Famous/Highly Visible Queers

Toughy · 10-20-2011, 03:34 PM

I don't know why, but Leonard came to my mind today at the SF VA Medical Center. I had the honor and privilege of knowing him.

"The epitaph he chose to mark his grave is still as fresh as today's headlines: 'When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one'." -- The Associated Press.

It has been an unfathomable thirty-five years since TSGT Leonard Matlovich, the first service member to out himself to fight the military's ban, walked out of the Langley Air Force Base hearing where his discharge had just been announced and held a Kennedy Bicentennial half dollar up to waiting mesmerized reporters. Ironically, it was engraved with an image of Philadelphia's Independence Hall where his mentor gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny had first led a gay rights demonstration a decade before. Leonard told them:

"It says '200 Years of Freedom'. Maybe not in my lifetime but we are going to win in the end."

www.leonardmatlovich.com

He was right.

tapu · 10-21-2011, 09:15 PM

Super Nanny! (Jojo Something) I love Super Nanny. Not so much as a nanny, though.

10-20-2011, 03:34 PM	#1
Toughy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: pervert butch feminist woman Preferred Pronoun?: see above Relationship Status: independent entity Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Oakland Posts: 1,826 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,068 Thanked 7,654 Times in 1,523 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I don't know why, but Leonard came to my mind today at the SF VA Medical Center. I had the honor and privilege of knowing him. "The epitaph he chose to mark his grave is still as fresh as today's headlines: 'When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one'." -- The Associated Press. It has been an unfathomable thirty-five years since TSGT Leonard Matlovich, the first service member to out himself to fight the military's ban, walked out of the Langley Air Force Base hearing where his discharge had just been announced and held a Kennedy Bicentennial half dollar up to waiting mesmerized reporters. Ironically, it was engraved with an image of Philadelphia's Independence Hall where his mentor gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny had first led a gay rights demonstration a decade before. Leonard told them: "It says '200 Years of Freedom'. Maybe not in my lifetime but we are going to win in the end." www.leonardmatlovich.com He was right. __________________ We are everywhere We are different I do not care if resistance is futile I will not assimilate www.butchfemmesocials.com/

10-21-2011, 09:15 PM	#2
tapu Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Understated butch. Preferred Pronoun?: I Relationship Status: Party of One Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Maine Posts: 1,654 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,324 Thanked 3,116 Times in 1,104 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Super Nanny! (Jojo Something) I love Super Nanny. Not so much as a nanny, though. __________________ Really? That's not funny to you?