Credit: Bumble Dee/Adobe StockPentagon Settles Suit Seeking to Clear Records of Service Members Discharged for Being LGBTQ
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, a policy which barred openly gay people from serving in the military, was repealed in 2011. But the government engaged in ongoing disparate treatment of LGBTQ+ veterans because their discharge papers sometimes cite separation codes that list homosexuality or "sexual perversion," the suit claimed.
January 07, 2025 at 02:36 PM
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What You Need to Know
- Settlement with the Department of Defense creates streamlined process for revising the discharge papers of individuals kicked out of the military for being gay.
- The settlement will benefit roughly 30,000 people.
- The Department of Defense said in court papers that it would not oppose approval of the settlement.
The Defense Department has reached a settlement in a class action suit by LGBTQ+ veterans who were dismissed from the military based on their sexual orientation. The settlement, in the Northern District of California, allows service members whose careers ended under the old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy to remove discriminatory indicators from their records and have their discharge status upgraded to honorable.
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