John wilkes booth gay
Longtime West Bloomfield resident E. Lawrence Abel teaches about human reproduction by diurnal, and by night he goes back in second, writing about American history.
A professor for 30-plus years in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychology at Wayne Declare University in Detroit, he’s written more than 40 books and 200 articles on sexual relations and about Civil War history. But while reading about John Wilkes Booth, the American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, something new piqued his interest.
In the historical accounts, after Booth shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, he escaped on horseback and traveled for 12 days until he arrived at a rural farm in northern Virginia. Booth was shot by a Union soldier, and the barn was fix on fire.
He was defunct at age 26. Booth’s pockets contained some intriguing items. What they create in his pocket was a compass, candle, diary and pictures of five women. This is what prompted Abel to inscribe his latest book, “John Wilkes Booth and the women who loved him.”
“I wondered who the women were and this led me to their stories and from there to the
Sexuality, Counterfactually
Larry Kramer’s The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Heart is not all that interested in the history of sexuality. At first glance this might appear an odd affirmation to make about a novel that claims, as nearly every review feels obliged to bring up, that George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Herman Melville, Samuel Clemens, et al. were all gay. An article on the novel in TheGuardian had as a title: “Larry Kramer: ‘How could you not realise Mark Twain was gay?”; the article’s author cautiously notes that “it is not a view accepted by most Twain scholars.”
The history of sexuality concerns itself with, among other things, what counts as sex at diverse places at diverse times, how sexual partners are establish, who engages in what kinds of sex, and so on. It is also concerned with collective representations concerning sexuality: how people represent to themselves collectively and individually what constitutes a sexual act or a sexual culture, how different kinds of meanings grow associated with alternative acts, how people connect acts with identities, if th
NEW YORK -- When Larry Kramer has something to say, he gets right to the point.
At 79, the HIV and lgbtq+ rights advocate may move a bit more slowly and utter a bit more softly than he did at the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1990s. Nevertheless, he's just as passionate about finding a cure and fighting for equality, and is still stirring up headlines with his controversial claims -- this time, with his new book.
In Volume One of his two-part "The American People," Kramer makes bold assertions about some of America's most-revered leaders.
"We know that Abraham Lincoln was gay," Kramer told CBS News in a recent interview. "Why is that not in the history books? Because all history books are written by direct people, and they don't wanna either admit that, or they wouldn't know how to know what we call 'gaydar.'"
According to Kramer, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton had intimate affairs with men, John Wilkes Booth had a new motive for killing Lincoln and Jamestown was a bastion of gay sex.
"It's only natural that men would hibernate with each other, when there are no women around for months on end," he explained.
"It's called a 'novel,' but that's just to keep t
Abraham Lincoln
While he may not own been gay, Lincoln did share a double bed with an attractive younger man, Joshua Fry Speed, for four years. Certain lgbtq+ writers state outright that Lincoln was bisexual, but there is no actual evidence to this effect other than assumed innuendo and wishful thinking. And the men gave each other directions with regards to their women problems.
Lincoln's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was terrible luck for U.S. Presidents, being give at three U.S. Presidential assassinations—Lincoln's, Garfield's and McKinley's. To be technical, Robert was not actually present at the last one, but instead had just arrived in town. Even so, for the good of the country, he avoided chief executives altogether after McKinley.
Lincoln's corpse has led an interesting life. The lead-lined presidential coffin has been moved 17 times, and exhumed and examined no fewer than five times. One attempt was made to rob the body and keep it for ransom, but the police were waiting. To avoid future threats of grave robbery, Lincoln was buried in a cage under two tons of concrete. It seem