The importance of research

Gore Vidal gets to write on the Vanity Fair website this month on the subject 'Was Lincoln bisexual?' As far as I can tell the answer given seems to be 'No, he was fully gay, but what could he do but marry and pretend, poor lad.' What I love most, though, is that Vidal - who's no better at sticking to the point than I am - gets to slip in the following:

'In 1948, Alfred C. Kinsey published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. He also wrote me a note of appreciation for my "work in the field".'

Isn't that every man's dream?