tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869928133326546025.post7110429942595966560..comments2024-03-27T15:13:23.108+00:00Comments on The Queerstory Files: Flower Power - LavenderTony Scupham-Biltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06369390993654785422noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869928133326546025.post-65607913434814899632016-08-08T12:42:57.576+01:002016-08-08T12:42:57.576+01:00As a historian of LGBTQ life in the U.S. I would L...As a historian of LGBTQ life in the U.S. I would LOVE to have citations for all the interesting references to the association of "lavender" with LGBT people. Here is one more documented reference: In 1926, in his popular biography of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg said of Lincoln's friend Joshua Speed: "He had spots soft as May violets." Speed and Lincoln "told each other their secrets about women," said Sandburg, and "Lincoln too had . . . a streak of lavender, and spots soft as May violets." (See my book Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality, University of Chicago Press, 2001, p. 25 and 354 n.81.) Thanks, Jonathan Ned Katz outhistory@gmail.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12408450572585698370noreply@blogger.com