A gay Royal Navy officer has been award more than £45,000 after beg outed to his lleagu followg a dispute over army acmodatn.
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- 'I HID BEG GAY THE ROYAL NAVY FOR 20 YEARS, THEN MY FIRST LOVE DIED OF AIDS 2 DAYS BEFORE I LEFT'BEFORE THE BAN 2000, BEG LGBTQ+ THE ARY WAS CRIMAL AND FORMER LITENANT COMMANR PATRICK LYSTER-TODD HAD TO HI HIS SEXUALY FOR S WHICH ALMOST LED HIM TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFEGETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYMATT SPIVEYCONTENT EDOR11:05, 1 DEC 2022UPDATED11:35, 1 DEC 2022BOOKMARKPATRICK EXPLAS HOW LED A KD OF DOUBLE LIFE WHEN HE WAS YOUNGERSIGN UP FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM OUR DIVERSE MUNI MORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM OUR DIVERSE MUNI INVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- 'I WAS DISMISSED OM THE NAVY FOR BEG GAY'
- GAY ROYAL NAVY OFFICER AWARD £45,000 AFTER BEG FORCED TO E OUT ACMODATN ROW
- GAY ROYAL NAVY OFFICER AWARD MORE THAN £45,000 AFTER BEG OUTED: ‘IT MA ME FEEL SUB-HUMAN’
- RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
- BRISH SOLDIERS SACKED FOR BEG GAY N GET THEIR MEDALS BACK
- NAVY CHIEFS ORRED SECRET PURGE OF GAY SAILORS
'I HID BEG GAY THE ROYAL NAVY FOR 20 YEARS, THEN MY FIRST LOVE DIED OF AIDS 2 DAYS BEFORE I LEFT'BEFORE THE BAN 2000, BEG LGBTQ+ THE ARY WAS CRIMAL AND FORMER LITENANT COMMANR PATRICK LYSTER-TODD HAD TO HI HIS SEXUALY FOR S WHICH ALMOST LED HIM TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFEGETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYMATT SPIVEYCONTENT EDOR11:05, 1 DEC 2022UPDATED11:35, 1 DEC 2022BOOKMARKPATRICK EXPLAS HOW LED A KD OF DOUBLE LIFE WHEN HE WAS YOUNGERSIGN UP FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM OUR DIVERSE MUNI MORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP FOR NEWS AND FEATUR OM OUR DIVERSE MUNI INVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
The ban on gay people servg the ary meant the litenant manr spent a fearg imprisonment. As soon as was lifted he sisted on speakg out – whatever the st * homosexuality in royal navy *
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'I WAS DISMISSED OM THE NAVY FOR BEG GAY'
* homosexuality in royal navy *
He said: "I realised that if I wanted to have a reer the navy as well as beg gay that I was gog to have to work out how to keep two nflictg requirements apart. "I evolved a set of l which were no sex wh other service personnel, no boyiend and no gay iends.
GAY ROYAL NAVY OFFICER AWARD £45,000 AFTER BEG FORCED TO E OUT ACMODATN ROW
The Royal Navy and Royal Mar have been named as one of the UK’s top employers for their mment to lbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgenr staff. * homosexuality in royal navy *
" At the age of 18 Patrick went to a notor gay bar Earl's Court for the first time which had blacked out wdows for privacy. It was a time when partial crimalisatn of homosexualy meant that other than the privacy of your own home beg gay was crimal.
GAY ROYAL NAVY OFFICER AWARD MORE THAN £45,000 AFTER BEG OUTED: ‘IT MA ME FEEL SUB-HUMAN’
It took Patrick about two hours of circlg the venue and checkg he had not been followed before he had the nfince to walk through the door of the gay bar.
RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
Patrick said: "I knew that if I was found out I would be chucked out but I didn't realise then that was also a crimal offence the ary to be gay. " In 1988, Patrick met a man the Rockg Dean, a sna equented by gay men jt east of Brighton who would go on to bee his first partner. After leavg the ary Patrick set up Gay Men's Health Portsmouth, volunteered at the rintial un of London's first centre for people wh HIV/AIDs lled Lighthoe, where he provid palliative to the termally ill young men his re.
BRISH SOLDIERS SACKED FOR BEG GAY N GET THEIR MEDALS BACK
He worked rtrants, gay bars and even TV, all the while volunteerg and mpaigng for LGBTQ+ rights, Patrick chaired Rank Outsirs who worked wh Stonewall throughout the 1990s to get the ban of LGBTQ+ ary personnel the Armed Forc lifted.
NAVY CHIEFS ORRED SECRET PURGE OF GAY SAILORS
Followg the turbulent years Patrick's life, Craig Jon, a Litenant Commanr of the Navy who me out as gay on the day the ban was lifted, me up wh the ia of wrg an anthology of stori of the LGBTQ+ ary personnel who had been left behd. Craig Jon, a Litenant Commanr of the Navy who me out as gay on the day the ban was lifted, me up wh the ia of wrg an anthology of stori of the LGBTQ+ ary personnel who had been left behd. READ NEXT: Gay uple have 'dream' weddg London church after beg 'rejected' om 31 others first of s kd service 'I'm a gay man om Rwanda - arrivg Europe was like leavg a livg hell, you n't send LGBT+ asylum seekers over there' Homels woman told to live wh parents who 'threatened her wh gay nversn therapy'.