Abe Lincoln was a “side” & more surprising revelations from the queer history doc ‘Lover Of Men’
Lover Of Men: The Untold History Of Abraham Lincoln from filmmaker Shaun Peterson. Featuring rarely seen photographs and letters, re-enactments, and commentary from U.S.
and LGBTQ+ history scholars (including familiar faces like Alok Vaid-Menon & Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr), the film highlights how one of our country’s oldest rumors may have very well been based in fact.Naturally, the film generated a lot of buzz when it opened in select theaters earlier this fall, and now that it’s available on digital VOD platforms, we decided to check it out for ourselves.
From Lincoln’s bedside manner to the forgotten history of intimate male friendships, we’re breaking down the seven most surprising revelations from Lover Of Men.At 6’4″, it’s nothing new to say Lincoln was a tall drink of water—his height is basically one of the first thing we learned about him when we were kids!
But what we didn’t consider until seeing Lover Of Men is that that means he has plenty of thigh to go around. We’ve always admired a pair of long, strong thighs on a man, and apparently so did one of Abe’s first lovers, Billy Greene, who openly wrote about his admiration for the future president’s gams.At least one historian featured in the doc theorized that Lincoln and Greene may have been fond of “femoral intercourse,” a.k.a.
