'Gays welcome to serve in British Army'
In a speech to members of the Army-sponsored Fourth Joint Conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Matters in London, General Sir Richard Dannatt, the chief of the general staff, said that homosexuals were welcome to serve in the Army.
The US military is ready to accept openly gay recruits for the first time in the country's history, officials said Tuesday, as a judge upheld an order ending a controversial ban on homosexuals serving in the armed forces.