LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.”
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- HOE VOT TO REPEAL MILARY GAY BAN
- ALL POSTS TAGGED "ARY GAY BAN"
- GAYS THE MILARY
- US ARY LIFTS BAN ON OPENLY GAY TROOPS
- THE MILARY GAY BAN: WHY DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL DON'T WORK
HOE VOT TO REPEAL MILARY GAY BAN
The Hoe has voted to repeal the 1993 law known as "don't ask, don't tell" and allow gays to serve openly the ary. * military gay ban *
(Rters)The Hoe of Reprentativ voted Thursday night to allow gays and lbians to serve openly the U. " The policy permted gays and lbians to serve the ary, so long as they did not clare their sexual orientatn. Jared Polis, D-Colo., the first person to be openly gay and then elected to vote was 234 to Ileana Ros-Lehten, R-Fla., Ron Pl, R-Texas, Joseph Cao, R-La., and Charl Djou, R-Hawaii, were the only Republins to vote favor of scrappg the amendment was part of a broar bill to thorize Pentagon Hoe is expected to fish that measure Friday.
Many Hoe Republins warned they'd vote agast the entire bill if lawmakers repealed the ban on gays and lbians servg openly. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologised for the UK's historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the follows a damng report tailg "a vivid picture of overt homophobia at all levels of the armed forc". The 268-page dossier found "shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts", as well as "abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, peremptory discharg" said the treatment of victims had "appallg nsequenc terms of mental health and wellbeg, homelsns, employment, personal relatnships and fancial hardship" ernment-missned pennt review to the service and experience of LGBT veterans who served the armed forc between 1967 and 2000 was rried out by Lord Etherton, former master of the rolls and head of civil jtice, was published on Wednday.
India's first openly gay prce says parents wanted him to have 'nversn bra surgery'. "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.
ALL POSTS TAGGED "ARY GAY BAN"
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"Today, we strongly wele this apology om the Prime Mister as a regnn of their historic mistreatment, " he review also remend an "appropriate fancial award" should be ma to veterans affected by the pre-2000 ban on homosexualy the armed said: "An appropriate fancial award should be ma to affected veterans notwhstandg the expiry of ligatn time lims. 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. 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. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.
GAYS THE MILARY
U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * military gay ban *
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.
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. The Supreme Court refed Friday to block enforcement of the ary's ntroversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy which forc gay, lbian and trans-genr members of the ary to hi their personal liv or face expulsn om the high urt nied a requt om the gay rights group Log Cab Republins to halt the policy while a feral appeals urt mak a cisn on the se.
US ARY LIFTS BAN ON OPENLY GAY TROOPS
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"The move puts the qutn of who n be dismissed om the service for beg openly gay the hands of jt six people — all of them civilian polil appote who work for an admistratn that thks the law is unjt, " the AP 9th Circu Court is expected to make a fal lg on the se has urged Democratic lawmakers to pass a law to end the ban before Republins take ntrol of the Hoe 2011. 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. Ary agast gay and lbian service members, revealg that more than 29, 000 dividuals kicked out bee of their sexualy were nied honorable have long been timat suggtg about 14, 000 service members were separated om the ary unr "don't ask, don't tell, " the policy that banned gay men and women om servg openly om 1994 to 2011, but the ary has never before shared a tailed breakdown of how many dividuals were nied honorable discharg durg and before "don't ask, don't tell, " when gays and lbians were prohibed om servg at all.
The new data, which the nonprof legal servic anizatn Legal Aid At Work obtaed through a Freedom of Informatn Act requt and shared wh CBS News, vers the three s om 1980 until the feral urts lifted the ban agast gay and lbian soldiers, sailors and airmen 2010.
Acrdg to the data, 35, 801 dividuals "received a discharge or separatn bee of real or perceived homosexualy, homosexual nduct, sexual perversn, or any other related reason om the perd October 1, 1980 to September 20, 2011. When CBS News reached out to the Defense Department about the new figur, officials there produced different numbers om s Office of Legal Policy ditg most service members separated on the basis of homosexual nduct om 1970 to 2011 were discharged unr honorable ndns. Ary bee of real or perceived homosexualy, homosexual nduct or other related reasons, om Oct.
THE MILARY GAY BAN: WHY DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL DON'T WORK
The ary ban, which was lifted 2000, meant that gay people were dishonourably discharged and sometim, stripped of medals. * military gay ban *
While some ary laws directly crimalized homosexual activy, other statut were ed as ver charg to dm gay men and women out of the service, meang the numbers may only reveal a actn of the te toll. Air Force veteran once imprisoned for beg gay still endur the stigma of a felony rerd.
“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.
Homosexualy has been an issue for Ameri’s armed forc sce the natn’s foundg.
The new data, shared exclively wh CBS News, vers the years om 1980 until the feral urts lifted the ban agast gay and lbian service members 2010. * military gay ban *
Dpe such measur, homosexuals ntued to serve the natn’s ary.
Roosevelt—then-assistant secretary of the Navy—oversaw a large stg operatn to entrap and expel gay soldiers. Durg World War II, the armed forc troduced psychologil screeng of recs and banned anyone emed to have “homosexual proclivi.
U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * military gay ban *
Eisenhower, simultaneoly toughened rtrictns on gays the ary.
Service members who admted to beg gay or who were nvicted of homosexual behavr were dishonorably discharged and stripped of their pensns. The verdict was unequivol: “Homosexualy, ” the first sentence read, “is patible wh ary service. ” The report said that the prence of gays “serly impairs the acplishment of the ary missn.