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...greater acceptance in society. The story draws heavily on reporting from TIME correspondents across the U.S. Once all but taboo, the subject of homosexuality is now being treated with increasing-and increasingly open-concern in psychological, clerical and political forums as people like our cover subject, Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, struggle for what they regard as full civil rights. It is a struggle that often alarms the "straight" world...
Loaded Guns. Governor Rhodes testified that he went to the campus mainly to get firsthand information on the disturbances. A former Guard sergeant, Michael Delaney, said that Rhodes had angrily ordered officials in to prevent even as many as two students from walking together on campus. Del Corso and Canterbury said it was the responsibility of troop unit leaders to decide whether guns should be loaded; the unit commanders testified that they had only followed orders from above. The most common defense of the Guardsmen was that students were rushing them just before they retaliated with gunfire. "I felt...
...once thought to be confined to the worlds of theater, dance, fashion, etc. Similarly jolting have been public announcements of their homosexuality by a variety of people who could be anybody's neighbors?a Maryland teacher, a Texas minister, a Minnesota state senator, an Ohio professor, an Air Force sergeant...
...long-standing ban on homosexuals (TIME, June 9). Indeed, his lawyers hope the case will reach the Supreme Court and produce a landmark decision on homosexual rights comparable to the court's historic school integration decision of 1954. It is a perfect test case. The tall, red-haired sergeant has an impeccable twelve-year military record, no known psychiatric problems, and a Bronze Star and Purple Heart won on one of his three tours in Viet Nam. A five-man Air Force review board begins hearings Sept. 16 at Langley...
Matlovich is the son of an Air Force sergeant, and was raised at airbases in the U.S. and England. Though he says he knew he was homosexual at the age of twelve, he did not act upon that knowledge till he was 30, when he finally got up the nerve to go to a gay bar in Pensacola, Fla. Though Matlovich feared he would be raped by frenzied homosexuals, the bar turned out to be a civilized place filled with airmen, blue-collar workers and middle-class professional men. He lost his virginity that night to a government civil servant...