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.
Contents:
- LGBT VETERANS BOOTED OUT OF ARMY FOR BEG GAY W RIGHT TO LAY WREATH AT CENOTAPH
- LOVE AND ATH: THE LEGACY OF CONGRSNAL CEMETERY’S ‘GAY CORNER’
- JEFEY EPSTE CELEBRAT GAY PRI OM THE GRAVE
- FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
- ANTI-GAY GROUP PROTTS AT NATNAL CEMETERY
- ISRAELI ARY ACCED OF STAGG GAY PRI PHOTO
LGBT VETERANS BOOTED OUT OF ARMY FOR BEG GAY W RIGHT TO LAY WREATH AT CENOTAPH
Up to 20,000 servicemen and women were dismissed om the armed forc for beg gay and some had their medals stripped - now LGBT support group Fightg Wh Pri has won the right to jo the march-past * gay pride ran over soldiers grave *
Up to 20, 000 servicemen and women were dismissed om the armed forc for beg gay and some had their medals stripped - now LGBT support group Fightg Wh Pri has won the right to jo the march-pastLGBT support group Fightg Wh Pri has at last won the right to jo the marchForc veterans jailed or booted out for beg gay will lay an official wreath at the Cenotaph for the first time on Remembrance Sunday. Elae will be joed the ont rank of the LGBT ntgent by former Navy medic Chris Fergon, 60, and ex-naval officer Dunn Ltig Prean, 62, who add: “There’s a real sense of pri that there will be people who are openly gay marchg.
It is right gay people are reprented – but this is about all those who gave their liv for their untry.
Although homosexualy was legalised Bra 1967 remaed a crimal offence the ary until 2000. Up to 20, 000 gay servicemen and women were dismissed om the armed forc, while others were jailed. ” But Sharon, of Donster, revealed she was gay after bullyg by ary vtigators and male soldiers.
LOVE AND ATH: THE LEGACY OF CONGRSNAL CEMETERY’S ‘GAY CORNER’
Police are vtigatg after a monument that honors lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr veterans Abraham Lln Natnal Cemetery near Joliet was faced. * gay pride ran over soldiers grave *
She said: “I didn’t know I was gay when I joed up. Spicn began to fall on me bee I had gay iends, then all spiralled.
JEFEY EPSTE CELEBRAT GAY PRI OM THE GRAVE
* gay pride ran over soldiers grave *
But when the two-month nflict end the Special Invtigatns Branch arrted him after fdg out he was gay.
FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
As throngs me to the hallowed grounds of Arlgton Natnal Cemetery to honor the fallen on Memorial Day, a handful of protters om an anti-gay group stood across a four-lane highway om a nservative group supportg the troops. * gay pride ran over soldiers grave *
Ex-naval officer Dunn Ltig-Prean said was right gay people were reprented. Along wh three other gay ex-Forc personnel, Dunn Ltig-Prean took the MoD to the European Court of Human Rights 1999 – leadg to the gay ban beg lifted. Dunn was on stroyer HMS Newstle 1994 – and set to be a ary assistant to then PM John Major - when his world me crashg down after he reported a bid to blackmail him over his homosexualy.
ANTI-GAY GROUP PROTTS AT NATNAL CEMETERY
Soldiers reprentg the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny virtually celebrated Pri Month Thursday * gay pride ran over soldiers grave *
” Dunn later beme chair of Rank Outsirs, mpaigng agast the gays ban.
Bra uld follow leads by the US, Canada and Germany who have all set up pensatn schem for gay troops hound out.
LGBT prsure group Stonewall led the charge to get the forc gay ban lifted 1998 and that rulted the landmark cisn by the European Court of Human Rights.
ISRAELI ARY ACCED OF STAGG GAY PRI PHOTO
There is a renewed foc on the strsors and challeng experienced by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr service members and their fai. * gay pride ran over soldiers grave *
Now all three servic actively rec gay men and lbians and they send recg teams out to pri events.
In a quiet neighborhood of Southeast Washgton, Leonard Matlovich has been a persistent advote for gay rights sce the 1980s.
Instead, he — or rather his tombstone — n be found Congrsnal Cemetery, which claims to be the world’s only graveyard wh an LGBTQ, why is Matlovich buried here — a bulic, 35-acre stretch of land near the Anastia River and RFK Stadium — and why did “Gay Corner, ” as some refer to , velop unr the cherry tre near his 6-by-8-foot grane grave marker? Part of the answer is a 10-send walk away: the fenced- grave of the untry’s most notor homophobe, J.