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"Maybe not in my lifetime, but we are going to win in the end."
- TSgt. Leonard Matlovich, USAF 1975.
The first to volunteer to fight the military's ban on gays, and a universal soldier
in the fight against AIDS and for full LGBT equality.
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This video documents some of the highlights of his years-long fight for Justice & Equality.
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"He was the Charles Lindbergh of the Gay Movement."
- Author & civil rights activist Malcolm Boyd
"The American Revolution continued in the fight of Sergeant Leonard Matlovich."
- Rear Admiral Jamie Barnett (Ret)
"When Leonard Matlovich was on a magazine cover as a war hero challenging the policy in the military, it began a national discussion on gay rights."
- Unfriendly Fire author Nathaniel Frank
"He had the knack for taking your heart and making it catch for a moment.
He seemed to make people want to be braver than perhaps they were."
- Neely Tucker, The Washington Post
"He will never receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom although he
has earned it. If I were in charge of these things, I'd give it to him."
- Aubrey Sarvis, Executive Director, SLDN, The Huffington Post
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