Forget Mehlman - What About Lincoln?

[mgc1961]

While the gay media has been awash in unwarranted hosannas over the recent coming-out declaration by former Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman — who has not apologized for running the most homophobic presidential campaign in US history — the LGBT press has been ignoring an infinitely more significant development under way with vastly more important implications for the Republican Party: the increasing acceptance by historians that the loving heart of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator and the first GOP president, found its natural amorous passions overwhelmingly directed toward those of his own sex.

This shifting consensus about Lincoln’s sexual orientation is certainly the most stunning and effective rebuke to the Republican Party’s scapegoating of same-sex love for electoral purposes, which came to fever pitch during the 2004 race that Mehlman spearheaded for George W. Bush.

“We are getting closer to the day that a majority of younger, less homophobic historians will at long last accept the evidence of Lincoln’s same-sex component,” John Stauffer, chair of Harvard University’s Department of American Civilization, told Gay City News, adding, “ We’re already seeing the beginnings of a trend that will amount to a major paradigm shift.”

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[stray cat]

1. Ask him?

[hlthe2b]

2. I think it would be fine if Lincoln were gay...who cares...But

I haven't seen compelling evidence (that has not been countered by the leading Lincoln historians) that he really was gay... I think it is a big question mark. That said, it certainly wouldn't bother me nor really surprise me if he were.

[mgc1961]

3. I somewhat agree.

Although indisputable evidence like a photo of them kissing doesn't exist, the letters do suggest their relationships were more amour than ami.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. There's plenty of evidence. It is necessarily reconstructed.

Therefore, the question will never be answered to the satisfaction of those who will require a public acknowledgement by a person now deceased.

Nevertheless... it appears to be less and less of a "question" for serious historians.


Excellent article.

[eridani]

7. What about bisexual?

There is evidence for connections with women, and possible evidence for connections with men as well.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. LOL. The idea of this so offends people that the REC count...

decreased by three in the time it took for me to make a *very* brief reply to another post.

Relax... DUers; there really *is* a Santa.

And an Easter Bunny too!!

[foxfeet]

6. Just don't ask for a pony. nt