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.
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- I'M A BRISH ROYAL NAVY OFFICER — AND I'M GAY. I FEEL LIKE I'VE HAD TO WORK TWICE AS HARD AS MY STRAIGHT PEERS.
- BRISH SOLDIERS SACKED FOR BEG GAY N GET THEIR MEDALS BACK
I'M A BRISH ROYAL NAVY OFFICER — AND I'M GAY. I FEEL LIKE I'VE HAD TO WORK TWICE AS HARD AS MY STRAIGHT PEERS.
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 british navy *
‘Everythg’s gay when you’re unr way’ beme a mon adage.
'Homosexual' is a relatively recent term. In the past, men had sex wh each other but didn’t necsarily have a ‘gay inty’. Homoerotic platonic love was not unmon.
BRISH SOLDIERS SACKED FOR BEG GAY N GET THEIR MEDALS BACK
Until 1999, if you were gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, you were banned om servg the Brish Armed Forc. * homosexuality british navy *
But homosexualy on ships was still illegal the Merchant Navy until 1994 and the armed forc until 1999.
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But now the Royal Navy has recently been announced number 10 Stonewall’s top 100 gay-iendly employers.
By referencg the nearly accintal act of 'sodomy, ' Cleland taps to the popular imprsn that sailors engaged homosexualy. Rictor Norton, at his webse Homosexualy Eighteenth-Century England, has llected an imprsive number of primary sourc, though few reference sailors.