Atlas Obscura the question left her stumped and sent her on a quest to “tell the whole story.”Moog-Ayers met with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and soon the Gender and Sexual Diversity Research Committee was formed to conduct research and uncover the hidden history and personal stories of queer Williamsburg and other colonies.
The most notable early gay American at least somewhat familiar to the modern reader is Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben, better known as Baron von Steuben for those who are bad with long names.
Celebrated in the history books as the Prussian military expert hired by George Washington to turn an undisciplined and demoralized Continental Army into an effective fighting force, he was also.