Thus far I have covered how people in Revolutionary and Founding Era America would have talked about LGBT+ men and women. To do just these two, however, would be to leave out several significant
At the start of my research into LGBTQIA+ women of the Revolutionary and Founding Eras, I was told that at that time LGBTQIA+ women, as a concept, did not exist. The people who espoused this theory
When I first started thinking about the fact that there were LGBTQIA+ people in the late eighteenth century, I imagined that this was something so far from the comprehension of people at the time
Aaron Burr is an underrated figure in United States history, not necessarily because he was a much better person than most people believe (that much is open to debate) but because he is far more
Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavas Vassa, earned his place in history by writing what is considered the first Slave Narrative. Equiano’s book, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
When she was six years old, Mary Eleanor Laurens declared that she wanted to become a boy. Was she trying to escape society's limitations on girls, or was she
Deborah Sampson Ganett is known as a feminist icon. But is it possible she deserves to be heralded as a lesbian icon as
The rumor that James Madison was asexual has been all around the internet. How much of it is
Researchers recently confirmed that Casimir Pulaski, hero of Polish and American Independance, was intersex. Was does this mean, and how does it change Pulaski's
Who was Charles Adams, and why has he been forgotten by
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In the late eighteenth century, queer men were supposed to feel strange, unwanted, and alone. That didn't stop Baron von Steuben from building his own kind of
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By the time Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens ended up on George Washington's staff, both had known more than their share of heartbreak. They did not know they were both about to find someone just