Vietnam veteran Col. Edward Thomas Ryan, Ret. came out in his obituary. He was a retired firefighter from Rensselaer, N.Y., directly across the Hudson River from Albany.
His partner was from North Greenbush, a town just northeast of Rensselaer (pronounced RENSE-lur). In his obituary, it says, “Edward wanted to share the following: ‘I must tell you one more thing.
I was Gay all my life: thru grade school, thru High School, thru College, thru Life. I was in a loving and caring relationship with Paul Cavagnaro of North Greenbush.
He was the love of my life. We had 25 great years together. Paul died in 1994 from a medical Procedure gone wrong. I’ll be buried next to Paul.