News & Updates

British Army - News & Updates

Welcome to the first Army LGBT Newsletter of 2012. As ever in the British Army 2011 proved to be a busy year for all with operations continuing as normal, a summer of public duties (including the ceremonial glamour including the Royal Wedding). And all this on top of the usual work/play routine with the background rumble of redundancies to contend with.

Read more: Jan'12 Army LGBT Forum Newsletter Issue 2

British Army - News & Updates

Training for officers has got tougher to reflect the challenges of operations in Afghanistan, the Army has told Newsbeat.

Read more: Jan11: Training 'longer and tougher'

British Army - News & Updates

Colonel Mark Abraham, head of diversity for the British Army, told People Management the lifting of the ban on gays serving in the military in 2000 had "no notable change at all."

“We knew a lot of gay and lesbian people were serving quite successfully, and it was clear that sexual orientation wasn’t an indication of how good a soldier or officer you could be.”

“We got to the point where the policy was incompatible with military service and there was a lack of logic and evidence to support it. We knew a lot of gay and lesbian people were serving quite successfully, and it was clear that sexual orientation wasn’t an indication of how good a soldier or officer you could be.”

Read more: Oct 10: British Army- Openly Gay Soldiers Increase Productivity

British Army - News & Updates

Following the defeat of a vote in the US Senate to debate ending the US army’s Don’t ask, Don’t tell’ policy, the British army claims that allowing gay and lesbians to openly served has improved the armed forces.

Read more: Sep 10: British Army claims having openly gay soldiers has ‘increased productivity’