Lt. Dan Choi, a Wt Pot graduate, Arabic-speaker and Iraq War veteran, was remend for discharge unr the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy after clarg that he is gay. But now, he's been asked to return to trag wh his Natnal Guard un. The vatn as the Defense Department reviews the possible effects of repealg the ary policy, which prohibs openly gay men and women om servg. Host Stt Simon speaks wh Choi.
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- GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS
- GAY SOLDIER INVED BACK TO NATNAL GUARD
GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS
Rand said about 43% of all ary sexual asslts over the prr year were mted agast troops who are gay, lbian and bisexual. * national guard gay *
When I first enlisted was still illegal to be gay and the ary. Seeg an out and proud gay woman that role was very empowerg for me as a closeted 18 year old. Today I say wh nfince that I am openly gay.
Gay, lbian and bisexual service members may be signifintly more likely to suffer sexual asslts the ary than heterosexual troops, a new Rand Corp.
Rand said about 43% of all ary sexual asslts over the prr year were mted agast troops who are gay, lbian and bisexual, or who otherwise did not dite they are heterosexual, although they make up about 12% of the active-duty force, acrdg to a 2018 Defense Department survey. The difference between sexual asslt rat for gay or bisexual men, as opposed to heterosexual men, was even more stark, Rand said.
GAY SOLDIER INVED BACK TO NATNAL GUARD
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7% of gay or bisexual men -- ne tim the rate of LGB men -- had been sexually asslted. The data llected the Pentagon's 2018 Workplace and Genr Relatns Survey of Active Duty Members suggts that there may be about 43, 000 gay or bisexual men and about 29, 000 lbian or bisexual women the active-duty ary, out of nearly 1.
The 2018 survey found that 4% of servicemen, and 14% of servicewomen, intified as gay, lbian or bisexual. Wh so many gay, lbian or bisexual troops uniform, and such a disproportnate percentage of that populatn experiencg sexual asslts, Rand said the data suggts that "a nsirable actn" of sexual asslts are likely beg mted agast LGB service members. To try to prevent asslts on gay, lbian and bisexual troops, Rand said the ary needs to do more to unrstand where they are occurrg and what is motivatg the attackers.
OutFront Mnota’s missn is to create a state where lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people are ee to be who they are, love who they love, and live whout fear of vlence, harassment or discrimatn. “I know many gay and lbian Soldiers who I’ve served wh over parts of my reer, ” Kolb said.
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(CNN) -- A panel of New York Natnal Guard officers has remend that an Iraq war veteran who acknowledged his homosexualy mt leave the service, his supporters said Tuday.
Dan Choi, shown at a gay prott rally May California, disclosed March that he was gay.
Dan Choi disclosed March that he is gay, challengg the 1994 "don't ask, don't tell" law that requir the ary to discharge troops who disclose their sexual orientatn. "It's disappotg, but not unexpected, " said Sue Fulton, a spokwoman for Knights Out, a group of gay and lbian Wt Pot alumni Choi helped found. "It was solely about whether he said he was gay.