A Graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, a
former Captain in the Air Force after 9 years of
service, a flight instructor, a published author, a
public speaker, a television personality, an actor
of television, stage, and film, a model, and a
reality television icon; it’s quickly apparent that
once Reichen sets a goal, it is only a matter of
time before he reaches it.   

Since winning CBS' Emmy-award winning reality
series, The Amazing Race, Reichen has caught
the eye of several casting directors and has
already appeared on Frasier, The Drew Carey
Show, Days of Our Lives, and The Young and
The Restless.  Reichen has performed in three
movies including “Ethan Greene”, “Partners”, and
“The Scorned”.  Reichen found himself to be an
integral part of the budding world of Reality
Television, which has now clearly become its own
genre of television and entertainment.  He has
starred in many reality series including The
Amazing Race, Fear Factor, and Kill Reality.  
Making his professional theater acting debut,
Reichen played the lead of “Andrew” in an off-
Broadway play, “My Big Gay Italian Wedding” in
the summer of 2010.   

Reichen’s latest project is his new reality series
from MTV/Tru Entertainment called “A-List: New
York”, where he stars as one of six cast members
living extraordinary lives in New York City.  “A-List”
premiers on the Logo network 11 October 2010.

Prior to Reichen’s concentrating on a professional
entertainment career, he was playing the role of
his own life while in the U.S. Air Force.  He served
in an Aerospace Engineering program office and
also served on faculty in the Air Science
Department at the University of Virginia.   

Not wanting to face a court martial for being gay
while serving under the DOD’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” policy, Reichen had to live in two different
worlds.  One world where he had to watch
everything he did and said for fear of being outed;
the other world where he was able to be himself.  
He was completely open with his family and
friends, but faced the very real possibility of UCMJ
punishment for being gay.  Reichen explains,
“The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy is contradictory
to that which the Air Force and our Armed Forces
represent:  Honor and Integrity.  The policy forces
men and women to lie about their lives, and keeps
very much alive a terrible fear and
misunderstanding of gay people, in general, that
hurts military morale and LGBT servicemembers’
lives and ability to perform their duties.  It is a
clear policy of ruthless workplace discrimination.”  
It was the contradictions of this policy that led
Reichen to opt out of military service at the end of
his active duty service commitment.   

Once out of the Air Force, Reichen wrote and
published a new book, “Here’s What We’ll Say”,
an autobiography that tells the story of his time as
a gay cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy, living
in secret.  The book also serves as an expose of
what really happens to LGBT military
servicemembers behind the closed doors of the U.
S. Armed Forces’ thousands of training and
mission-critical institutions.   Reichen continues to
speak around the country at colleges,
universities, and companies who can benefit from
listening to his experiences and advice.