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VHA has a separate healthcare policy on LGBQ health care (VHA Directive 1340). In 2011, VHA established the Office of Health Equity to work at a systems level to reduce health disparities in a number of vulnerable populations, including LGBTQ+ veterans, by raising awareness and advocating for healthcare system changes. [14]
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates more than 100,000 service members were discharged under the repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Thousands of discharged LGBTQ+ veterans still ...
LGBT healthcare in the United States military; LGBT healthcare in the United States Veterans Health Administration; LGBT in the United States Air Force; LGBT in the United States Army; LGBT in the United States Coast Guard; LGBT in the United States Marine Corps; LGBT in the United States Navy
The Pentagon is stepping up efforts to reach out to LGBTQ veterans who were discharged from service under “less than honorable conditions” before the 2011 repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t ...
AVER was founded by several LGBT veterans including SSgt. (Army Reserve-Rtd.) Miriam Ben-Shalom; Navy Ensign, Jim Woodward, president of the San Diego Veterans Association; Chuck Schoen; [1] bisexual US Army veteran Cliff Arnesen [2] of the New England Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Veterans, Boston, Massachusetts; [3] in 1990 as the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans of America, the oldest ...
An advocacy group for transgender veterans filed a second lawsuit against the government over its exclusion of gender-affirming surgery from veteran health benefits.
The United States military formerly excluded gay men, bisexuals, and lesbians from service. In 1993, the United States Congress passed, and President Bill Clinton signed, a law instituting the policy commonly referred to as "Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), which allowed gay, lesbian, and bisexual people to serve as long as they did not reveal their sexual orientation.
A Pentagon policy adopted in 1993 known as "Don. ... Five LGBTQ veterans filed the proposed class action in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday, seeking to force the U.S. Department of Defense ...