In a shocking, candid autobiography, a former Marine Corps officer describes growing up as the epitome of the all-American boy, his education at the fundamentalist Bob Jones University, his military career, his discovery of his sexual identity as a gay man, and his moonlighting job as a gay porn star. Original.

瑞奇·梅里特（Rich Merritt），原名理查德·韦恩·梅里特（Richard Wayne Merritt）。生于1967年9月26日，LGBT活动家、㚻片演员、作家、律师，前海军陆战队军官。

1998年6月28日，在詹妮弗·伊根（Jennifer Egan）一篇题为《衣橱里的制服：同志海军的影子生活》的文章中，梅里特成为了《纽约时报》杂志的封面人物。