Though activists’ so-called “Pride Month” may be over, their campaign to queer America is clearly an enduring endeavor. While young Americans are popular targets, great American figures long dead also seem to be of interest.
Shawn Peterson Self-proclaimed The California-born “director/predator,” who has previously worked on several Disney projects, is set to premiere a documentary in September that accuses Abraham Lincoln of having an affair with a man.
“Through narration by a noted Lincoln scholar, historical reenactments, and never-before-seen photographs and letters, the film details Lincoln’s romantic relationships with men.” To tell The film’s website: “Lovers of Men broadens its scope to the history of human sexual fluidity, highlighting the stark differences between 19th century sexual mores and those of our own time.”
The filmmakers are careful to avoid any misunderstanding of the film’s agitprop nature, stating that “Lover of Men is not only an exploration of gender roles and sexual identity, but also an examination of American intolerance.”
by trailer The film states that “up until the mid-19th century, sexual orientation was much more fluid than it is today, but having a wife was still a requirement for anyone aspiring to become a politician.”
“If we can embrace queer Lincoln, we can embrace queer people in general,” the trailer says. “Lincoln can inspire us to create a true democracy for all.”
Meanwhile, the new Broadway show “Ahh, Mary!“Similarly, LGBT publication Queerty accused Lincoln of being gay. Shown The cross-dressing playwright Cole Eskola freely admits that his play is entirely unfounded, while the trailer for Peterson’s film pretends to be serious about projecting fashionable notions of sex onto a respected 19th-century politician.
“I’ve seen those letters and there is no homosexual connotation whatsoever.”
Lincoln married On November 4, 1842, he married Mary Ann Todd of Kentucky. They had four children, but only one, Robert Todd Lincoln, lived past the age of 18.
There have been various attempts over the years to portray the American father and husband who signed the Emancipation Proclamation as gay or “bisexual,” particularly the late gay activist Larry KramerWho I didn’t keep it a secret His account of his political aims to The New York Times appears to have consisted largely of predictions, inventions, speculations and misinterpretations.
One of the reasons people have concluded that Lincoln was gay is because he slept with men multiple times. The trailer for Peterson’s film makes it clear that he is leaning toward the assertion made by other revisionist historians that Lincoln was romantically involved with Joshua Speed. Speed and Fanny Henning were married for 40 years.
“The Lincoln Memorial is a historic milestone in the history of the nation’s history,” said Michael Burlingame, the Naomi B. Lin Professor Emeritus of Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Said In a 2021 Hartford Courant op-ed, he wrote that the controversial aspects of Lincoln’s relationship with Speed, highlighted by figures like Larry Kramer, would likely become “footnotes” in a multi-volume biography of the Republican president.
“The evidence that I’ve seen doesn’t seem significant enough to warrant inclusion,” the Lincoln expert said. “I’ve seen the letters and there’s no homosexual connotation whatsoever.”
Instead, Burlingame suggested that he had found evidence that Lincoln had been infatuated with a woman other than Todd before their marriage.
Charles Strozier, a psychoanalyst and history professor who addressed this false narrative in his 2016 book, “The Story of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed,” wrote: Said According to The Daily Beast, it was very common for men to share beds in Lincoln’s time.
“Inns back then were just houses with finished attics. They weren’t hotels like they are today. They were just hostels, the men were here and the women were there,” Strozier said.
according to According to the Daily Mail, when Lincoln moved to Springfield, Illinois in 1837, he initially shared his bed with Speed because he didn’t have enough money to buy his own bed and bedding.
The Mail also reported that Lincoln slept in the same bed as other lawyers, a common practice at the circuit bar at the time, where up to 20 people might share a room.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, an award-winning historian who in her biography of the Republican Lincoln, also cast doubt on the gay Lincoln narrative, pointing out that “their intimacy is rather an indication of a time when close friendships between men, in which open expressions of affection and passion were common and socially acceptable.”
“Sharing a bed is not evidence of a sexual relationship; it was a common practice at a time when private quarters were a rare luxury,” Goodwin continued. “Attorneys in the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Illinois, where Lincoln traveled frequently, did share a bed.”
David Herbert Donald, the late Harvard professor long considered Lincoln’s most authoritative biographer, also disputed claims by Alfred C. Kinsey gay scholar C.A. Tripp that the 16th president was gay. The New York Times Shown At the time, no one suggested that Lincoln and Speed were sexual partners. enemy Donald, like Strozier, emphasizes that in pioneer days, space was tight and men shared beds, not out of preference but necessity.
In response to a similar attempt (also by Kramer) to portray Alexander Hamilton as non-straight, Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow wrote: Warned He opposes “the trampling of history for political purposes.”
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