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• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• GUERNSEY PRSHOMENEWSSPORTWEATHERSERVICPODSTSNEWSALL NEWS CORONAVISBSPOLICSNEWS OM THE ISLANDSTRAVELVOICEDUTNCAMPAIGNSFEATURMORE PROPERTYUK NEWSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSMOTORSDAME KELLY HOLM AMONG MPAIGNERS WELG LGBT ARY TREATMENT APOLOGYUK NEWSPUBLISHED: JUL 19, 2023PRIME MISTER RISHI SUNAK APOLOGISED FOR THE ‘HORRIFIC’ HISTORIL TREATMENT LGBT PEOPLE WHO SERVED THE ARY HAD FACED PRR TO THE YEAR 2000.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPCAMPAIGNERS HAVE WELED RISHI SUNAK’S APOLOGY FOR THE “HORRIFIC” HISTORIL TREATMENT OF LGBT PEOPLE WHO SERVED THE ARY UNR THE PRE-2000 BAN ON HOMOSEXUALY THE ARMED FORC.OLYMPIAN DAME KELLY HOLM, WHO SERVED THE ARMY AND ME OUT AS GAY LAST YEAR, WAS AMONG THOSE WHO WELED THE GOVERNMENT’S MMENT TO ADDRS THE MISTREATMENT FACED BY VETERANS.DEFENCE SECRETARY BEN WALLACE SAID HE REGNISED THERE SHOULD BE A FANCIAL AWARD FOR AFFECTED VETERANS, SOME OF WHOM SUFFERED ABIVE VTIGATNS WHEN THEIR SEXUALY WAS DISVERED.OTHERS FACED “NVERSN THERAPY, PEREMPTORY DISCHARG, AND APPALLG NSEQUENC TERMS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEG, HOMELSNS, EMPLOYMENT, PERSONAL RELATNSHIPS AND FANCIAL HARDSHIP”, ACRDG TO A GOVERNMENT-MISSNED PENNT REVIEW TO THE SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE OF LGBT VETERANS WHO SERVED THE ARMED FORC BETWEEN 1967 AND 2000.DAME KELLY HOLM DBE DURG AN SPECTN OF THE RANKS, AFTER BEG MA AN HONORARY COLONEL OF THE ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS TRAG REGIMENT (ANDREW MATTHEWS/PA)“FROM A PERSONAL POT OF VIEW, THE BAN AFFECTED ME TERMS OF WHO I WAS AND WHAT I ULDN’T BE FOR 34 YEARS, LEADG ME TO DO MY DOCUMENTARY LAST YEAR.”DAME KELLY, WHO SPOKE ABOUT HER OWN EXPERIENCE THE ARY AN ITV DOCUMENTARY LAST YEAR, ADD: “I AM THE PUBLIC EYE AND I GET A VOICE TO EXPRS THIS, AND I WAS ABLE TO BE PART OF BRGG , BUT TODAY THEIR VOIC GOT HEARD WH THE PUBLITN OF THIS.”CRAIG JON, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF THE CHARY FIGHTG WH PRI, SAID HE HAD NFINCE THE GOVERNMENT WOULD LIVER PENSATN FOR MISTREATED LGBT VETERANS.MR JON SAID THE DEFENCE SECRETARY HAD “ACKNOWLEDGED THE S OF HURT AND SHAME THAT HAVE BEEN FELT BY LGBT+ VETERANS WHO STEPPED FORWARD THE SERVICE OF THE UNED KGDOM BUT WERE TREATED WH ABJECT CELTY”.HE TOLD PA: “THE ACUNT THAT HE GAVE GAVE GREAT NFINCE AS A MPAIGNG ANISATN THAT IS THE TENT OF THE GOVERNMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR LGBT+ VETERANS AND DO THE RIGHT THG, AND FIGHTG WH PRI WILL WORK WH THE GOVERNMENT TO LIVER SUBSTANTIAL REPARATNS.”THE REVIEW, RRIED OUT BY LORD ETHERTON, FORMER MASTER OF THE ROLLS AND HEAD OF CIVIL JTICE, WAS PUBLISHED ON WEDNDAY AND MA 49 REMENDATNS TO