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- RADM(RET.) EARL GAY
- NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
- REAR ADM. EARL GAY
- GAY, DONALD, JR., USN (RET.)
- U.S. NAVY REAR ADM. EARL GAY, PUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE ARMED FORC INGURAL COMMTEE (AFIC), MEETS U.S. PRINT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA WASHGTON.
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
RADM(RET.) EARL GAY
Admiral Earl Gay knows a lot about spirg others om 33 years of Navy service January is Natnal Mentorg Month and the Corporatn for Natnal and Communy Service (CNCS) is supportg our iends at MENTOR by sharg some advice om a man who, amon * admiral gay *
Gay is a native of Atlanta, Ga., and 1980 graduate of the U.
Followg this tour, Gay was assigned as the Navy's Director of Congrsnal liaison, U. In his next assignment, Gay served as Commanr, Expednary Strike Group 3, San Diego, CA om July 2009 until June assumed his current assignment as manr, Navy Recg Command Augt Admiral Gay is honored to have served wh numero operatnal uns that have been award the Battle Efficiency "E" Award.
NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
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Admiral Earl Gay knows a lot about spirg. his missn: retired Navy Admiral Earl Gay. Admiral Gay (pictured above, left) is the Senr Advisor for Wound Warrr and.
REAR ADM. EARL GAY
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”Admiral Gay grew up Atlanta, Geia, and is the youngt. and ntue sharg so that we all bee better, ” said Admiral Gay. ” Always returng back to the Naval Amy, Admiral Gay has.
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Gay driv home his belief that tst, passn, service, and mentorship are. 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.
GAY, DONALD, JR., USN (RET.)
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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.
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. 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.
U.S. NAVY REAR ADM. EARL GAY, PUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE ARMED FORC INGURAL COMMTEE (AFIC), MEETS U.S. PRINT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA WASHGTON.
It tak an important mment to muny and others to put service before self. Recently, AmeriCorps CEO Barbara Stewart and Retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Earl Gay, the AmeriCorps advisor for veterans and veteran-service anizatns, had the honor of meetg a special dre of AmeriCorps members who chose to do so twice. * admiral gay *
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.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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”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. He gets several msag a week om young gays, some the ary, who are battlg prsn and discrimatn.
A young, gay ary officer recently wrote him om Sgapore, where homosexualy is illegal. They never discs Christiany or “the gay thg, ” Jon Jon, who liv At, Texas, says she lov and admir her son for his honty and urage. When Earl Gay joed the Bellwood Boys Club Atlanta at age 9, he disvered new activi and people om different backgrounds – while gag the nfince to tackle new experienc wh ease.