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“Lover of Men” finally explores just how gay Abraham Lincoln actually was


He regularly shared a bed with men and wrote love letters to his closest mate.

Opening today, the new documentary Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln is the latest assessment to address the 16th president’s “love life”. The idea that a man like Abraham Lincoln — president, folk hero and Savior of the Union — could have enjoyed the company of other men in any way but a platonic relationship vanished from any discourse. According to one scholar, a suspected lover of Lincoln wrote a paean to his thighs, an indication the future president may have been down for intercrural sex, frottage or — in modern-day parlance — “side” activities.

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