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There is that Abraham Lincoln was gay, but a body of recent scholarship and a 2024–2025 wave of media (including the documentary Lover of Men) argue his emotional life with several men—Joshua Speed, B...
Abraham Lincoln’s marriage to Mary Todd became a central piece of evidence in how contemporaries and later historians interpreted his sexual life: for many, the enduring, consummated union and four ch...
Scholars disagree about Abraham Lincoln’s intimate relationships with men; some historians note he shared a bed with Joshua Speed in Springfield from 1837–1841 and contemporaneous diary gossip mention...