LGBT veterans booted out of army for beg gay w right to lay wreath at Cenotaph - Mirror Onle

Contents:

• FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
• LGBT VETERANS BOOTED OUT OF ARMY FOR BEG GAY W RIGHT TO LAY WREATH AT CENOTAPH
• "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
• LOVE AND ATH: THE LEGACY OF CONGRSNAL CEMETERY’S ‘GAY CORNER’
• THE GRAVE AND THE GAY: THE CIVIL WAR ON THE GILD AGE LECTURE CIRCU
• IWO JIMA MAR, GAY PRI AND A PHOTO ADAPTATN THAT SPAWNS FURY

FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH

Campbell was the first gay veteran to secure burial rights for her spoe, and the pair were the first same-sex ary uple to be buried together at a US natnal cemetery. The right to a ary burial for gay spo was guaranteed natnwi wh the legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015, but only a handful of known same-sex ary upl are buried across the 172 natnal cemeteri the US – grounds rerved chiefly for ary members and selected fay. Their tombston shout to the silence: “Gay is good, ” reads a plaque below the grave of Frank Kameny, an inic activist, civil servant and World War II veteran.

A glossy namels marble headstone marks the grave of Leonard Matlovich, one of the first LGBTQ veterans to prott the ary’s ban on homosexualy, as one belongg to “A Gay Vietnam Veteran.

Up to 20, 000 servicemen and women were dismissed om the armed forc for beg gay and some had their medals stripped - now LGBT support group Fightg Wh Pri has won the right to jo the march-pastLGBT support group Fightg Wh Pri has at last won the right to jo the marchForc veterans jailed or booted out for beg gay will lay an official wreath at the Cenotaph for the first time on Remembrance Sunday.

LGBT VETERANS BOOTED OUT OF ARMY FOR BEG GAY W RIGHT TO LAY WREATH AT CENOTAPH

Elae will be joed the ont rank of the LGBT ntgent by former Navy medic Chris Fergon, 60, and ex-naval officer Dunn Ltig Prean, 62, who add: “There’s a real sense of pri that there will be people who are openly gay marchg. Along wh three other gay ex-Forc personnel, Dunn Ltig-Prean took the MoD to the European Court of Human Rights 1999 – leadg to the gay ban beg lifted.

Dunn was on stroyer HMS Newstle 1994 – and set to be a ary assistant to then PM John Major - when his world me crashg down after he reported a bid to blackmail him over his homosexualy.

LGBT prsure group Stonewall led the charge to get the forc gay ban lifted 1998 and that rulted the landmark cisn by the European Court of Human Rights. Unfortunately, due to years and years of anti-LGBTQ discrimatn and laws banng people om openly servg, there’s not many ways to regnize or highlight specifilly gay, trans, or queer servicemembers — although we know that many of them existed, om as early as the Amerin Revolutnary War to as recently as the War Iraq & Afghanistan. The ambiguy of McKney’s sexualy was a key reason that Barney Frank, the first gay Congrsmember to e out on his own, chose to e out 1987.

"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS

A rervist the Uned Stat Mare Corps prr to his electn to Congrs, Hson reloted to Virgia and fought agast the ary ban on gay people. He was the first gay person ever to appeal their firg to the Uned Stat Supreme Court, and wrote his own legal briefs after his attorneys gave up on the se.

Baron von Stben was wily known as a gay man, but also a geni ary strategist, when Benjam Frankl sought his expertise at the start of the Amerin Revolutnary War. Walker lived wh him through the remar of his life, and von Stben, who neher married nor nied any of the allegatns of homosexualy, left his tate to North and Walker. Before Milk beme one of the first out elected officials Ameri and a vol proponent for gay rights, he served the Navy, where he was urt-martialed and discharged on Febary 7, 1955, 22 years before he would w electn to the San Francis Board of Supervisors.

LOVE AND ATH: THE LEGACY OF CONGRSNAL CEMETERY’S ‘GAY CORNER’

Pri Month, the month-long observance every year of LGBTQ rights, impact, and history, is often the subject of srn among homophobic muni. In 1969, the month of June was chosen for LGBTQ Pri Month to memorate the Stonewall Rts NYC, a talyst for the gay liberatn movement the Uned Stat and around the world. Dpe havg ma some signifint stris the last uple of s, members of the LGBTQ muny still face homophobia and opprsn on a daily and sometim hourly basis.

THE GRAVE AND THE GAY: THE CIVIL WAR ON THE GILD AGE LECTURE CIRCU

Another se pot: this homophobic meme an unintified bigot posted to Facebook, which suggts that Pri Month is somehow a threat to the armed forc bee the latter is only celebrated wh “one day” (prumably Veteran’s Day) while the LGBTQ muny gets “a whole month. But few of uld manage to put is as succctly as the veteran below, who laid out the necsy for LGBTQ Pri Month and shut down OP’s homophobic msage—all while remdg that the armed forc actually do get a month of their own (though that’s entirely bis the pot.

“This post is credibly ignorant and if you and the others who’ve shared this post tly red about ary members, then you’d know May was NMAM and not jt e as an argument for your homophobia. Vio of the arrt showed the driver wearg a gay men's chos t-shirt, which was more than enough to [sow] reasonable doubt about the tent of the driver, " Florida-based rad host Grant Stern add. 18The man appeared to be wearg a shirt om the Fort Lrdale Gay Men's Chos, wh the acronym FTLGMC visible on his back wrten rabow-lored letterg.

IWO JIMA MAR, GAY PRI AND A PHOTO ADAPTATN THAT SPAWNS FURY

The Fort Lrdale Gay Men's Chos issued a statement to WLPG nfirmg that the driver is a member of the choir, as were to two men h by his vehicle. Liebman and more than 9, 000 Amerin servicemembers, however, eventually were given a Sectn 8 "blue discharge" for beg homosexual. The 1994 documentary Comg Out Unr Fire giv voice to the experienc of thoands of gay and lbian servicemembers who joed the ary durg World War II, a story that is largely ignored by historians and mms across the untry.