New book coming out exploring if Lincoln was gay.

[Susan Higginbotham]

I read it ("Courting Mr. Lincoln") and thoroughly enjoyed it. The article that inspired this thread is overblown--the author of the novel, Louis Bayard, doesn't posit that either man was gay. There's the faintest hint of a homoerotic attraction between Lincoln and Speed, but that's as far as it goes. If there's one nonfiction book that seems to have influenced this novel heavily, it's Charles Strozier's "Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln," not Tripp's.