Call for Navy to be tolerant.ROYAL Navy staff may have to undergo "drama-based training" to change their attitudes towards gays and lesbians, the service's head of personnel said yesterday. Vice Admiral Adrian Johns Vice Admiral Adrian Johns CBE is a senior commander in the Royal Navy and is currently the Second Sea Lord. Educated at a Grammar School in Cornwall and then Imperial College, London he joined the Royal Navy in 1973. His first command was HMS Yarnton in Hong Kong in 1981. , the Second Sea Lord, told a gay workplace conference some needed to be "brought into line with twenty-first century thinking". He even joked that Lord Nelson may have been "ahead of his time" when he famously fa·mous·ly adv. 1. In a way or to an extent that is well known: "his famously neurotic mannerisms [are] lampooned in the novels of Evelyn Waugh" asked Captain Hardy to kiss him on his deathbed at the battle of Trafalgar. It comes just six years after the Government lifted a ban on gays and lesbians in the armed forces after it was ruled illegal by the European Court of Human Rights following a case that was brought by Stonewall stone·wall v. stone·walled, stone·wall·ing, stone·walls v.intr. 1. Informal a. . But times have changed so much that the pressure group, which organised yesterday's event, now rates the Navy 75th in its list of gay-friendly employers. |
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