What Memorial Day owes queer soldiers
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/queer-soldiers-american-history-memorial-day
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Leonard Matlovich: Bronze Star, Vietnam. Handed his CO a letter saying he was gay — discharged. Tombstone: 'Medal for killing two men. Discharge for loving one.' https://twp.ai/9OWRJz #LeonardMatlovich #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #GayRights #QueerVets
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Leonard Matlovich: Bronze Star, Vietnam. Handed his CO a letter saying he was gay — discharged. Tombstone: 'Medal for killing two men. Discharge for loving one.' https://twp.ai/9OWRJz #LeonardMatlovich #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #GayRights #QueerVets
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Leonard Matlovich: Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Vietnam veteran. In 1975 he handed his CO a letter saying he was gay — discharged anyway. His tombstone: 'Medal for killing two men. Discharge for loving one.' Honor and exclusion running on the same institutional fuel.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7v
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A story I didn't know:
50 years ago, in 1975, Leonard Matlovich (1943-1988), a US American Soldier who had received the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star in Vietnam, came out as gay to his commanding officer in order to challenge the US military's ban on gay people.
