The Country's Gay Secrets (things you probably didn't learn in school)
This Fourth of July, as you're munching on hot dogs, launching fireworks and wondering if you took it just a little too far with your flag-themed outfit, take a break to appreciate this collection of gay secrets from the Land of the Free's history.
From Abraham Lincoln's bed fellows to marine man-love, there's plenty in America's past to make homophobes faint from something other than too much beer this Independence Day.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/03/gay-american-history_n_1648083.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices#slide=more236320
Honest Abe's bedfellows
Merriment in Merrimount
Washington And Lafayette Bromance
A Revolutionary Woman In Disguise
Gay Cowboys
America Owes Its Existence And Military To A Gay Man
The First Gay President?
San Francisco: 'Sodom By The Sea'
Transcendentalism's Gay Roots
Sea Men
I realize this is a little late for the 4th celebrations, but it's here for next year. 
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They've been pointing up von Steuben's homosexuality, as in, "Yeah he was gay but there would be a USA! USA! without him". They've mentioned Lincoln's manloves but the evidence seems a bit thin yet (as in, "probably was but we don't have evidence like we do about von Steuben"
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A few years back I read several works about gays in the military on both sides of the civil war. Very interesting stuff.
