Lover of Men, New Doc About Abraham Lincoln Gets Theatrical Release
Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln will be released in AMC Theatres on September 6, 2024 – as well as in other select theaters in markets where AMC is not available.
Lover Of Men examines the intimate life of America’s most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never before seen photographs and letters, the film details Lincoln’s romantic relationships with men. Lover Of Men widens its lens into the history of human sexual fluidity and focuses on the profound differences between sexual mores of the nineteenth century and those we hold today. The film fills in an important missing piece of American history and challenges the audience to consider why we hold such a limited view of human sexuality. Lover Of Men is not only an exploration of gender roles and sexual identity, but also serves as an examination of American intolerance.
Directed by Shaun Peterson, Lover Of Men features interviews with the following scholars and historians:
Dr. John Stauffer – Harvard University
Dr. Thomas Balcerski – Occidental College
Michael Bronski – Harvard University
Dr. Craig Tichelkamp – Harvard Divinity School
Dr. Jack Halberstam – Columbia University
Dr. Tey Meadow – Columbia University
Dr. Emily Owens – Brown University
Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson – Wellesley College
Dr. Charles Strozier – Historian
Dr. Jean Baker – Historian
Dr. Michael Chesson – University of MA Boston
Jonathan Ned Katz – Historian
Hugh Ryan – Author/Historian
Dr. Beryl Satter – Rutgers University
Dr. Hanne Blank Boyd – Author/Historian
Dr. Lisa Diamond – University of Utah
Alok Vaid-Menon – Artist/Historian
Rep. Zooey Zephyr – Montana State Legislator
Joan Cummins – Associate Director of Learning Initiatives, President Lincoln’s Cottage
Check out the trailer below:
And here is an official clip from the film:
Scholars seen in this LOVER OF MEN film clip are (in order of appearance):
Jonathan Ned Katz
Jonathan Ned Katz is an independent scholar and history activist who has published five pioneering books on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual U.S. history. He is the founder of OutHistory.org, the major website on the U.S. LGBTQ past. Two of his early books focus on African American history, and another is a memoir. Katz is also a visual artist and had a one man show at New York City’s Leslie-Lohman Museum.
Dr. John Stauffer
John Stauffer is the Kates Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of 20 books and over 100 articles, including The Black Hearts of Men, co-winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize; GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, a national bestseller; The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song that Marches On, co-authored with Benjamin Soskis; and Picturing Frederick Douglass, co-authored with Zoe Trodd and Celeste-Marie Bernier. His essays and reviews have appeared in Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and in exhibition catalogs, journals, and books. He received three teaching awards from Harvard and was named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow. The Harvard Class of 2021 voted him a “Harvard Favorite Professor.” His most recent work was curating the exhibition, ONE LIFE: FREDERICK DOUGLASS at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Museum, June 2023–April 2024. His new book, a biography of Charles Sumner, will be finished in 2024.
Dr. Michael Chesson
Michael Chesson earned an A.B. with high honors in history from the College of William and Mary. He served on active duty with the U.S. Navy and retired from the Naval Reserve as a captain.He began his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University before transferring to Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. He then served as a professor at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and later became the founding professor and dean emeritus at the American College of History and Legal Studies.
His published books include Richmond After the War, 1865-1890, Exile in Richmond: The Confederate Diary of Henri Garidel, co-edited with Leslie J. Roberts, and J. Franklin Dyer: The Journal of a Civil War Surgeon. His notable articles include “Richmond’s Black Councilmen, 1871-1896”, “Harlots or Heroines? A New Look at the Richmond Bread Riot”, “The Selling of Clio: American History College Survey Textbooks”, “Prison Camps and Prisoners of War”, and the afterword “An Enthusiastic Endorsement” in C. A. Tripp’s The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln. He has served on the Belmont, MA, Historic District Commission and is a past board member and vice president of the Belmont Historical Society.
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