�It may look like fiction, but to me, it�s not,� Kramer told the New York Times last week.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2854292&forum_id=2.#27681883)

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From here on out, like a Sabbath elevator, Mr. Kramer�s book stops at every floor. American Indians bring �anal intercourse into general use in this country.� The mostly male settlers at Jamestown take a great deal of comfort in brotherly love. In this telling, George Washington, who disappears into the woods with �cute young Indian fellows,� is gay, as are Hamilton, Franklin, Lincoln, Jackson, Pierce and Buchanan. Minutemen jokes? Check.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2854292&forum_id=2.#27684263)

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�You only have to look at photographs of Wilkes and [co-conspirator] Lewis Powell to see that they�re full of their own beauty. We call it gaydar � the thing straight historians don�t have. Or take Mark Twain. He had a huge gay life.�

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2854292&forum_id=2.#27681892)

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So far we�ve got George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, Baron von Steuben, Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson � which really surprised me � Hawthorne, Melville, John Wilkes Booth, Mark Twain, Eleanor Roosevelt, of course, James Forrestal, Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover. You�re writing three kinds of history in this book. There were times when you would quote from a book you had read, and you would acknowledge the author and the source. To me, that�s just history. Then there were times when I was in a kind of phantasmagoria nightmare scene, and I thought, This is not history anymore; we�re now in Larry�s imagination. And there�s the most deceptive category, the middle, in which it seems to me that you were mixing real source material with imagination. You didn�t want to write a history in which you simply extracted little-known facts about gay people in history and put it together as straight history?

[Kramer]No, originally I didn�t want to call it a novel, I just wanted to call it The American People and let people figure out what it was. There isn�t anything in the book that I don�t agree with, or have some belief in, and if I couldn�t find some source that would give me the right to say it, I said my version of it, as with John Wilkes Booth. Did you ever look at the pictures of all the guys who were charged with murdering Lincoln?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2854292&forum_id=2.#27684247)