Milary Proposed "Gay Bomb" |

Contents:

• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
• MILARY PROPOSED "GAY BOMB"
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
• GAY MILARY PERSONNEL MAY BE GIVEN 10 DAY EXTRA LEAVE TO MARRY UNR NEW BENEFS PROPOSALS
• BRIEF HISTORY OF GAYS THE MILARY

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

DeSantis also pledged to revoke an executive orr that allows transgenr personnel to serve the ary unr their preferred genr a prs nference announcg the proposed policy, NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez asked DeSantis if transgenr and gay people should be allowed to serve openly the ary. Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry.

"The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000. Homosexualy was crimalised the UK 1967 but a ban ntued the armed forc.

GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY

Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc.

It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly. Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life.

MILARY PROPOSED "GAY BOMB"

"Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy. Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer". Pylypenko me out publicly as gay 2018 and -found a non-ernmental anisatn that supports...

Read moreSummaryKyiv holds annual gay pri march on SundayGay war veteran mpaigns agast homophobia UkraeHop a more acceptg ary n help change attusKYIV, Sept 17 (Rters) - Viktor Pylypenko has bee a role mol for dozens of LGBT+ Ukraian war veterans and their supporters sce he anised their participatn two years ago Kyiv's largt ever gay pri march. He me out as gay 2018.

As a gay man, I was very sensive to this, " he said. Parliament outlawed workplace discrimatn 2015, though homophobic attus rema fairly pri march regularly attract unter-protts by far-right and relig activists. Pylypenko said his dream was for armed forc divisns to take part gay pri march "as alli and to enjoy the fact that they live a veloped untry wh human rights equaly where they are not ashamed of the topic of homosexualy but support and openly raise rabow flags".

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

Mike Huckabee (R), by ntrast — who had warned Obergefell would her the “crimalizatn of Christiany” — veighed om the bate stage agast polici allowg gay and transgenr service members to serve openly the ary.

GLAAD highlighted a 2010 report Newsweek that Stt “nsirs homosexualy a morally wrong choice, like adultery. When At posted the pictur on Twter, she tweeted at Ellen DeGener, wrg, "My parents aren't gog to attend my weddg bee they don't like that I'm gay! A gay uple Brazil also planned on proposg to each other at the same moment.

"I don't feel like a gay-rights symbol.

GAY MILARY PERSONNEL MAY BE GIVEN 10 DAY EXTRA LEAVE TO MARRY UNR NEW BENEFS PROPOSALS

Tammy Smh, the ary’s hight-rankg openly gay officer, me out 2012, she has tried beg an example of livg thentilly while also beg a bean of visibily to other Soldiers and their fai. The policy banned lbians, gay men and bisexuals om servg the ary.

It terrified her to e out as gay such a public way, but she felt a rponsibily to do , she said. As difficult as was for her, g out publicly as gay “may not have been as easy for someone who was at a lower rank, ” Smh said an terview last week. “When I me durg the 80s, thgs were different for women and gay people, and now 2021, the societal l are different aga.

“People mt fd fort and ph back some of that ternalized homophobia, and build a b on the journey between hont and thentic.

BRIEF HISTORY OF GAYS THE MILARY

Followg the Supreme Court's lg June that stck down a key provisn of the Defense of Marriage Act, th allowg same-sex married upl to receive feral benefs, the Defense Department cid to alter s policy for providg benefs to gay ary to the Supreme Court lg, the partment's policy allowed same-sex partners to sign a claratn vowg that they were a mted relatnship, after which they uld receive limed benefs om the ary, such as accs to ary stor. While the new policy awards the same benefs to both straight and gay upl the ary, the extra time offer is not available to all service members, only gay partners.

In his first State of the Unn addrs, Print Obama clared that he would work to "fally repeal the law that ni gay Amerins the right to serve the untry they love bee of who they are.

" Though a June 2009 Gallup poll showed that 69% of Amerins support allowg gays and lbians to serve the ary, repealg "Don't ask, don't tell" will take more than a claratn — will take an act of Congrs. Air Force, produced a three page proposal for a “gay bomb”. It proposed a bomb “that ntaed a chemil that would e enemy soldiers to bee gay, and to have their uns break down bee all their soldiers beme irristibly attractive to one another”.