Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star: a memoir

"Readers don't just discover a memoirist, the memoirist discovers himself. And any life worth examining is worth a second look. Rich Merritt is honest, hilarious, and even less interested in behaving this time around." -Greg Cope White, author of The Pink Marine, and writer on the Netflix show Boots Here's the true story of Rich Merritt-the good son, the teacher's pet, the model Christian student who spent the first two decades of his life inside a fundamentalist cult that taught him gay people were worthy of death. The Marine captain who served with distinction under Don't Ask Don't Tell while secretly shooting gay porn films-a dangerous rebellion against the institutions that had tried to own him. When an acclaimed novelist named Jennifer Egan profiled him anonymously on the cover of The New York Times Magazine, the walls between his worlds came crashing down. The gay press outed the porn. The military came asking questions.