Don't ask, don't tell: How do other untri treat gay soldiers?

Contents:

• US ARY LIFTS BAN ON OPENLY GAY TROOPS
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL FOR GAY MILARY COUPL ALL 50 STAT
• MILARY VETERANS KICKED OUT FOR BEG GAY STILL FIGHTG FOR HONORABLE DISCHARG
• GAYS THE MILARY
• DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL: HOW DO OTHER UNTRI TREAT GAY SOLDIERS?
• GAYS THE MILARY/LGBT LAW

US ARY LIFTS BAN ON OPENLY GAY TROOPS

Eighteen years later, Congrs repealed the policy, allowg openly gay, lbian and bisexual people to serve the ary.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell – the US ary's 18-year ban on openly gay and lbian service personnel – has officially been repealed, herg a new era for the untry's armed a statement Print Barack Obama weled the end of a policy that he said had forced gay and lbian members to "lie about who they are" repeal, which took effect om midnight on Tuday, was celebrated as "momento news" by gay lobby groups across the US, who have long fought agast the policy, and among the ary's timated 65, 000 servg gay and lbian servicemen and said he was nfint that liftg the ban would enhance natnal secury. "As of today, our armed forc will no longer lose the extraordary skills and bat experience of so many gay and lbian service members.

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

"Last December, the print signed legislatn to repeal the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy (DADT), which had been passed by ngrs and signed to law 1993 unr then-Print Bill paid tribute to gay and lbian troops who had been discharged as a rult of the policy, and to those who had lost their liv to serve their than 14, 500 US service personnel have been thrown out of ary service sce the DADT policy took effect, acrdg to the non-prof watchdog and lobby group, the Servicemembers Legal DefenseDefence a memo, the Pentagon said that the policy would not harm ary reads, un hn or recg and retag members. "Effective today, statements about sexual orientatn or lawful acts of homosexual nduct will not be nsired as a bar to ary service, " said Clifford Stanley, the US unr secretary of fence for personnel and reads.

"All service members are to treat one another wh digny and rpect, regardls of sexual orientatn, " he said, warng that "harassment or abe based on sexual orientatn" would not be tolerated the Pentagon said recers are now acceptg applitns om openly gay a statement, the US army said: "From this day forward, gay and lbian soldiers may serve our army wh the digny and rpect they serve. "Across the US, groups that have long lobbied for the change weled the Thompson, of the media monorg group Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, said: "Today, Ameri took a momento step forward the pursu of full equaly by fully repealg 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and openg s ary to every brave man and woman willg to serve, whether straight or gay.

MILARY VETERANS KICKED OUT FOR BEG GAY STILL FIGHTG FOR HONORABLE DISCHARG

Litenant Daniel Choi is a former US officer and now rights mpaigner who was kicked out of the army for beg gay after servg Iraq said: "This is not a moment when I have been out chuggg beers.

She said many gay veterans discharged unr DADT were often told – wrongly – that they were not eligible for full healthre benefs through the US partment of veterans' said that her anisatn would now put advocy on this issue at the foreont of s missn. Ary the past , stris are still beg ma to improve acceptance, tegratn and health for gay and transgenr service members.

Today, gay and transgenr ary service members enjoy far more rights than they did even five years ago—but the fight ntu to crease visibily and acceptance for this group the armed forc. 1988: The rults of a jot report nducted by the DoD and the Defense Personnel Secury Rearch Edutn Center rerce the fdgs of a 1957 report claimg that gay and lbian dividuals enlisted the armed forc pose no signifint risk to secury (which had prevly been the ratnale for barrg gay dividuals om enlistg the ary).

GAYS THE MILARY

1993: Print Bill Clton signs the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, barrg openly gay and lbian Amerin cizens om ary service—while prohibg harassment of all “closeted” ary service members.

DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL: HOW DO OTHER UNTRI TREAT GAY SOLDIERS?

2015: Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announc that the Milary Equal Opportuny policy has been modified to clu gay and lbian service members.

2016: The Senate nfirms Eric Fanng as secretary of the Army, makg him the first openly gay secretary of a U. Half a after the repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell, most lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr service members still felt reluctant to be open about their sexualy wh their lleagu and cha of mand, acrdg to a study released late study, published by the journal Sexualy Rearch and Social Policy, found that 59 percent of rponnts did not feel fortable beg out at work, eher bee of reer repercsns or bee of the burn of beg a token rponsible for tg their peers. ”Dpe the orrs om above, many veterans publicly opposed the 2011 repeal of the ban on gay, lbian and bisexual service for troops who had grown up that environment, the policy’s mise did not flip a swch terms of fort level ― theirs or their lleagu.

GAYS THE MILARY/LGBT LAW

“The stctor was reported to e the pejorative term ‘fags’ durg class, disclose other people’s sexual mory inty to his stunts whout their permissn, and munite that he believed sexual mori were more promiscuo than heterosexuals, ” acrdg the the study, based on a rponse om a gay soldier.