Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his wife Lilibet released a fairly ordinary holiday video message last week, except that amid the expected conventional nationalism was an image of MM2 2nd Class Jerrel Revels’ proposal to his boyfriend Dylan Kirchner.
This is the first time a gay couple has been included in the Defense Secretary’s holiday message for the troops.
Revels proposed back in August of 2013 in front of some 200 people, two years after the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
“It kind of tickled my mind every now and then that (he would propose) but I never expected this,” Kirchner said at the time. “I didn’t really care everybody was around. It felt just like the two of us.”
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Here’s the video:
h/t Towleroad
Dakotahgeo
Good on Defense Secretary Hagel!!! I am overjoyed to see the full inclusion of ALL military families! May we see even more in 2015! Pastor George M Melby and Ary!
vonric
Another clean step in the process of demolishing DADT… the regime when I was in the military, more decades ago than I care to think……
Leonard Woodrow
Wonderful! The world is slowly moving into a period of enlightenment and happiness for ALL of us … not just a select majority.
Billy Budd
Very nice!
Billysees
Good to show this side of the desires and needs of many in the military.
Harley
I’m aghast. Don’t they know they should only show gay people in the midst of getting stoned and/or crucified, cause that’s what Jesus would want. It’s says so in all the chapters and chapters of what Jesus said about them homersectuals. If you take the word “homosexual”, twist it around, flip and change some letters, then you have “SATAN”. I learned that from Church Chat.
jockjack5
Happy New Year to all the boys at Boca Chica (NAS Key West)…
And remember, don’t use KY to lube those fighter-jets.
Keep it for those long nights up on the 3rd-floor of the high-rise barracks on Aviator Blvd!
aliengod
Good for Secretary Hagel. That was a pretty awesome thing to do. These two guys make such a cute couple. I hope they have many happy years together.
o.codone
that gurl had her silly hand over her mouth. seriously, this is good pr for gays in the military? nah.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Nothing better than ruining rightwing, noxious, abhorrent, bigots New Year!!!