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Privacy Policy. Please visit My Account to verify and manage your account. An lincon was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an authentication link. American presidents are the closest thing Americans have to mythological figures. Their lives are minutely documented, their actions considered and reconsidered every generation, their names placed on buildings and museums, and they become the stuff of legend, lessons for children, and inspirations and cautionary tales for future generations.

Few presidents are as revered in the American pantheon as Abraham Lincoln, the fabled liberator of slaves and man who held the Union together. Yet, over the last decade, there has been a growing debate about the sexuality of President Lincolnwho, like many men of his generation, slept with other men in the same bed.

The artist used images of other contemporaneous structures — since none of the original exist — to create his vision of the building that housed the historic room, complete with hay and the scent gay tobacco. All the ghosts of the place remain hidden. Whether we believe Lincoln and Speed enjoyed a love affair is our own decision.

The American bar often includes scenes of people talking about growing old together on a porch, and it evokes images of unspoken warmth that can only be shared by people with a long history together. Hrag Vartanian is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic. More by Hrag Vartanian. This looks amazing an I am going to get to the gallery today to catch the last day of it!

Good eye! That chair is on loan from my friend Cassie, who runs a prop house for filmmakers in New Orleans.

The Bedroom Where Lincoln Slept with Another Man

She deserves to get it back! Thanks Skylar, I happen to have quite a few old chairs and always love a good chair. Will the installation still be up in April? Hope to be in New Orleans then and would love to see it. I suspect that not much can be made of this bed sharing. It was, as you say, common in the 19th century. Demarcation between homosexuality and heterosexuality was not so firmly drawn in the 19th century.

The questions remains open, to my mind, with the evidence slightly against and a disconcertingly anachronistic quality to the argument. The installation does not make the case that Lincoln was gay. Not that there would be anything wrong with that… right? Yes, not that there is anything wrong with that.

I personally think that Lincoln lived in a time when the majority of Americans were rural.