Pentagon officials announced Wednday that the DOD will provi marriage benefs to same-sex upl for the first time, givg gay spo accs to health re, hog allowanc and fay separatn pay.
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- FIRST ACTIVE-DUTY GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT
- SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL FOR GAY MILARY COUPL ALL 50 STAT
- FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
FIRST ACTIVE-DUTY GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT
* army gay marriages *
Gay upl the ary move equently, and have ltle—if any—choice cidg where they live. Broadway-Mack, whose wife is statned at Fort Bragg North Carola and who ma headl 2013 when she was nied entrance to Associatn of Bragg Officers’ Spo, said that for gay upl who have children, the issue be that much more urgent.
Roya Ctron said she was optimistic about the sea change polici and perceptns around same-sex marriage that have been sweepg the untry (the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law banng openly gay people om servg the ary was repealed 2010). Gay marriage supporters hold a gay rights flag ont of the Supreme Court before a hearg about gay marriage Washgton April 28, 2015. At the time, former Print Bill Clton's policy, "don't ask, don't tell" was effect, barrg homosexual or bisexual members of the ary om disclosg his or her sexual orientatn and om speakg about homosexual remembered thkg, “this guy has a lot of guts, and he’s kd of cute, too.
"So we put our mds that we were never gog to say we were gay, we were never gog to get ma fun of, and we were certaly never gog to get kicked out of the Army. Matt Thorn, terim executive director for OutServe-SLDN, an advocy group for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr service members, said the Supreme Court's cisn was a msage to their muny "that... WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials announced Wednday that the DOD will provi marriage benefs to same-sex upl for the first time, givg gay spo accs to health re, hog allowanc and fay separatn pay.
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL FOR GAY MILARY COUPL ALL 50 STAT
The move ltle more than a month after the Supreme Court stck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which Defense Department lears have said prevented them om offerg feral marriage benefs to gay troops. Thirteen stat and the District of Columbia currently allow gay marriag.
Troops si the Uned Stat but statned more than 100 om a state that allows gay marriage will have seven days. Gay troops who are already legally married uld see retroactive benefs back to June 26, the date of the Supreme Court cisn.
FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
Sce the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” law was repealed 2011, gay rights advot have phed for extensn of the married uple benefs to same-sex troops, argug that the policy still amounted to discrimatn the ranks. Mark Mazzone, spokman for the ary LGBT advocy group SPART*A, said the chang will be a fancial boost to many same-sex upl th far prived of equal benefs, and the leave time for travel to stat that allow same-sex marriage show the ary is mted to reachg out to gay troops.
The chang apply only to “legally married same-sex upl” and not gay troops who have state-backed civil unns.
Vcent Francho, a 26-year-old fellow Apache pilot who is also statned at Fort Bliss, where they are both a part of another muny: the group of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr soldiers who serve there.