Intimate Friendship

‘A type of relationship in the 18th, 19ths and early 20th centuries that involved intimacy between members of the same sex or gender at a great level than a regular friendship - for example, living as life partners and professing love for each other. This is the type of relationship that Abraham Lincoln had with Joshua Speed and that Eleanor Roosevelt had with Lorena Hickock’.

‘Queer There And Everywhere’ by Sarah Prager