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Contents:
- A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
- FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
- SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS
A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
Twelve years after repeal of the ban on gay and lbian troops servg openly, no one the ary or Veterans Admistratn knows how many vets are still whout the benefs they're owed. * gay veterans *
At the time, gay troops weren't allowed the ary.
But two years to his enlistment, Steffanis got spotted at a gay bar near his base. "They cut my locker open and found some gay magaz, " he says.
FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
* gay veterans *
Not only was agast the ary regulatns, gay sex was still illegal Virgia, and many other stat. "They threw me the brig, put me on bread and water — was huiatg --for beg gay, " says Steffanis.
SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS
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 US natnal cemeteri. For most, the right to such an honor has been hard won. * gay veterans *
" As long as they kept secret, gay and lbian troops uld serve.
Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized for the UK’s historic treatment of gay veterans followg a damng report tailg electric shock nversn therapy, sexual asslts and blackmail suffered by personnel over s. * gay veterans *
Rumors sprouted about how he wasn't datg women or had reported on others for g homophobic slurs.
In the years sce, the tegratn of gay and lbian troops has been herald as a huge succs wh no effects on un hn or bat reads, acrdg to the Pentagon.