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Historian Charles Strozier in new book denies Lincoln was gay

Response Thus Far to the "Lincoln Was Gay" Book Cathy Young

C.A. Tripp's Support for Child Molestors Weekly Standard

NY Post's Review of C.A. Tripp's Gay Lincoln Biography Eric Fettmann

NYT Book Review of C.A. Tripp's Gay Lincoln Biography Richard Brookhiser

How Gay Was Lincoln? Andrew Sullivan

Broken Promises, Plagiarism, Misused Evidence and the New Gay Lincoln Book Published by the Free Press Philip Nobile

Was Lincoln Gay? New Controversy (New York Times) Dinitia Smith

Re: C.A. Tripp's New Book Claiming Lincoln Was Gay (Discovery News) Jennifer Viegas

Re: C.A. Tripp's New Book Claiming Lincoln Was Gay (Washington Blade) Joe Crea

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Publish: Homophobia in Lincoln Studies? Philip Nobile

Was Lincoln Gay? W. Scott Thompson

Larry Kramer Claims to Have Discovered a Diary Proving Lincoln Was Gay (1999) Carol Lloyd