U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.”
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- SAS RECS S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOLDIER 75-YEAR HISTORY
- GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS
- GAYS THE MILARY
SAS RECS S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOLDIER 75-YEAR HISTORY
A 27-year-old SAS sergeant of Herefordshire is the first to e out as openly gay s history, after jog the service 2014 followg tours of Iraq and Afghanistan wh the army. * gay sas soldiers *
SAS recs s first openly gay soldier 75-year history: Iraq hero, 27, liv wh his male partner and is trag to be a sniper Sergeant, 27, of Herefordshire the first openly gay solir the SASHe is trag to be a sniper and has served Iraq and AfghanistanDefence sourc say there is no issue over his sexualy his unGay and lbian soldiers allowed to serve armed forc sce 2000 Published: 01:54 BST, 3 April 2016 | Updated: 15:11 BST, 3 April 2016. A 27-year-old SAS sergeant who is trag as a sniper is the special forc' first openly gay soldier, has been revealed (file picture) The SAS has reced s first openly gay soldier s 75-year is a 27-year-old sergeant who has served Iraq and is trag to be a sniper after first jog the Army aged 18 and climbg his way up the away om the ary the soldier, who nnot be named for secury reasons, liv wh his male partner Herefordshire. A fence source told the Star the soldier, who is said to be a mountaeerg expert, did not ‘make a big al’ about beg gay and brought up his sexualy general source said: ‘There was a b of banter and a few jok and some of the ‘old and bold’ have been plag sayg ‘ wouldn’t have happened their day’.
’He is now servg the SAS G Squadron and has been scribed as a ‘top bloke and brilliant soldier’ and lbian soldiers have been allowed to serve the army sce 2000 when the then-Labour Government lifted a ban on homosexuals the armed forc. A new on sexual nduct was then troduced to the armed forc prohibg discrimatn and the forcg of anyone to reveal their recently the current Conservative admistratn has agreed to amend the Armed Forc Bill 2015-2016 to repeal part of the 1994 Crimal Jtice and Public Orr Act that ma ‘homosexual acts’ grounds for dischargg someone om the armed forc.
GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS
Rand said about 43% of all ary sexual asslts over the prr year were mted agast troops who are gay, lbian and bisexual. * gay sas soldiers *
(Image cred: BBC)Was Paddy Mayne Gay? Paddy Mayne didn't ever nfirm his sexualy, and mours he was gay appear to be speculatn arisg om thors and historians that has never been substantiated. Some believed Mayne managed his feelg wh alhol, bee he was a reprsed homosexual.
As I poted out, there was no evince he was a practicg homosexual, but I raised qutns about his sexualy, as did some of those who served wh him. Gay, lbian and bisexual service members may be signifintly more likely to suffer sexual asslts the ary than heterosexual troops, a new Rand Corp. Rand said about 43% of all ary sexual asslts over the prr year were mted agast troops who are gay, lbian and bisexual, or who otherwise did not dite they are heterosexual, although they make up about 12% of the active-duty force, acrdg to a 2018 Defense Department survey.
GAYS THE MILARY
The difference between sexual asslt rat for gay or bisexual men, as opposed to heterosexual men, was even more stark, Rand said. 7% of gay or bisexual men -- ne tim the rate of LGB men -- had been sexually asslted.
The data llected the Pentagon's 2018 Workplace and Genr Relatns Survey of Active Duty Members suggts that there may be about 43, 000 gay or bisexual men and about 29, 000 lbian or bisexual women the active-duty ary, out of nearly 1. The 2018 survey found that 4% of servicemen, and 14% of servicewomen, intified as gay, lbian or bisexual. Wh so many gay, lbian or bisexual troops uniform, and such a disproportnate percentage of that populatn experiencg sexual asslts, Rand said the data suggts that "a nsirable actn" of sexual asslts are likely beg mted agast LGB service members.
To try to prevent asslts on gay, lbian and bisexual troops, Rand said the ary needs to do more to unrstand where they are occurrg and what is motivatg the attackers. “As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP. Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology.