#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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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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