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EXPRS & STARHOMENEWSSPORTENTERTAMENTSERVICNOTIFITN SETTGSSUBSCRIBE TO ONE OR ALL NOTIFITN SOURC OM THIS ONE PLACE.NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S TOP STORI SENT DIRECTLY TO YOU.SIGN ME UPNEWSALL NEWS COST OF LIVGLOL HUBSCRIMEPOLICSHEALTHBSEDUTNVOICFEATURENVIRONMENTMORE UK NEWSNOSTALGIAPROPERTYTRANSPORTMOTORSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSFEED A FAYSPONSORED ARTICLFD NEWS FOR YOUR TOWNDAME KELLY HOLM AMONG MPAIGNERS WELG LGBT ARY TREATMENT APOLOGYUK NEWSPUBLISHED: JUL 19, 2023LAST UPDATED: JUL 19, 2023PRIME MISTER RISHI SUNAK APOLOGISED FOR THE ‘HORRIFIC’ HISTORIL TREATMENT LGBT PEOPLE WHO SERVED THE ARY HAD FACED PRR TO THE YEAR 2000.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPDAME KELLY HOLMCAMPAIGNERS HAVE WELED RISHI SUNAK’S APOLOGY FOR THE “HORRIFIC” HISTORIL TREATMENT OF LGBT PEOPLE WHO SERVED THE ARY UNR THE PRE-2000 BAN ON HOMOSEXUALY THE ARMED FORC.OLYMPIAN DAME KELLY HOLM, WHO SERVED THE ARMY AND ME OUT AS GAY LAST YEAR, WAS AMONG THOSE WHO WELED THE GOVERNMENT’S MMENT TO ADDRS THE MISTREATMENT FACED BY VETERANS.DEFENCE SECRETARY BEN WALLACE SAID HE REGNISED THERE SHOULD BE A FANCIAL AWARD FOR AFFECTED VETERANS, SOME OF WHOM SUFFERED ABIVE VTIGATNS WHEN THEIR SEXUALY WAS DISVERED.OTHERS FACED “NVERSN THERAPY, PEREMPTORY DISCHARG, AND APPALLG NSEQUENC TERMS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEG, HOMELSNS, EMPLOYMENT, PERSONAL RELATNSHIPS AND FANCIAL HARDSHIP”, ACRDG TO A GOVERNMENT-MISSNED PENNT REVIEW TO THE SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE OF LGBT VETERANS WHO SERVED THE ARMED FORC BETWEEN 1967 AND 2000.DAME KELLY HOLM DBE DURG AN SPECTN OF THE RANKS, AFTER BEG MA AN HONORARY COLONEL OF THE ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS TRAG REGIMENT (ANDREW MATTHEWS/PA)SPEAKG TO THE PA NEWS AGENCY FOLLOWG MR WALLACE’S STATEMENT THE COMMONS, DAME KELLY SAID: “IT MEANS A HUGE AMOUNT TO BE HERE TODAY AND TO HEAR AND BE PART OF THIS WH SOME OTHER VETERANS THAT ARE ALL PART OF THE REVIEW.“FROM A PERSONAL POT OF VIEW, THE BAN AFFECTED ME TERMS OF WHO I WAS AND WHAT I ULDN’T BE FOR 34 YEARS, LEADG ME TO DO MY DOCUMENTARY LAST YEAR.”DAME KELLY, WHO SPOKE ABOUT HER OWN EXPERIENCE THE ARY AN ITV DOCUMENTARY LAST YEAR, ADD: “I AM THE PUBLIC EYE AND I GET A VOICE TO EXPRS THIS, AND I WAS ABLE TO BE PART OF BRGG , BUT TODAY THEIR VOIC GOT HEARD WH THE PUBLITN OF THIS.”CRAIG JON, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF THE CHARY FIGHTG WH PRI, SAID HE HAD NFINCE THE GOVERNMENT WOULD LIVER PENSATN FOR MISTREATED LGBT VETERANS.MR JON SAID THE DEFENCE SECRETARY HAD “ACKNOWLEDGED THE S OF HURT AND SHAME THAT HAVE BEEN FELT BY LGBT+ VETERANS WHO STEPPED FORWARD THE SERVICE OF THE UNED KGDOM BUT WERE TREATED WH ABJECT CELTY”.HE TOLD PA: “THE ACUNT THAT HE GAVE GAVE GREAT NFINCE AS A MPAIGNG ANISATN THAT IS THE TENT OF THE GOVERNMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR LGBT+ VETERANS AND DO THE RIGHT THG, AND FIGHTG WH PRI WILL WORK WH THE GOVERNMENT TO LIVER SUBSTANTIAL REPARATNS.”THE REVIEW, RRIED OUT BY LORD ETHERTON, FORMER MASTER OF THE ROLLS AND HEAD OF CIVIL JTICE, WAS PUBLISHED ON WEDNDAY AND MA 49 REMENDATNS TO THE GOVERNMENT, CLUDG MAKG AN “APPROPRIATE FANCIAL AWARD” TO AFFECTED VETERANS.MR WALLACE SAID HE REGNISED THE NEED FOR FANCIAL AWARDS FOR AFFECTED VETERANS, BUT STOPPED SHORT OF PROVIDG TAILS.HE TOLD THE COMMONS: “ON THE FANCIAL AWARD, I THK FIRST AND FOREMOST WE REGNISE THERE SHOULD BE A FANCIAL AWARD.”MR WALLACE ADD: “I THK ’S IMPORTANT WE WORK WH PEOPLE LIKE FIGHTG WH PRI TO WORK THROUGH HOW WE N DO .”INPENNT MP MARGARET FERRIER (RUTHERGLEN AND HATON WT) SAID: “A NUMBER OF (LGBT VETERANS) FOUND THEMSELV STRIPPED OF THEIR MEDALS. WILL THE NOW BE RETURNED SWIFTLY? AND THE BAN ON LGBT VETERANS WEARG THEIR UNIFORM AT CEREMONI BE LIFTED?”MR WALLACE SAID: “IN ANSWER TO BOTH: Y.”HE ALSO SAID LGBT VETERANS WHO WERE TOLD THEY WOULD NOT QUALIFY FOR MEDALS “WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE THEIR MEDALS OM NOW ON”.THE REPORT ALSO REMEND THAT MISSN AND RANK SHOULD BE RETROSPECTIVELY RTORED TO WHAT WAS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE DISMISSALS OR DISCHARG RELATED TO THE PRE-2000 BAN, THAT PENSN RIGHTS ARE CLARIFIED, A PUBLIC MEMORIAL BE CREATED, AND A VETERANS’ BADGE BE GRANTED TO THOSE WHO SERVED AT THE TIME OF THE BAN.MR WALLACE SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN WORKG THROUGH THE REPORT’S REMENDATNS, NOTG ACCEPTS “ PRCIPLE THE VAST MAJORY” OF THEM.HE ADD: “WHILST WE AGREE WH THE TENT BEHD THEM, THERE ARE A NUMBER WE MAY LIVER DIFFERENT WAYS TO (HOW) THEY’RE SCRIBED THE REPORT.”MR WALLACE SAID THE GOVERNMENT’S FULL RPONSE WOULD BE PUBLISHED AFTER THE COMMONS SUMMER RECS, WHICH ENDS SEPTEMBER.UK NEWSMOST READ
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September 27: Natnal Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awarens DayOctober. 17 Feb – 5 March: Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras 2023 [More tails]. 17 May: Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOTB) 2023 [More tails].