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- From: buckmr@vccsouth27.its.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
- Subject: Re: Queers in military in other countries???
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- References: <1e9k7mINN23a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu} <5276@calmasd.Prime.COM>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:14:01 GMT
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- wlp@calmasd.Prime.COM (Walt Peterson) writes:
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- >In article <1e9k7mINN23a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu} cf379@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (J. Alan) writes:
- >}
- >}I'm fairly sure Canada lets queers into the military, and
- >}even did studies to see what happened -- answer: NOTHING.
- >}
- >}Does anyone know about rules and regs on queers in military
- >}in other countries? I'm pretty sure there are a lot of them
- >}out there that do not explicitly ban gays/lesbians.
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- >Of all of the NATO nations, only the US and UK currently have an
- >absolute ban on out gays & lesbians serving in the military.
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- As far as I remember the WASHINGTON MONTHLY article, Italy and Spain [?]
- also have bans. I'm not sure if they are both in NATO, however.
-
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