Queering Benedict Arnold
“Queering Benedict Arnold" is historical gay fiction. The story alternates between twenty-first century scenes in which Jake Preston and Ben Arnold (a descendent) investigate Benedict’s life, and eighteenth-century scenes imagined by Jake and Ben. Some characters and allusions hark back to “Wayward Island” (in nifty’s file on Beginnings). Jake Preston is the narrator in both works.
Most episodes are faithful to history, except for sexual encounters, which are fictional. You should not read this story if you are a minor, or if you are offended by explicit gay sex.
Benedict Arnold was an American military genius who was treated unfairly by jealous rivals while he lived. After his death, he was denounced as the archetypal traitor in history and folklore, but he was a target of inexplicable hatred long before his treasonable conspiracy with John André to surrender the fort at West Point to the British. Taken as a whole, “Queering Benedict Arnold” is an attempt to discover the origins of that hatred.
I… wait a second… 14 Feb 2013 minus… OH MY GOD I think this gay Revolutionary fanfic ripped off its framing device from Assassin’s Creed’s.
That’s like the second most meta alternate war history popular franchise queer fanfiction porn I’ve ever seen.