re: Discovery Plus is trying to teach your kids that Abe Lincoln was gay

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There is no historical evidence to support that claim.

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Predictably, most Lincoln authorities prefer to ignore the implications of the Lincoln-Speed letters. But not Jonathan Ned Katz; in 2001 this relentless scholar wrote a study of their “love affair” as an example of sex between men before the invention of homosexuality; a word and generic concept that dates back only to the late 19th century, while “heterosexuality,” previously popularly known as “just sex,” is now the name for a new admirable team whose first appearance in public print was in a 1924 edition of, I fear, the New York Times. But more to the point, Tripp notes that although Lincoln was plainly bisexual,

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Tripp has interesting “new” material on Lincoln’s encounters as a young man in New Salem, Illinois (where Lincoln lived from 1831-37); he reports on “contacts” with merchant A.Y. Ellis and fellow lawyer Henry Whitney, the last observing that Lincoln seemed always to be courting him: Whitney also reported that Lincoln said that sexual contact was a “harp of a thousand strings.” So what form did these contacts take? One hint is given by Billy Greene, who shared a bed and a grammar teacher (not together) with Lincoln in New Salem around 1831. Greene described Lincoln’s muscular figure as attractive to him, commenting in particular on his powerful thighs, which suggests a form of sexuality

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There were a shite-ton of dandies in politics that were "confirmed bachelors."

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She wasn't just pudgy. She was volatile, abusive, and swung a mean frying pan.

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