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Was Abraham Lincoln gay?

7 October 2024

10:17 PM

7 October 2024

10:17 PM

Given the idolatry with which Americans worship the man widely seen as their greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, and the obsessive place that identity politics now occupies in the public spaces of the US, it was probably inevitable that the sexuality of American civil war winning ‘honest Abe’ would come under revisionist scrutiny sooner or later.

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