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Contents:

• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• FRIEDRICH VON STBEN, GEE WASHGTON’S OPENLY GAY GENERAL WHO SAVED AMERI
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
• PRE-ORDER — WASHGTON'S GAY GENERAL: THE LEGENDS AND LOV OF BARON VON STBEN
• WASHGTON'S GAY GENERAL
• WOMAN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL
• WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
• WASHGTON'S GAY GENERAL
• INSI THE LIFE OF THE US REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS ALSO REVOLUTNARY AND FLAMBOYANTLY 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.

FRIEDRICH VON STBEN, GEE WASHGTON’S OPENLY GAY GENERAL WHO SAVED AMERI

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.

This man would be openly gay, Pssian ary expert, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Stben. But we n take pri knowg, our proper place  s history is next to Gee Washgton, Father of our Country, who did not re that his right-hand man was homosexual.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

“The Gay Man Who Saved The Amerin Revolutn”. 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. “When I me durg the 80s, thgs were different for women and gay people, and now 2021, the societal l are different aga.

PRE-ORDER — WASHGTON'S GAY GENERAL: THE LEGENDS AND LOV OF BARON VON STBEN

“People mt fd fort and ph back some of that ternalized homophobia, and build a b on the journey between hont and thentic. As s first Inspector General, von Stben created an anizatnal amework for the US ary, which clud wrg the Blue Book gui that beme the standard for trag Amerin soldiers for more than a Stben was also, by all acunts, a flamboyant homosexual an era when the term didn’t even exist. In Washgton’s Gay General, Tjillo and Hastgs impart both the trici of queer history and the importance of tellg stori that highlight queer experienc.

Reviews:"Washgton's Gay General mak clear that queer people have always existed, even before the word "queer" existed.

Tjillo and Hastgs gently weave their own sightful personal reflectns on livg as a gay people Ameri today to their qut to rearch the life of von Stben, makg clear that 's important to see queer people reflected our history. In 2020, he ntributed to the Ignatz Award–wng Be Gay, Do Comics (IDW, 2020).

WASHGTON'S GAY GENERAL

Fischer, a gay naway, tak on the mantle of Capta Ameri. A graphic novel bgraphy of Baron von Stben, the soldier, immigrant, and flamboyant homosexual who fluenced the urse of US history durg the Revolutnary War spe beg omted om our textbooks. Von Stben was also, by all acunts, a flamboyant homosexual an era when the term didn’t even exist.

"Washgton's Gay General mak clear that queer people have always existed, even before the word "queer" existed.

WOMAN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL

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WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'

12, 2012WASHINGTON — An Army officer beg promoted to brigadier general openly acknowledged her homosexualy on Friday by havg her wife p her star to her uniform, th beg the first openly gay officer of flag rank the Uned Stat officer, Brig.

WASHGTON'S GAY GENERAL

The star was affixed by Tracey Hepner, who was a -founr last year of the Milary Partners and Fai Coaln, which “provis support, rourc, tn and advocy for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr ary partners and their fai, ” acrdg to s Web uple married March 2012 the District of ary dropped s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gay service members on Sept.

”ImageSue Fulton, a spokwoman for OutServe, a two-year-old anizatn of lbians and gay men the ary, said Sunday that was “highly unlikely” that General Smh was the only gay officer of her rank.

She lled the promotn ceremony which General Smh acknowledged beg gay part of the bt Army tradn.

INSI THE LIFE OF THE US REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS ALSO REVOLUTNARY AND FLAMBOYANTLY GAY

Smh, the first openly gay ary officer of flag rank, misstated the year she and her partner were married.

It was this year, March — not we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 8 of the New York edn wh the headle: Woman Be First Openly Gay General. A new book exam the unknown or barely known liv of gay people workg and livg our natn’s pal, a cy known for s mix of power and secrets. “Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, " by Jam Kirchick, is a 654-page tome that took years of rearch and an exhstive vtigatn to printial archiv, historil terviews and once-classified ernment rerds.