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Contents:
- 15 GAY FOUNDG FATHERS AND MOTHERS
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- THIS IS WHAT GAY MARRIAGE AND OBAMARE HAVE COMMON
- WHO AMONG THE FOUNDG FATHERS WAS GAY?
15 GAY FOUNDG FATHERS AND MOTHERS
While acceptance of LGBT people may feel like only h s stri recent years (and may still be set back), homosexualy has always been a part of Ameri. Son of Print John Adams, Charl Adams his youth beme a protégé of Friedrich von Stben and would grow fortable his own homosexualy. “I am gay and I fly the flag of pri and liberty for all of , ” Ross said, acrdg to Lanr, who says Ross revealed she was part of an unrground gay and lbian muny the late 18th century.
THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
The charismatic Foundg Father may not have been gay himself but showed tremendo empathy for homosexuals of the time. While servg as ambassador to France, was Frankl who reced strategist Baron Friedrich von Stben to provi his expertise to the rebelln, spe knowg the soldier’s homosexualy. Of urse, AIDS activist and wrer Larry Kramer lists Frankl among the Amerin historil figur he believ were gay, so maybe Frankl was more than an ally.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
Senator om Alabama, William Ruf Devane Kg is nsired by many to have been the natn’s first gay vice print, acrdg to the Washgton Bla. The only bachelor to ever be elected print of the Uned Stat, Jam Buchanan by multiple acunts engaged gay relatnships and may be remembered history as the first gay print. Charl AdamsSon of Print John Adams, Charl Adams his youth beme a protege of Friedrich von Stben and would grow fortable his own homosexualy.
"I am gay and I fly the flag of pri and liberty for all of , " Ross said, acrdg to Lanr, who says Ross revealed she was part of an unrground gay and lbian muny the late 18th century. Ben FranklThe charismatic Foundg Father may not have been gay himself but showed tremendo empathy for homosexuals of the time.
While servg as ambassador to France, was Frankl who reced strategist Baron Friedrich von Stben to provi his expertise to the rebelln, spe knowg the soldier's homosexualy. Senator om Alabama, William Ruf Devane Kg is nsired by many to have been the natn's first gay vice print, acrdg to the Washgton Bla.
THIS IS WHAT GAY MARRIAGE AND OBAMARE HAVE COMMON
Jam BuchananThe only bachelor to ever be elected print of the Uned Stat, Jam Buchanan by multiple acunts engaged gay relatnships and may be remembered history as the first gay print. LGBT History Month is – you gused – a month-long look at lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr history, as well as the history of the gay rights movement. And acrdg to some historians, he uld also be one of the most fluential gay men Amerin history.
Gay men have always been part of the Amerin ary. In an era before gay marriage or open pri, ary men fell love, formed passnate iendships and had same-sex enunters.
WHO AMONG THE FOUNDG FATHERS WAS GAY?
But the se of one of the ary’s foundg hero, homosexualy was always part of the story. Historians also thk he was homosexual—and served as an openly gay man the ary at a time when sex between men was punished as a crime.