There were rumors that Hamilton and Elizabeth’s sister, Angelica, had an affair, but the family edited Hamilton’s letters after his death, so no conclusive evidence exists. Hamilton is known to have shared an extremely close relationship with his fellow statesman John Laurens, a lieutenant colonel and member of George Washington’s staff. Explore the hidden LGBTQ+ history of America's founding fathers. From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Lincoln, discover the untold stories of same-sex relationships in early American society.
Alexander Hamilton was totally bisexual. Now our Hammy loved women, but his closest most, most intimate relationships were with men, more specifically Laurens, and after Laurens died, Morris. Hamilton’s letters to Laurens were chock full of sexual innuendos and dick jokes. No seriously, read them. The musical Hamilton features the close relationship between Alexander Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda) and John Laurens (Anthony Ramos), but there are some historical suggestions that the pair also had a love affair.
The Prince of Light. His fellow founders often remarked on his sexual adventurism, and Martha Washington named her cat after Hamilton because of all that tom catting : he would do, and then some people even accused him of having an affair with his sister in law. And here's a little bit of context about this letter. And that affair became one of the first sex scandals of our young country.
Twas a boy from South Carolina named John Lawns. Their letters were written in the flowery language of the eighteenth century, and while they would raise suspicion in modern American society, they were typical in style and tone for their time. When the two were apart, they corresponded frequently. Speaker 2 : He was like, Okay, if you're gonna be in the army, I'm gonna get you right.
New York: Columbia University Press, , pp. And now, my dear, as we are upon the subject of wife, I empower and command you to get me one, Carolina. Oh Alexander Hamilton, what more can we say about this man? And so John wrote his dad. His responses have never been found, which, honestly, that's pretty suss, isn't it. If you can never get enough true crime During this time that they were apart, Henry Lawrence kept writing to John being like, hey, make sure you're studying.
But these letters from Alexander Hamilton to John Lawrence were first assembled and published to reveal their gay themes by historian Jonathan ned Katz, And he's done a : lot of pioneering work for queer history. He's saying, I'm trying to preserve : myself free from particular attachments.
We have fought side by side to make America free. Our executive producers are Virginia Prescott, Els. You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. Is Alexander Hamilton gay: Hamilton did have an affair with a married woman in Angelica and Hamilton corresponded frequently during her stay abroad. I've been hearing that you're hanging out with an ill suited crowd.
It has a very inspiring effect. Speaker 1 : So who is this wife? Speaker 2 : So Laurens age twenty five is in South Carolina, Hamilton's twenty two, he's up in Philadelphia, sending these. The Alexander Hamilton rumor, unfortunately, has been seized upon by activist groups who want to make him a champion of gay rights, for which there is not a shred of evidence.
One biographer of him said, Gregory D. That's amazing. Further in the letters, a gap is noticeable, because we never saw Laurens's response to that letter from Alexander. Speaker 1 : Extremely warm regards.
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