Milary Gay Marriage: Same-Sex Milary Spo Face Unique Obstacl | Time

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• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL FOR GAY MILARY COUPL ALL 50 STAT
• FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
• GAY ARY UPL WELE PENTAGON CISN TO EXTEND BENEFS

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL FOR GAY MILARY COUPL ALL 50 STAT

Matt Thorn, terim executive director for OutServe-SLDN, an advocy group for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr service members, said the Supreme Court's cisn was a msage to their muny "that... Now unr the new policy, if a gay spoe has an emergency at home durg a ployment or extend trag that her service member is at, her spoe would be eligible for emergency leave to e home and take re of her. Acrdg to a brief om the gay ary support group known as OutServe, there are about 101 benefs that are still not available bee feral law do not regnize gay marriage as legal.

The biggt on are accs to ary health re system, known as Trire, and a payout of the ary hog benefs available to those who are married and - or people who want on-post hog for fai who do not have a gay service member has children that are legally adopted right now, he n still receive on-post hog. Gay spo will still not be able to receive that unr the new As our ller om Arizona was jt lamentg. BUSHATZ: Well, I would be surprised if the ary did not extend the same benefs that straight partners have or straight hbands and wiv have rather to gay hbands and wiv, although I would be surprised if they did not require a marriage as part of you look at the requirements for clarg a same-sex partnership that the ary has issued as part of this, and you see thgs like a promise to be together fely.

FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH

I've had numero msag on Facebook, emails, you know, var munitns where I've had other ary spo and even active duty people who have ntacted my spoe and say, you know, I'm not sure I'm que there yet on the gay marriage, you know, but I do believe that you and your fay should be treated equally. And I see an overwhelmg majory of that, you know, for var reasons, people, like I said, they're jt not there yet on gay marriage. And so I feel, you know, 's somewhat of a duty of me and my fay's to show people who are kd of, you know, on the fence about gay marriage that we're jt like any other fay, whether they're, you know, ary, non-ary, you know, we have the same issu.

I spoke to a gay - a lbian uple here at Fort Campbell not long ago. Campbell was the first gay veteran to secure burial rights for her spoe, and the pair were the first same-sex ary uple to be buried together at a US natnal cemetery.

The right to a ary burial for gay spo was guaranteed natnwi wh the legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015, but only a handful of known same-sex ary upl are buried across the 172 natnal cemeteri the US – grounds rerved chiefly for ary members and selected fay. However, gay veterans have always fought for their right to be clud and celebrated such spac.

GAY ARY UPL WELE PENTAGON CISN TO EXTEND BENEFS

Their tombston shout to the silence: “Gay is good, ” reads a plaque below the grave of Frank Kameny, an inic activist, civil servant and World War II veteran.

A glossy namels marble headstone marks the grave of Leonard Matlovich, one of the first LGBTQ veterans to prott the ary’s ban on homosexualy, as one belongg to “A Gay Vietnam Veteran. WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials announced Wednday that the DOD will provi marriage benefs to same-sex upl for the first time, givg gay spo accs to health re, hog allowanc and fay separatn pay. The move ltle more than a month after the Supreme Court stck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which Defense Department lears have said prevented them om offerg feral marriage benefs to gay troops.

Thirteen stat and the District of Columbia currently allow gay marriag. Troops si the Uned Stat but statned more than 100 om a state that allows gay marriage will have seven days. Gay troops who are already legally married uld see retroactive benefs back to June 26, the date of the Supreme Court cisn.

Sce the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” law was repealed 2011, gay rights advot have phed for extensn of the married uple benefs to same-sex troops, argug that the policy still amounted to discrimatn the ranks.

Mark Mazzone, spokman for the ary LGBT advocy group SPART*A, said the chang will be a fancial boost to many same-sex upl th far prived of equal benefs, and the leave time for travel to stat that allow same-sex marriage show the ary is mted to reachg out to gay troops. The chang apply only to “legally married same-sex upl” and not gay troops who have state-backed civil unns.