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- GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
- OTED AS GAY, AGG VETERANS ARE BATTLG AGA FOR HONORABLE DISCHARG
GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
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. * how many gay people in the military *
”The Twter acunt Gays Agast Groomers alerted s 343, 000 followers July 5 to a notable figure: “New data fds that there has been a 4000% spike stunts that intify as non-bary New Jersey. 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. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's been 12 years sce the ary allowed gay troops to serve openly.
The ban on gay troops servg openly wouldn't be lifted for another 20 years, says Alexanr.
OTED AS GAY, AGG VETERANS ARE BATTLG AGA FOR HONORABLE DISCHARG
* how many gay people in the military *
He was seen at a gay bar wh some other sailors. STEFFANIDES: They cut my locker open and found some gay magaz.
OK, so they ed those magaz to charge me wh a vlatn of one or two, which was beg homosexual. LAWRENCE: Alexanr did make the rank of litenant lonel jt keepg his head down through the homophobic jok and slurs. Alexanr sat a room full of senr officers talkg about how to handle gay service members.
I'm a gay service member, and send them to me, and I will handle . That led Bob Alexanr to a send reer as a lawyer and his first legal job San Francis, tryg to help gay veterans wh other than honorable discharg. I put up fliers all over the Bay Area, you know, the gay bars, plac I knew that, you know, the LGBTQ veterans would equent.
Embolned by recent advanc for homosexuals and out of the ary, more gay veterans look to have their oters reclassified. * how many gay people in the military *
ALEXANDER: So then I went to gay pri events both San Francis and Oakland.
And that's where he met Stephan Steffanis, 20 years sce his discharge om the Navy for beg gay. Jam Cartwright, former vice chairman of the jot chiefs of staff, who helped lay the groundwork for service by openly gay and lbian Amerins wh the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" 2011. 28, 2011, Arlgton, Somovilla/Getty Imag, FILECartwright said his optimism is based on the experience of the last sce the end of the ary's gay ban, which was wily celebrated as a non-event.
Todd Breasseale, who is gay, says the re ary valu of honty and tegry are at the heart of the ary's challenge he risked his life on tours Iraq and Afghanistan, he said he was forced by his lears to effectively live a lie.