Joshua Speed. In 1837, the 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln arrived in Springfield, Illinois, to found a law practice. Almost immediately, he struck up a friendship with a 23-year-old shopkeeper named ...

"I am the most miserable man alive," the future president wrote after his friend (and alleged lover) Joshua Speed moved away, in the documentary 'Lover Of Men' Abraham Lincoln was, by most ...

“The surviving evidence — the number of letters between Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, for example — can also be read by the absence of evidence,” Balcerski said. “Being able to also ...

Abraham Lincoln embodied everything that’s great ... Lincoln’s most intense love affair was allegedly with store owner Joshua Speed, whom he met in 1837. They shared lodging and a bed for ...

When Harvard professor John Stauffer published “Giants,” his dual biography of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick ... and future legislator named Joshua Speed. “No two men were ever more intimate ...

One of those men was Joshua Speed, with whom Lincoln shared a bed ... So, the premise of a queer Abraham Lincoln is a threat to people who are afraid of “the other,” and I understand why ...

DURING America’s civil war, in 1862, Abraham Lincoln reportedly began sharing ... In 1837 Lincoln moved to Springfield to practise law and met Joshua Speed. They shared a bed for four years.