Subscribe to Breaking NewsU.K.’s Soldier magazine features profile of gay soldier
, Contributing writer 07.27.2009 5:35pm EDT
News & Politics
The current issue of the United Kingdom’s Soldier magazine has a cover story on trooper James Wharton.
Wharton is an out gay soldier who says he came out to the army before he did to his parents, and has found the British military to be supportive.
The story appears on the tenth anniversary of the U.K. allowing gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly. And look! Their army is still there!
This should be required reading for all officers in the U.S. military. And how about sending all the members of the Congressional military committees on a field trip to London to talk to the men and women in the UK military who not only serve openly, and proudly, but also get to march, in uniform, in Gay Pride Parades.