Contents:
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
- ATHEIST AND GAY, FRERICK THE GREAT WAS MORE RADIL THAN MOST LEARS TODAY
- HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERALWAR IS BORG·FOLLOWPUBLISHED WAR IS BORG·8 M READ·MAR 9, 2014--1LISTENSHARENO, NOT ALEXANR THE GREAT—FRERICK THE GREAT
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.
HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
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.
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. Summarize this article for a 10 years oldSHOW ALL QUESTIONSIt is almost certa that Pssian Kg Frerick the Great (1712–1786) was primarily homosexual, and that his sexual orientatn was central to his life.
ATHEIST AND GAY, FRERICK THE GREAT WAS MORE RADIL THAN MOST LEARS TODAY
His favoured urtiers were exclively male, and his art llectn celebrated homoeroticism. Persistent mours nnectg the kg wh homosexual activy circulated around Europe durg his lifetime, but there is ls survivg five evince of any sexual relatnships of his, homosexual or otherwise. However, July 1750, the Pssian kg unmistakably wrote to his gay secretary and rear, Cl Étienne Darget: “M hémorroïs saluent affectusement votre v…” (“My hemorrhoids affectnately greet your ck”), which strongly suggts that he was sexually volved wh men.
HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERALWAR IS BORG·FOLLOWPUBLISHED WAR IS BORG·8 M READ·MAR 9, 2014--1LISTENSHARENO, NOT ALEXANR THE GREAT—FRERICK THE GREAT
Frerick's sexualy was rejected by profsnal historians for centuri after his ath, but was embraced by homosexual publitns of Weimar Germany, which featured him on their vers and praised him for erng while homosexual. His homosexualy was not only a part of his inty, but was also wily known (Voltaire wrote salacly about durg their fallg out). But while the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalize gay marriage, has paved the wave for a queer royal to officially wear the crown, LGBTQ people have long been dog so unofficially.
(The term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri.