First Active-Duty Gay Couple Married At Wt Pot

Contents:

• FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
• LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• FIRST ACTIVE-DUTY GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT
• WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A GAY MILARY COUPLE?
• GAY SOLDIERS AT FORT CAMPBELL OPEN UP ON G OUT
• IN RSIA, GAY PEOPLE ARE ROUTELY TARGETED. THAT’S WHY THIS UKRAIAN SOLDIER IS FIGHTG.

FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH

Campbell was the first gay veteran to secure burial rights for her spoe, and the pair were the first same-sex ary uple to be buried together at a US natnal cemetery. 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 the 172 natnal cemeteri the US – grounds rerved chiefly for ary members and selected fay. However, gay veterans have always fought for their right to be clud and celebrated such spac.

LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE

Their tombston shout to the silence: “Gay is good, ” reads a plaque below the grave of Frank Kameny, an inic activist, civil servant and World War II veteran. A glossy namels marble headstone marks the grave of Leonard Matlovich, one of the first LGBTQ veterans to prott the ary’s ban on homosexualy, as one belongg to “A Gay Vietnam Veteran. A lbian uple who lnched a legal battle over equali IVF treatment between heterosexual and same-sex upl have dropped their fight after their lol re board pledged to make treatment sts media fluencers Megan and Whney Ban-Evans lnched a landmark “gay tax” discrimatn se after NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board (ICB) said same-sex upl, sgle women and upl unable to have vagal terurse would have to pay for 12 rounds of IVF before qualifyg for NHS assistance.

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP. Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology. Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry.

FIRST ACTIVE-DUTY GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT

"The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000. Homosexualy was crimalised the UK 1967 but a ban ntued the armed forc. Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc.

It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly. Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life.

"Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy. Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer".

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A GAY MILARY COUPLE?

Gay marriage supporters hold a gay rights flag ont of the Supreme Court before a hearg about gay marriage Washgton April 28, 2015.

At the time, former Print Bill Clton's policy, "don't ask, don't tell" was effect, barrg homosexual or bisexual members of the ary om disclosg his or her sexual orientatn and om speakg about homosexual remembered thkg, “this guy has a lot of guts, and he’s kd of cute, too.

"So we put our mds that we were never gog to say we were gay, we were never gog to get ma fun of, and we were certaly never gog to get kicked out of the Army. But there are some thgs that I've noticed durg my time as an openly gay Mare Corps spoe and veteran.

GAY SOLDIERS AT FORT CAMPBELL OPEN UP ON G OUT

Like many other gay men and women fendg Ukrae agast Rsia, Pasha hop his service will help ph Ukrae towards regnisg same-sex partnerships. Iagoyda says that while he has never experienced homophobia the army, many of his heterosexual ras share stereotyp about gay people that are mon Ukraian society. He hop his service the ary, and that of other gay men and women fightg agast the Rsian attack, will help alter those stereotyp.

I am not aaid to be openly gay the army! It is jt that many people still have a mentaly that do not fully unrstand what homosexualy is. "In Ukrae, gays are ually believed to be weaker.

'Gay soldiers are stroyg stereotyp'In a 2019 survey, only 14% of Ukraians surveyed said they believed that homosexualy should be accepted by society – signifintly lower than elsewhere peacetime, Sergey Fontantskiy, 40, is a navigator on merchant ships. Fontantskiy, who is openly gay, shared wh the Observers some mon stereotyp Ukrae agast LGBT+ soldiers. Sergey Fontantskiy, a gay Ukraian soldier, holdg a gun the field.

IN RSIA, GAY PEOPLE ARE ROUTELY TARGETED. THAT’S WHY THIS UKRAIAN SOLDIER IS FIGHTG.

I know other gay soldiers the army, and we even have our own brotherhood, a group that allows gay soldiers to munite, discs their personal liv, and meet up, both onle and person.

There are as many gay people as other profsns, I would say 5% approximately. Of urse, is my personal experience, but I have never enuntered are however outdated stereotyp about gays Ukrae. Perhaps the most mon on are that gay people are too timid and not urageo enough to fend their home untry wh weapons, or that they are too selfish and only ncerned wh their own gay soldiers are stroyg the stereotyp.

Aleks Shadskykh, a gay Ukraian soldier, the field fightg agast Rsia. For stance, when I told my ras the army that I’m gay, no one beat me up.