ARMED FORCES: Homosexual Sergeant

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Fellow airmen at Langley continue to accept Matlovich as a fine noncom. He finds sexual partners by frequenting a gay bar in Norfolk twice a week, but now that he can be open about his way of life he is thinking of a more sedate arrangement: "I want a lover. I want to settle down." For now, his chief concern is working to dispel the military's timeworn fears. "We don't want any license to rape," says Matlovich. "We just want the right to work."