Contents:
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- 'GAYDAR' PROV GEE WASHGTON AND ALEXANR HATON WERE GAY, THOR SAYS
- BENJAM FRANKL GAY III
- TAGGAY HISTORY
- 15 GAY FOUNDG FATHERS AND MOTHERS
THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
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 charismatic Foundg Father may not have been gay himself but showed tremendo empathy for homosexuals of the time.
'GAYDAR' PROV GEE WASHGTON AND ALEXANR HATON WERE GAY, THOR SAYS
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. 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.
BENJAM FRANKL GAY III
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. 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. 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.
He also downplayed mors that the baron had been dismissed om the Pssian ary for homosexualy. But he was gay, and homosexualy was viewed as a crimal aberratn by many of his peers. ”After the war, von Stben legally adopted both men—a mon practice among gay men an age before same-sex marriage was legal.
TAGGAY HISTORY
John Mulligan, who was also gay, served as von Stben’s secretary and is thought to have had a relatnship wh the baron. Durg von Stben’s lifetime, the ncept of gay marriage, gay pri or g out was unthkable and there was no language or open culture of homosexualy.
But historil homosexual relatnships were actually don’t mean beg gay was ndoned: Sodomy was a crime lonial Ameri. Flynt enavored to set straight the rerd – which is, well, actually pretty gay, acrdg to him – his entertag new book, "One Natn Unr Sex: How the Private Liv of Prints, First Ladi and Their Lovers Changed the Course of Amerin History. Edgar Hoover had gay relatnships, but that isn't to say that the allegatns are unntted.
For example, part of the evince for Lln's homosexual leangs is his close iendship wh Joshua Speed, wh whom he shared a bed for many years. When did gay sex sndals pop up Amerin polics? He was the first gay print we ever had.
15 GAY FOUNDG FATHERS AND MOTHERS
Everybody knew – they would ll them "Aunt Fancy" and "Miss Nancy" [mon slang for gay men]. You would have thought someone who was gay would intify wh people who were opprsed, but he did not. We're prently vtigatg a senator who's gay and the reason why that's important is that he's so hypocril.
Our attorney felt that even if he was gay or bisexual, that really plited the issue, and we felt we didn't have enough rmatn to go ahead. When I started the book, I didn't even know that we had a gay print, and I didn't know that Lln's sexualy was lled to qutn. Ben played a mean, mean game of chs, a skill he honed the f of gay Paree.