Militaries of the world have a variety of responses to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals...
Most Western military forces have removed policies excluding sexual minority members; of the 26 countries that participate militarily in NATO, 22 permit open lesbians, gays, or bisexuals to serve; of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, three (United Kingdom, France and Russia ) do so.
The Netherlands in 1974 was the 1st country to ban discrimination against gays in the military. An estimated 12,000 soldiers, 10% of the total force, are gay...