Jam Wharton: Prce Harry Defends Gay Man the Milary and Sets An Example

Contents:

• I SERVED AS A GAY SOLDIER THREE YEARS AFTER THE ARMY MA LEGAL. THE CLIMATE HAS CHANGED NOW, BUT THE ARMY N’T BE PLACENT
• JAM WHARTON: THE FORMER GUARD NOW FIGHTG DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY SOLDIERS
• JAM WHARTON, GAY BRISH SOLDIER, MAK COVER OF ARMY MAG
• GAY FORMER SOLDIER JAM WHARTON: ‘WE NEED TO CLEAN UP GAY SNAS’
• GAY SOLDIER REUNTS HOW PRCE HARRY STEPPED TO PROTECT HIM OM HOMOPHOBIC ABE
• OUT THE ARMY: MY LIFE AS A GAY SOLDIER HARDVER – MAY 13, 2014
• OUT IN THE ARMY: MY LIFE AS A GAY SOLDIER HARDVER – ILLTRATED, 18 JUN. 2013
• JAM WHARTON’S “OUT IN THE ARMY – MY LIFE AS A GAY SOLDIER”
• SOMETHG FOR THE WEEKEND: ONE OF THE UK'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOLDIERS DISCS HIS ADDICTN TO SEX AND DGS
• JAM WHARTON: PRCE HARRY DEFENDS GAY MAN THE MILARY AND SETS AN EXAMPLE
• TROOPER JAM WHARTON OM SUMMERHILL, WREXHAM, MAK HISTORY APPEARG AS OPENLY GAY SOLDIER ON ONT OF SOLDIER MAGAZEA SOLDIER OM SUMMERHILL, WREXHAM, HAS BEE AN UNLIKELY CELEBRY AFTER BEG THE FIRST GAY SOLDIER TO APPEAR ON THE ONT OF SOLDIER MAGAZE.CHTERCHRONICLEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYCHHIRE LIVE00:00, 6 AUG 2009UPDATED22:49, 23 JUL 2013BOOKMARKIT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO STAY RMED - GET THE EE CHHIRELIVE NEWSLETTER DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 IT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO STAY RMED - GET THE EE CHHIRELIVE NEWSLETTER DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• JAM WHARTON’S “OUT IN THE ARMY – MY LIFE AS A GAY SOLDIER”

I SERVED AS A GAY SOLDIER THREE YEARS AFTER THE ARMY MA LEGAL. THE CLIMATE HAS CHANGED NOW, BUT THE ARMY N’T BE PLACENT

Until 2000, the Brish Mistry of Defence (MOD) banned gay people servg the Armed Forc. When the ban lifted, Jam Wharton beme one of the first openly gay people to serve the Brish Army. I absolutely knew I was gay when I joed the army.

JAM WHARTON: THE FORMER GUARD NOW FIGHTG DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY SOLDIERS

It was okay to say you were gay on paper, but I felt like wasn’t all okay practice. That’s bee there was a lot of obv homophobia, wh homophobic words still very much a mon I joed up at the age of 16, I cid I jt wasn’t gog to be g out at that pot.

JAM WHARTON, GAY BRISH SOLDIER, MAK COVER OF ARMY MAG

What’s tertg about those who dished out, if you sat them down now – or then – they’d ny they were homophobic.

But bee was so monplace to e homophobic language, and to scribe me, they’d partmentalised . A big moment early on was when I got chatted up the bar by another gay soldier.

This h talent is a nveyor belt, a procs, wh new ias and progrsn g all the Wharton has joed the ary’s pri march (Photo: Tristan Fewgs/Getty Imag)There were trans people the ary I met at gay pri, but the climate has changed now.

GAY FORMER SOLDIER JAM WHARTON: ‘WE NEED TO CLEAN UP GAY SNAS’

Jam Wharton’s book, Out In The Army: My Life as a Gay Soldier, is available to buy here.

GAY SOLDIER REUNTS HOW PRCE HARRY STEPPED TO PROTECT HIM OM HOMOPHOBIC ABE

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsIt has always been a source of wonr to me how the Queen's Guard n manage to keep a straight face stg on their hors, their magnificent uniforms, while hors of tourists take their well as needg "huge rerv of patience" to stay alert for a whole hour before change-over, soldiers velop tricks to help them, playg mental gam such as "untg the chim", reveals Jam Wharton, the poster boy for the Army's changg stance towards homosexualy durg 10 years of service as an openly gay man.

OUT THE ARMY: MY LIFE AS A GAY SOLDIER HARDVER – MAY 13, 2014

Wharton says the Rabow List is vally important for the way which regnis everyone om the famo, such as Olympic swimmer Tom Daley – "the most fluential person this untry the LGBT muny this past year, for what he did and the reactn had, people were talkg about for weeks" – through to "people who are dog everyday jobs while beg thentic about who they are and fightg the e" 27-year-old beme the first openly gay soldier to appear on the ver of the Army's magaze, Soldier, 2009. His civil partnership to hband Thom (although the uple have very recently separated), was the first to be celebrated wh great fanfare the Hoehold Cavalry's barracks uple beme a symbol of how far the ary had evolved after the law to allow homosexuals to the servic me to force January Wharton, left, married his partner Thom McCafey at Marylebone Town Hall 2010 (David Sandison)"It was 10 years sce the law had changed and acted for me as a real benchmark of how far the Army had e, " says Wharton. "As well as Daley, Wharton would like to see Steph Keeble and Dave Vey om the Birmgham LGBT Centre, on this year's list for their work the muny, Profsor Tom Welton om Imperial College London, an openly gay scientist "very active wh workg for equaly" and Greg Ussher, the head of the Metro Centre, the equaly and diversy chary south-east London.

