Richard Godbeer, a professor of history at the University of Miami, writes about sexuality in early America. Anybody familiar with him?
http://www.as.miami.edu/history/biographies/godbeer.htmlHis books look worth exploring.
Larry Kramer was citing one of his books in writing about Jamestown, which is being reexamined upon its 400th anniversary. Kramer says same-gender marriages were performed there in Colonial days.