Whatever happened to author and gay rights activist Larry Kramer’s allegation three years ago that he had documents that would show that Abraham Lincoln was gay?
“There’s no question in my mind he was a gay man and a totally gay man,” Kramer declared. “It wasn’t just a period, but something that went on his whole life.”
Kramer claimed to have access to the hitherto unknown diary of Lincoln’s close friend Joshua Speed, and stash of letters in which Speed writes explicitly about his love affair with Lincoln while on the Illinois frontier.
So have those documents ever seen the light of day in the intervening three years? Or are they stashed away somewhere with the Hitler diaries and Howard Hughes’ autobiography?
So far I can’t find an update on the supposed diary which he said he had in 1999. This article from August, 2001, says he needs a liver and his book needs another year to go before it’s ready. Hard to believe him that he found a diary under the floorboards.
This Salon Article offers more info. Kramer never finished the book, AFAIK. He says A. he didn’t know reoprters were there, B. wouldn’t let anyone tape it and C. these papers are in hands of a private collector all of which sounds totally and completely bogus.
I recall when the Picture of Lincoln on board ship at the Confederate attack on DC led by Jubal Early was a BIG deal mentioned in TIME And other Journals. I can’t imagine something like this, or any letter talking about Lincoln being covered up.
OTOH did Sandburg and others hint at this? I guess I’m saying : This didn’t start with Kramer tho his “proof” sounds bogus IMO.
My take, after reading about Mr. Kramer, is that he manufactured the diary out of whole cloth. Just trying to shake up the establishment, as he evidently has done much of his adult life.
jimmmy, the Salon article is from 1999. That’s when he first announced that these documents existed. I’m asking about what’s become of those alleged documents in the past three years.