They are not part of our damn history, they’re part of the decline. The only real acknowledged homosexuals who warrant mention in America’s history are Liberace, Jeffrey Dahmer, and some guy who George Washington had dismissed from the military during the Revolutionary War.
This is made up history. This is whitewashing, installing stuff that isn’t there. It is as disingenuous as what the Himmler wing of the Third Reich wanted to do: aggrandize and glorify periods of Germanic history where they were living in mud huts. Even Hitler face-palmed on that lunacy.
My Grandmother loved the guy and said if I practiced the piano really hard for 4 hours a day, I could be just like him. It didn't work, but I'd still hate for Grandma to find out about Liberace after all these years!
* Actually a really awful musician.