Many gay and lbian vets still owed benefs after don't ask, don't tell repeal : NPR

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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.

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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.

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 *

But two years to his enlistment, Steffanis got spotted at a gay bar near his base.

OTED AS GAY, AGG VETERANS ARE BATTLG AGA FOR HONORABLE DISCHARG

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"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.

"They threw me the brig, put me on bread and water — was huiatg --for beg gay, " says Steffanis.

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 *

" 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.

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 *

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.

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 *

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.

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Gay Veteran Gets Honorable Discharge Six Des After Gettg Kicked Out of Army .

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