Sunak Apologiz for Historic Treatment of UK Gay Veterans - Bloomberg

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• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• REPUBLINS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT CRIMAL DIVISN WH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY
• SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• GAY 'CUR' DON'T WORK, SAYS WORLD PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATN
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• MORMON 'GAY CURE' STUDY USED ELECTRIC SHOCKS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

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

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

REPUBLINS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT CRIMAL DIVISN WH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others. Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice.

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.

SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS

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.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

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.

"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.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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". Anonymo whistleblower, who prevly ttified before the Hoe Ways & Means Commtee last month, is expected to reveal his inty as a 13 year-special agent wh the IRS’ Crimal Invtigatn Divisn and as a "gay Democrat married to a man, " acrdg to his prepared ttimony obtaed by Fox News whistleblowers have alleged officials at the Jtice Department, FBI and IRS terfered the vtigatn to Hunter Bin and said cisns the se seemed to be "fluenced by polics. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said.

Ratcliffe/BloombergPrime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized for the UK’s historic treatment of gay veterans followg a damng report tailg electric shock nversn therapy, sexual asslts and blackmail suffered by personnel over NextSunak Apologiz for Historic Treatment of UK Gay Veterans.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

”The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U. “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 Parliament.

GAY 'CUR' DON'T WORK, SAYS WORLD PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATN

Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said. Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holm, who had served the Brish army and who me out as gay last year, said meant “a huge amount” to hear the ernment apology. “From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, ” Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

He is an out gay Black man the South who thrived, buildg human nnectns whose strength manifted the emotnal rponse by the ACTION fanbase when he announced he was leavg -rg petn last month. Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report victims said they were stripped of or nied medals they were entled to, or that they lost their pensn rights followg their dismissal or discharge.

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

2 This law, which was re-enacted 1563, was the basis for all male homosexual nvictns until 1885, when the Crimal Asssment Act extend the legal sanctn to any sexual ntact between mal.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

2 The end of the 19th century saw the advent of the ncept of homosexualy as a pathologil medil or psychologil ndn, 3-6 which legimised treatments to change . The social nstctn of the diagnosis of homosexualy occurred wh the ntext of powerful socpolil forc agast any variatn om the heterosexual norm that prevailed for much of the 20th century. 6 Though sexual behavur private between adult men was crimalised Bra 1967, treatments to change homosexuals to heterosexuals peaked the 1960s and early 1970s.

They were reced through articl newspapers, gay magaz, and newsletters of gay groups; terviews wh one of the thors (GS) on lol and natnal rad and televisn discsg the project; and direct ntacts wh the rearch team. I felt totally bewilred that my entire emotnal life was beg wrten up the papers as utter filth and 1Those who nfid others were ually met wh silence, nmnatn, and rejectn or told that their homosexual feelgs nstuted a temporary phase. Isolatn om other gay young people also drove several, as young adolcents, to engage sexual experimentatn wh adults and vice versa, that might not otherwise have occurred.

However, doctors often lacked knowledge and were unfortable wh the disclosure of homosexual feelgs:He said he'd never had any experience wh this and no one had ever raised this before. Other forms of treatment were electronvulsive therapy, discsn of the evils of homosexualy, sensisatn of an assumed phobia of the oppose sex, hypnosis, psychodrama, and abreactn.

MORMON 'GAY CURE' STUDY USED ELECTRIC SHOCKS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS

One participant claimed that a male doctor whom he nsulted for help wh his homosexualy sexually abed him several tim at the age of 14, another that one or more doctors physilly asslted him durg his treatment, while a third believed his name was given to the police and his fay. I found that 6Wh the crimalisatn of certa homosexual acts 1967 and more tolerant social attus, most participants were able to explore their sexualy and several found fulfillg, same sex relatnships.

We are very much love but 's a very gentle, very tenr, very rg but platonic love and the other feelgs [homosexual] are still there and mount up and up by the 7Several remaed nfed and angry at their naivety acceptg treatment:This feelg of a lack of self worth—I thk that was a tremendo impact, bee I shouldn't feel like that and I don't have any gay iends who do feel like that. It serv as a warng agast the e of mental health servic to change aspects of human behavur that are disapproved of on social, polil, moral, or relig is already known on this topicLtle is known about the experienc of patients the Uned Kgdom who unrwent treatment to change their sexual orientatn the middle part of the 20th centuryWhat this study addsPatients sought treatment or were referred after discsn wh general practners, teachers, or others, and sometim as an alternative to imprisonmentTreatments clud behavural aversn therapy wh electric shocks, otrogen therapy, relig unsellg, electronvulsive therapy, and psychoanalysis, and often had a negative impact on patients' sense of inty and place societyNo participant thought they had benefed om treatment and for many creased their sense of social isolatn and shameIt is harmful to apply medil diagnos to human ndns that are disapproved of morally or sociallyNotWe thank all the men and women who participated the study; BBC Rad Kent, Merseysi, Cornwall, Stland, Norfolk, Foyle (Northern Ireland), Rad 4's All the Md programme, BBC Breakfast Televisn, Time Out (London), Glasgow Herald, Manchter Eveng News, Daily Mail, Gay Tim, Diva Magaze, Pk Paper, and many other groups that helped to advertise this study; and Jefey Weeks and John Warr, who provid advice at all stag of the study, and Éamonn McKeown for mentg on earlier drafts of this paper.

Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman. The World Psychiatric Associatn lled "ex-gay" or "nversatn" therapy "unscientific, uhil, effective, and harmful" a statement released Monday to BuzzFeed associatn released a full report on Wednday that clar s opposn "to any attempts to turn LGBT people heterosexual, " reference to the effectivens of so-lled nversn wh clarg the efficy of such therapy, the WPA also lls on ernments around the world to crimalize homosexualy: "WPA supports the need to -crimalise same-sex sexual orientatn and behavur and transgenr genr inty, and to regnise LGBT rights to clu human, civil, and polil rights. In a st-cuttg move, the Atlanta Hawks are tradg guard TyTy Washgton Jr., and forwards Usman Gaba, Rudy Gay and a future send-round pick to the Oklahoma Cy Thunr for Patty Mills, sourc told ESPN on Saturday.

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