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FORMER ‘M*A*S*H’ STAR SAYS HE IS GAY
Yet few of s episos are as sually groundbreakg as "Gee, " a send-season outg that se surgeons Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and Trapper (Wayne Rogers) try to help a gay army man avoid homophobia wh the ranks of the U. After he revers, Private Gee Wton (Richard Ely) opens up to Hawkeye, tellg him that two people his outf were beat up: a person of lor and a homosexual.
Unlike many ss then and now, no characters — asi om one glarg exceptn — even treat Gee like he's the first gay person they've met. The pair aren't talkg about to gossip, but empathy, as they're ncerned that Gee will be unsafe returng to the same homophobic un (a plot that's never rolved).
"Gee" addrs the topic of gay men servg the ary an astoundg 36 years before the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell officially allowed LGBT+ service members the right to be out the ary. It's a smartly built episo that posns snivelg, holier-than-thou Frank, who aims to get Gee dishonorably discharged, as the mp's one and only face of homophobia. Meanwhile, others mp, cludg Henry (McLean Stevenson) and Radar (Gary Burghoff) are virtually non-reactive to the news of a gay man among their ranks.