He became a symbol for homosexual military men and LGBT Americans in general after appearing on the cover of “TIME” magazine in 1975. Matlovich’s gravestone said,
“When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a woman,” after he died of HIV/AIDS complications in 1988.
According to Covart, history is almost always biased. Because every generation exploits the history it created to present itself in a positive manner, this history may not seem so clear to many.
It’s been said that a good history book will not only inform you about the historical period [in which] the historian wrote it, but also about the history the historian studied.
Most of these prejudices are unconscious. “While historians are trained to be as objective as possible when they research and write histories,
