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In a time when homosexual men could not even consider marriage, they sometimes used adoption to form legal bonds. Stepping in at Valley Forge, von Steuben turned the ragtag colonial patriots into the Continental Army trained with discipline to fight in battle and win.

The Revolutionary War Hero Who Was Openly Gay Baron Friedrich von Steuben was known for his bravery and the discipline and grit he brought to the American troops. In , he joined George Washington’s Revolutionary Army without pay. We know of so many strong amazing men and women that were gay through history yet these historians keep trying to cover it up.

It is not unusual for young military men to form intense emotional relationships, perhaps at times sexual. His ideas and techniques remained U. Nevertheless, because American revolutionary-mythology cannot assimilate the dual anomalies of foreignness and gayness, most Americans have never heard of him.

He is credited with turning the Continental Army into a professional fighting force during the American Revolutionary War. This man would be openly gay, Prussian military expert, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. A statue of von Steuben stands in Lafayette Square Park in Washington, DC, once a popular gay cruising area before the police sweeps of the Lavender Scare in the early s.

In Thomas Jefferson along with others, revised the Virginia criminal code to punish sodomy by castration instead of death. She served for a year and a half and was wounded twice before her secret was discovered. Stop lying and trying to cover up some thing that is wonderful and natural and healthy.

Walker later becoming a representative in the US Congress. Kitchens and latrines were on opposite sides of the camp, with latrines on the downhill side. For example, the loving letters of Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens present the dilemma of interpreting to what extent his epistolary language is a mere formal, literary convention and to what extent it is an honest expression of emotion, referring to some deep-felt, perhaps physical relation.

Von Steuben invited the couple into his home. They both lived with him for a time, until the younger Adams departed. PAUL on August 4, at am. Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Freiherr von Steuben (/ ˈstjuːbən / STEW-bən or / stjuːˈbɛn / stew-BEN, [1] German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm fɔn ˈʃtɔʏbn̩]; born Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin Louis Freiherr von Steuben; September 17, – November 28, ), also referred to as Baron von Steuben, was a German-born American army officer who played a.

Herman Melville, the list goes on. Thanks for your comment, Grant. In his first year of service, he authored the Regulations for the Order and Discipline of Troops of the United States based on the training program he devised at Valley Forge—regulations that remained in use until Hamilton at this time was an inseparable from John Laurens.

Still she was given an honorable discharge and later a government pension for her service. Some combination of youth, fear, camaraderie, lack of contact with women, separation from familiar environs, male bonding, and young male hormones might play a part. To combat graft and corruption in military supplies, von Steuben instigated strict record keeping and his inspections saved the army the loss of thousands of muskets.

A , revised edition, Jeff, you are doing excellent and important work, enhancing awareness of the history of civilization, and being up to date with modern technology as an astonishing communication fact in our lives. Another young man, John Mulligan, wrote to von Steuben for help in Concerned about the closeness of this relationship, the vice president demanded that the two young men part company.

Frederick appeared indifferent to his wife and rarely saw her. Von Steuben was born in Germany in and joined the Prussian army at the age of After serving several years in various military campaigns he became an aide-de-camp to Frederick the Great and in was one of a small group of officers chosen for special training by this renowned Prussian monarch and military leader.

I agree—just because there is no direct evidence that some of these earlier history couples had sex, that does not mean that they were not lovers. In the case of Baron Friedrich von Steuben who fought with the Continental Army against the British in the America Revolutionary War, we see a life-long pattern of such relationships.

Jonathan Ned Katz reports that there are suggestions that Sampson may have had close relationships with other women, but she did later marry a man and bore three children. Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben was a Prussian military officer who was openly gay.

But there is ample evidence that these associations existed.