I knew that top hat was phallic!

So, uh, Abraham Lincoln was gay?

Not that there’s anything wrong with that — it would just be surprising:

Lincoln and Speed shared a double bed in Speed’s store for four years (for two of those years, two other young men shared the room, though not the bed). More important than the sleeping arrangements was the tone of their friendship. Lincoln’s letters to Speed before and after Speed’s wedding in 1842 are as fretful as those of a general before a dubious engagement. Several of them are signed ”Yours forever.” By contrast, Lincoln’s relations with women are either problematic or distant.

Turns out maybe not, though.