Germany receives 178 compensation applications from gay servicepeople over discrimination

TokenBoomer , 10 months ago

Wait, there’s gays in Germany too? /s

Metal_Zealot , 10 months ago

That’s just from the ones that are still alive

autotldr Bot , 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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BERLIN (AP) — The German defense ministry said Tuesday that it has received 178 applications for compensation from gay servicepeople who experienced discrimination in the military in the past.

A law rehabilitating gay soldiers who suffered discrimination came into force two years ago, and so far, about 400,000 euros ($438,000) has been paid in symbolic compensation, the ministry said.

While the German military stopped its policy of discrimination against gay soldiers in 2000, it took more than two decades to pass the law offering them compensation.

In the past, soldiers were punished by military courts for consensual gay sex, dismissed, denied promotion or stripped of responsibility.

In 2017, parliament voted to annul the convictions of thousands of gay men under a law criminalizing male homosexuality that was enforced zealously in post-World War II West Germany.

Legislation criminalizing male homosexuality was introduced in the 19th century, toughened under Nazi rule and retained in that form by democratic West Germany, which convicted about 50,000 men between 1949 and 1969.

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