When gay Sailor was outed, he found his Navy buddi had his back - Outsports

Contents:

• NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
• TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY U.S. HISTORY
• US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
• WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW

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TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY

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THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY U.S. HISTORY

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US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK

“My mom told me homosexuals go straight to hell, ” Jon says.

He had served for six years and two ployments on mandg, secretive missns when his homosexualy was was the “don’t ask, don’t tell” era. He was terrogated by a ary lawyer who mand he nfs to beg gay. They gossiped about him, ridiculg gays and sayg a homosexual SEAL would stroy un Navy dropped s vtigatn after Jon enlisted a natnal group that advot for gays the ary, and after members of Congrs tervened.

Last December, they drove to Indiana to be married by a urt, 37, had lived his own secret, tormented life growg up Athens, where gays were ridiculed and monized.

WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK

His father cracked jok about homos and day Whe cid to e out, he says, “I told my dad and he stood up and I was bracg for a punch. ” His father apologized for all his gay slurs over the and his brother, Matt, helped nvce Jon to self-publish a memoir, “Pri: The Story of the First Openly Gay Navy SEAL, ” released October.

”Jon and Whe want to sell the hoe and move Ethan to a public school nearby Huntsville, which they ll “a progrsive island” a state so hostile to gay marriage that s chief Supreme Court jtice orred unti to disobey a feral urt orr Febary permtg gay fay feels fortable Huntsville, home to scientists and engeers om across the untry who work fense and aerospace.

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

“We have the only tornado shelter on the street, ” Whe, they don’t expect a gay pri para Toney anytime soon. “Of urse, every day I take a drive is a gay pri para, ’’ Whe clients of their secury pany don’t particularly re that ’s owned and managed by two gay men, Whe says. The two are a former SEAL and former p, after all, and Jon served for years as a secury ntractor Afghanistan and Iraq after leavg the, Jon is active the Trevor Project, which operat 24-hour suici hotl for troubled lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr young people.