Lance Bass' Boyfriend Target of Threats

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<p>Lance Bass’ Boyfriend Target of Threats </p>

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<p>NEW YORK (AP) - Lance Bass’ boyfriend, Reichen Lehmkuhl, says he and the former `N Sync star have been dealing with threats ignited by his new memoir about the trials of being gay while serving in the military.

"We have to be very protective," Lehmkuhl tells the TV show "Inside Edition" in an interview that was to air Wednesday.

"I am not going to hide," says the former Air Force captain and winner of season four of CBS' "Amazing Race." "There are threats that come in from people who do not want me to be so public and expose what is going on in the military."

Lehmkuhl, 32, says that he and Bass, who revealed he is gay in July, forward the threats to private security personnel who send what they consider the more serious ones to the FBI. "Everything is being covered so we feel safe," he said.

Lehmkuhl's book, "Here's What We'll Say: Growing Up, Coming Out, and the U.S. Air Force Academy," recounts his time keeping his sexual orientation a secret from Air Force colleagues.

"There was definitely an institionalized acceptance of people being homophobic and telling gay jokes and making homophobic remarks _ really, really mean homophobic remarks to the point of, `Kill gay people,'" Lehmkuhl, who was honorably discharged from the Air Force five years ago, told ABC News earlier this week.</p>

<p>He became a target when people began to suspect his sexuality, he says. One night, he told ABC News, a bag was pulled over his head and he was sexually assaulted. He didn’t report the incident.</p>

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<p>If you are gay, don’t join the military. It sounds like the cadets at the Air Force Academy need some sensitivity training. :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>Sexually assualted by whom? Other gays??? Or maybe it was the homophobic straight cadets.</p>

<p>It sounds more like an old-fashioned blanket party. :D</p>

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<p>Sir…You are certainly entitled to your opinions regarding gays in the military. However, your “blanket party” comment did nothing but expose your boorish, insensitive, and sophomoric personality. Perhaps you should excuse yourself, step back from this forum, and find another bully pulpit to swing from.</p>

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<p>personally, I like gay men- they make conversations fun, and they are great shopping partners! If I were a man, not sure how I would feel about getting too close… I would suppose those subs get mightly small after awhile- but I would take a gay guy on a shopping outing over my hubby any day! :rolleyes:</p>

<p>but then again, I’m a New Yorker, and New Yorkers are a tolerant bunch- we like just about everyone! well, almost everyone! (we ain’t too fond of al quida these days… ) …they really screwed up our skyline, not to mention all the friends they took away from us! Nope- definately don’t like them folks!!!</p>

<p>(Ga- what is a blanket party anyway???)</p>

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<p>“blanket party,” that’s when an unsuspecting serviceman is visited in the middle of the night by several of his disgruntled comrades. While he is asleep, a blanket is thrown over his body and is firmly held down by some of his assailants, while other attackers pummel him through the blanket, with fists, bats or other objects. The attack happens in the dark, and although the victim might have a strong suspicion of who his muggers were, he can usually never prove it.</p>

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<p>“It sounds like the cadets at the Air Force Academy need some sensitivity training.”</p>

<p>The guy is in his 30’s. There’s been more than a little sensitivity training in air force since then.</p>

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<p>no doubt those blanket parties have long disappeard from all the academies…</p>

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<p>Round about the caldron go;
In the poison’d entrails throw.–
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot!</p>

<p>Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.</p>

<p>Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,–
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.</p>

<p>Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.</p>

<p>Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch’s mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg’d i’ the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse,
Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips,
Finger of birth-strangl’d babe
Ditch-deliver’d by a drab,–
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron,
For the ingredients of our caldron.</p>

<p>Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.</p>

<p>Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.</p>

<p>May as well try to bring in some classics while pointing out the pot-stirring. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>You guys have fun. I’m outta here. Y’all know where you can reach me. ;)</p>

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<p>I love Macbeth! I’m right behind you (metaphorically speaking that is)…</p>

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<p>And speaking of the classics, there’s a Hell’s Angels motto that says, “Three can keep a secret if two are dead.” In one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays one character says to another, “two may keep counsel, putting one away.”</p>

<p>So, and without resorting to computer searches, what was the play from which Skakespeare’s quote was taken?</p>

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<p>Romeo and Juliet.</p>

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<p>FWDAD, you’ve renewed my faith in the members of this discussion group.</p>

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<p>maybe from the service academies, but not from the citadel and vmi</p>

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<p>Shakespeare for the cadets at the Citadel and VMI:</p>

<p>“Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.”</p>

<p>“Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”</p>

<p>“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.”</p>

<p>…or in the case of some of the companies at the Citidal, battalions of upper classman.</p>