Biden to pardon veterans convicted under former military law banning gay sex

President Biden on Wednesday will pardon thousands of former U.S. service members given military convictions over a 60-year period under a law that banned gay sex, senior administration officials confirmed.

The pardon grants clemency to veterans who were convicted under the former Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 125, a law that criminalized sodomy between consenting adults from 1951 to 2013 before being rewritten by Congress. Biden's pardon will also affect people convicted of attempting to commit such offenses.