August 9, 2010 - Before being deployed to Iraq, Private Manning met Tyler Watkins, who described himself on his blog as a classical musician, singer and drag queen. A friend said the two had little in common, but Private Manning fell head over heels.

November 26, 2017 - His weekends at Fort Drum were occupied by visiting his first serious boyfriend, Tyler Watkins, a student at Brandeis University, near Boston. Watkins began taking Bradley to events at his university's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender ...

July 1, 2011 - In Boston, Manning found another ­escape. He met Tyler Watkins, a neuro­science major at Brandeis University—­another science nerd—and fell in love: “he’s so zany and cute,” he told ZJ. “he bought me a dozen roses, and i bought us matching equality bracelets to wear” for Valentine’s Day.

June 7, 2010 - In January, while on leave in the United States, Manning visited a close friend in Boston and confessed he'd gotten his hands on unspecified sensitive information, and was weighing leaking it, according to the friend. "He wanted to do the right thing," says 20-year-old Tyler Watkins.

July 31, 2013 - While stationed at Fort Drum, N.Y., friends said in interviews, Manning met a student from Brandeis University named Tyler Watkins and fell in love.

October 30, 2013 - In multiple posts, Manning pines for his boyfriend Tyler Watkins. These aren't the only overt references he makes to his sexuality, all before the Dec.

May 28, 2011 - Bradley Manning, in stripped shirt, with his friend Tyler Watkins

In August 2008, Manning was sent ... to Iraq.[31] It was while stationed there in the fall of 2008 that she met Tyler Watkins, who was studying neuroscience and psychology at Brandeis University, near Boston....

August 9, 2010 - Being different like me, or Bradley, ... was gay. Manning met Watkins while enlisted. Before being deployed to Iraq, Private Manning met Tyler Watkins, who described himself on his blog as a classical musician, singer and drag queen....

Tyler Watkins and Chelsea Manning had a relationship. Chelsea Manning is a 37 year old American Activist. Born Bradley Edward Manning on 17th December, 1987 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, he is famous for being convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and ...

December 1, 2017 - A short posting to upstate New York was happier; he met his first serious boyfriend Tyler Watkins, a student at Boston's Brandeis university, and through him became involved in the Boston hacker community.

July 6, 2010 - In January, while on leave in the United States, Manning visited a close friend in Boston and confessed he’d gotten his hands on unspecified sensitive information, and was weighing leaking it, according to the friend. “He wanted to do the right thing,” 20-year-old Tyler Watkins told Wired.com.

January 15, 2019 - Soon I would like to make a trip to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where Bradley Manning was recently transported. Tomorrow (Wednesday) there is a protest at the Federal Courthouse in Alexandria, VA for the WikiLeaks Grand Jury. David House (Manning’s best friend), Tyler Watkins (Manning’s ...

May 25, 2011 - Private Manning’s Facebook posts detail the breakdown in his relationship with ex-boyfriend Tyler Watkins, left, and show his support of gay rights and liberal politics.

July 7, 2011 - New chat logs provide a detailed look at what may have motivated hacker-turned-Army enlistee Bradley Manning to allegedly turn over hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents to WikiLeaks. The logs, released by New York magazine, show that Manning was becoming frustrated with the military's daily regimens and came to treasure his weekends off, especially the time he could spend with then-boyfriend Tyler Watkins.

March 7, 2011 - In late January 2010 — between the time Manning allegedly downloaded the logs, and the last day he might have leaked them — he’s known to have traveled to the United States on a two-week leave. He stayed with his aunt in Potomac, Maryland, for part of that trip, then traveled to the Boston area to visit friends. It was on that trip that he told his friend Tyler Watkins that he’d obtained some unspecified sensitive material, and was weighing leaking it, according to Watkins.

May 10, 2021 - She began dating Tyler Watkins, a Brandeis University student who introduced Manning to Boston's hacker community. Photo: By United States Army [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons · A U.S. Army photo of Bradley Manning

September 30, 2025 - It was during this visit that she ... her arrest, Manning's friend Tyler Watkins told Wired that Manning had said during the visit that she had found some sensitive information and was considering leaking it....