsoever. Before you get all huffy, I am NOT comparing homosexuality to a fetish. I’m just saying that people’s sexual orientation, preferences, and pathology might be tittilating to discuss and speculate over…but there’s usually not much evidence for these kinds of private matters from that period.

Many random things could be true about any given person. I fail to see any compelling reason that a person would be inclined to label Lincoln as a gay man…except that, perhaps, today’s American men are so threatened by the animated affectionate language of that time that they think of nothing but homosexual trysts when they study the period. I mean, for God’s sake, sons don’t even want to hug their fathers or brothers anymore because they feel “gay” when they express physical affection for a man. It’s got to be crippling to be so bunched up.

/shrug

Anyway, my VERY long-winded point is that people who want to make Lincoln gay are going to have to get up earlier in the morning than “he slept next to another man sometimes” to prove their point.

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The headline could just’ve easily been “Liam Neeson thinks ABe might not’ve been gay”

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I’d hope not, cuz that must mean I am as well because I always sneak him into bed when the boyfriend’s not around. lol (He hates the fur everywhere, but those puppy eyes! How can you say no?)

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