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Read MoreKelly Holmes has spoken about the struggle of dating in the closet, both throughout her military career and as a high-profile Olympian. The 52-year-old athlete opened up on Loose Women, explaining how she would convince herself a potential partner wasn’t right for her, because she feared they would want to be public with the relationship. She shared: “I would circumstantially meet people through friends and convince myself they’re right as I didn’t want to be lonely. “And then I would think: ‘Nah, no way. I would think if I got…
Read MoreRecords of Armed Forces personnel who were dismissed for being gay have been destroyed by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD), BBC news reported. It comes after veterans who asked for documents relating to investigations into them by the military police were told they had been deleted in 2010. The department stated the action was taken as it had a legal duty to make sure the details were removed from service records. Jean Macdonald, who was dismissed as a lance corporal in the Women’s Royal Army Corps in 1981 for…
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Read MoreSouth Korea’s Supreme Court overturned the convictions of two soldiers who had been charged with having consensual sex while off their base. The landmark ruling, which was issued on 21 April, stated that the country’s decades-old ban on homosexual activities should not apply to gay sex outside of a military setting. The Military Criminal Act states that those engaging in “anal intercourse or other indecent acts” should face up to two years in prison, which has previously been used to punish military personnel engaging in consensual gay sex. The two…
Read MorePeople living with HIV will be allowed to enlist in Britain’s army if they no longer carry a detectable amount of the virus. In an announcement on World AIDS Day on 1 December, the Ministry of Defence said it also plans to change the fact that those who have the virus in the army are classed as not fully fit. Under current rules, people with HIV cannot join the armed forces and those diagnosed with the virus while serving are no longer viewed as “fully fit” and therefore banned from…
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