Sunak Told to Apologize for UK Treatment of Gay Veterans
- Report into historic homophobia details electro-shock therapy
- Bullying, intrusive medical examinations also reported
British military personnel board an RAF aircraft in Omdurman, Sudan.
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak should apologize for the UK’s treatment of gay and trans veterans, according to a government-commissioned review that details a “culture of homophobia” that pervaded the British military for decades.
The study — slated for publication in the first half of June and seen by Bloomberg — details accounts of electric-shock conversion therapy, intrusive medical examinations and witch-hunts of anyone suspected of being gay in the military during more than three decades through to 2000, when a ban on gay personnel serving in the military was lifted.