When Leonard Matlovich was thrown out of the Air Force for being gay, he sued for reinstatement. It was 1975 and it was the first case of its kind. Hear the LGBTQ rights pioneer\u2014and startlingly frank one-time racist\u2014in conversation with Studs Terkel.
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