Here’s an excerpt from a press release that’s been popping up
around the Internet for the past few days: In what is hailed as
the largest gay history project of its kind in the nation, 30
U.S. publications serving lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and
transgender people will celebrate October as Gay History Month
by presenting “We are America: How members of the LGBT community
helped create the U.S.A.” This groundbreaking month-long series
will provide compelling evidence that our Founding Fathers not
only welcomed LGBT people to helped create this country, but
without the contributions made by LGBT people, American history
might have turned out quite differently. Based on the
information contained in the article, this seems to have little
to do with the discipline of LGBT history and more to do with
seizing on any possible indication that a given historical
figure might have been gay and then running with it as hard and
fast as possible. Take this revelation, for example: Following
the historic repeal of “Don’t A