Many gay and lbian vets still owed benefs after don't ask, don't tell repeal : NPR

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The Uned Stat ary stggled wh s stance on gay service members for s prr to the signg of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” 1993 by former Print Bill Clton.,

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Twelve years after repeal of the ban on gay and lbian troops servg openly, no one the ary or Veterans Admistratn knows how many vets are still whout the benefs they're owed. * gay single military *

At the time, gay troops weren't allowed the ary.

But two years to his enlistment, Steffanis got spotted at a gay bar near his base.

"They cut my locker open and found some gay magaz, " he says.

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Not only was agast the ary regulatns, gay sex was still illegal Virgia, and many other stat. "They threw me the brig, put me on bread and water — was huiatg --for beg gay, " says Steffanis.

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