{"id":2376,"date":"2004-10-29T09:14:57","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/10\/29\/2376.html"},"modified":"2004-10-29T09:14:57","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T16:14:57","slug":"gay-republican-on-5-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/10\/29\/gay-republican-on-5-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Republican on $5 bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <cite>LA Weekly<\/cite> has a (politically motivated) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/ink\/04\/49\/news-ireland.php\">article on the long-delayed but now-upcoming book <cite>The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln<\/cite><\/a>.  In the book, Dr. C&nbsp;A. Tripp (one of Kinsey's colleagues), presents a bunch of evidence that Abraham Lincoln was gay.<\/p>\n<p>The Straight Dope also covered the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/columns\/040402.html\">Lincoln's sexual orientation<\/a> earlier this year; at the time, Cecil Adams said (basically) that the jury was still out.<\/p>\n<p>It'll be interesting to see how convincing Tripp's book is to scholars when it's published next spring.  It sounds like he has a lot of evidence; but it also sounds like a lot of the evidence is circumstantial.  Intriguing idea, anyway, and one that (although apparently it's been in circulation for a while; hence the name of the Log Cabin Republicans) I hadn't encountered before.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Weekly has a (politically motivated) article on the long-delayed but now-upcoming book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}