{"id":39288,"date":"2019-05-08T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39288"},"modified":"2019-05-08T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T22:22:53","slug":"a-bisexual-navy-veteran-who-was-stripped-of-his-medal-and-badges-is-suing-to-get-them-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39288","title":{"rendered":"A bisexual navy veteran who was stripped of his medal and badges is suing to get them back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A veteran who was dismissed from Britain&#8217;s Royal Navy because of his sexuality plans to sue the country&#8217;s defense ministry for the return of his medals, which were cut from his chest when he was expelled in 1993.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Joe Ousalice, now 68, said he was &#8220;hounded out&#8221; of the navy and made to feel &#8220;disgusting&#8221; for being bisexual, after serving for almost 18 years. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The British armed forces banned LGBT service members until 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights ruled that it was unlawful. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A veteran who was dismissed from Britain&#8217;s Royal Navy because of his sexuality plans to sue the country&#8217;s defense ministry for the return of his medals, which were cut from his chest when he was expelled in 1993.Joe Ousalice, now 68, said he was &#8220;hounded out&#8221; of the navy and made to feel &#8220;disgusting&#8221; for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}