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Abraham Lincoln and shopkeeper Joshua Speed slept together for four years. Lincoln kept doing so long after he had financial means to find his own quarters. | Abraham Lincoln and shopkeeper Joshua Speed slept together for four years. Lincoln kept doing so long after he had financial means to find his own quarters. | ||
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Speed revealed “no two men were ever more intimate.”<ref>Jonathan Ned Katz, ''Love Stories: Sex between Men Before Homosexuality'' (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001), 5.</ref> During Speed's absence, Lincoln confessed to him in a letter, “I shall be very lonesome without you.”<ref>Katz, 23.</ref> Mutual friend William Herndon conceded that Abe “loved this man [Speed] more than anyone dead or living.”<ref>Katz, 5.</ref> | Speed revealed “no two men were ever more intimate.”<ref>Jonathan Ned Katz, ''Love Stories: Sex between Men Before Homosexuality'' (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001), 5.</ref> During Speed's absence, Lincoln confessed to him in a letter, “I shall be very lonesome without you.”<ref>Katz, 23.</ref> Mutual friend William Herndon conceded that Abe “loved this man [Speed] more than anyone dead or living.”<ref>Katz, 5.</ref> | ||
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| − | + | Later, a Civil War soldier's account disclosed that a Captain Derickson, one of Lincoln's body guards, “frequently spent the night at his [Lincoln's] cottage, sleeping in the same bed with him, and—it is said—making use of his Excellency's night-shirt! Thus began an intimacy which continued unbroken until the following spring.”<ref>Edward Steers, Jr., ''Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President'' (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007), 144, accessed October 19, 2012. http://books.google.com/books?id=wYmvvEeuAi0C&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142&dq=lincoln+ellsworth+tripp&source=bl&ots=C-nhlaJkqN&sig=eTA2bLKFTocOAkGpKUfyPt2BD68&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A9nZT4iKEMbp6QHK9YzNAg&sqi=2&ved=0CEkQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=guard&f=false.</ref> | |
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| + | ==See also:== | ||
| + | ==[[Rich Wilson: Aspects of Queer Existence in 19th-Century America]]== | ||
| + | ==[[Abraham Lincoln, Sexuality and Intimacy: 1809-1865]] | ||
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| + | ==References== | ||
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Revision as of 21:07, 9 November 2012
(Carte de visite photograph of Abraham Lincoln, circa 1864)
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln and shopkeeper Joshua Speed slept together for four years. Lincoln kept doing so long after he had financial means to find his own quarters.
Speed revealed “no two men were ever more intimate.”[1] During Speed's absence, Lincoln confessed to him in a letter, “I shall be very lonesome without you.”[2] Mutual friend William Herndon conceded that Abe “loved this man [Speed] more than anyone dead or living.”[3]
Later, a Civil War soldier's account disclosed that a Captain Derickson, one of Lincoln's body guards, “frequently spent the night at his [Lincoln's] cottage, sleeping in the same bed with him, and—it is said—making use of his Excellency's night-shirt! Thus began an intimacy which continued unbroken until the following spring.”[4]
See also:
Rich Wilson: Aspects of Queer Existence in 19th-Century America
==Abraham Lincoln, Sexuality and Intimacy: 1809-1865
References
- ↑ Jonathan Ned Katz, Love Stories: Sex between Men Before Homosexuality (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001), 5.
- ↑ Katz, 23.
- ↑ Katz, 5.
- ↑ Edward Steers, Jr., Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007), 144, accessed October 19, 2012. http://books.google.com/books?id=wYmvvEeuAi0C&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142&dq=lincoln+ellsworth+tripp&source=bl&ots=C-nhlaJkqN&sig=eTA2bLKFTocOAkGpKUfyPt2BD68&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A9nZT4iKEMbp6QHK9YzNAg&sqi=2&ved=0CEkQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=guard&f=false.
