Is Abraham Lincoln the first log cabin Republican?
We hear that a new documentary about Honest Abe claims that the 16th president was gay.
Promo blurb for the new project, “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln,” reads: “As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never before seen photographs and letters, the film details Lincoln’s romantic relationships with men.”
The film “delves into the history of human sexual fluidity and focuses on the profound differences between sexual mores in the nineteenth century and those we hold today.” The video fills in a significant gap in American history and encourages the audience to examine why we have such a restricted understanding of human sexuality.”
The film, directed by Shaun Peterson, delves into Lincoln’s close relationship with brave, dashing men and has interviews with historians from Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Wellesley, and Rutgers.
According to one scholar, “Lincoln probably slept in the same bed with more men than he did with women.”
The topic is now trending in popular culture.
Cole Escola, a comedic actor, plays Mary Todd Lincoln in the new Broadway comedy “Oh, Mary!,” which depicts the weeks leading up to Lincoln’s assassination.
Variety described the chaotic musical as “unquestionably the funniest, gayest, and campiest play Broadway has seen in years.”
The Washington Post commented on the production: “Escola, in grandiose Wednesday Addams drag (the costumes by Holly Pierson are a character, themselves), brilliantly plays Mary as a raging alcoholic and bored, acid-tongued housewife whose dreams of becoming a cabaret star and performing her ‘madcap medlies’ are thwarted by her absentee husband, Abe.”
The Post raved about the drama, noting that “not-so-honest Abe is having a sleazy dalliance with a naïve soldier named Simon.”
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