THE GOVERNMENT, CLUDG MAKG AN “APPROPRIATE FANCIAL AWARD” TO AFFECTED VETERANS.MR WALLACE SAID HE REGNISED THE NEED FOR FANCIAL AWARDS FOR AFFECTED VETERANS, BUT STOPPED SHORT OF PROVIDG TAILS.MR WALLACE ADD: “I THK ’S IMPORTANT WE WORK WH PEOPLE LIKE FIGHTG WH PRI TO WORK THROUGH HOW WE N DO .”INPENNT MP MARGARET FERRIER (RUTHERGLEN AND HATON WT) SAID: “A NUMBER OF (LGBT VETERANS) FOUND THEMSELV STRIPPED OF THEIR MEDALS. WILL THE NOW BE RETURNED SWIFTLY? AND THE BAN ON LGBT VETERANS WEARG THEIR UNIFORM AT CEREMONI BE LIFTED?”MR WALLACE SAID: “IN ANSWER TO BOTH: Y.”HE ALSO SAID LGBT VETERANS WHO WERE TOLD THEY WOULD NOT QUALIFY FOR MEDALS “WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE THEIR MEDALS OM NOW ON”.THE REPORT ALSO REMEND THAT MISSN AND RANK SHOULD BE RETROSPECTIVELY RTORED TO WHAT WAS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE DISMISSALS OR DISCHARG RELATED TO THE PRE-2000 BAN, THAT PENSN RIGHTS ARE CLARIFIED, A PUBLIC MEMORIAL BE CREATED, AND A VETERANS’ BADGE BE GRANTED TO THOSE WHO SERVED AT THE TIME OF THE BAN.MR WALLACE SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN WORKG THROUGH THE REPORT’S REMENDATNS, NOTG ACCEPTS “ PRCIPLE THE VAST MAJORY” OF THEM.HE ADD: “WHILST WE AGREE WH THE TENT BEHD THEM, THERE ARE A NUMBER WE MAY LIVER DIFFERENT WAYS TO (HOW) THEY’RE SCRIBED THE REPORT.”MR WALLACE SAID THE GOVERNMENT’S FULL RPONSE WOULD BE PUBLISHED AFTER THE COMMONS SUMMER RECS, WHICH ENDS SEPTEMBER.UK NEWSMOST READ
• EXPRS & STARHOMENEWSSPORTENTERTAMENTSERVICNOTIFITN SETTGSSUBSCRIBE TO ONE OR ALL NOTIFITN SOURC OM THIS ONE PLACE.NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S TOP STORI SENT DIRECTLY TO YOU.SIGN ME UPNEWSALL NEWS COST OF LIVGLOL HUBSCRIMEPOLICSHEALTHBSEDUTNVOICFEATURENVIRONMENTMORE UK NEWSNOSTALGIAPROPERTYTRANSPORTMOTORSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSFEED A FAYSPONSORED ARTICLFD NEWS FOR YOUR TOWNSUNAK APOLOGIS FOR HISTORIL TREATMENT OF LGBT PEOPLE SERVG ARYUK NEWSPUBLISHED: JUL 19, 2023LAST UPDATED: JUL 19, 2023THE APOLOGY FOLLOWED A REMENDATN OM AN PENNT REVIEW.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPPRIME MISTER RISHI SUNAKTHE PRIME MISTER HAS APOLOGISED FOR THE “HORRIFIC” HISTORIL TREATMENT OF LGBT PEOPLE WHO SERVED THE ARY UNR THE PRE-2000 BAN ON HOMOSEXUALY THE ARMED FORC.THE APOLOGY WAS MA AFTER A REMENDATN OM A GOVERNMENT-MISSNED PENNT REVIEW TO THE SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE OF LGBT VETERANS WHO SERVED THE ARMED FORC BETWEEN 1967 AND 2000.THE REVIEW, RRIED OUT BY LORD ETHERTON, FORMER MASTER OF THE ROLLS AND HEAD OF CIVIL JTICE, WAS PUBLISHED ON WEDNDAY AND MA 49 REMENDATNS TO THE GOVERNMENT, CLUDG MAKG AN “APPROPRIATE FANCIAL AWARD” TO AFFECTED VETERANS.RISHI SUNAK TOLD THE COMMONS: “THE BAN ON LGBT PEOPLE SERVG OUR ARY UNTIL THE YEAR 2000 WAS AN APPALLG FAILURE OF THE BRISH STATE S BEHD THE LAW OF THIS LAND.