The Revolutnary War Hero Who Was Openly Gay | HISTORY

Contents:

• NELSAN ELLIS (LAFAYETTE) TALKS ‘TE BLOOD,’ GAY MARRIAGE, TYLER PERRY
• 15 GAY FOUNDG FATHERS AND MOTHERS
• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• THE BEST LAFAYETTE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LAFAYETTE
• TE BLOOD’S NELSAN ELLIS TALKS GAY STEREOTYP & TYLER PERRY

NELSAN ELLIS (LAFAYETTE) TALKS ‘TE BLOOD,’ GAY MARRIAGE, TYLER PERRY

Lafayette is a gay man who is flamboyant and egreg but at the same time isn’t stereotypil. Here, he tells VIBE how he brought Lafayette to life, what the gay muny thks about the character and how he plans to transn beyond his Te Blood role.

So that stereotype you were playg mt have been a Queenie type of gay guy, huh? What’s been the feedback om the gay muny? I don’t thk ’s a reflectn of the gay muny that’s jt Lafayette.

15 GAY FOUNDG FATHERS AND MOTHERS

But this is jt om what I hear, I haven’t really spoken to the gay muny outsi him [Lghs].

But then aga, I do play a gay character. I don’t answer that qutn, “Are you gay or not, ” when down to dtry people.

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

Was Lafayette gay? The Hollywood Reporter, which was first to report Ellis’s ath, quoted her as sayg he had died om plitns of heart Illois-born actor played Lafayette, a gay short orr ok, on the HBO drama om 2008 to 2014, and more recently appeared the CBS tective seri Elementary. 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.

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.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

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. 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. Zoolegers, which closed 2011, was the last gay bar Lafayette, stg downtown on Ma Street, where DT Kirby's is today.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

“The thg that’s unique about Col’s place that will be helpful for LGBT people is that they n actually go to a gay bar, ” Smh said.

Lleg and universi, heteronormativy, homophobia, and transphobia belong to school history as cisively as aterni, football, and fal exams.

In 1992, the popular Prceton Review named Lafayette the most "homophobic" stutn of higher tn the U. And (unsurprisgly) the school wh most "gays still the closet.

THE BEST LAFAYETTE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LAFAYETTE

In velopg a groundbreakg, publicly available mol for reverg LGBTQ+ history and engagg wh related issu, the Queer Archiv Project monstrat that stutns n do more than simply acknowledge homophobic, transphobic pasts. 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.

TE BLOOD’S NELSAN ELLIS TALKS GAY STEREOTYP & TYLER PERRY

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.