She was cleared by a military court but, despairing of the whole process, she came out as gay and was discharged. Hough was one of more than 14,000 lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans fired by the U.S.
military between 1994 and 2011 under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law. Armed forces in countries including the United States and Britain are taking steps to redress past discrimination, with an LGBTQ+ group marching openly in Britain in this week’s national Remembrance Sunday parade for the first time.
But, as Veterans Day is marked on Thursday in the United States and Remembrance Day in Britain, Hough and other veterans said more was needed to compensate and restore benefits to people kicked out of armed forces due to their LGBTQ+ identities.