Contents:
- NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
- CAPTA OF VIRGIA MILARY INSTUTE SWIM TEAM OUT AS GAY
- IN SOUTH KOREA, GAY SOLDIERS CAN SERVE. BUT THEY MIGHT BE PROSECUTED.
NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
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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.
CAPTA OF VIRGIA MILARY INSTUTE SWIM TEAM OUT AS GAY
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.
IN SOUTH KOREA, GAY SOLDIERS CAN SERVE. BUT THEY MIGHT BE PROSECUTED.
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. ” 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.