Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- A clinical psychologist and author claims in a new book that former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was gay. C.A. Tripp's newly published "The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln" presents several pieces of controversial evidence pointing to Lincoln's homosexuality, the New York Daily News reported. Advertisement Among Tripps findings are that Lincoln shared a bed for four years with his friend Joshua Speed after arriving in Springfield, Ill., in 1841 and that during his presidency a bodyguard would share Lincoln's bed when the first lady was away. Tripp died shortly after completing the manuscript.