OUT IN THE ARMY: MY LIFE AS A GAY SOLDIER HARDVER – ILLTRATED, 18 JUN. 2013

Wharton is talkg ahead of the lnch of an update to his bt-sellg memoir Out the Army: My Life as a Gay Soldier, which tapulted him back to the headl when released last summer bee of revelatns about the time he served wh Prce Harry the book, Wharton revealed Litenant Wal had rcued him om six soldiers threateng to "batter" him a homophobic attack along wh tailg acunts of nversatns they shared about sex, cludg how Prce Harry lost his virgy.

JAM WHARTON’S “OUT IN THE ARMY – MY LIFE AS A GAY SOLDIER”

Wharton tells me that is "ironic" that he is now sgle as was part bee he wanted to spend more time wh his hband that he qu the "started to go downhill" a year before breakg up around the time the two beme very volved the mpaign for gay marriage, which put "tolerable prsure" on them both. "I am still 100 per cent sure gay marriage is what is required and what is relevant, " Wharton says. "Although Wharton is by workg as a diversy nsultant, PR, wrg a lumn for the gay magaze Wq and workg for the chary Stonewall, he do harbour polil feels that ary personnel "have no real reprentatn, or voice" Wtmster and his tert polics om a sire to "put the welfare of people the ary" at the heart of cisn-makg.

SOMETHG FOR THE WEEKEND: ONE OF THE UK'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOLDIERS DISCS HIS ADDICTN TO SEX AND DGS

Prce Harry fends him om homophobic attack by fellow soldiers. 2009 Is the first gay soldier to appear on the ver of the Army's Soldier Magaze – ne years after the Army lifted ban on homosexualy.

Publish his tobgraphy Out the Army: My Life as a Gay Soldier. Amongst his fellow guardsmen, he prid himself on beg the tought, the ftt and the most not only lghed at homophobic jok - he was the "straightt of the straight" amongst the young officers. When one of his platoon admted to beg gay, he immediately started the discharge realised that behd the excsively macho behavur was a young man who lived fear that his own homosexualy would be disvered.

JAM WHARTON: PRCE HARRY DEFENDS GAY MAN THE MILARY AND SETS AN EXAMPLE

"I scurried away like a ightened rat, " he explaed yterday, bter regret still evint his exprsn more than a month, for the first time s history, the ver of the Brish Army's official publitn Soldier magaze shows Trooper Jam Wharton - openly gay - clad his drs uniform, plete wh Iraq medal, next to the headle "Pri". It is the most obv sign that almost a after the ary lifted the ban on homosexualy is fally fortable wh s new cloth. Brish servicemen and women now march at Gay Pri uniform, all three servic have bee Stonewall diversy champns and a few months ago the head of the Brish Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt ma history when he beme the first army chief to addrs a Lbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgenr nference.

TROOPER JAM WHARTON OM SUMMERHILL, WREXHAM, MAK HISTORY APPEARG AS OPENLY GAY SOLDIER ON ONT OF SOLDIER MAGAZEA SOLDIER OM SUMMERHILL, WREXHAM, HAS BEE AN UNLIKELY CELEBRY AFTER BEG THE FIRST GAY SOLDIER TO APPEAR ON THE ONT OF SOLDIER MAGAZE.CHTERCHRONICLEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYCHHIRE LIVE00:00, 6 AUG 2009UPDATED22:49, 23 JUL 2013BOOKMARKIT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO STAY RMED - GET THE EE CHHIRELIVE NEWSLETTER DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 IT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO STAY RMED - GET THE EE CHHIRELIVE NEWSLETTER DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

Perhaps most tellgly, senr officers om the US have been quietly holdg talks wh their Brish unterparts on how Ameri n change s "don't ask, don't tell" police which has seen more than 12, 500 members discharged sce s ceptn 16 years Mr Wakelg, the news that Trooper Wharton n genuely live openly as a gay man wh a boyiend another ancient and prtig regiment, the Hoehold Cavalry, generat such obv turmoil that he has to pse to pose himself.

I uld have been eful to the army, " explaed Mr legal change allowg the gay to openly serve took place January 2000 after a two year legal battle volvg three gay men and a lbian, who had been discharged om the Royal Navy and RAF after beg found to be se went all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, which - spe the Government's argument that the ary should be treated as a special se bee of the "close physil and shared livg ndns together wh external prsur such as grave danger and war" - led that the MoD policy was not staable. Overnight service personnel who had been expected to rm on anyone they spected of beg gay were told they mt now rpect the rights of their lleagu.

JAM WHARTON’S “OUT IN THE ARMY – MY LIFE AS A GAY SOLDIER”

Rtricted guidance signed by the chiefs of staff and sent to mandg officers gave answers to a long list of possible queri such as: "How should I protect young people the Service om predatory homosexuals? " (the rponse: "It would be wrong to assume homosexuals were predatory") and, "Will homosexuals be able to brg their partners [to ms functns]?