Tried and dismissed from service for attempting to commit sodomy on a soldier, not executed, though by the law of the day, execution was a possible punishment.
There were rumors about Baron von Steuben circulating and why he had to leave Prussia.
Also, the language men could use in letters to each other back then could be so flowery that later generations might make assumptions that just weren't true.
Such was the case with Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens.
I recently read a book about the Wars of the Roses; there were copious quotes from contemporaneous correspondence. It was commonplace for gentlemen to sign letters to one another, “Your Lover.”