“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.“TODAY, ON BEHALF OF THE BRISH STATE, I APOLOGISE.”HE ADD: “I HOPE ALL THOSE AFFECTED WILL BE ABLE TO FEEL PROUD PARTS OF THE VETERAN MUNY THAT HAS DONE SO MUCH TO KEEP OUR UNTRY SAFE.”LABOUR LEAR SIR KEIR STARMER SAID HIS PARTY WAS “PROUD TO REPEAL THE BAN” ON LGBT PERSONNEL SERVG THE FORC WHEN WAS OFFICE.HE SAID: “TODAY, WE STRONGLY WELE THIS APOLOGY OM THE PRIME MISTER AS A REGNN OF THEIR HISTORIC MISTREATMENT.”IN A WRTEN STATEMENT TO PARLIAMENT, DEFENCE SECRETARY BEN WALLACE SAID THE REVIEW RECEIVED “SHOCKG AND EMOTIVE” TTIMONI – 1,128 TOTAL – AND HE HOP THE APOLOGY “WILL BE THE START OF THEM RECEIVG LONG OVERDUE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT”.LORD ETHERTON SAID THE REPORT IS A “UNIQUE RERD OF WHAT, TO THE MORN EYE, IS AN PREHENSIBLE POLICY OF HOMOPHOBIC BIGOTRY OUR ARMED FORC”.BUT HE SAID: “THE ARMED FORC TODAY ARE A VERY DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT TERMS OF GREATER DIVERSY AND CLN.”DCRIBG THE NTRIBUTN OF STATEMENTS GIVEN BY VICTIMS OF THE BAN, HE SAID: “THOSE STATEMENTS 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, PEREMPTORY DISCHARG, AND APPALLG NSEQUENC TERMS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEG, HOMELSNS, EMPLOYMENT, PERSONAL RELATNSHIPS AND FANCIAL HARDSHIP.”LORD ETHERTON’S REPORT SAID: “MANY OF THE VETERANS WHO SUFFERED OM THE BAN ARE ELRLY, POOR MENTAL AND PHYSIL HEALTH AND FANCIAL NEED.“THEY HAVE ALREADY WAED FOR A MIMUM OF 23 YEARS FOR JTICE AND RTUTN. ANY FURTHER LAY N ONLY BE TO THEIR TRIMENT.”AMONG S REMENDATNS, SAID: “THE PRIME MISTER SHOULD LIVER AN APOLOGY THE UK PARLIAMENT ON BEHALF OF THE NATN TO ALL THOSE LGBT SERVICE PERSONNEL WHO SERVED UNR AND SUFFERED OM THE BAN (WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE DISMISSED OR DISCHARGED).”IT ADD: “AN APPROPRIATE FANCIAL AWARD SHOULD BE MA TO AFFECTED VETERANS NOTWHSTANDG THE EXPIRY OF LIGATN TIME LIMS.“THE GOVERNMENT’S OVERALL EXPOSURE SHOULD BE PPED AT £50 LN.”THE REPORT ALSO REMEND THAT MISSN AND RANK SHOULD BE RETROSPECTIVELY RTORED TO WHAT WAS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE DISMISSALS OR DISCHARG RELATED TO THE PRE-2000 BAN, THAT MEDALS SHOULD BE RTORED, A PUBLIC MEMORIAL SHOULD BE CREATED AND A VETERANS’ BADGE SHOULD BE GRANTED TO THOSE WHO SERVED AT THE TIME OF THE BAN.REFERENCG THE APOLOGY, LGBT ARMED FORC CHARY FIGHTG WH PRI SAID A “TLY HISTORIC DAY”.FORMER BRISH ARMY OFFICER CATHERE DIXON, NOW VICE-CHAIRWOMAN AT LGBT CHARY STONEWALL, SAID: “TODAY’S APOLOGY AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE AN IMPORTANT STEP TO ACHIEVG JTICE FOR THOSE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE WHO SERVED HM ARMED FORC AND, LIKE ME, EXPERIENCED SHAME, HUIATN AND A ED ARY REER BEE OF OUR SEXUALY.