The first openly gay SEAL has built a new life here at age 41 wh a fay that has replaced the two fai he lost — the one that raised...
Contents:
- KNIV SAVE LIV: NAVY SEAL JOHN GAY
- SEALS GAY, JOHN G.
- NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
- ACCINTAL 'I LOVE YOU' DERAILED GAY NAVY SEAL'S CAREER
- FOIA REQUT JOHN G GAY OMPF
- NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL REBUILDG HIS LIFE BIBLE BELT
KNIV SAVE LIV: NAVY SEAL JOHN GAY
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SEALS GAY, JOHN G.
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NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
The two men are parents to Ethan, a prec 13-year-old known the flat, clay and pe untry as the only kid school wh two gay first openly gay SEAL has built a new life here at age 41 wh a fay that has replaced the two fai he lost — the one that raised him and the one he built wh fellow SEALs. Both his parents and the Navy banished him bee he’s this steamy night, the two gay parents and their straight son are sweatg and shovg as they fight to w a roughhoe driveway basketball game lled Cheater Ball. They are close, and necsarily so, sce a gay marriage — not to mentn gay parentg — is viewed wh ep spicn and outright hostily perhaps the most anti-gay state the Jon and Whe attend Ethan’s baseball gam, they say, ach and other parents barely speak to them.
When he was high school, his mother, a vout Christian, overheard his phone nversatn wh a gay next day, Jon says, his parents nonted him.
ACCINTAL 'I LOVE YOU' DERAILED GAY NAVY SEAL'S CAREER
He asked his son, “Brett, are you a homosexual? “My mom told me homosexuals go straight to hell, ” Jon says.
FOIA REQUT JOHN G GAY OMPF
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. 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.
NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL REBUILDG HIS LIFE BIBLE BELT
” 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.
“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.