#GeorgeWashington appointed #FriedrichVonSteuben, who fled Prussia for being gay, to train his army & assigned lovers #AlexanderHamilton & #JohnLaurens to assist him. The USA owes its victory in its Revolution to an out #queer.
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Commentators still refuse to acknowledge that founding fathers like #AlexanderHamilton & #FriedrichVonSteuben were gay or that #queers made “indispensable” contributions to the founding of the U.S.A. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

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George Washington himself knew that without #FriedrichVonSteuben and Von Steuben's expertise in military training second to none, whom GW knew was gay, American War For Independence from England would never had been won by America.

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Gen. Friedrich von Steuben – America’s Gay Revolutionary War Hero | theOUTfront Today in America, statehouses controlled by the New Right continues to erase LGBTQ people and their history by legalizing LGBTQ censorship in classrooms and public libraries. They are fueled by Christ...

Most of us probably never heard of Gen. Friedrich von Steuben in history class, It’s not surprising that a significant piece of #LGBTQ #AmericanHistory dating back to the Revolutionary War has been “swept into the closet.
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