“MANY WERE IMPRISONED, EXPERIENCED RRECTIVE VLENCE AND LIVED WH THE STA OF CRIMAL NVICTNS BEE OF WHO THEY LOVED AND WHICH LEFT SOME HOMELS AND MANY UNABLE TO WORK.”UK NEWSMOST READMOST READSORRY, WE ARE NOT ACCEPTG MENTS ON THIS ARTICLE.TOP STORIWOLVERHAMPTON POLICE DISVER MORE THAN 1,000 NNABIS PLANTS WORTH £1 LN AFTER NATNAL GRID RAISED NCERNS ABOUT ELECTRICSWOLVERHAMPTON | 12 HOURS AGOFOUR BLACK COUNTRY MEN ACCED OF MURRG DPD WORKER SHREWSBURY APPEAR URTPREMIUMDUDLEY | 15 HOURS AGOCONCERN AFTER SWASTIKA IS SPRAYED OVER SIGNS FOR SIKH MEMORIAL EVENT SANDWELL | 15 HOURS AGOMORE THAN 300 NNABIS PLANTS FOUND DUDLEY PROPERTY AFTER POLICE TIP OFFDUDLEY | 17 HOURS AGOMAN SMASHED £12,000 HOTEL WDOWS AFTER FIVE NIGHTS ON THE STREET 'TO GET THORI' ATTENTN'PREMIUMCRIME | 24 HOURS AGOEXPERT ANALYS IMAG OF POSSIBLE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR GRAV - DID THEY BELONG TO ANCIENT ORR OR NOT? PREMIUMWOLVERHAMPTON | 24 HOURS AGOBENEFS STREET STAR WHE DEE HAPPY SWAP SHOWBIZ TO FIGHT 'RELENTLS' KNIFE CRIME

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

of 1919 member anisatns om 169 untri mpaigng for lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex rights. Speakg on homophobia the sport a lengthy statement 2021, Henrson said: “My view on this is very much the same as on any other form of discrimatn the game, whether relat to race, relig tolerance, disabily or any other. However, homosexualy is illegal and punishable by ath the Gulf state where he will now play football.

GUERNSEY PRSHOMENEWSSPORTWEATHERSERVICPODSTSNEWSALL NEWS CORONAVISBSPOLICSNEWS OM THE ISLANDSTRAVELVOICEDUTNCAMPAIGNSFEATURMORE PROPERTYUK NEWSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSMOTORSDAME KELLY HOLM AMONG MPAIGNERS WELG LGBT ARY TREATMENT APOLOGYUK NEWSPUBLISHED: JUL 19, 2023PRIME MISTER RISHI SUNAK APOLOGISED FOR THE ‘HORRIFIC’ HISTORIL TREATMENT LGBT PEOPLE WHO SERVED THE ARY HAD FACED PRR TO THE YEAR 2000.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPCAMPAIGNERS HAVE WELED RISHI SUNAK’S APOLOGY FOR THE “HORRIFIC” HISTORIL TREATMENT OF LGBT PEOPLE WHO SERVED THE ARY UNR THE PRE-2000 BAN ON HOMOSEXUALY THE ARMED FORC.OLYMPIAN DAME KELLY HOLM, WHO SERVED THE ARMY AND ME OUT AS GAY LAST YEAR, WAS AMONG THOSE WHO WELED THE GOVERNMENT’S MMENT TO ADDRS THE MISTREATMENT FACED BY VETERANS.DEFENCE SECRETARY BEN WALLACE SAID HE REGNISED THERE SHOULD BE A FANCIAL AWARD FOR AFFECTED VETERANS, SOME OF WHOM SUFFERED ABIVE VTIGATNS WHEN THEIR SEXUALY WAS DISVERED.OTHERS FACED “NVERSN THERAPY, PEREMPTORY DISCHARG, AND APPALLG NSEQUENC TERMS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEG, HOMELSNS, EMPLOYMENT, PERSONAL RELATNSHIPS AND FANCIAL HARDSHIP”, ACRDG TO A GOVERNMENT-MISSNED PENNT REVIEW TO