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Contents:

• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY
• MEANG OF GAY – LEARNER’S DICTNARY
• GAY
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry.

"The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000. Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc.

It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly. Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

"Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy.

Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer". Ace people who experience romantic attractn or ocsnal sexual attractn might also e terms such as gay, bi, lbian, straight and queer njunctn wh asexual to scribe the directn of their romantic or sexual attractn. People may also e terms such as gay, bi, lbian, straight and queer njunctn wh ace and aro to expla the directn of romantic or sexual attractn if and when they experience .

Aro people who experience sexual attractn or ocsnal romantic attractn might also e terms such as gay, bi, lbian, straight and queer njunctn wh asexual to scribe the directn of their attractn.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY

Aromantic people who experience sexual attractn or ocsnal romantic attractn might also e terms such as gay, bi, lbian, straight and queer njunctn wh asexual to scribe the directn of their attractn. Asexual people who experience romantic attractn might also e terms such as gay, bi, lbian, straight and queer njunctn wh asexual to scribe the directn of their romantic attractn.

People may also e terms such as gay, bi, lbian, straight and queer njunctn wh mi to expla the directn of romantic or sexual attractn as they experience . People may also e terms such as gay, bi, lbian, straight and queer njunctn wh grey to expla the directn of romantic or sexual attractn as they experience . This was ed the past as a more medil term (siarly to homosexual) to refer to someone whose genr is not the same as, or do not s fortably wh, the sex they were assigned at birth.

MEANG OF GAY – LEARNER’S DICTNARY

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

GAY

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Teens and famo LGBT figur share their g out storiIt's LGBT+ History Month, which is a time to promote the history and celebrate the liv of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. But for some people, havg their sexual or genr inty celebrated or accepted hasn't always been easy, and beg gay the UK was once many people 's still very difficult to talk openly about their sexualy bee of fear of what people might say or thk.

Comg out of the closet, often shortened to g out, is when a person shar wh others that they are lbian, gay, bi and/or trans (LGBT) out n be very different for everyone and n take some time to get to a pot where someone feels fortable and nfint enough to tell other people. "Michael told Oliver that what he did "took real urage" and that " the Uned Kgdom 's still difficult to turn around to fay and iends bee sometim we worry about what they will beg yourself whout any prsure om anyone is so important" was pletely illegal to be gay.

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

I also lost was a difficult time of feelg que lonely and Phyll, Co-founr of UK Black Pri"Back the day there was a lot of discrimatn, not jt around homophobia or biphobia, but also racism. A history of gay rightsMedia ptn, WATCH: It was a 'very lonely' life when beg gay was illegal (Augt 2017)For hundreds of years LGBT+ people have stggled to be accepted and treated the same as people who are not LGBT+.

For example, gay people uldn't get married or adopt until 1967, beg gay was a crime and gay and bisexual men uld face a maximum sentence of life prison if they broke the law around sce then, a lot has changed the UK - cludg the laws and attus source, Getty ImagImage ptn, This man, John Wolfenn, led the group which ma remendatns to the ernment about how the law should be changed1967 - The law was changed England and Wal 1967 which allowed two men to be a relatnship together whout the fear of beg arrted. Even though this happened, there were still many laws place at the time which meant that gay people did not have the same rights as people who were not gay men were arrted after 1967 for thgs which they would not have been arrted for if their partner had been a woman. 1969 - A seri of monstratns New York lled the Stonewall rts started after the police raid a bar lled the Stonewall Inn, which was a popular place for gay people to hang out.

We still have too much homophobic hate crime, many kids are still bullied and a lot of schools don't have an anti-bullyg programme that specifilly addrs anti-gay issu. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.

THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?

Those Wtern Europe and the Ameris are generally more acceptg of homosexualy than are those Eastern Europe, Rsia, Ukrae, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Ai. In many natns, there has been an creasg acceptance of homosexualy, cludg the Uned Stat, where 72% say should be accepted, pared wh jt 49% as recently as 2007.

In many of the untri surveyed, there also are differenc on acceptance of homosexualy by age, tn, e and, some stanc, genr – and several s, the differenc are substantial.