( Please read ALL the facts )
The facts:
1) Lincoln, according to his stepmother, "was not very fond of girls as he seemed to me." We know that there is scant evidence of any but perfunctory heterosexual behavior.
2) We know that as a mischievous adolescent, Lincoln wrote a bawdy poem about a potential gay marriage.
3) We know that as president, Lincoln immediately befriended a young captain who was stationed at the White House, took him everywhere with him for a while, introduced him to senior officials, and slept with him in the same bed in the White House when his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was away. They even shared a night-shirt. To those who say this was normal for nineteenth century men, I wonder if they could find another example of a president asking a captain to sleep with him in his bed when his wife was away.
2006-12-25
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