Gay navy seals

There is always a story about a Seal who loved taking it in the chili ring. There are loud whispers and hard stares. Flames erupt from the contraption as it boils a pot of water on the kitchen counter. He was livid. He was also gay.

On this steamy night, the two gay parents and their straight son are sweating and shoving as they fight to win a roughhouse driveway basketball game called Cheater Ball.

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The next day, Jones says, his parents confronted him. Jones is accustomed to rejection. The first openly gay SEAL has built a new life here at age 41 with a family that has replaced the two families he lost — the one that raised him and the one he built with fellow SEALs.

They are close, and necessarily so, since a gay marriage — not to mention gay parenting — is viewed with deep suspicion and outright hostility in perhaps the most anti-gay state in the country. His father, an Air Force pilot, was wearing his blue dress uniform.

He spent the night in a cheap motel, contemplating suicide. But one day inJones accidentally outed himself. I just saw a former navy seal in his Live chat talking about that he had 2 dudes in the teams that were gay. Also, hella former Navy Seals become women after they are done, like wtf bruh lmao.

School is worse, the family says.

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They kicked him out. No one will sit with them. When he was in high school, his mother, a devout Christian, overheard his phone conversation with a gay friend. Chris Beck (Navy SEAL) Christopher Todd Beck[1] (born June 21, ) is a retired United States Navy SEAL who gained public attention in after coming out as a trans woman, and inwhen he announced his detransition.

During the time of his transition, he went by the name Kristin Beck. The two men are parents to Ethan, a precocious year-old known in the flat, clay and pine country as the only kid in school with two gay dads. Why are there so many gay Navy Seals?

And then Ethan launches a home experiment, constructing a camp stove from a beer can and rubbing alcohol. In science class one day, White says, a teacher stressed that marriage was strictly between a man and a woman. Not even trolling or joking. That mistake led Jones here, to the deeply conservative Bible Belt country of north Alabama, to a brick ranch home on Drury Lane he shares with his husband, Jason White, a burly former police detective and self-professed country boy raised in northern Alabama.

The Navy launched an investigation designed to dishonorably discharge him. Brett Jones, left, the first openly gay Navy SEAL, plays basketball with his husband, Jason White, and their son, Ethan, 13, outside their Alabama home.

He held his secret close, so close that his SEAL teammates — his closest friends — never suspected. A sailor heard it and turned him in. He persuaded an attractive friend to pose as his girlfriend whenever the SEALs threw parties. Teachers and students pass Bible verses to Ethan.

The three of them horse around, joking and teasing like teenagers. Jones was careful to introduce his male lover, a Navy sailor, as his roommate.