Rand said about 43% of all ary sexual asslts over the prr year were mted agast troops who are gay, lbian and bisexual.
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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
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GAY SOLDIER INVED BACK TO NATNAL GUARD
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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.
7% of gay or bisexual men -- ne tim the rate of LGB men -- had been sexually asslted.
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. * national guard gay *
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.