{"id":84099,"date":"2019-04-12T18:20:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T22:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/air-force-gay-rights-advocates-meet-in-d-c-1975\/"},"modified":"2019-04-12T18:20:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T22:20:27","slug":"air-force-gay-rights-advocates-meet-in-d-c-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/air-force-gay-rights-advocates-meet-in-d-c-1975\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force gay rights advocates meet in D.C. &#8211; 1975"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Air Force <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> rights advocates meet in D.C. &#8211; 1975<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/washington_area_spark\/\">Washington Area Spark<\/a> posted a photo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/washington_area_spark\/47595369781\/\" title=\"Air Force gay rights advocates meet in D.C. - 1975\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7814\/47595369781_1af480f62f_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"145\" alt=\"Air Force gay rights advocates meet in D.C. - 1975\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rudolph \u201cSkip\u201d Keith and Leonard Matlovich talk to each other during a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> rights conference held at All Souls Church in Washington, D.C. October 11, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>The two were discharged from the Air Force in separate cases in 1975 when they openly said they were <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keith, a native of Washington, D.C., was an Air Force staff sergeant who had an \u201coutstanding\u201d service record, according to military authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Keith had been in the service for seven years when he announced he was <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> during a race relations class at Dover Air Force base on May 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force recommended his discharge citing five instances in which Keith told people he was <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keith said at the conference that \u201cI liked the Air Force and hated to go. They\u2019re a bunch of hypocrites and their rules for discharges aren\u2019t hard and fast.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Keith was given an honorable discharge.<\/p>\n<p>Matlovich was a national figure at that point in time while few had heard of Keith.<\/p>\n<p>Matlovich was a former Air Force technical sergeant who was discharged after 12 years in the service in 1975 two months before Keith and became a leading <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> rights spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Keith, Matlovich was given a general discharge instead of honorable and he sued over his expulsion from the service and the lesser grade discharge.<\/p>\n<p>At the conference Matlovich told the 350 attendees, \u201cIf we are united, nothing on earth can defeat us. Black Americans led the way in the fight for civil rights and now we\u2019re asking for our share of the American pie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matlovich planned his coming out with longtime D.C. <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> rights activist Franklin Kameny who was looking for someone in the military to test the vague bans on <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people.<\/p>\n<p>Matlovich became the first openly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> person to be featured on the cover a major news magazine in the early <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> rights movement when Time put him on the cover of a 1975 issue.<\/p>\n<p>Matlovich\u2019s suit stalled for years in the courts, but in 1980 U.S. District Court <br \/>\nJudge Gerhard Gesell ordered him reinstated into the Air Force and promoted. <br \/>\nThe Air Force offered Matlovich a financial settlement instead. <\/p>\n<p>Convinced that the military would find some other reason to discharge him if he reentered the service, or that the conservative Supreme Court would rule against him should the Air Force appeal, Matlovich accepted. <\/p>\n<p>The figure, based on back pay, future pay, and pension, was $160,000.<\/p>\n<p>Matlovich briefly lived in Washington, D.C. but ultimately settled in California where he continued <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> rights activism.<\/p>\n<p>He announced on Good Morning America in 1987 that he had contracted HIV, and was arrested with other demonstrators in front of the White House that June protesting what they believed was an inadequate response to HIV\/AIDS by the administration of President Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>Matlovich died of AIDS in 1988. Keith dropped from public view and it is unknown what became of him.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993 the military adopted a \u201cDon\u2019t ask don\u2019t tell\u201d policy where <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people could stay in the military provided they didn\u2019t disclose their sexuality and prohibited military personnel from asking about someone\u2019s sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>That policy was ended in 2011, although ongoing litigation over same <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> marriage benefits and discrimination continue. <\/p>\n<p>Transgender people were briefly permitted, but President Donald Trump ordered them expelled from the military in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and related images, see <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHskcVHcxD\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">flic.kr\/s\/aHskcVHcxD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection \u00a9 Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/washington_area_spark\/47595369781\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7814\/47595369781_1af480f62f_n.jpg\" alt=\"Air Force gay rights advocates meet in D.C. - 1975\" width=\"320\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> rights advocates meet in D.C. &#8211; 1975 Washington Area Spark posted a photo: Rudolph \u201cSkip\u201d Keith and Leonard Matlovich talk to each other during a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> rights conference held at All Souls Church in Washington, D.C. October 11, 1975. The two were discharged from the Air Force in separate cases in 1975 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/air-force-gay-rights-advocates-meet-in-d-c-1975\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Force gay rights advocates meet in D.C. &#8211; 1975<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Air Force gay rights advocates meet in D.C. - 1975 - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/air-force-gay-rights-advocates-meet-in-d-c-1975\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Air Force gay rights advocates meet in D.C. - 1975 - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Air Force gay rights advocates meet in D.C. &#8211; 1975 Washington Area Spark posted a photo: Rudolph \u201cSkip\u201d Keith and Leonard Matlovich talk to each other during a gay rights conference held at All Souls Church in Washington, D.C. 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