Veterans minister Johnny Mercer will announce next week as part of LGBT History Month that former servicemen and women will be invited to apply to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) if they were denied honours they had earned because of their sexuality. Shadow armed forces minister Stephen Morgan added: “The Government must move further and faster towards justice. He was granted his honours back in 2019, after taking the Government to court over the matter, and has since been campaigning for a change in the law to help others affected in the same way. It has taken years of tireless campaigning by gay rights organisations to address what veterans minister Johnny Mercer last week acknowledged was a 'historic injustice'.

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S. District Attorney and I will see if we can't get a Federal indictment for a hate crime'" said Thomas. At a time when we are seeing the highest number reports of anti-gay youth violence, homicides of transgender and gender non-conforming people, this violence is totally unacceptable. Former Chief of the General Staff Lord Dannatt said: “The MoD always makes things as difficult as possible when it comes to money.The MoD must undertake a painstaking trawl of records going back decades to ensure they were thrown out for their sexuality and not for any other reason. DLPlugLondon is Europe's largest official facilitator enabling Gay, Bi and DL Men interested in Men to network.

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