California passes law to help LGBTQ veterans discharged under “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” get benefits

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in the 2007 gay pride parade
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A new California law will help LGBTQ veterans who were discharged under “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” have better access to benefits.

A.B. 325, signed on Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), creates the Veteran’s Military Discharge Upgrade program. With that, LGBTQ people who were “other than honorably discharged,” as Newsom put it, due to their gender or sexuality can more easily correct their status.

In a recorded statement, Newsom celebrated the law’s passage and explained that after…

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