The gay Army helipter pilots jt married at Wt Pot | PkNews

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• FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
• FIRST ACTIVE-DUTY GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT
• THE GAY ARMY HELIPTER PILOTS JT MARRIED AT WT POT
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL FOR GAY MILARY COUPL ALL 50 STAT

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. However, gay veterans have always fought for their right to be clud and celebrated such spac.

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. Gay marriage supporters hold a gay rights flag ont of the Supreme Court before a hearg about gay marriage Washgton April 28, 2015. At the time, former Print Bill Clton's policy, "don't ask, don't tell" was effect, barrg homosexual or bisexual members of the ary om disclosg his or her sexual orientatn and om speakg about homosexual remembered thkg, “this guy has a lot of guts, and he’s kd of cute, too.

FIRST ACTIVE-DUTY GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT

"So we put our mds that we were never gog to say we were gay, we were never gog to get ma fun of, and we were certaly never gog to get kicked out of the Army. Gay upl the ary move equently, and have ltle—if any—choice cidg where they live.

Broadway-Mack, whose wife is statned at Fort Bragg North Carola and who ma headl 2013 when she was nied entrance to Associatn of Bragg Officers’ Spo, said that for gay upl who have children, the issue be that much more urgent.

Roya Ctron said she was optimistic about the sea change polici and perceptns around same-sex marriage that have been sweepg the untry (the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law banng openly gay people om servg the ary was repealed 2010).

THE GAY ARMY HELIPTER PILOTS JT MARRIED AT WT POT

Vcent Francho, a 26-year-old fellow Apache pilot who is also statned at Fort Bliss, where they are both a part of another muny: the group of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr soldiers who serve there. Ary muny, were hamstng by “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” a policy that went to effect October 1993 unr Print Bill Clton; forba any homosexual or bisexual member of the ary om disclosg his or her sexual orientatn or om speakg about any homosexual relatnships, cludg marriag.

“Through mutual iends at Wt Pot, we had each learned the other was gay, and though we were attracted to one another, we uldn’t say or do anythg about , ” said Capta Hall, who grew up Chattanooga, Tenn., the only son of Kyle Hall, a middle school mathematics teacher, and Stephen Hall, the vice print for nylon polymer strategic velopment at Koch Indtri Wicha, Kan., where his parents now live. “So we put our mds that we were never gog to say we were gay, we were never gog to get ma fun of, and we were certaly never gog to get kicked out of the Army. WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials announced Wednday that the DOD will provi marriage benefs to same-sex upl for the first time, givg gay spo accs to health re, hog allowanc and fay separatn pay.

The move ltle more than a month after the Supreme Court stck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which Defense Department lears have said prevented them om offerg feral marriage benefs to gay troops. Thirteen stat and the District of Columbia currently allow gay marriag. Troops si the Uned Stat but statned more than 100 om a state that allows gay marriage will have seven days.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL FOR GAY MILARY COUPL ALL 50 STAT

Gay troops who are already legally married uld see retroactive benefs back to June 26, the date of the Supreme Court cisn.

Sce the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” law was repealed 2011, gay rights advot have phed for extensn of the married uple benefs to same-sex troops, argug that the policy still amounted to discrimatn the ranks. Mark Mazzone, spokman for the ary LGBT advocy group SPART*A, said the chang will be a fancial boost to many same-sex upl th far prived of equal benefs, and the leave time for travel to stat that allow same-sex marriage show the ary is mted to reachg out to gay troops.