While gay service members n now serve openly the ary, veterans kicked out for only their sexual orientatn unr past polici still face hurdl to accs benefs due to “ls than honorable” discharg.
Contents:
- TENNSEE STUNTS SAY THEY WERE KICKED OUT OF AT PARTY FOR BEG GAY
- KICKED OUT FOR BEG GAY, HOMELS TEEN FOUND SECURY AT GREAT CIRCLE
- I WAS KICKED OUT OF THE MILARY FOR BEG GAYI WAS KICKED OUT OF THE MILARY FOR BEG GAY
- GAY UPLE SAYS NYC RTRANT KICKED THEM OUT BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY
- STAT MAKE EASIER FOR VETS WHO WERE KICKED OUT FOR BEG GAY TO ACCS BENEFS
TENNSEE STUNTS SAY THEY WERE KICKED OUT OF AT PARTY FOR BEG GAY
An NYC gay uple orred food at La Isla Cuchio Rtrant the Bronx when they were verbally harassed by an employee and asked to leave. * kicked out for being gay *
The Universy of Memphis has opened an vtigatn after two stunts claimed they were kicked out of an off-mp aterny party and berated wh homophobic slurs for beg gay. “We were jt wantg to have a night out for fun, ” one of the stunts, sophomore Benjam Buckley, told WMC News 5, NBC’s lol Memphis affiliate. They were then approached by several male stunts who they say forcibly phed them out of the hoe and to the ra while yellg anti-gay slurs.
”Buckley and Chapman said they’re pleased that the universy is addrsg the issue and hope the cint sparks a larger nversatn around homophobia on mp. They also said they want the stunts who kicked them out of the party while yellg homophobic slurs to be held acuntable.
”While the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny is timated by Gallup to prise 4. ” Sigala said the silver lg, however, is that Friday’s cint has already igned dialogue on mp about homophobia and discrimatn.
KICKED OUT FOR BEG GAY, HOMELS TEEN FOUND SECURY AT GREAT CIRCLE
Cght kissg her girliend goodbye on the cheek, 16-year-old Vicky Price said she was kicked out of her home for beg gay. And when I me si, they were screamg and yellg at me and tellg me that beg gay was a s and I need to watch how I acted around people bee people were gonna thk that I was a homosexual. ”Many gay, lbian and trans teens end up homels Homels at age 16, Vicky’s story is not too dissiar om many gay, lbian, or trans teens.
Workg a full-time job and relyg on the cy’s public transportatn system, she eventually left high school halfway through her sophomore abe that land her the hospal at 13 left her wh severe anxiety and prsn, she said. “Yeah, that sounds gay, ” another chimed , to lghter.
I WAS KICKED OUT OF THE MILARY FOR BEG GAYI WAS KICKED OUT OF THE MILARY FOR BEG GAY
The law, enacted 1994, was tend as a promise between Print Bill Clton’s mpaign promise to end the rmal practice of kickg homosexuals out of the ary and Republin sistence that our forc weren’t ready for open service. The promise meant that gay and lbian service members would be allowed to serve, assumg they nied who they were and kept their private liv hidn. In return, the ary was supposed to avoid askg about the liv of gay and lbian troops and end s often-aggrsive pursu of evince of homosexual nduct.
To keep their liv private, gay and lbian service members had to lie nstantly to keep their inti secret. A gay New York Cy uple say they were harassed and asked to leave a rtrant this month bee of their Ayala and Jamel Brown Jr., who live the Bronx, say the cint happened at the nearby Puerto Rin rtrant La Isla Cuchio. They say a woman who worked behd the unter ma homophobic remarks after they had Ayala, left, wh Jamel Brown Jr., right.
GAY UPLE SAYS NYC RTRANT KICKED THEM OUT BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY
WASHINGTON — While gay service members n now serve openly the ary, veterans kicked out for only their sexual orientatn unr past polici still face hurdl to accs benefs due to “ls than honorable” discharg. More than 100, 000 service members were expelled om the ary between World War II and the 2011 repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ” the policy that barred gays and lbians om servg openly the ary, bee of their actual or perceived sexual orientatn, acrdg to a 2020 report om Harvard Law School.
STAT MAKE EASIER FOR VETS WHO WERE KICKED OUT FOR BEG GAY TO ACCS BENEFS
A “ls than honorable” discharge -- an rmal term for all discharg that are not honorable -- n bar gay service members om state and feral benefs. Mike Mudd, an Air Force veteran, was given an “other than honorable” discharge June 1989 after his roommate outed him as gay. The thrivg gay muny Miami, where he had been sent after basic trag, helped him realize that he was gay, and he me out durg his time there.
After about a year, he got changed on a new document, but the discharge characterizatn, or reason why he was discharged, remaed “homosexual nduct” on his origal DD-214 form. Now that ’s legal to serve openly the ary, he n requt to strip the “homosexual nduct” label om his DD-214, somethg he didn’t know was possible until his terview wh Stars and Strip. Takano, the first openly gay person of Asian scent Congrs, said a statement to Stars and Strip mid-March that the missn would provi a road map for Congrs to “rectify jtic.
Mudd wants the ernment to tomatilly change the stat of all gay veterans discharged due to sexual orientatn to honorable, and to remove the petn procs. "At VA, we ntuoly work not only to meet the needs of LGBTQ+ Veterans, but also to addrs ongog issu that LGBTQ+ Veterans face as a rult of the ary's s-long official policy of homophobia and transphobia, " Williams wrote. 28, 1994, prevented openly lbian, gay and bisexual service members om servg the ary.