Abraham Lincoln was gay
oh my word he was the gayest and his most notable male lovers were
- Joshua Fry Speed
- a bed salesman/ inn keeper
- he and Lincoln met when he was 28 and Speed was around 22 b/c Abe was practicing law and he was poor so he had to rent out a room
- when Lincoln couldn’t afford a room and bed Joshua was just like “why don’t you share my bed with me 😘”
- they lived together for four whole years
- also when Speed had to go back to Kentucky (they were in Illinois together at this point) Lincoln actually suffered what historians consider a nervous breakdown, he wrote in his diaries a lot about how depressed he was during this time
- they still wrote each other letters though and remained friends until Lincoln died
- David Derickson
- the commanding officer of his guards while he was President
- he even had his own special bed in the White House that they would share
- they had their own getaway cottage on the outskirts of the White House’s borders I kid you not
- ALSO
- HE ACTUALLY LEGITIMATELY WORE LINCOLN’S NIGHT SHIRT OKAY
- THEY WERE NOT SUBTLE
- THOMAS CHAMBERLAIN HAD THE TEA ON THEIR RELATIONSHIP, HE WROTE IT ALL DOWN
AHA I KNEW IT
(via patroclvss)
