Media ArchiveFighting With Pride’s five year battle for justice for LGBT+ veterans who suffered under the ‘gay ban’
January 2025
25th anniversary of the lifting of the gay ban and new designers announced for memorial
February 2025
Profoundly moving personal testimonies in BFFBS documentary. Forgotten Battle
By James Wharton
BBC Breakfast mini-documentary by Josh Parry – available on request
December 2024
New financial redress scheme announced
Demand for financial and other reparations for LGBT+ veterans following PM apology and Etherton Review continues
2024
Non-financial reparations announced eg Etherton pin badges, memorial at NMA, Staffordshire.
19th July 2023
Historic moment: PM Rishi Sunak apologises
19th July 2023
Parliament Live TV - Debate about publication of Etherton Review
Ben Wallace & others credit Craig and Caroline with making the case for making right the wrongs of the ban. Follow by national media coverage: Calls for a full parliamentary debate around compensation and other reparation measures for LGBT+ veterans who suffered under the ban.
2023
Etherton Review. Calls for publication of delayed Review
January 2022
Announcement of Independent review
2022
Independent review of treatment of LGBT+ veterans under the ‘gay ban’ is won
November 13, 2022
“This Remembrance Sunday, I will also be thinking of LGBT veterans and those who stood by us”: Craig Jones writes First person op-ed in Metro
12 January 2022
Profile of Craig Jones by Simon Hattenstone, Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/12/craig-jones-the-naval-officer-who-risked-his-career-by-coming-out-then-fought-ceaselessly-for-gay-rights
2021
The right to march at Cenotaph
Craig Jones Co-chief Executive FWP wins the invitation for first time for wreath to be laid by LGBT veterans at Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday
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