Brett Mathews, Utah man who fought ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in court, dies at 49

Mathews’ conflict with his Latter-day Saint family was chronicled in a documentary that played at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

(Deepfocus Productions) Brett Matthews, as an Air Force ROTC student at Utah State University in the 1990s. Matthews, who fought the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy when he was discharged from the U.S. Air Force in 1998, died Aug. 24, 2021, in his home in Tooele, Utah, at age 49.

Brett Mathews, Utah man who fought ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in court, dies at 49

Mathews’ conflict with his Latter-day Saint family was chronicled in a documentary that played at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

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