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...district was once represented on the city board of supervisors by Harvey Milk, a gay leader who was killed in November by Daniel James White, a former member of the board and a political opponent. Now running for the seat is Leonard Matlovich, who was discharged from the Air Force four years ago in a test case on homosexual rights...
...election-night rallies in the fashionable Fontainebleau and Dupont Plaza hotels, gay leaders were defiant and angry in defeat. Some homosexuals hugged and kissed in front of the cameras. One of the leaders was Leonard Matlovich, a Viet Nam War hero and the former Air Force sergeant who deliberately provoked a discharge in 1975 to challenge the service's right to dismiss a man for homosexuality (TIME cover. Sept. 8. 1975). Matlovich led a crowd of followers singing a version of We Shall Overcome and launched into Anita Bryant's favorite tune. Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Many gay leaders claimed that Bryant had united them for the first time-the battle, they said, was "the Selma" of the movement.* Sergeant Matlovich, however, warned that "stormy times are ahead. I fear repression. Some gays are going to have to be prepared to make sacrifices-even...
...dated girls frequently. Last July, after the Navy heard reports about his sexual life and began an investigation, Berg resigned and was transferred from the Sixth Fleet flagship Little Rock to Norfolk Naval Base for discharge. Meanwhile, he read of the struggle by Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (TIME, June 9) to challenge the armed services' ban on homosexuals. Berg too decided to fight. He had the full support of his family, including his father, Commander Vernon Berg Jr., a Protestant chaplain at Great Lakes, Ill., Naval Training Center. Said Commander Berg: "Some people are born lefthanded...
...news conference after the decision was announced, a smiling, determined Matlovich held up a Bicentennial half dollar and observed: "It says 200 years of freedom. Not yet-but it will be some day." Then, with his friends, many of them homosexuals and in uniform, he retired to the Cue bar in Norfolk to drink beer...