2021年3月19日 · NATO Headquarters hosted its first-ever internal conference on LGBTQ+ perspectives in the workplace on Friday (19 March 2021). Organised by the staff-led “Proud @ NATO” volunteer group, the online event brought together around 130 participants across civilian and military staffs, as well as national delegations, to discuss the experiences ...

2024年4月19日 · NATO’s first Staff Resource Group (SRG), PROUD@NATO, was officially established in 2020 to further LGBTQ+ perspectives at NATO. NATO’s SRGs provide opportunities for personal and professional development through mentoring, networking and community involvement.

2023年5月17日 · "NATO’s strength is our diversity,” he said, stressing that "it is important that we reflect and celebrate the extraordinary diversity of our populations." The Secretary General said that he values every member of the LGBTQ+ community serving at NATO Headquarters, and around the world. “You deserve dignity and respect.

2023年5月18日 · The notion that Nato is “united by values” is plainly false. Even Russians are less anti-gay than Turks: 66% say they would not like to have homosexuals as neighbours and 58% say homosexuality is “never justifiable”.

2017年6月13日 · There have been workshops, such as the one that took place in Sweden, called the NATO LGBT Working Group, where promotion of LGBT inclusion and equality were discussed. It is unclear whether a prospective NATO member’s attitudes toward LGBT perspectives carries weight during consideration for acceptance into the Alliance.

It was the first ever event on LGBTQI Perspectives at NATO. Globally, LGBTQI people continue to face discrimination, harassment and violence based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Armed forces certainly came a long way since lesbians and gays where allowed for the first time to openly serve in the Dutch armed forces in 1974.

2021年3月21日 · NATO Headquarters hosted its first-ever internal conference on LGBTQ+ perspectives in the workplace on Friday (19 March 2021).

2019年6月28日 · Countries that overcome their totalitarian pasts—as the Baltic states have admirably done, shedding their command economies and authoritarian political structures for membership in NATO and the...

Many countries have since revised these policies and allow gays and lesbians to openly serve in the military (e.g. Israel in 1993 and the UK in 2000). There are currently more than 30 countries, including nearly all NATO members, which allow gays and lesbians to serve, and around 10 more countries that do not outwardly prohibit them from serving.

2014年10月3日 · From 30 July to 2 August the 4th NATO LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Working Group took place in Stockholm (Sweden), with the support of the Swedish Minister of Defence and the Swedish armed forces.