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[[File:Duncan Lustig-Prean.jpg|thumb|Duncan Lustig-Prean]]'''Duncan Lustig-Prean''' (born 1959)is a former Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy. In 1994 he was dismissed from the Navy when it became known that he was gay. He then helped to found [[Rank Outsiders]], campaigning for the right of gay men and lesbians to serve in the armed forces.

He and others brought a case against the UK &ndash; [[Lustig-Prean and Beckett v the United Kingdom]] &ndash; in the [[European Court of Human Rights]]. In 1999 the Court found in their favour,<ref>http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-58407#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-58407%22]}</ref> as a result of which the Government suspended dismissals on the grounds of homosexuality, and subsequently changed the law.

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