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University Daily Kansan, March 25, 1983
Gay rights activist tells of fight with Air Force
By CARMEN ABBOTT Staff Reporter
"Everybody here is a parent — a parent to the next generation of gays," said a former sergeant who challenged the U.S. Air Force's regulations against homosexuals last night in a speech at the Kansas Union.
Leonard Matlovich, 39, the former sergeant for the Air Force, gained nationwide attention several years ago when he challenged the regulations.
MATLOVICH WAS discharged from the Air Force with a general, or less than honorable, discharge after a court fight. He and Frank Kameny, a noted gay activist, wanted a test case to prove that other gay people in the military could not be barred from service.
Although he said his case seemed perfect because he had an unblemished military record, no sign of psychiatric problems, and a Bronze Star and Purple Heart — which he won during his three tours to Vietnam — he lost the case and was given the general discharge.
More than 50 people watched a movie last night about the controversy, "Leonard Matlovich vs. U.S.A.F.", in Alderson Auditorium in the Union. Following the movie, Matlovich led a memoir of his life before and after the trial.
The event was sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas as part of the event.
G. Gay and H. Herman will speak tomorrow
Matlovich also will speak tomorrow
during a seminar for area gay organizations.
HE NOW WORKS in California in the restaurant business.
"My restaurant is my lover now," he said.
He also travels around the country to speak to various gay and lesbian groups.
Mattvich said he was saddened when he was not able to stay in the Air Force. He said that many homosexuals and gay men had official hids that fact from the public.
Matlvich said he now was bitter toward the military. He also is bitter with the president.
MATLOVICH WAS raised in the South. He said he thought then that stereotypes were assigned only to black people. But after joining the Air Force, and talking with blacks, he realized that the stereotypes meant nothing. He was a counselor in racial relations while in the Air Force.
Matlovic said he looked to the black movement for inspiration before his
"I owe the black movement a lot. It gave me the courage to fight my fight."
He said that coming out of the closet had been positive for him. His family fully accepted him as a normal person, who understood and got through the trial.
HIS MOTHER accepted him as he was, he said, rather than take the blame for his not being what society considered perfect.
His father cried for two hours after hearing of Malcolm's fight against the mob.
"Now he is my best supporter," Matlovich said.
Two men held for trial in local bike theft case
Two Kansas City, Kan., men accused of stealing two bicycles from in front of Joseph R. Pearson Hall last week were bound over for trial yesterday by a Douglas County District Court judge.
The two suspects, Willie J. Kendrick and Mark E. Smith, will appear in court April 4, when a judge will set a formal trial date.
JUDGE MIKE ELWELL, dismissed one of two charges of felony theft against the two men because the owner of the second bicycle had not been found.
Elwell ruled that the evidence presented by Charles Greer, Lawrence police officer, and Paul Cohen was sufficient to establish probable
cause that the suspects had committed the crime.
John Laird, Green Bay, Wis,
freshman, said after the hearing
that when he returned from spring
camp, he was shocked by the
Schwimm bicycle had been stolen.
Greer testified that he had stopped a car that had two bicycles in its trunk. Kenderick and Smith were in that car, he said.
Andrew Ramirez, who represented the suspects, argued that a minimum value of $100, which is the standard for felony theft, had not been proven
After hearing testimony from Laird that the bicycle had cost $170 when it was new, Elwell ruled that the bicycle would worth at least the required $100.
which was formed after reports of attacks on women on and near the KU campus.
The second meeting of the Night Runners' Safety Patrol will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the International Room of the Kassas Union.
The group also wants to make people more aware of the blue-light emergency telephones on campus and the phone on campus with a landmine on campus and throughout the city.
John Beldock, Durango,Colo., senior and member of the group, said the patrol's main goal was to make trouble areas, both on campus and throughout Lawrence, safer by having joggers run those areas in the morning and evening.
THE MEETING primarily will be to schedule running times for the group.
Joggers meeting to increase safety on and off campus
"We hope to attract those men and women who want to combine recreation with community service," Beldock said.
Slattery to hear issues at Sierra Club meeting
First, the Sierra Club wants Congress to establish a government policy on acid rain that would reduce sulfur dioxide production by 58 percent in 31 states east of the Mississippi. They also want to increase the number of hazardous air pollutants regulated by the government.
Kevin Kennedy, president of the local chapter, said yesterday that Slattery would meet with the group in a closed meeting at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Topeka.
Members of the local chapter of the Sierra Club want to persuade U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Lawrence, to influence Congress and the Reagan administration to adopt stricter environmental laws.
BECAUSE SLATTERY'S committee is involved with current EPA investigations, Kennedy said, the group will encourage him to push for the following four proposals: to produce a timetable for hazardous waste cleanup; to establish a policy on acid rain and sulfur dioxide cleanup; to set a minimum operating budget for the EPA of $1.3 billion, excluding the Superfund; and to list and regulate the 100 most toxic pollutants in use today.
THE GROUP plans to discuss problems concerning acid rain, hazardous air pollutants and the Environmental Protection Agency. Because of Slattery's influential position on the Fossil Fuels Subcommittee, the Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, members think he can help them achieve their goals.
On campus
TODAY
THE ANTHROPOLOGY PRO SEMINAR will feature a speech by Steven Lutes about Anthropology and Advocacy: Working with Contemporary Indian Peoples, at 4 p.m. in the Jawahk Room of the Kansas Union.
THE BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the
University Singers will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN
INFERIOR FLOOR. p.m.
in the Pipe Room of the Union.
HARAMBEE will have a Bible study at 7 p.m. in the Lewis Hall fireplace
A SENIOR RECITAL by Suzanne Purtlee, organ, will be at 8 p.m. at Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont.
TOMORROW
A SENIOR RECITAL by Robin Thornton, soprano, will be at 3:30 p.m. in Swarthout.
TOMORROW
THE SPRING CONCERT by the
A DOCTORAL RECITAL. by Marion Roberts, conducting, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout.
A JUNIOR RECITAL by Max Cripe,
French horn, and Julie Burlingham,
soprano, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout
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MAIN ENROLLMENT FALL. 1983
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
Confidential folders and personalized enrollment card (only one per person) available at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Open 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Only chance to obtain folder and enrollment card.
March 30 April 27 Appointments initiated by students with faculty advisors according to schedules set by departments and advisors. Freshmen and sophomores must have advisor's approval to receive dean's stamp.
March 28 & March 29
April 6- Dean's stamp given outside 102 Strong Hall.
April 9
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