THE SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE OF LGBT VETERANS WHO SERVED THE ARMED FORC BETWEEN 1967 AND 2000.DAME KELLY HOLM DBE DURG AN SPECTN OF THE RANKS, AFTER BEG MA AN HONORARY COLONEL OF THE ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS TRAG REGIMENT (ANDREW MATTHEWS/PA)“FROM A PERSONAL POT OF VIEW, THE BAN AFFECTED ME TERMS OF WHO I WAS AND WHAT I ULDN’T BE FOR 34 YEARS, LEADG ME TO DO MY DOCUMENTARY LAST YEAR.”DAME KELLY, WHO SPOKE ABOUT HER OWN EXPERIENCE THE ARY AN ITV DOCUMENTARY LAST YEAR, ADD: “I AM THE PUBLIC EYE AND I GET A VOICE TO EXPRS THIS, AND I WAS ABLE TO BE PART OF BRGG , BUT TODAY THEIR VOIC GOT HEARD WH THE PUBLITN OF THIS.”CRAIG JON, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF THE CHARY FIGHTG WH PRI, SAID HE HAD NFINCE THE GOVERNMENT WOULD LIVER PENSATN FOR MISTREATED LGBT VETERANS.MR JON SAID THE DEFENCE SECRETARY HAD “ACKNOWLEDGED THE S OF HURT AND SHAME THAT HAVE BEEN FELT BY LGBT+ VETERANS WHO STEPPED FORWARD THE SERVICE OF THE UNED KGDOM BUT WERE TREATED WH ABJECT CELTY”.HE TOLD PA: “THE ACUNT THAT HE GAVE GAVE GREAT NFINCE AS A MPAIGNG ANISATN THAT IS THE TENT OF THE GOVERNMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR LGBT+ VETERANS AND DO THE RIGHT THG, AND FIGHTG WH PRI WILL WORK WH THE GOVERNMENT TO LIVER SUBSTANTIAL REPARATNS.”THE REVIEW, RRIED OUT BY LORD ETHERTON, FORMER MASTER OF THE ROLLS AND HEAD OF CIVIL JTICE, WAS PUBLISHED ON WEDNDAY AND MA 49 REMENDATNS TO THE GOVERNMENT, CLUDG MAKG AN “APPROPRIATE FANCIAL AWARD” TO AFFECTED VETERANS.MR WALLACE SAID HE REGNISED THE NEED FOR FANCIAL AWARDS FOR AFFECTED VETERANS, BUT STOPPED SHORT OF PROVIDG TAILS.MR WALLACE ADD: “I THK ’S IMPORTANT WE WORK WH PEOPLE LIKE FIGHTG WH PRI TO WORK THROUGH HOW WE N DO .”INPENNT MP MARGARET FERRIER (RUTHERGLEN AND HATON WT) SAID: “A NUMBER OF (LGBT VETERANS) FOUND THEMSELV STRIPPED OF THEIR MEDALS. WILL THE NOW BE RETURNED SWIFTLY? AND THE BAN ON LGBT VETERANS WEARG THEIR UNIFORM AT CEREMONI BE LIFTED?”MR WALLACE SAID: “IN ANSWER TO BOTH: Y.”HE ALSO SAID LGBT VETERANS WHO WERE TOLD THEY WOULD NOT QUALIFY FOR MEDALS “WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE THEIR MEDALS OM NOW ON”.THE REPORT ALSO REMEND THAT MISSN AND RANK SHOULD BE RETROSPECTIVELY RTORED TO WHAT WAS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE DISMISSALS OR DISCHARG RELATED TO THE PRE-2000 BAN, THAT PENSN RIGHTS ARE CLARIFIED, A PUBLIC MEMORIAL BE CREATED, AND A VETERANS’ BADGE BE GRANTED TO THOSE WHO SERVED AT THE TIME OF THE BAN.MR WALLACE SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN WORKG THROUGH THE REPORT’S REMENDATNS, NOTG ACCEPTS “ PRCIPLE THE VAST MAJORY” OF THEM.HE ADD: “WHILST WE AGREE WH THE TENT BEHD THEM, THERE ARE A NUMBER WE MAY LIVER DIFFERENT WAYS TO (HOW) THEY’RE SCRIBED THE REPORT.”MR WALLACE SAID THE GOVERNMENT’S FULL RPONSE WOULD BE PUBLISHED AFTER THE COMMONS SUMMER RECS, WHICH ENDS SEPTEMBER.UK NEWSMOST READ

