New Discovery+ Show Labels Abe Lincoln ‘Queer as F**ck’

Hollywood is destroying history in Pride Month The Book of QueerDiscovery+. The first episode on Thursday, ‘Kings and Queens,’ falsely painted late President Abraham Lincoln as a homosexual.

In its quest to portray Lincoln as an adulterous gay man, Book of Queer relies heavily on interviews with a professor named Thomas Balcerski from Eastern Connecticut State University.

A queer historian can read the past differently. Balcerski says it does not take one person to understand one.

In other words, Balcerski likes to “read” his own sexual attractions into the interactions of other men regardless of whether those men are homosexual or not. 

“Lincoln was most intimate with men than women,” Balcerski says. Balcerski states that he wants to spend time with men close up, touch and personal.

Men who want to spend time with gay guys must be open to being around them. The show also refers to Lincoln by names like “bearded daddy” because gay culture loves to emphasize daddy issues.

The documentary “queering Lincoln’s past” alters the story of Elmer Ellsworth, another prominent man in Lincoln’s life. The show smears Ellsworth, the first Union soldier to die in the Civil War, by turning him into Lincoln’s secret adulterous lover. The evidence for the supposed sexual relationship between Ellsworth and Lincoln? Lincoln eulogized Ellsworth as, “The greatest little man I ever knew.”

He was another man Book of Queer claims was one of Lincoln’s lovers is a Captain David Derickson. This is why the show claims it. Because the two men shared a bed when traveling, a common practice among heterosexuals in the 19th century, and Derickson sometimes used the president’s nightshirt. This is all.

Book of Queer spends a significant amount of time on Lincoln’s friendship with John Speed. Lincoln and Speed were roommates when they were in their twenties. Another documentary focuses on the bed sharing of the men, and then pulls in innocent statements about one another to create a false case.

Which lines are you most familiar with? Book of Queer Speed cites these as proof of their homosexuality. Speed wrote in his autobiography about their friendship, saying that no two men had ever been more close. As though it’s some kind of “gotcha,” the documentary makes the absurd claim that “actual quotation” is a form of infidelity. It seems that the series creators have no idea what the term intimate means in 19th-century literature. Are they familiar with a 19th-century book? 

Another “gotcha” is when Lincoln wrote to Speed “I will be very lonely without you.” What a miserable world!

That’s the kind of “evidence” the episode keeps trotting out to try to make the case that Lincoln and his friends were really gay lovers, or as the show puts it “queer as fu*k”. Needless to say, the documentary is dismissive about Lincoln’s marriage to Mary Todd Lincoln, even though the couple had four children together. 

Belcerski stated that “all historians have ignored Lincoln’s sexuality.” I can’t count the number of people who took it seriously. They’ve tried to make Lincoln’s attraction for men seem straight.

It could be that historians take this idea too seriously as it can easily be disproven.

Straightwashing happens when an ugly-looking white man, often a male, decides to erase queerness entirely from history. Eric Cervini (series creator, “Queer Theorist”) explained the term “straightwashing” in explaining literature, film, television, and the news.

Americans do not hear enough on queerness from the media, including television and film. Our culture is inundated with relentless LGBTXYZ+-*^% messaging.  Americans have a tendency to grossly underestimate the actual number of LGBTQUIA persons in our society. It’s not enough, according to a “queertheorist”.

The new episodes of Book of Queer are streaming on Discovery+ throughout the month of June.