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Filename: sahl_portraits_163
PID: islandora:80_1287
Title: Leonard Matlovich
Creator: Sahl, Ted (photographer)
Date issued: 1979
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.
File Format: Image/jpg
Extent: 4.3 x 2.8 in.
Object type: Photographic prints
Tags: Activists
Subject, LCSH: Gay culture
Subject, TGM: Activists
AIDS (Disease)
Button (Information artifacts)
Fund raising
Gay men
Portrait photographs
Geographic coverage: Campbell -- California
Collection: Ted Sahl Archives
Repository: San José State University Special Collections & Archives
Relation - is part of: Series III, Box 8, Folders 36
Rights: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department.
Location: Series III, Box 8, Folders 36
Note: 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.
Digital reproduction information: Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG