From the March 15th "Divide To Conquer: Gender and Sexuality in the Military" Panel. Jeff Key had already come out as gay to his friends and family, graduated with a degree in theater, and moved from Alabama to Los Angeles when - at age 34 - he decided to join the Marine Corps. He was excited to defend the Constitution and “kick some ass,” but was outraged when he learned, after a tour in Iraq, that there were no weapons of mass destruction. So he came out as gay on CNN and the Marine Corps expelled him under their “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy.