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2023</time></div><div class="share-ame-v2 share-tools_share-ame-v2__hJdMo"><div class="share-tools share-tools_share-tools__viyV_" style="display:none"><a class="fb share-tools_fb__qjq2r" rel="noopener noreferrer" href=" width="600" height="360" target="_blank"><svg class="in In_in__Haypr"><e href="/img/"></e></svg> </a><a class="tw share-tools_tw__4oYAb" rel="noopener noreferrer" href=" data-mentn="@Newsday" width="550" height="440" target="_blank"><svg class="in In_in__Haypr"><e href="/img/"></e></svg> </a><a class="env share-tools_env__4tzBA" href="mailto:?subject=UK%20Prime%20Mister%20Rishi%20Sunak%20apologiz%20for%20a%20prev%20ban%20on%20LGBTQ+%20people%20%20the%20ary&body=U_K_%20Prime%20Mister%20Rishi%20Sunak%20has%20apologized%20for%20the%20treatment%20of%20gay%20veterans%20by%20sayg%20that%20a%20prev%20ban%20on%20LGBTQ+%20people%20servg%20%20the%20U_K_%20ary%20was%20%22an%20appallg%20failure%20of%20the%20Brish%20state.%22, data-rel="external"><svg class="in In_in__Haypr"><e 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Brish state, I apologize."</p><div class=""></div><p>The report, which was rried out by retired senr judge Terence Etherton, piled evince om more than 1,100 veterans. It documented the effects of what lled “an prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry our armed forc.” Some of the victims have taken their own liv, while others have attempted suici, the report said. </p><p>Veterans' ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy,” the report said. </p><div class="newsletter-widget Newsletter_newsletter-widget__8z2gu ux Newsletter_ux__Xr3cN"><div><strong for="erContact">Get the Breakg News newsletter!</strong><p>Get the latt breakg news as happens.</p><p class="equency"></p></div><div><form class="subscribeForm" actn="" method="POST"><put class="" type="email" name="email" placeholr="Email addrs" required="" toComplete="email"/><button class="btn">Sign up</button></form></div><p class="disclaimer Newsletter_disclaimer__KROmB">By clickg Sign up, you agree to our<!-- --> <a href="/privacy">privacy policy</a>.</p></div><p>Some victims said they were stripped of or nied medals they were entled to, or that they lost their pensn rights followg their dismissal or discharge.</p><p>“The survivors have waed for at least 23 years for acknowledgment of what they have suffered, and for jtice and rtutn,” add. </p><figure class="img Image_img__VNXHO landspe lazy"><img alt="Bra's Prime Mister Rishi Sunak leav 10 Downg Street to..." loadg="lazy" width="770" height="433.125" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor:transparent" srcSet="/_next/image?;w=828&q=80 1x, /_next/image?;w=1920&q=80 2x" src="/_next/image?;w=1920&q=80"/><figptn><p>Bra's Prime Mister Rishi Sunak leav 10 Downg Street to attend the weekly Prime Misters' Qutns ssn parliament London, Wednday, July 19, 2023.<!-- --> Cred: AP/Frank Augste</p></figptn></figure><p>The report also remend that fancial pensatn should be ma to victims, even if ligatn time lims have expired. </p><p>Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said that the ernment agreed that there should be a fancial award for those affected. But he add that thori need time to work through the remendatn, and didn't provi tails. </p><p>Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holm, who had served the Brish army and who me out as gay last year, said meant “a huge amount” to hear the ernment apology. </p><div class=""></div><p>“From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years," Holm said.</p><figure class="img Image_img__VNXHO landspe lazy"><img alt="Bra's Prime Mister Rishi Sunak leav 10 Downg Street to..." loadg="lazy" width="770" height="433.125" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor:transparent" srcSet="/_next/image?;w=828&q=80 1x, /_next/image?;w=1920&q=80 2x" src="/_next/image?;w=1920&q=80"/><figptn><p>Bra's Prime Mister Rishi Sunak leav 10 Downg Street to attend the weekly Prime Misters' Qutns ssn parliament London, Wednday, July 19, 2023.<!-- --> Cred: AP/Frank Augste</p></figptn></figure><p>The ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.</p></div></div><div class="ndtv-module NewsdayTV_ndtv-module__etK3Q"><sectn id="ndtv-module" class="module SectnModule_module__GAZLm blue-top SectnModule_blue-top__q0Mjm"><div class="mod-head ModHead_mod-head__Aavlu"><div class="newsday-tv NewsdayTV_newsday-tv__n08k1"><a href="><svg class="in In_in__Haypr"><tle>newsday-tv-logo
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