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Contents:

• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• WAS GEE WASHGTON GAY? CONSIR THE EVINCE
• GEE WASHGTON AND MOST OF JAMTOWN HAD GAY SEX, THE AMERIN PEOPLE BOOK SAYS
• WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
• GAYS THE MILARY
• DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL IF GEE WASHGTON WAS GAY
• GEE WASHGTON GAY
• FROM GEE WASHGTON TO COLONEL FISHER GAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 1776
• WAS GEE WASHGTON A GAY POT SMOKER?

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

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.

WAS GEE WASHGTON GAY? CONSIR THE EVINCE

”After the war, von Stben legally adopted both men—a mon practice among gay men an age before same-sex marriage was legal. 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. Larry Kramer's recent novel, The Amerin People: Volume 1: A Search for My Heart, has got tongu waggg aga about which great men Amerin history were gay.

In terviews, as well as the book, Kramer has claimed that many of the founrs, cludg Gee Washgton, were gay. As Kramer knows, the terms "heterosexual" and "homosexual" were ed the late neteenth century, and many will dismiss the book bee he appears to be a bad historian by assertg morn ias about the past.

GEE WASHGTON AND MOST OF JAMTOWN HAD GAY SEX, THE AMERIN PEOPLE BOOK SAYS

Kramer has long argued that amic historians are as much to blame for the straight-washg of Amerin history as even the most rabid of anti-gay, right-wg, history myth-makg foundatns. We should know enough by now that neher n stand scty as clear evince of sexual his terview wh the New York Tim Kramer said: "People say, 'Can you prove to me that Gee Washgton was gay? Assertg that Gee Washgton was gay garners headl bee Amerins thk they know that Gee Washgton was as straight as uld be -- a visn that partly reli on the tradnal image of virtuo, Amerin manhood.

For Kramer, assertg that Washgton was gay reveals not only that Amerins are bigots who straight-wash their histori, but also tells somethg about LGBTQ Amerins. There has never been any history book wrten where the gay people have been the history om the begng.

Gee Washgton and most of Jamtown had gay sex... And John Wilk Booth was one of Abraham Lln's spurned lovers, says new book Abraham Lln and Gee Washgton were gay, says a new book by Larry Kramer, 79, who is a gay activist and award wng wrerIn 'The Amerin People, ' Kramer says that Abraham Lln was gay and his killer John Wilk Booth was actually Lln's spurned gay loverThe book claims that the origal Jamtown settlement was all male and that men would have sexual relatnships when there were no womenLarry Kramer claims that many historians don't have 'gaydar' and uldn't regnize gay attribut Published: 19:21 BST, 15 April 2015 | Updated: 19:59 BST, 18 April 2015.

WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'

Abraham Lln and Gee Washgton were gay, says a new book by a gay activist and award wng Kramer, 79, says he believ what's wrten his history book is te though he is sellg as fictn to avoid legal Volume One of his two part book 'The Amerin People, ' Kramer says that Abraham Lln was gay and his killer John Wilk Booth was actually Lln's spurned gay lover. 'We know that Abraham Lln was gay, ' Kramer told CBS an terview about the book which me out this month. Were they gay?

: Wrer and gay activist Larry Kramer claims that Abraham Lln (left) and Gee Washgton (right) were gay The Amerin People: Volume one of the two part book by Larry Kramer explor prehistoric Ameri's unwrten gay history up to the prent day 'Historians don't have gaydar': Larry Kramer's ditors that Abraham Lln, Gee Washgton, Alexanr Haton, and many men Jamtown were gay Abraham Lln Acrdg to Larry Kramer, Abraham Lln slept wh several men cludg actor John Wilk Booth who later fatally shot him a theater on April 14, 1965.

GAYS THE MILARY

Another ditor that Lln was gay is that he would share beds wh other men, pecially when his wife Mary left town. ' Gee Washgton Larry Kramer says that historians jt don't have 'gaydar' when to studyg historic figur and that Gee was was 'basilly a big queen. Bee all history books are wrten by straight people, and they don't wanna eher adm that, or they wouldn't know how to regnize what we ll 'gaydar.

DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL IF GEE WASHGTON WAS GAY

'Acrdg to Kramer, Jamtown was a mec of gay sex where men chose to sleep wh men bee there weren't any women around. Everythg there happened, ' said Kramer who has long wanted to wre a book on gay history.

Spurned lover: Larry Kramer claims John Wilk Booth, who murred Abraham Lln, was one of Lln's spurned male lovers The wrer: Larry Kramer, 79, is an HIV posive Amerin wrer and gay rights advote who spent 40 years wrg his most recent book 'It may look like fictn, but to me, ’s not, ' Kramer told the New York Tim. There has never been any history book wrten where the gay people have been the history om the ’s ridiculo to thk we haven’t been here for ever. 'Kramer says that John Wilk Booth's murr had nothg to do about the oute of the Civil war, rather Book felt spurned by the 's book don't only touch on the gay history of policians but also talks about the about the HIV crisis the natn which will be the book's send, who is HIV posive, said that 35 years is too long for a plague like HIV to still be existence.

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.

GEE WASHGTON GAY

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.

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.

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. A new book exam the unknown or barely known liv of gay people workg and livg our natn’s pal, a cy known for s mix of power and secrets.

FROM GEE WASHGTON TO COLONEL FISHER GAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 1776

“Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, " by Jam Kirchick, is a 654-page tome that took years of rearch and an exhstive vtigatn to printial archiv, historil terviews and once-classified ernment rerds. "Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton" by Jam, Henry & Company, Inc.

“I realized that all the stori I was readg, and the personali and phenomena, whether was McCarthyism or the Reagans, FDR or JFK, that there were the gay stori lurkg the background, ” Kirchick said.

WAS GEE WASHGTON A GAY POT SMOKER?

Those stori lurked the background out of necsy: The st of g out as gay — or, more likely, beg outed agast one’s will — was enormo profsnally and socially. Even beg associated wh a spected homosexual uld e the untry’s most powerful men to quiver.

“It was the specter of homosexualy that provoked the first and only suici by a member of Congrs his Capol Hill office, ed Lyndon Johnson to et that his historil lead would evaporate, and seized the paranoid md of Richard Nixon send only to the plots of his ever-expandg enemi list, ” Kirchick wr. ” Rumors of homosexualy were tastrophic to those who were acced of , but Kirchick also asks the rear to nsir the broar human and societal impact of such wch hunts on gay Amerins workg ernment.

“To asss the full sle of the damage that the fear of homosexualy wrought on the Amerin polil landspe, one mt take to acunt not only the reers ed and the liv cut short, but somethg vaster and unquantifiable: the possibili thwarted, ” Kirchick wr. Although openly LGBTQ people have ma their way to the hight ranks of ernment today, was not long ago that spected homosexuals workg for the feral ernment were hunted down, publicly huiated and termated wh the full force of the ernment. “I don’t thk people unrstand or realize that was more dangero to be gay than was to be a munist.