I know that when I think about the FBI, the first thing that comes to my mind is the protection of N Sync star Lance Bass and his boyfriend, Reichen Lehmkuhl.

Reichen says that threats, some serious enough to be forwarded to the FBI, are coming in from people who do not like what he writes about his time in the military in his book _Here’s What We’ll Say: Growing Up, Coming Out, and the U.S. Air Force Academy_.

Lehmkuhl, 32, says that he and Bass, who revealed he is gay in July, forward the threats to private security personnel who send what they consider the more serious ones to the FBI. “Everything is being covered so we feel safe,” he said.

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“There was definitely an institionalized acceptance of people being homophobic and telling gay jokes and making homophobic remarks _ really, really mean homophobic remarks to the point of, `Kill gay people,'” Lehmkuhl, who was honorably discharged from the Air Force five years ago, told ABC News earlier this week.

He became a target when people began to suspect his sexuality, he says. One night, he told ABC News, a bag was pulled over his head and he was sexually assaulted. He didn’t report the incident.

Here's What We'll Say: Growing Up, Coming Out, and the U.S. Air Force Academy

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