Queen Abe: Skylar Fein Revisits Lincoln’s Sexuality At C24 Gallery
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Queen Abe: Skylar Fein Revisits Lincoln’s Sexuality At C24 Gallery

Was Abraham Lincoln queer? Oh I know what you’re thinking, Mary: that old question again? Well stop sighing, drink your Old Fashioned and listen. New Orleans-based artist Skylar Fein’s current exhibition The Lincoln Bedroom at C24 Gallery raises and re-energizes this debate through a detailed, heavily researched, immersive installation of the bedroom, including the infamous bed, that Lincoln shared with Joshua Speed, a wealthy plantation owner’s son. Continue reading