New book asserts that Lincoln and Washington were gay

Abraham Lincoln and George Washington were gay, says a new book by a gay activist and award winning writer.

Larry Kramer, 79, says he believes what's written in his history book is true though he is selling it as fiction to avoid legal troubles, reports the Daily Mail.

In Volume One of his two part book “The American People,” Kramer says that Abraham Lincoln was gay and his killer John Wilkes Booth was actually Lincoln's spurned gay lover.

“We know that Abraham Lincoln was gay,” Kramer told CBS in an interview about the book which came out this month.

“Why is that not in the history books? Because all history books are written by straight people, and they don't wanna either admit that, or they wouldn't know how to recognize what we call “gaydar.”

According to Kramer, Jamestown was a mecca of gay sex where Alexander Hamilton and others were sleeping with men because there weren't any women around.

“It's only natural that men would sleep with each other, when there are no women around for months on end,” said Kramer.

Kramer says it took him 40 years to write his 800 page history book that spans from pre-historic america all the way to the 1950s.

“It's called a ‘novel,’ but that's just to keep the lawyers away from me,” Kramer said.

"I believe everything in the book is true. Everything in there happened,' said Kramer who has long wanted to write a book on gay history.

“It may look like fiction, but to me, it’s not,” Kramer told the New York Times.

“Most histories have been written by straight people. There has never been any history book written where the gay people have been in the history from the beginning.It’s ridiculous to think we haven’t been here for ever.”

Kramer says that John Wilkes Booth's murder had nothing to do about the outcome of the Civil war, rather Bookes felt spurned by the president.

Kramer's book doesn't only touch on the gay history of politicians but it also talks about the about the HIV crisis in the nation which will be the book's second volume.

Kramer, who is HIV positive, said that 35 years is too long for a plague like HIV to still be in existence.

“You'll hear all about the plague of AIDS in the second volume, and a lot about Ronald Reagan,” Kramer said.

“It's not a nice story, but it's one that needs to be told. If I've been kept alive for any reason, it was to tell this story.”