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EXPRS & STARHOMENEWSSPORTENTERTAMENTSERVICNOTIFITN SETTGSSUBSCRIBE TO ONE OR ALL NOTIFITN SOURC OM THIS ONE PLACE.NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S TOP STORI SENT DIRECTLY TO YOU.SIGN ME UPNEWSALL NEWS COST OF LIVGLOL HUBSCRIMEPOLICSHEALTHBSEDUTNVOICFEATURENVIRONMENTMORE UK NEWSNOSTALGIAPROPERTYTRANSPORTMOTORSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSFEED A FAYSPONSORED ARTICLFD NEWS FOR YOUR TOWNSUNAK APOLOGIS FOR HISTORIL TREATMENT OF LGBT PEOPLE SERVG ARYUK NEWSPUBLISHED: JUL 19, 2023LAST UPDATED: JUL 19, 2023THE APOLOGY FOLLOWED A REMENDATN OM AN PENNT REVIEW.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPPRIME MISTER RISHI SUNAKTHE PRIME MISTER HAS APOLOGISED FOR THE “HORRIFIC” HISTORIL TREATMENT OF LGBT PEOPLE WHO SERVED THE ARY UNR THE PRE-2000 BAN ON HOMOSEXUALY THE ARMED FORC.THE APOLOGY WAS MA AFTER A REMENDATN OM A GOVERNMENT-MISSNED PENNT REVIEW TO THE SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE OF LGBT VETERANS WHO SERVED THE ARMED FORC BETWEEN 1967 AND 2000.THE REVIEW, RRIED OUT BY LORD ETHERTON, FORMER MASTER OF THE ROLLS AND HEAD OF CIVIL JTICE, WAS PUBLISHED ON WEDNDAY AND MA 49 REMENDATNS TO THE GOVERNMENT, CLUDG MAKG AN “APPROPRIATE FANCIAL AWARD” TO AFFECTED VETERANS.RISHI SUNAK TOLD THE COMMONS: “THE BAN ON LGBT PEOPLE SERVG OUR ARY UNTIL THE YEAR 2000 WAS AN APPALLG FAILURE OF THE BRISH STATE S BEHD THE LAW OF THIS LAND.“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.“TODAY, ON BEHALF OF THE BRISH STATE, I APOLOGISE.”HE ADD: “I HOPE ALL THOSE AFFECTED WILL BE ABLE TO FEEL PROUD PARTS OF THE VETERAN MUNY THAT HAS DONE SO MUCH TO KEEP OUR UNTRY SAFE.”LABOUR LEAR SIR KEIR STARMER SAID HIS PARTY WAS “PROUD TO REPEAL THE BAN” ON LGBT PERSONNEL SERVG THE FORC WHEN WAS OFFICE.HE SAID: “TODAY, WE STRONGLY WELE THIS APOLOGY OM THE PRIME MISTER AS A REGNN OF THEIR HISTORIC MISTREATMENT.”IN A WRTEN STATEMENT TO PARLIAMENT, DEFENCE SECRETARY BEN WALLACE SAID THE REVIEW RECEIVED “SHOCKG AND EMOTIVE” TTIMONI – 1,128 TOTAL – AND HE HOP THE APOLOGY “WILL BE THE START OF THEM RECEIVG LONG OVERDUE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT”.LORD ETHERTON SAID THE REPORT IS A “UNIQUE RERD OF WHAT, TO THE MORN EYE, IS AN PREHENSIBLE POLICY OF HOMOPHOBIC BIGOTRY OUR ARMED FORC”.BUT HE SAID: “THE ARMED FORC TODAY ARE A VERY DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT TERMS OF GREATER DIVERSY AND CLN.”DCRIBG THE NTRIBUTN OF STATEMENTS GIVEN BY VICTIMS OF THE BAN, HE SAID: “THOSE STATEMENTS 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, PEREMPTORY DISCHARG, AND APPALLG NSEQUENC TERMS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEG, HOMELSNS, EMPLOYMENT, PERSONAL RELATNSHIPS AND FANCIAL HARDSHIP.”LORD ETHERTON’S REPORT SAID: “MANY OF THE VETERANS WHO SUFFERED OM THE BAN ARE ELRLY, POOR MENTAL AND PHYSIL HEALTH AND FANCIAL NEED.