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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A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
Over 500 years of outlawg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. * homosexuality punishment uk *
“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.
Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology. Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people have faced legal proscriptn for hundreds of years, ially unr relig laws, particular those imposed by the Abrahamic fahs, and later unr secular legal s, often drawg heavily on the theologil tradns that preced them. The Wolfenn Report, published the UK 1957 wh disregard to the nventnal ias of s day, remend that ‘homosexual behavur between nsentg adults private should no longer be a crimal offence.
The Commtee also rejected the ia that homosexualy was a disease. "Homosexual acts" Decrimalised England & Wal. The Sexual Offenc Act 1967 crimalised private, nsensual “homosexual acts” between persons aged 21 and over.