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Title: Leonard Matlovich
Contributor: Sahl, Ted (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Ted Sahl Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department.
Description: Photograph is a portrait of AIDS activist, Leonard Matlovich wearing a suit and tie. There is a button with a triangle in it pinned to his jacket, and he is attending a benefit for Golden Gate Business Association, at Desperados in Campbell.
Written on sleeve holding photograph: "Leonard Matlovich; Benefit for Golden Gate Business Ass., Desperados, Campbell." Matlovich first gained notoriety in the mid 1970s by fighting to stay in the United States Air Force after coming coming out as gay. Leonard Matlovich was later an AIDS activist. See Ted Sahl, "From Community to Closet"; (2002), p. 127 and 226.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
4.3 x 2.8 in.
Identifier: islandora:80_1287
filename: sahl_portraits_163
islandora: 80_1287
Subject: Activists
AIDS (Disease)
Button (Information artifacts)
Fund raising
Gay men
Portrait photographs
Gay culture
Place: Campbell
California
Relation: Ted Sahl Collection

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