“THEY HAVE ALREADY WAED FOR A MIMUM OF 23 YEARS FOR JTICE AND RTUTN. ANY FURTHER LAY N ONLY BE TO THEIR TRIMENT.”AMONG S REMENDATNS, SAID: “THE PRIME MISTER SHOULD LIVER AN APOLOGY THE UK PARLIAMENT ON BEHALF OF THE NATN TO ALL THOSE LGBT SERVICE PERSONNEL WHO SERVED UNR AND SUFFERED OM THE BAN (WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE DISMISSED OR DISCHARGED).”IT ADD: “AN APPROPRIATE FANCIAL AWARD SHOULD BE MA TO AFFECTED VETERANS NOTWHSTANDG THE EXPIRY OF LIGATN TIME LIMS.“THE GOVERNMENT’S OVERALL EXPOSURE SHOULD BE PPED AT £50 LN.”THE REPORT ALSO REMEND THAT MISSN AND RANK SHOULD BE RETROSPECTIVELY RTORED TO WHAT WAS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE DISMISSALS OR DISCHARG RELATED TO THE PRE-2000 BAN, THAT MEDALS SHOULD BE RTORED, A PUBLIC MEMORIAL SHOULD BE CREATED AND A VETERANS’ BADGE SHOULD BE GRANTED TO THOSE WHO SERVED AT THE TIME OF THE BAN.REFERENCG THE APOLOGY, LGBT ARMED FORC CHARY FIGHTG WH PRI SAID A “TLY HISTORIC DAY”.FORMER BRISH ARMY OFFICER CATHERE DIXON, NOW VICE-CHAIRWOMAN AT LGBT CHARY STONEWALL, SAID: “TODAY’S APOLOGY AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE AN IMPORTANT STEP TO ACHIEVG JTICE FOR THOSE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE WHO SERVED HM ARMED FORC AND, LIKE ME, EXPERIENCED SHAME, HUIATN AND A ED ARY REER BEE OF OUR SEXUALY.“MANY WERE IMPRISONED, EXPERIENCED RRECTIVE VLENCE AND LIVED WH THE STA OF CRIMAL NVICTNS BEE OF WHO THEY LOVED AND WHICH LEFT SOME HOMELS AND MANY UNABLE TO WORK.”UK NEWSMOST READMOST READSORRY, WE ARE NOT ACCEPTG MENTS ON THIS ARTICLE.TOP STORIWOLVERHAMPTON POLICE DISVER MORE THAN 1,000 NNABIS PLANTS WORTH £1 LN AFTER NATNAL GRID RAISED NCERNS ABOUT ELECTRICSWOLVERHAMPTON | 12 HOURS AGOFOUR BLACK COUNTRY MEN ACCED OF MURRG DPD WORKER SHREWSBURY APPEAR URTPREMIUMDUDLEY | 15 HOURS AGOCONCERN AFTER SWASTIKA IS SPRAYED OVER SIGNS FOR SIKH MEMORIAL EVENT SANDWELL | 15 HOURS AGOMORE THAN 300 NNABIS PLANTS FOUND DUDLEY PROPERTY AFTER POLICE TIP OFFDUDLEY | 17 HOURS AGOMAN SMASHED £12,000 HOTEL WDOWS AFTER FIVE NIGHTS ON THE STREET 'TO GET THORI' ATTENTN'PREMIUMCRIME | 24 HOURS AGOEXPERT ANALYS IMAG OF POSSIBLE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR GRAV - DID THEY BELONG TO ANCIENT ORR OR NOT? PREMIUMWOLVERHAMPTON | 24 HOURS AGOBENEFS STREET STAR WHE DEE HAPPY SWAP SHOWBIZ TO FIGHT 'RELENTLS' KNIFE CRIME

”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. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir 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.

It is hard for me as a gay this untry.