Contents:
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- HOW A GAY PSSIAN WHO SPOKE NO ENGLISH BEME A HERO OF THE AMERIN REVOLUTN
- BARON VON STBEN, WASHGTON’S GAY GENERAL AND FRIEND
- FRERICK VON STBEN: BARON, DRILLMASTER, AND GAY GENERAL
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.
HOW A GAY PSSIAN WHO SPOKE NO ENGLISH BEME A HERO OF THE AMERIN REVOLUTN
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.
BARON VON STBEN, WASHGTON’S GAY GENERAL AND FRIEND
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. We n state why he might be spected of beg gay, but aga, to suggt that he might be out as you know, as blatant has to be he has to be uched properly.
In other words, we don't have enough of a enough of an accurate termology to e or enough of a shared termology for all of as a group to get together, or for strangers to e together ont of a monument and jt hear a term like he's a gay general.
FRERICK VON STBEN: BARON, DRILLMASTER, AND GAY GENERAL
I thk both you have, and I, well, sort of a ristance to a very easy label like the "gay general. In other words, von Stben is beg lled the "gay general, " part to to talk about why queer people today should have rights and should be able to serve the army. So that if a reference was ma to the fact that others have referred to him as the "gay general, " other words, that's another way of dog then.
And so, you know, sometim, rather than focg on you the more physil aspects of the particular relatnships, whether be hetero or whether be heterosexual or homosexual, the general foc should be stead on how they exprs their affectn towards one another and love for one another. Historians believe he was openly gay—a rary at the time, pecially for a ary Magburg, Germany, the son of an engeer litenant the Pssian Army, von Stben joed the ary at age served as the personal ai to Frerick the Great, a gay monarch, the Seven Years War (1756 – 1763), a world nflict that arose om the French and Indian War North 1763, when von Stben was an army pta, the ary abptly discharged him. Some scholars believe he was dismissed due to his homosexualy.