Wow.

[emmagrant01]

Was Abraham Lincoln gay?

Just... dude. Gives "party of Lincoln" a whole new meaning!

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[142978.livejournal.com]

Haha. And every time I go home (Chicago suburbs), I will look at the license plates (which proclaim "land of lincoln") and laugh.

[crimson-stained.livejournal.com]

...I AM FROM THE CHICAGO SUBURBS TOO. AND OUR LICENSE PLATE HAS LINCOLN ON IT.

yay for gay icons on my car :>

[142978.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Which suburb? I'm Auroran, born and bred.

[crimson-stained.livejournal.com]

NAPERVILLE. which is like...next to aurora!!!!

[142978.livejournal.com]

You know, I have family in Naperville! Crazy.

[crimson-stained.livejournal.com]

haha well naperville is the number one place to raise a family!!!

omg so you are like...10 miles away. crazy!!!

[142978.livejournal.com]

Oh, actually it's more like 150 miles away. I'm at school in Michigan right now. :)

[crimson-stained.livejournal.com]

:O omg you're kidding right? omg.

do you go to u of m in ann arbor? because that's where i go. you'd be like ten miles away if i were at home as well.

(and it has to be more than 150 miles away. it's like...a 4 hour drive to schools there right?)

!!!!!!!! (sorry. i'm really excited :O)

[142978.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'm at Kalamazoo. It's a solid three hour drive when traffic is bad.

This is completely insane.

Yup, had heard it before

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Well, it's definitely one of the reasons that Gore Vidal whose to write a Lincoln biography.

[liesbyomission.livejournal.com]

That's HILARIOUS. It's especially hilarious since my friends and I have a running joke about Lincoln being gay after an incident at lunch gone wrong...

Someone was reviewing her history test and stopped in a middle of a question about how many men were in Lincoln's army. "How many men did Lincoln," she said, and stopped. And hilarity ensued. :D

Anyway, thanks for the link. I've passed it on. :)

[crimson-stained.livejournal.com]

i remember i was first told this when i was a sophmore in high school by our GSA sponsor. and totally told everyone else and no one believed me.

AND SO HA. THEY WILL ALL KNOW NOW. HMPH.

[ashe-frost.livejournal.com]

GSA as in Governer's School for the Arts? Did you go? And if you did, what state and year? I was there for Creative Writing in Kentucky in 2000. Unless it's another GSA completely. In which case, I shall pretend this comment never happened...

[crimson-stained.livejournal.com]

haha GSA as in gay straight alliance :>

...i would go to a governor's school for the arts though!!!

[ashe-frost.livejournal.com]

Haha. It's sort of ironic, because a lot of gay kids show up at GSA and they don't have many alliances in the southern states, where Governer's School for the Arts is held.

[ashe-frost.livejournal.com]

"Unfortunately, Tripp's attempt to show Lincoln was gay does little to set the record straight."

It's interesting enough, and might actually do something to up the tolerence for homosexuality in the country if the theory is proven.. But did she have to make the 'straight' joke? Seriously. There are very few discussions outside of the slash community that I see that doesn't use the 'straight' wordplay. It's getting boring. And cliche. And can they just stop already?

[graysong.livejournal.com]

Very interesting!!!

[wistful-fever.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Talk about a new use for that hat.

[lagreyeyes.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I read that, too. Hope it's true!

[assassinofjoy.livejournal.com]

*grins* I've heard rumors about that for years ... would be sort of cool if it's true, not to mention ironic, considering his chosen party is currently trying to ban gay marriage. I also remember reading someplace that Hitler had [insert quote fingers here] gay tendencies. Which, if you think about it, could explain a LOT.

[alia-eternal.livejournal.com]

This is brilliant! America's most famous citizen in history actually gay? America now making homophobic headlines? Does it get better?

*Rushes out to buy this book*