10/26/12

Lt. Gen. Baron Friedrich von Steuben, the Prussian military genius whose service was critical in the American Revolution...and was as gay as a goose!


Gen. Washington rewarded Von Steuben with a house at Valley Forge, which he shared with his aide-de-camps Capt. William North and Gen. Benjamin Walker. Walker lived with him through the remainder of his life, and von Steuben, who neither married nor denied any of the allegations of homosexuality, left his estate to North and Walker. His last will and testament, which includes the line “extraordinarily intense emotional relationship,” has been described as a love letter to Walker.
Read more about this great gay general here.

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