Arrests at GayFest 1777

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icon to follow us on Facebook.on this day homophobic British police officers from the Philadelphia "City of Brotherhood" Constabulary stormed Valley Forge, arresting the principal organizers of GayFest 1777 - George Washington, Baron Von Steuben and the Marquis de Lafayette.

Before they left the Camp, the police also destroyed the Statue of Liberty which Lafayette had brought from Europe to serve as a symbol of the struggle for LGBT rights in the British Empire.

Nevertheless that struggle against discrimination would be continued by Frederick Gotthold Enslin, John Monhort and the handsome seventeen year old male assistant the Baron employed as his "secretary".

Because even though homosexual sex between two consenting adults in private was criminalised by the States, the practice was widespread particularly amongst the aristocracy. And of course the catalist for the latest arrests was a police report from Daniel Shays who had interrupted Washington and Marquis de Lafayette locked in a passionate embrace and headed for the mattresses.

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