Celebrating 25 years of diversity in the armed forces
(WorldNews Asia)

Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow has joined with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex members of the Australian Defence Force to celebrate diversity in the armed forces. `Tonight, we celebrate 25 years of open service for lesbian, gay and bisexual personnel in the Australian Defence Force,` the Commissioner said in his address to the Pride Military Ball in Sydney on 23 September. `Some of the qualities that unite members of the ADF are a love of this country and its values; a commitment to something bigger than yourself; and a capacity to know and understand fear, but not to be diminished by it. `Those are precisely the...