If you go back far enough (and 1800s in far enough), group beds were common. Furniture is expensive to make and heat costs a lot of time or effort.
Families would all share beds, a handful of sleepers each. Hotels would expect strangers who didn't know each other stay in the same bed. It was normal because it means less shit to make and more heat to share. Nothing gay about it back then.
There are photos of Civil War and Wild West era men holding hands and sitting uncomfortably close together. To the point they are basically sitting on each other's laps. The whole guy love, every super close man is secretly gay crap is actually really new. There is a reason old men at the gym walk around naked, that closeness used to be the norm.
If you go back far enough (and 1800s in far enough), group beds were common. Furniture is expensive to make and heat costs a lot of time or effort.
Families would all share beds, a handful of sleepers each. Hotels would expect strangers who didn't know each other stay in the same bed. It was normal because it means less shit to make and more heat to share. Nothing gay about it back then.
There are photos of Civil War and Wild West era men holding hands and sitting uncomfortably close together. To the point they are basically sitting on each other's laps. The whole guy love, every super close man is secretly gay crap is actually really new. There is a reason old men at the gym walk around naked, that closeness used to be the norm.
Right so Lincoln wasn't gay. Their whole basis for the "Log Cabin" was he was rooming/sleeping with other men.
Dude had a stinker of a wife, and I don't think he got a lot of poon, but I don't think he was gay either.