Embolned by recent advanc for homosexuals and out of the ary, more gay veterans look to have their oters reclassified.
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- GAY VETERAN GETS HONORABLE DISCHARGE SIX DES AFTER GETTG KICKED OUT OF ARMY
- MILARY VETERANS KICKED OUT FOR BEG GAY STILL FIGHTG FOR HONORABLE DISCHARG
- OTED AS GAY, AGG VETERANS ARE BATTLG AGA FOR HONORABLE DISCHARG
GAY VETERAN GETS HONORABLE DISCHARGE SIX DES AFTER GETTG KICKED OUT OF ARMY
Twelve years after repeal of the ban on gay and lbian troops servg openly, no one the ary or Veterans Admistratn knows how many vets are still whout the benefs they're owed. * discharge from the military gay *
At the time, gay troops weren't allowed the ary. But two years to his enlistment, Steffanis got spotted at a gay bar near his base.
MILARY VETERANS KICKED OUT FOR BEG GAY STILL FIGHTG FOR HONORABLE DISCHARG
An 82-year-old Oh Army veteran has been granted honorable discharge more than six s after he was "unsirably" discharged for beg gay. * discharge from the military gay *
"They cut my locker open and found some gay magaz, " he says. Not only was agast the ary regulatns, gay sex was still illegal Virgia, and many other stat.
OTED AS GAY, AGG VETERANS ARE BATTLG AGA FOR HONORABLE DISCHARG
The new data, shared exclively wh CBS News, vers the years om 1980 until the feral urts lifted the ban agast gay and lbian service members 2010. * discharge from the military gay *
"They threw me the brig, put me on bread and water — was huiatg --for beg gay, " says Steffanis. " As long as they kept secret, gay and lbian troops uld serve. Rumors sprouted about how he wasn't datg women or had reported on others for g homophobic slurs.
In the years sce, the tegratn of gay and lbian troops has been herald as a huge succs wh no effects on un hn or bat reads, acrdg to the Pentagon. At the time was uncharted terrory, and Alexanr, by then a litenant lonel, sat a room full of senr officers talkg about how to handle gay service members. "I said, you know what, 'I'm a gay service member, ' " he said.
Twelve years after repeal of the ban on gay and lbian troops servg openly, no one the ary or Veterans Admistratn knows how many vets are still whout the benefs they're owed. * discharge from the military gay *
Alexanr's first project was wh the San Francis-based veterans chary Swords to Plowshar, tryg to help gay veterans wh other-than-honorable discharg.
"I put up flyers all over the Bay Area the gay bars, plac I knew that the LGBTQ veterans would equent. And that's where he met Stephan Steffanis, 20 years sce his discharge om the Navy for beg gay.
U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * discharge from the military gay *
“Unsirable” behavr—specifilly, an accatn of “attemptg to perpetrate an act of Homosexualy, ” as he explaed a letter to the Natnal Associatn for the Advancement of Colored People, om whom he was seekg legal help.
U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * discharge from the military gay *
” A the top rner of the notice explaed the reason for the discharge—“HS, ” for stance, meant the person was nsired a homosexual. ” Wh WWII’s massive human mobilizatn, the ary shifted om s practice of jailg soldiers acced of homosexualy (which required time-nsumg, expensive urt-martials) to simply emg them psychologilly unf.
Acrdg to Jon, the NAACP worked wh Black service members acced of homosexualy, like Lemuel Brown, to appeal to the Discharge Review Board for a changed stat—ually wh ltle succs. READ MORE: The Supreme Court Rulgs That Have Shaped Gay Rights Ameri‘Scientific’ Attempts to Intify HomosexualsIn their effort to screen out queer nscripts, ary officials ran to a problem: They didn’t have a nclive way of intifyg them, beyond a set of subjectively terpreted “signs” such as “feme bodily characteristics” and “effemacy drs and manner, ” acrdg to Allan Bébé, thor of Comg Out Unr Fire: Gay Men and Women Durg World War II.