Spielberg's unexplored Other side of Lincoln.

Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is consciously restrictive, concentrating as it does on how the vote was manipulated and the 13th Amendmenmnet.

It is consciously restrictive becasue the money men may have felt that there was a homophobic audience out there and the possible other side of  this giant of a man should reemain unexplored.

The writerTariq Ali reports a talk with GorViidal:

"A few years ago, not long after reading C.A. Tripp’s pioneering The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, I had lunch with Gore Vidal in LA, and taped our conversation for later use. The following exchange is revealing:
TA: Given the recent book and materials on Lincoln’s homosexuality how do you feel having portrayed him as a raving heterosexual in your novel?
GV: You’re a bastard. What a bastard question. It hurts. It hurts. How could I have missed that?
TA: You didn’t look?
GV: I had no idea, but since Tripp’s book I’ve gone back and devoured everything on the subject. There is no doubt in my mind. Once he was in bed with the Captain and the latter’s son walked in. On another occasion they were disturbed and Lincoln opened the door wearing his lover’s nightgown. Oh what a fool I was Ali aruges that TonyKushner the scriptwritermissed an opportunity to give 'the issue' an airing and in so doing caved to what the marketing people think is a homophobic audience.

Yet an actor of Daniel Day-Lewis's intelligence would surely have risen to the occasion.