US EditionBiden pardons LGBTQ+ service members convicted for sexual orientation
- President Joe Biden plans to pardon US veterans convicted under a military law that prohibited gay sex, aiming to help LGBTQI+ service members wronged by their sexual orientation.
- Around 2,000 individuals are expected to benefit from the pardon, rectifying a historical injustice according to Biden, who believes they were unfairly penalized for being true to themselves.
- The pardon, targeting service members prosecuted under a sodomy law from 1951 to 2013, is set to be announced Wednesday and marks a significant victory for the LGBT community.
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Gay rights marching forward: Biden pardon for old military sodomy offenses a welcome step
President Biden, in advance of today's anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riot and the birth of the gay rights movement (which he'll be Downtown commemorating at the new Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center on Christopher St.), correctly pardoned what could be thousands of former service members who were convicted under a military law that had made it a crime to engage in sodomy, which was really just a way to punish service members for bei…
Biden pardons potentially thousands of ex-service members convicted under now-repealed gay sex ban
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden pardoned potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, saying Wednesday that he is “righting an historic wrong” to clear the way for them to…
President of the United States, Joe Biden, may have pardoned thousands of former members of the US military forces convicted for violating the now-repealed military ban on consensual same-sex sexual activity, and said today that he is 'righting a historical injustice' to allow those affected to regain lost privileges.
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