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• THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
• THIS GAY MARE FELL LOVE WH NNG WHILE HE WAS STATNED IRAQ
• WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
• GAY NNER AT COAST GUARD AMY FDS BEG THENTIC ALLOWS HIM TO THRIVE
• ‘INSPECTN’ DIRECTOR LLS NEW MARE FILM THE ‘BLACK, GAY ROCKY’
• 'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
• OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAVG NAVY AFTER HARASSMENT
• ACCINTAL 'I LOVE YOU' DERAILED GAY NAVY SEAL'S CAREER
• NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
• "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
• HOW 'THE INSPECTN' TELLS THE CREDIBLE STORY OF A GAY MAN'S EXPERIENCE THE MAR DURG 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
• GAY ROWER WAS PART OF SECRET LGBTQ ARY WORK DURG DON’T ASK DON’T TELL
• STEVE GRAND JT MA THIS GAY MARE'S DREAM COME TE
• GAY MARE'S HOMEG KISS IS LIGHTG UP THE WEB
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'

"The Inspectn" is a new feature about a young man who turns his life around the Mare Corps after beg kicked out of the hoe as a teen for beg gay and livg homels for several years.

Bratton lived on the streets for a after beg kicked out of the hoe for beg gay. The trailer for Bratton's film brgs a lot of the Mare Corps' re valu, so looks like we n expect a movie that portrays lead character Ellis French's ary experience a posive light spe of the herent problems a gay Mare would have faced that era. Part of Gaona’s motivatn for jog the armed forc was the abily to supprs his gay thoughts and feelgs.

“I also hontly never thought I would e out, bee I didn’t want to be gay. Intertgly enough, Gaona beiend many gay men after his stt the Mar, spe the apprehensn he was feelg about his own sexualy.

THIS GAY MARE FELL LOVE WH NNG WHILE HE WAS STATNED IRAQ

1 gay ally. “I surround myself around more and more gay iends until fally I started g out, ” he said. “It was actually really difficult to e out to my gay iends, bee I had built such a iendship as their straight ally.

Then he dashed to Google and searched for gay nng clubs San Diego. Three years later, Gaona met his fiancée, and now they live NYC — one of this world’s great gay mecs. As print of FRNY, Gaona is fully immersed the cy’s gay sports scene.

"Curnick, are you gay? I was alone at the time and tears, and I cid to e clean — y, I'm gay, I told them. After I me over that fal hurdle, I began to live openly, and my life as a gay man flourished.

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

This past sprg, bat trag before my ployment to Afghanistan, someone found out I was gay, walked up to me and said, "I'm glad I'm not ployg wh you, I wouldn't tst a fag wh my life. I grew up thkg that beg gay was wrong — that beg gay meant you f a stereotype. I'm gay.

She had asked me many tim growg up if I was gay, but beg aaid of who I was, I never uld adm . There, stctors and fellow trae nstantly threw homophobic slurs around. I distctly remember one day when an stctor said, "Oh look at those faggots, " and then turned to sayg, "Wa, 's OK to be gay, YOU jt n't be gay.

GAY NNER AT COAST GUARD AMY FDS BEG THENTIC ALLOWS HIM TO THRIVE

This prolonged my life the closet and I uld not be seen as gay to the rt of my class. It's where I me out, and I learned to live an open life and grow as a gay man. I feared I would be rejected by people I once was iends wh, terrified that the learship above me would look at me as ls of a man, or that any acplishment I have will be attributed to me beg gay, and not my mer.

In fact, some of the most volly homophobic people end up beg my biggt supporters.

‘INSPECTN’ DIRECTOR LLS NEW MARE FILM THE ‘BLACK, GAY ROCKY’

I want to be the gay man that I wish I met when I was younger. I want to prove that the gay muny is jt as strong and pable as the straight world. Gay nner at Coast Guard Amy fds beg thentic allows him to thrive.

As a closeted gay kid a relig fay, I felt I had ltle value as a person.

'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'

Beg the only gay kid a seemgly endls sea of straight people.

I first realized I was actually gay middle school, when all of my male iends began obssg over girls our class. Growg up, I was tght homosexualy was a s. He was a nfint, out gay guy who was well-liked, which nstcted my view of the stutn.

As a gay ary member, n be difficult to forest a life whout seeg other queer people dog too. Are there a lot of gay Mar?

OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAVG NAVY AFTER HARASSMENT

It was how he survived as a Black gay man durg the era of the ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” as no surprise, then, that Bratton has rved out a post-ary reer filmmakg. His directorial but, “The Inspectn, ” is a fictnalized retellg of his own experience as a young, gay Black man who, after beg shunned by his own mother for g out, cis to jo the Mare Corps.

ACCINTAL 'I LOVE YOU' DERAILED GAY NAVY SEAL'S CAREER

“I was kicked out of the hoe at 16 for beg gay, and I spent the next 10 years homels, ” he told Milary Tim.

“Ultimately, ’s Black, gay Rocky.

Multihyphenate filmmaker Elegance Bratton said his latt project, “The Inspectn, ” about a gay homels Black man who jos the Mar, hs pecially close to home after he was kicked out as a teenager for beg gay and spent a livg on the streets. The film, which is loosely based on Bratton’s life, foc on the challeng the ma character, Ellis French, experienc as a young gay Black man durg the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” era. The policy, which was effect between 1994 and 2011, banned gay and lbian service members om servg openly the armed forc.

NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW

’” He add, “I n see her havg a very plited sense of pri over all of this, even if didn’t move her to change her stance around homosexualy.

"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS

"A24Bratton said he tapped Unn for the role of his homophobic mother bee of Unn’s “artistry, activism, and she’s also a superstar that everyone the world knows. A after the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy end, one of Naval aviatn’s handful of openly gay pilots is on his way out. Adam Adamski said he felt supported as an openly gay pilot.

Openly Gay Pilot Leavg Navy After Harassment. And I saw my drs wh draped over and around the TV and there was hard-re gay porn playg.

“Both men and women and openly gay service members. VID: Openly Gay Pilot Leavg Navy After Harassment. At the begng of June the Mare Corps issued a forcewi msage regnn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr pri month.

HOW 'THE INSPECTN' TELLS THE CREDIBLE STORY OF A GAY MAN'S EXPERIENCE THE MAR DURG 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'

“Durg the month, we take the opportuny to regnize our LGBT Service Members and reflect upon the past, ” the MARADMIN msage msage as the ary nears the 10th anniversary of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ― a policy that eased the rtrictn on gay and lbian service members, but required them to hi their sexual orientatn or risk beg kicked out of the December 2010 Print Barack Obama signed to law the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and September 2011 service members no longer faced discharge based on their sexual directn to celebrate the Corps’ growg diversy me to the spotlight Monday when the Facebook page for Mare Corps Rec Depot Parris Island, South Carola, posted a picture to honor pri month and LGBT post attracted attentn, and as of Tuday afternoon had more than 1, 800 ments and 1, 500 many of the ments supported the post and repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, other menters saw the post as an attack on relig eedom and a negative sign of the directn of the Mare Warrant Officer Bobby Yarbrough shows his support for the LGBT "warfighters" the Corps. ”One ment om Yarbrough did raise eyebrows the Pentagon, Warrant Officer Bobby Yarbrough Shows off the black socks he is wearg as he ments on the Mare Corps Rec Depot Parris Island Facebook page fense of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr Mar.

David Berger that directed the Corps to celebrate the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr Mar Corps along wh the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tel Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Yarbrough, fends the celebratn of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr Mar to a Facebook menter.

Half a after the repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell, most lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr service members still felt reluctant to be open about their sexualy wh their lleagu and cha of mand, acrdg to a study released late study, published by the journal Sexualy Rearch and Social Policy, found that 59 percent of rponnts did not feel fortable beg out at work, eher bee of reer repercsns or bee of the burn of beg a token rponsible for tg their peers. ”Dpe the orrs om above, many veterans publicly opposed the 2011 repeal of the ban on gay, lbian and bisexual service for troops who had grown up that environment, the policy’s mise did not flip a swch terms of fort level ― theirs or their lleagu. “The stctor was reported to e the pejorative term ‘fags’ durg class, disclose other people’s sexual mory inty to his stunts whout their permissn, and munite that he believed sexual mori were more promiscuo than heterosexuals, ” acrdg the the study, based on a rponse om a gay soldier.

GAY ROWER WAS PART OF SECRET LGBTQ ARY WORK DURG DON’T ASK DON’T TELL

I am about to be put on a board for major and I do not want to not even have that opportuny to put myself where they n easily be like, ‘Get rid of this guy; if we have to cut 55 percent of the officers up for , he’s one of the easy on we n jt fd a reason to jt ver [ourselv], ' " said one rponnt, a gay Mare. “I had a few iends there [ trag] that I got to know pretty well, but I knew a uple of them had some pretty strong relig backgrounds and I did not really feel like ttg the waters at that pot, ” one rponnt, a gay soldier, said.

I’m like well, the bt way to keep people om beg homophobic is to have them have someone that they know and rpect, who is gay, ” one sailor said.

RELATEDAnd on Monday, the Supreme Court led that the employers nnot discrimate agast their homosexual or transgenr employe. "An employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex, ” Jtice Neil Gorsuch wrote the cisn.

STEVE GRAND JT MA THIS GAY MARE'S DREAM COME TE

This was 2002, nearly a before the end of Don't Ask Don't Tell, and a time when servg openly any service as homosexual was forbidn. Jon said he had known he was gay sce he was 6-years-old and had jt cid to risk keepg the secret orr to serve wh one of the most ele ary forc the those three words jt about did him .

GAY MARE'S HOMEG KISS IS LIGHTG UP THE WEB

""Brett Jon served his untry honorably, " Navy spokperson Greg Raelson told ABC News rponse to a requt for ment for this ' SEAL team quickly found out, and though Jon said the special operatns world is "ultra-mascule" and apt to pat the gay muny a negative light, actually most of his teammat were supportive. "RELATED: Gay NFL Prospect Michael Sam Gets Whe Hoe Shout-OutsJon eventually nnected wh SLDN, the associatn for actively servg LGBT ary personnel, who lled on the help of a Washgton, D. Brandon Webb, managg edor at and a former SEAL om the same Basic Unrwater Demoln/SEAL class as Jon, wrote on the webse that he had no ia Jon was gay at the time, but didn't matter.

"And while policians and relig fanatics ma a fs about gays servg the ary, the men and women proudly served their untry silence, and earned the rpect of their peers until DADT was eventually repealed… I am proud to ll [Jon] my iend. 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.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

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. He asked his son, “Brett, are you a homosexual? “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.