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# StoryCorps Shorts: A Time to Speak
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/pov/specials/storycorps-shorts-a-time-to-speak-ulnycm/
- Published: 2025-06-26T16:31:02.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-01T19:00:15.000Z
- Description: Jeff Dupre remembers the first openly gay man to appear on the cover of a national publication.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: POV, #ZZZ_Show_70f7837f-7d56-44e5-aeca-8af3c2ecd00c, #v1.6, #ZZZ_Special_7339b8bb-a40d-4c9d-b090-0ce593b2f779, #special

In July 1975, TIME magazine featured Air Force Tech. Sgt. Leonard Matlovich on its cover with the headline, “I Am A Homosexual.” He was the first openly gay man to appear on the cover of a national publication. Jeff Dupre was Leonard’s friend. He came to StoryCorps with his husband David to remember this historic moment.