Oct. 27 (UPI) -- British King Charles III unveiled a memorial to LGBTQIA+ members of the military Monday, 25 years after the government lifted a decades-long ban on the community's service.
The monarch laid flowers at the bronze sculpture -- named An Opened Letter -- installed at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. It was his first official event supporting the LGBTQIA+ community, the BBC reported.
The title of the memorial refers to personal letters written by LGBTQIA+ service members that the military used as evidence against them. The sculpture mimics a crumpled piece of paper made up of words from actual letters.
The artist collective Abraxas Academy -- comprising Charlotte Howarth, Nina Bilbey, Sue Aperghis, James Spedding and Kate Homes -- designed the sculpture.
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