The obituary of Col. Edward Thomas Ryan ... a note written by Ryan himself. "I was gay all my life," Ryan's final writing reads, in part. The coming out message, according to the obit, came ...

A military veteran from upstate New York revealed in his own obituary that he was gay after keeping his sexuality under wraps his whole life. Col. Edward Thomas Ryan, who died at age 85 on June 1 ...

Edward Thomas Ryan died on June 1 but still had a secret he wanted to tell, one he had held on to his entire life. He chose his obituary to announce it to the world. Published in the Albany Times ...