Saturday, August 27, 2005

HM Forces on Parade

In the news today, this article left me amazed. I hadn’t realised our military was becoming so progressive that it would join a gay pride parade. Only a few weeks ago, when I saw the Swedish Armed Forces float in the Stockholm Pride Parade, I had believed this impossible.

Having been friends with a squaddie and a naval officer who were gay and seen how the military attitude had affected them – and in the former case, seriously screwed with his head – I feel a sense of relief that this is happening. I doubt that legalisation has resulted in a revolution of attitudes in the forces but, just as in the country at large, the slow process of acceptance and integration has begun. We are on the right track.

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