Contents:
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- 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
- QUEER NAPOLEON: OM NAPOLEONIC FRIENDSHIP TO GAYS THE MILARY
- HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
- HISTOIRENAPOLéON, "UN EMPERR GAY IENDLY" ?
- IS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A GAY
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.
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
”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. At ary school he had plaed the thori did not do enough to protect them om “pravy, ” and attacked a iend who was homosexual. Although Mart is himself gay, he never tri to force a document or a lerary text to speak of homosexualy when there is no nvcg evince.
QUEER NAPOLEON: OM NAPOLEONIC FRIENDSHIP TO GAYS THE MILARY
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Homosexualy is nate—at least is for me—but the social nceptn of what beg gay means has varied over we e the word “orientatn” today, 18th-century wrers would ll a “taste. It was so wily known, the late historian Louis Crompton wrote his book Homosexualy and Civilizatn, that historians had trouble rencilg Frerick’s sexualy wh his greatns.
Several bgraphi have more than a whiff of his haggraphy of the kg, historian Thomas Carlyle rejected assertns that Frerick was gay as a “thrice-abomable mor” spread by those wh a “solacement to human malice and impertent cursy.
HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
”But 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.
HISTOIRENAPOLéON, "UN EMPERR GAY IENDLY" ?
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?
But he was fely a great gay general. Nomated for a Lambda Lerary Prize 2012, Napoleonic Friendship was one of the first books on “Gays the Milary” published followg the historic repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” 2011, and was recently award the Lrence Wylie Prize French Cultural Studi (for 2010-11). Queer Napoleon: om Napoleonic Friendship to Gays the Milary.
One of the first books on “Gays the Milary” published followg the historic repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” 2011, Napoleonic Friendship exam the history of male timacy the French ary, om Napoleon to the First World War. Echog the historil rerd of gay soldiers the Uned Stat, Napoleonic Friendship is the first book-length study on the orig of queer soldiers morn France. For some, the homosocialy of ary life spired mutual affectn, lifelong mment, and homoerotic sire.
IS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A GAY
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. Homosexualy is nate — at least is for me — but the social nceptn of what beg gay means has varied over we e the word "orientatn" today, 18th-century wrers would ll a "taste.
It was so wily known, the late historian Louis Crompton wrote his book Homosexualy and Civilizatn, that historians had trouble rencilg Frerick's sexualy wh his greatns.