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An Ideal Soldier for Our First Post-DADT Veterans Day

By Tony Adams, Feature Author   Tue, Nov 01, 2011

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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By Tony Adams, Feature Author

Tony Adams, Feature Author

photo by Marius Bugge

Tony Adams is a writer, editor, retired CFO, and Roman Catholic priest. He is Senior Features Correspondent with South Florida Gay News and is the editor of the 20-member queer arts and culture blog Queer New York. He is also a member of the editorial board of Bilerico. His writing has been featured in the 2010 and 2011 issues of PRIDE Magazine.

Tony and his husband Chris have been together for 27 years and were married in Connecticut in December 2008. They divide their time between homes in Fort Lauderdale and Manhattan.

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