Contents:
- HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- WHY THE ROMANS ARE IMPORTANT THE DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
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THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
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WHY THE ROMANS ARE IMPORTANT THE DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
"Add Zimmermann:Voltaire, [the poet Lrent] la Bemelle, the [French foreign mister] De Choisl, numerable Frenchman and Germans, almost all the iends and enemi of Frerick, almost all the prc and great men of Europe, even his servants — even the nfidants and iends of his later years, were of opn that he had loved, as is pretend, Socrat loved even Zimmermann tried to straighten his hero, spng a dub and far-fetched theory that Frerick wasn't gay, he jt wanted other people to thk he was. Beg whout his grap wouldn't f the image of a ary manr, Zimmermann's theory go — though there's no evince Frerick was strated — so he played gay. "Frerick the Great's reputatn as one of the world's most famo homosexuals seems secure.