Before his death on 6th of May 2025, Lord “Terry” Etherton GBE KC PC, wrote a lecture telling of the legal activities to lift ‘The Ban’ and his ultimate involvement in the LGBT Veterans Independent Review
Sadly his death meant that Lord Etherton never got to deliver that lecture himself. Instead in June of 2025, his friend and colleague Lord Michael Cashman CBE (Himself a founder of Stonewall and instrumental in the original support to the legal challenge) gave a posthumous delivery of the lecture to a small gathering in the House of Lords.
With the kind permission of Lord Etherton’s husband, Andrew Stone, Lord Cashman again delivered the lecture at an evening event in the Imperial War Museum London on Thursday 15th January 2026 recognising the 26th anniversary of the lifting of ‘The Ban’
The lecture was another part of the healing journey for those impacted by the ‘Gay Ban’
As well as Lord Cashman to deliver the lecture itself there was a panel of guests for a discussion to follow. Edmund Hall, Chair of the Board of Trustees for Fighting With Pride (FWP), Caroline Paige MBE co-founder and joint CEO of FWP for the first part of its history and Lisa Power MBE also a founder of Stonewall
A capacity crowd of Veterans who had been impacted by the ‘Ban’, their partners, family and friends plus representatives of the organisations & people that got us where we are today; Rank Outsiders, the Armed Forces Legal Challenge Group, the ECHR4, FWP Trustees gathered to hear their legal history spoken of on the public stage.
The event and discussion was compered and moderated by the actor, author, podcaster and LGBTQ+ activist, Russell Tovey.
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