Lover of Men The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln Trailer

Movie Trailer

Lover of Men The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln Trailer - official movie trailer HD

Transcript

00:00He is considered a sacred figure

00:04by both Republicans and Democrats.

00:06He led the nation through its greatest crisis.

00:08He's on our currency.

00:10We build monuments to him.

00:11He's the greatest president the United States has ever had.

00:14Today, the big question that people are asking is,

00:19was Abraham Lincoln gay?

00:22In the 19th century, for many men,

00:24their closest relationships were other men,

00:26and same for women.

00:27Men could live with another man when they're single

00:30and often did in shared beds.

00:31Lincoln probably slept in the same bed with men

00:34more than he did with women.

00:35One of the things that fascinates scholars

00:38is his bedding down with Joshua Speed for four years.

00:43There is love between those two men.

00:45When you put together all of the evidence,

00:48it's really startling.

00:50Lincoln has a type, dashing, daring.

00:53We have this notion that if you have an attraction like that,

00:57boom, that's your orientation.

00:59Sexuality through the mid-19th century

01:02was far more fluid.

01:04But for someone who wanted a political career,

01:07it was mandatory that you have a wife.

01:09Dear Speed, I shall be very lonesome without you.

01:12Yours forever, Lincoln.

01:15What you have in the 19th century

01:17was very strict marriage culture.

01:19Get married, and then everything is possible.

01:22Captain David Derrickson became friends with Lincoln

01:24while they were living here at the cottage.

01:26There is a soldier here devoted to the president,

01:28and when Mrs. L is not home, sleeps with him.

01:32What stuff.

01:33He was seen wearing the president's nightshirt.

01:36If you want a smoking gun, here it is.

01:38But then you see all these shifts

01:40to the end of the 19th century.

01:43Freud was devastating to sexuality,

01:46defining very rigid categories.

01:50And they're saying, if a man loves another man,

01:52it's unnatural.

01:53Homosexuality is a mental illness.

01:56It was not only wrong, it was punishable.

01:59If Lincoln were to look down today,

02:01he would see the United States

02:03at a particularly fragile moment.

02:05History is so important because it allows us

02:07to understand who we were, who we might become.

02:10Lincoln's legacy is the insistence on equality.

02:13We have been in hustle power.

02:15If you can accept a queer Lincoln,

02:17you can accept queer people overall.

02:19He should inspire us to achieve a true democracy

02:24for everyone.

02:47For more!

02:49We have to find out who we are.

02:50We have to find out who we are.

02:52We have to find our own company.

02:54We can accept the queda of the global crisis.

02:55It won't be true.

02:57So, I hope you will be in the next place.

02:58We have to find out who we are.

02:59It should be able to interact with a woman.

03:00Let's try and find out who we are!

03:01We have to find out who we are.

03:01That's the only person,

03:04To be able to introduce our best to the woman,

03:06Why we farm our biggest threatening woman

03:07To be able to look at all means.

03:09We have to find out who they are.

03:11We have to find out who we are.

03:13We have to find out who we are.

Category

Transcript

Recommended