Rumors abound on the 16th print's sexualy. Here is the historil tth which suggt why Abraham Lln may have been gay.
Contents:
- A FAY HISTORY PROVIS MORE EVINCE THAT LLN WAS GAY
- WAS ABRAHAM LLN OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?
- WAS LLN GAY?
- LLN’S COTTAGE BREAKS GROUND ON GAY WEDDGS FOR MILARY
A FAY HISTORY PROVIS MORE EVINCE THAT LLN WAS GAY
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 cottage gay *
"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. "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. I believe that Lln was gay, and I see that as simply the sweet icg on the ke of the life story of our greatt print. “Was Lln gay?
WAS ABRAHAM LLN OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?
Patrick Wojahn, the gay former mayor of College Park, Md., plead guilty Prce Gee’s County Circu Court on Wednday, Aug. 1: “Was Lln gay? For this episo, we’re workg on the qutn: “Was Lln gay?
If had been, this was an era when homosexualy was, was illegal and, if the relatnship had been sexualized, probably would’ve revealed self one way or another. Sandberg lls a “lavenr relatnship, ” which many people have taken as for gay, but ultimately, he didn’t feel he uld aquately unrstand the relatnship. It’s very clear that this fear is rooted homophobia bee we wouldn’t be wrgg our hands about whether or not somebody was gay or whether or not we had enough evince, unls we thought that potentially talkg about someone who was straight the past is gay, was somehow shameful that would tarnish their legacy, or be seen as a, as a fect.
WAS LLN GAY?
JC: Like if we were actually okay wh people beg gay, wouldn’t matter if we – would matter ls if we got wrong, you mean?
JC: bee I, I do thk there are people who approach this qutn om, like, he wouldn’t really be gay unls there was sex volved, and ’s not that simple. Even if they have kids, I don’t know who the father of that child – ’s a qutn that we only make quote unquote gay people answer bee is an unanswerable qutn. CH: We asked Hugh, are gay and straight even the right box?
It’s really a time that’s celebrated what we would ll homosocial love, right? So not homosexual, but homosocial.
LLN’S COTTAGE BREAKS GROUND ON GAY WEDDGS FOR MILARY
” It bed our ias of beg gay, beg trans, and beg tersex to a sgular thg. I n’t speak to what they were dog sexually, but for folks who were nventnally genred, the kds of homosocial lov were nsired absolutely appropriate, thgs you should pour your life to. We’ve also got tons of people movg to ci for work where they are sgle and separated om their fai and separated om their muni, able to explore thgs that maybe they uldn’t do before, and sudnly on the docks of plac like Brooklyn, the mid 1800s, people who we today would ll genr normative homosexuals, right?
And this is where we get the birth of what we might ll today homophobia. But when sexualy mov to the md and separat self om genr, and be a tegory we n intify wh, we n be “gay”, or we n be “straight. ” Well, now how do you prove that you’re not gay?
You have to separate yourself om thgs like, sleepg the same bed wh your bt iend or, wrg letters about how much you love him, or gog to a bar where actual gay people hang out, or all of the other thgs. So the emergence of sexualy the 19th century bee of urbanizatn not only allows gay people to fe themselv, but forc straight people to fe themselv as well.