---
title: "Don’t Miss This Candid Account Of What It Was Like To Be Gay And A Navy SEAL"
date: "2014-02-10"
modified: "2014-02-10"
authors:
  - name: "Brian Adam Jones"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/brianadamjones/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/dont-miss-candid-account-like-gay-navy-seal/"
categories:
  - "Military Branches"
  - "Navy"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "lgbt"
  - "Navy SEALs"
  - "special operations command"
---

# Don’t Miss This Candid Account Of What It Was Like To Be Gay And A Navy SEAL

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/06/19031324-1.jpg>)

As more and more[ states legalize gay marriage](<https://gaymarriage.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004857>), through legislation, referendum, or in federal courts, and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” feels a distant memory, and amid news that[ a high-profile NFL prospect has come out](<https://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/10429030/michael-sam-missouri-tigers-says-gay>), Brett Jones, a Navy SEAL, [has published a remarkable accoun](<https://sofrep.com/32712/name-brett-jones-navy-seal-gay/>)t of what it was like to serve in one of the military’s most elite units during the DADT era.

His candid account was published on[ the Special Operations news site SOFREP](<https://sofrep.com/32712/name-brett-jones-navy-seal-gay/>) by their editor-in-chief, Brandon Webb.

Jones writes:

“Being a Navy SEAL and gay proposed its own set of problems. Fortunately for me, it was not obvious to people that I was gay. If I wanted to go out on a date with Mike (which I did), I was going to have to do some serious lying.”

[Check out his full account on SOFREP »](<https://sofrep.com/32712/name-brett-jones-navy-seal-gay/>)