LGBT Veteran Monument Revealed
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•LGBT Veterans on 25th anniversary of military ban being lifted
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Long-standing ban on LGBT people serving in the military was lifted 25 years ago today .
Monument was one of 49 recommendations made by landmark report from Lord Etherton.
Monument will stand in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire later this year .
LGBT veterans tell the BBC that they could never have imagined they'd see a monument in their honour.
Pte Morgan was dismissed from the Army in 1982 after four years of service.
Lt Cdr Lustig-Prean was blackmailed by a man he didn't know, but who had somehow found out he was gay.
He had all of her letters and photographs seized, and was referred to a male psychiatrist for further intrusive questioning.
The ban on LGBT personnel was repealed after a campaign by a group of veterans called the Rank Outsiders .
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