Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross
Better Orgasms. Better World.
Yes, the Great Emancipator and the first GOP president was in fact gay. He had a long running romance with Joshua Speed - his soulmate and the love of his life.
They slept in the same bed while Lincoln's wife slept in the bedroom next door. They signed their letters to each other "yours forever". Lincoln did have children with his wife which was expected at the time - he had sex with his wife but carried on a love affair with Speed on the DL.
Poet Carl Sandburg, in his masterful, six-volume Lincoln biography penned the poem “The Prairie Years,” where he describes how both Lincoln and Speed had “a streak of lavender, and spots soft as May violets.” What a beautiful way to describe their relationship.
Maybe it was easier to be gay in the 1800s. Can you imagine Obama sleeping in bed with a man with Michelle next door? Fox News would have a field day. And the irony that the first GOP president was gay isn't lost on me either. Think it's time to legalize gay marriage?
I think the thing about this
I think the thing about this that annoys me the most? The automatic assumption that if he was having relationships with men he must be GAY. He had sex with men...and women...that makes him???? Bisexual!!! It wasn't like they just had one kid and it was all over...geez. That really pisses me off.
Men can be bisexual too you know.
(Not that I'm pointing fnigers at you Carlin...its the researchers I'm pissed with)
you're 100% right. He was
you're 100% right. He was bisexual not gay. It seems reasonable to me that the Great Emancipator who didn't see race didn't see orientation either.
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