HOMOSEXUAL SERVICEPEOPLE OF GERMANY MIGHT GET COMPENSATIONS FOR DISCRIMINATION

The German government made a proposal to pay monetary compensations to homosexual servicepeople who were previously discriminated against. We are talking about the period until 2000, when it was prohibited to go public about nonstandard sexual orientation.

In such a situation, military men and women with a nonstandard sexual orientation could be subject to discrimination, which was expressed in limiting career advancement, dismissal, and even deprivation of various kinds of benefits and pensions.

The first recipients of the new 3,000 euro payments may be servicepeople, who were convicted of a homosexual intercourse by mutual consent in the middle of the last century were.

At that time, such connections were considered illegal in the country. At the same time, the representative of the LGBT protection group, Sven Bering, has already expressed support for the innovation, indicating that the draft law needs additional work. According to Bering, the amount of the payment is not enough to compensate for the financial damage suffered by the discriminated military.

At the moment, the draft law is considered in the country's parliament. According to preliminary estimates, if it is accepted, over 1,000 people will be able to apply for the payment.