Pentagon Reaches Settlement With Veterans Dismissed Over Sexuality NYT | Top Stories By: Aishvarya Kavi 7 January 2025 at 10:59 The agreement, if approved by a judge, would let former service members upgrade their discharge status and receive benefits they had been denied. © Kenny Holston/The New York TimesAdvocacy groups had filed a class-action civil rights lawsuit in 2023 alleging that the Defense Department had failed to remedy “ongoing discrimination” after the repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy more than a decade earlier.