Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer.
Contents:
- STAT MAKE EASIER FOR VETS WHO WERE KICKED OUT FOR BEG GAY TO ACCS BENEFS
- AIR FORCE VETERAN ONCE IMPRISONED FOR BEG GAY STILL ENDUR THE STIGMA OF A FELONY RERD
- UNIENDLY FIREHOW THE GAY BAN UNRM THE ARY AND WEAKENS AMERI
- JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- IN U.S., BROAD, STEADY SUPPORT FOR OPENLY GAY SERVICE MEMBERS
STAT MAKE EASIER FOR VETS WHO WERE KICKED OUT FOR BEG GAY TO ACCS BENEFS
While gay service members n now serve openly the ary, veterans kicked out for only their sexual orientatn unr past polici still face hurdl to accs benefs due to “ls than honorable” discharg. * openly gay service members *
Sce 2011, openly gay, lbian and bisexual men and women have been permted to serve the ary. It wasn’t until 1982 that the ary enacted a policy explicly banng gay men and lbians om their ranks. And the early 1940s, was classified as a mental illns, disqualifyg gay men and lbians om service.
Eighteen years later, Congrs repealed the policy, allowg openly gay, lbian and bisexual people to serve the ary.
It’s been over a sce lbian, gay, and bisexual service members uld serve openly, and two years for transgenr service members ( addn to a brief perd durg the Obama admistratn). DADT permted gay, lbian, and bisexual people to serve. “It also don’t highlight the fact that service members were also honorably discharged, but marked wh the srlet letter of ‘homosexual nduct’ unr their reenlistment , nullifyg any future service.
AIR FORCE VETERAN ONCE IMPRISONED FOR BEG GAY STILL ENDUR THE STIGMA OF A FELONY RERD
The U.S. ary ed a range of ver charg to target gay and lbian service members for their sexualy, a CBS News vtigatn has found. * openly gay service members *
There are an timated one ln lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr veterans the U.
S., wh California havg the largt number of gay and lbian veterans among the stat. WASHINGTON — While gay service members n now serve openly the ary, veterans kicked out for only their sexual orientatn unr past polici still face hurdl to accs benefs due to “ls than honorable” discharg.
More than 100, 000 service members were expelled om the ary between World War II and the 2011 repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ” the policy that barred gays and lbians om servg openly the ary, bee of their actual or perceived sexual orientatn, acrdg to a 2020 report om Harvard Law School. A “ls than honorable” discharge -- an rmal term for all discharg that are not honorable -- n bar gay service members om state and feral benefs.
UNIENDLY FIREHOW THE GAY BAN UNRM THE ARY AND WEAKENS AMERI
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports. * openly gay service members *
Mike Mudd, an Air Force veteran, was given an “other than honorable” discharge June 1989 after his roommate outed him as gay. The thrivg gay muny Miami, where he had been sent after basic trag, helped him realize that he was gay, and he me out durg his time there.
After about a year, he got changed on a new document, but the discharge characterizatn, or reason why he was discharged, remaed “homosexual nduct” on his origal DD-214 form. Now that ’s legal to serve openly the ary, he n requt to strip the “homosexual nduct” label om his DD-214, somethg he didn’t know was possible until his terview wh Stars and Strip. Takano, the first openly gay person of Asian scent Congrs, said a statement to Stars and Strip mid-March that the missn would provi a road map for Congrs to “rectify jtic.
Mudd wants the ernment to tomatilly change the stat of all gay veterans discharged due to sexual orientatn to honorable, and to remove the petn procs. Veteran jailed for beg gay still a felon.
JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
Jacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen, who joed the team last year, me out publicly as gay an terview wh Outsports published on Thursday, beg the first ach a U.S. men’s profsnal league to do so" emprop="scriptn * openly gay service members *
Air Force veteran once imprisoned for beg gay still endur the stigma of a felony rerd. "Intifyg the thoands of s has posed an immense challenge, VanLandgham said, bee of the wi variatn charg employed to force gay and lbian service members out of the ary.
Ary urts to expel gay men and women om the service.
Article 125 of the Uniform Co of Milary Jtice directly crimalized homosexual activy by outlawg "unnatural rnal pulatn, " while other statut like "nduct unbeg an officer, " "cent acts" and "makg a false official statement" were ed as ver charg to dm gay men and women out of the service on the basis of their sexual orientatn. Steve Marose served as an Air Force officer the late 1980s and had an excellent rerd until the ary learned he was gay. A Geia man who was sentenced to a year at Fort Leavenworth 1990 for havg a homosexual relatnship wh another soldier was pardoned by Print Obama 2017 after years of appeals.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
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" An untold number of others were rcerated unr offens that may appear to have nothg to do wh homosexualy. Another had been igned bee I had emerged as a antly out gay man. ” (In a prev ment thread, we bated the role of civilian amics ntributg to the bate on whether to lift the gay ban.
Ary self that found that openly gay service works perfectly well. And that’s what I draw on to make my se –s of evince showg that openly gay service has never unrmed the bat pabili of a morn ary force–overseas or right here the U.
Where we know that gays not only serve but serve openly. My book chronicl plenty of known gays servg bat uns, and the feared nsequenc never e te. Openly gay service is not an unknown, but an overall policy change is, and you might worry that jt the symbolism of the change uld affect morale and reads.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * openly gay service members *
It also hasn’t happened here, spe the fact that gays already serve openly bat. And why not note all 24 natns that let gays serve openly? Why dismiss other untri when to gays?
So is the pollg data that shows the majory of the ary do feel fortable around gays–polls are not the whole story, but they’re a data pot. USMC, I do thk you mis-fe what means to be “openly gay” and miss the te sts of forced reprsn the ary. “Openly gay” do not mean public displays of affectn or gay sex on ships or barracks.
Gays are askg for the exact same standard as the one applied to straights.
IN U.S., BROAD, STEADY SUPPORT FOR OPENLY GAY SERVICE MEMBERS
You say good men very close to you may be gay but you don’t know.
Try talkg to a gay iend about what’s on his md– might not be so bad.
As I chronicle my book, there are a huge number of what I ll “hidn sts” to the gay ban: tens of thoands of service members who are gay or lbian n’t talk to their ary doctor, psychologist or chapla hontly bee they uld be fired or even jailed. It is simply fact that gays and lbians have been discharged even when they did not talk about their oral explos–through tercepted emails, letters, even third-parti who told the mand that someone was gay.