November 2011, Cover Stories, 10 THOUSAND COUPLES NEWS ROOM
An Ideal Soldier for Our First Post-DADT Veterans Day
This Veterans Day, we celebrate the opportunity to thank the many LGBT military personnel who can finally step forward without fear.
The unrelenting ordinariness of gay vet Bronson Lemer makes him the perfect face and voice of the first post-DADT Veterans Day. It also makes him as sexy as two of his better-known fellow gay vets whom I have had the honor of interviewing repeatedly, the fiery preacher Dan Choi and the magnetic heartthrob Reichen Lehmkuhl. Bronson Lemer is a regular, standard-issue American guy. I heard this in his unrehearsed voice during our conversation about the upcoming holiday, and about his recently published book describing his deployment in Iraq.
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