UK Army Officers Forced Electric Shock Treatment on Gay Soldiers - Bloomberg

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• UK ARMY OFFICERS FORCED ELECTRIC SHOCK TREATMENT ON GAY SOLDIERS
• BRISH SOLDIERS SACKED FOR BEG GAY N GET THEIR MEDALS BACK
• UK ARMY OFFICERS FORCED ELECTRIC SHOCK TREATMENT ON GAY SOLDIERS
• I WAS GAY THE BRISH ARMY WHEN WAS ILLEGAL. IT DROVE ME TO DRK AND AN ATTEMPT ON MY OWN LIFE

UK ARMY OFFICERS FORCED ELECTRIC SHOCK TREATMENT ON GAY SOLDIERS

Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.

”The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U. “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 Parliament. It documented the effects of what lled “an prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry our armed forc.

BRISH SOLDIERS SACKED FOR BEG GAY N GET THEIR MEDALS BACK

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. 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. “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 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.

REUTERS/Henry Nicholls Acquire Licensg RightsLONDON, July 19 (Rters) - Brish Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologised on Wednday to LGBT ary veterans who endured sexual abe, vlence, bullyg and harassment while servg the armed forc before a ban on homosexualy was lifted 2000. Bra lifted the ban only after the European Court of Human Rights rejected an argument that was need to protect morale and fightg power amongst s troops, sayg the policy had vlated human to that, many gay people had sought to hi their sexualy or risk beg discharged om the armed pennt review was lnched last year to exame the ttimoni of LGBT veterans who served between 1967 and 2000 to regnise the impact of the polici.

UK ARMY OFFICERS FORCED ELECTRIC SHOCK TREATMENT ON GAY SOLDIERS

"As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment while bravely servg this untry, " he said. "The report said a public ll for evince had led to more than 1, 120 rpons beg submted, cludg about 300 om veterans who were dismissed or discharged bee of LGBT same-sex sexual acts and homosexual orientatn. Homosexualy was crimalised 1967 England and Wal, and throughout the entire Uned Kgdom the early 1980s.

Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.

The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U. “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 Parliament.

I WAS GAY THE BRISH ARMY WHEN WAS ILLEGAL. IT DROVE ME TO DRK AND AN ATTEMPT ON MY OWN LIFE

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. 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. “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 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.

Report to historil homophobia UK ary tails abeBra banned gay people om servg ary until 2000May 27, 2023 at 3:00 AM EDTFollow at @BloombergUK and on Facebook, and wrap up your day wh The Readout Brish soldiers were subjected to electric shock treatment an effort to “cure” them of their homosexualy, acrdg to a damng vtigatn to historic homophobia the UK armed NextUK Army Officers Forced Electric Shock Treatment on Gay Soldiers. Thoands of Brish ary personnel who were dismissed on grounds of homosexualy will be able to have their service medals rtored if they had been taken away when they were kicked out of the armed rights mpaigners weled the move as the “first step on a journey” but said that issu such as endurg crimal rerds, lost pensn rights and still blemished service rerds now need to be alt wh by the Mistry of law, gay men and lbian women were banned om servg the Brish ary until 2000. Those found guilty of beg homosexual sometim went on to a serve a prison term, typilly several months Mercer, the veterans mister, said the announcement “addrs a historic jtice”.

Photograph: Yui Mok/PAThe last serviceman to be sent to prison for beg homosexual was David Bonney, who was found guilty at a urt martial Cornwall 1993. Bonney had joed the RAF aged 17 1987 and said he had “learned and accepted I was gay” when he served durg the first Gulf said he was subject to a two-year vtigatn after a py of Gay Tim had been found his room. That clud, he said, “buggg my room, havg people follow me, placg officers outsi the lol gay bars to spy on people gog , g the lol police statns to take my iends to, to terview them and altogether create terror and fear among my iends and associat” urt martial sentenced him to six months prison, of which he served four cludg one month of solary nfement, and left him wh a crimal rerd – although followg an appeal his discharge was changed to honourable.

On 12 January 2000 the way the Brish ary treated homosexualy wh s ranks changed until then, gay, lbian and bisexual people had been banned om servg the Brish Army, Royal Navy and RAF. (Bloomberg) -- Gay Brish soldiers were subjected to electric shock treatment an effort to “cure” them of their homosexualy, acrdg to a damng vtigatn to historic homophobia the UK armed Read om BloombergWorld’s Most Valuable Chipmaker Nvidia Unveils More AI Products After $184 Billn RallyManch Gets Mounta Valley Pipele Deal Into Debt BillTrars Ready to Embrace Riskier Assets After Debt-Cap DealBin, McCarthy Fe Debt Deal Bid to Avert US DefltDebt-Lim Deal Brgs Relief Tged by Ctn: Markets WrapMilary personnel were still beg referred to doctors for nversn therapy as recently as the 1990s, acrdg to anonymo ttimony a ernment-missned review seen by Bloomberg and slated for publitn next month.

The study ntas more than a thoand anonymo submissns tailg the e of electros, blackmail and sexual asslt agast gay personnel between 1967 and 2000. “We are proud of our LGBT+ veterans and grateful for their service fense of our natn, ” a ernment spokperson shockg revelatns st light on the damage flicted on thoands of gay, lbian and trans personnel over more than three s by a ban on them servg the ary, spe homosexualy beg legal sce 1967.

The report pil moral prsure on Sunak to publicly apologize for the historic policy, and to pensate those affected by for loss of earngs, distrs ed, and nial of their pensn More: Sunak Told to Apologize for UK Treatment of Gay VeteransAnother veteran, who served the Royal Air Force, ttified that they were sent to a psychiatric ward to be terrogated about their sexualy while seated on a mo. The medic reunted how a sergeant acpanied one of the men, who explaed he’d told his superrs he was gay and had been told to book medil treatment.

‘Trmatized’The review was missned last year durg Boris Johnson’s premiership, wh a rem to take ttimony om those affected by the blanket ban on gay people the armed forc that ran until January 2000. ”Unfortable PastThe report to homophobia the ary follows a trend recent years of the UK unpickg s often unfortable history spanng recent years and past centuri.

In 2020, the Black Liv Matter movement sparked lls to remove the prence of statu of figur om the Bra’s imperial past, rultg the statue of slave trar Edward Colston Bristol beg pulled down, triggerg a row over the untry’s lonial March, an vtigatn found that London’s Metropolan Police is a breedg ground for racism, sexism and homophobia, while this year the untry’s biggt bs lobby group, the Conferatn of Brish Indtry has been engulfed a sndal that clus allegatns of rape and sexual harassment.