Did US President Abraham Lincoln have a gay relationship with Joshua Speed?

Did US President Abraham Lincoln have a gay relationship with Joshua Speed?
I’m watching the History channel right now, and it’s about the speculation about the possibility that Lincoln was gay.

How much historical evidence is there for such a claim?
And what is known about Lincoln’s relationship with Speed?

Answer by Boredom is My Middle Name
well, hey, he could bisexual too. they never know.

Answer by Melissa M
Believe whatever you want to believe, the man is dead.

Answer by williamh10
That is an attempt by the gay/lesbian politicos to say to America, your greatest President was gay so we are OK too.

It is a load of crap. They take the fact that, in the time, several people would sleep in the same bed together to save money and keep warm and extrapolate sleeping in the same bed meaning that they were having sex.

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Serious Question: Was Abraham Lincoln really bisexual?
Here are 3 excerpts from an article:

“Lincoln met Joshua Fry Speed in Springfield, Illinois, in 1837. They lived together for four years, during which time they occupied the same bed during the night (some sources specify a large double bed) and developed a friendship that would last until their deaths.”

“Captain David Derickson was Lincoln’s bodyguard and companion between September 1862 and April 1863. They shared a bed during the absences of Lincoln’s wife, until Derickson was promoted in 1863.”

“At the start of the twenty-first century it may even be difficult to imagine a man, especially a bachelor, offering another a place in his bed without some conscious fear or desire that the proposition will be understood as a come-on.
In the nineteenth century, Speed was probably not conscious of any such erotic possibility. His immediate, casual offer, and his later report of it, suggests that men’s bed sharing was not then often explicitly understood as conducive to forbidden sexual experiments.”

SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_of_Abraham_Lincoln

Answer by tonalc2
I was just reading about this the other day.

In those days, there was the concept of “romantic love” between the same gender; it was a close, intimate relationship, but no sex was involved. Historians believe this was the relationship he had with Speed.

Answer by Teddy
was he Jewish is what i always wanted to know

Answer by God
Yes. He was also kind of hot.

Answer by Holy Cow
Yes.

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