Until 1999, if you were gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, you were banned om servg the Brish Armed Forc.
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I'M A BRISH ROYAL NAVY OFFICER — AND I'M GAY. I FEEL LIKE I'VE HAD TO WORK TWICE AS HARD AS MY STRAIGHT PEERS.
* homosexuality in british navy *
‘Everythg’s gay when you’re unr way’ beme a mon adage. 'Homosexual' is a relatively recent term. In the past, men had sex wh each other but didn’t necsarily have a ‘gay inty’.
Homoerotic platonic love was not unmon. But homosexualy on ships was still illegal the Merchant Navy until 1994 and the armed forc until 1999. But now the Royal Navy has recently been announced number 10 Stonewall’s top 100 gay-iendly employers.