Washgton, D.C.'s hidn gay history is unvered 'Secret Cy'

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.

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

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.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

”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.

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

But historil homosexual relatnships were actually don’t mean beg gay was ndoned: Sodomy was a crime lonial Ameri.

WASHGTON'S GAY GENERAL

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. “The Gay Man Who Saved The Amerin Revolutn”.

WOMAN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL

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.

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

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.

WASHGTON'S GAY GENERAL

“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.

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

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). 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.