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Contents:
- HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
- HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
- 30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
* famous gay general *
He was an famo disciplarian, a thls manr, and a ary was the symbol of Pssian masculy and arism, and he was also most likely gay.
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HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
"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.
"This soldier, young, handsome, well ma, and who played the flute, served to enterta the prisoner more than one fashn, " the French wrer and philosopher Voltaire a personal letter, Voltaire would pare Frerick to the gay lover of ancient Bhynian kg Nies IV. But he had already repeatedly cshed their, spe Frerick's "greatns, " 's hard to see the Pssian kg beg a gay hero. But ultimately, he is remembered as a symbol of 18th-century nservatism — which self would be overthrown by the French Revolutn and a gay hero?
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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. ”After the war, von Stben legally adopted both men—a mon practice among gay men an age before same-sex marriage was legal.
ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
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.
30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
But historil homosexual relatnships were actually don’t mean beg gay was ndoned: Sodomy was a crime lonial Ameri.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
Tammy Smh, the ary’s hight-rankg openly gay officer, me out 2012, she has tried beg an example of livg thentilly while also beg a bean of visibily to other Soldiers and their fai.
The policy banned lbians, gay men and bisexuals om servg the ary. It terrified her to e out as gay such a public way, but she felt a rponsibily to do , she said.
As difficult as was for her, g out publicly as gay “may not have been as easy for someone who was at a lower rank, ” Smh said an terview last week.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
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