Was President George Washington A Big Queen?

The man commonly referred to as the father of the United States was not only gay, but a big queen.

So says playwright-activist Larry Kramer in a radio interview with fellow activist Michelangelo Signorile.

Kramer, whose landmark play about the early days of the AIDS epidemic, The Normal Heart, is one of the hottest tickets on Broadway right now, is currently working on a 4,000 page book The American People that will be published in two parts. He describes it as a history of the United States from the very beginning, saying that gay people have been in the country since the founding of the country. Kramer says that George Washington was not only gay, but "a big queen," and adds that Abraham Lincoln and writer Mark Twain were also gay. He hopes that how the world was changed by gay people will one day be taught in schools.

Listen to the complete interview here.

The man commonly referred to as the father of the United States was not only gay, but a big queen.

So says playwright-activist Larry Kramer in a radio interview with fellow activist Michelangelo Signorile.

Kramer, whose landmark play about the early days of the AIDS epidemic, The Normal Heart, is one of the hottest tickets on Broadway right now, is currently working on a 4,000 page book The American People that will be published in two parts. He describes it as a history of the United States from the very beginning, saying that gay people have been in the country since the founding of the country. Kramer says that George Washington was not only gay, but "a big queen," and adds that Abraham Lincoln and writer Mark Twain were also gay. He hopes that how the world was changed by gay people will one day be taught in schools.

Listen to the complete interview here.