'M*A*S*H': One Major Character Was Inially Wrten to Be Gay

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An inic character on TV's "M*A*S*H" is Corporal Max Klger, who wore a drs orr to leave Korea. Klger was wrten to be gay.

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FORMER ‘M*A*S*H’ STAR SAYS HE IS GAY

Gee: Directed by Gene Reynolds. Wh Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Sw. A rated GI nfis to Hawkeye that he was beaten by his own un for beg gay but Frank Burns is outraged when he fds out om another source and tri to have the soldier dishonorably discharged." data-id="ma * the gay character in mash *

M*A*S*HCast & crewUser reviewsTriviaEpiso aired Feb 16, 197413+25mA rated GI nfis to Hawkeye that he was beaten by his own un for beg gay but Frank Burns is outraged when he fds out om another source and tri to have the soldier dishonorab...

Read allA rated GI nfis to Hawkeye that he was beaten by his own un for beg gay but Frank Burns is outraged when he fds out om another source and tri to have the soldier dishonorably discharged. A rated GI nfis to Hawkeye that he was beaten by his own un for beg gay but Frank Burns is outraged when he fds out om another source and tri to have the soldier dishonorably productn, box office & pany Review Funny I don't remember this one......

But enough about episo talks about the problems of a gay man servg the ary at the time of the Korean War when this was still nsired moral turpu and got you evicted om the ary, and not honorably. Frank gets wd of the existence of the gay soldier, the tular "Gee", and mands that Lt. Maybe was a hold over om hippie culture, bee when Trapper John and Henry Blake were wrten out of the show, their new unterparts were te blue to their was really surprisg to see somethg taken up primetime TV that would still e a furor 20 years later when Bill Clton at first wanted to allow gay men and women to serve openly the ary, and had to settle for "Don't Ask Don't Tell".

‘M*A*S*H’: ONE MAJOR CHARACTER WAS INIALLY WRTEN TO BE A GAY MAN

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“I am (gay), ” the 66-year-old actor said an terview wh the blog “Very proud to be so.

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IT’S A MATTER OF ENOMICS…A LOT OF MY E HAS BEEN RIVED OM VOICG DISNEY AND FAY PROGRAMMG. WHAT THEY MIGHT ALLOW A MORE KNOWN ACTOR, THEY PREFER NOT HAVG TO AL WH MOR PLAYERS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AMONG OGN STIERS MANY VOICE CREDS ARE ROL DOZENS OF ANIMATED DISNEY MOVI, CLUDG COGSWORTH BETY AND THE BEAST, BOTH RATCLIFFE AND WIGGS POHONTAS, AND THE ARCHAN THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. HE ALSO VOICED A CHARACTER THE ENGLISH VERSN OF SPIRED AWAY, DISTRIBUTED BY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ODGEN STIERS SAID HE WAS REPEATEDLY UTNED TO STAY THE CLOSET IF HE WANTED TO NTUE GETTG WORK AS A VOICE ACTOR FOR THE FAY FILMS. “FROM THE LATE 1980’S UNTIL ABOUT SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS AGO, YOU WOULD FD CERTA DIVIDUALS G UP TO YOU, ME, AND ADVOTG THE POSN THAT SCE WE WERE DOG FAY FARE THAT WOULD BE BT WERE THE ACTORS TO MATA A CERTA PALATABILY TO PARENTS,” OGN STIERS SAID. “THE PARTI LIKELY HAD HEARD MORS OR HARBORED SPICNS ABOUT ME AND WANTED TO MAKE SURE NO EMBARRASSG CINTS WERE FORTHG.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT SAID, OGN STIERS ADMTED THAT, LATER YEARS, HE WASN’T SURE IF THE THREAT OF HOMOPHOBIC DISCRIMATN WAS STILL REAL. “I’VE BEEN WORKG TERNALLY ON WHETHER THEY WERE THE PROBLEMS, OR IF I JT NTUED G THEM AS AN EXCE LONG AFTER THE LL FOR NSERVATIVE PRIVATE LIV PASSED,” HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OGN STIERS, 66, WAS BORN AND RAISED ILLOIS, WHERE HE -EDED A NEWSPAPER WH CLASSMATE AND FUTURE FILM CRIC ROGER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LATER, HE FOUND SUCCS ON THE STAGE ON BOTH ASTS, BUT WH HIS DISTGUISHED LOOK AND DISTCTIVE VOICE, WAS TELEVISN WHERE HE FOUND BREAK-OUT STARDOM. IN 1977, HE REPLACED LARRY LVILLE’S FRANK BURNS AS A FOIL FOR ALAN ALDA’S HAWKEYE ON THE TELEVISN H, M*A*S*H. ODGEN STIERS PLAYED THE ROLE OF ARROGANT, BUT SOMEHOW LIKABLE ARISTOCRAT CHARL EMERSON WCHTER III FOR SIX YEARS, LANDG TWO EMMY NOMATNS, UNTIL THE SHOW WAS NCELED 1983. HE DID NOT APPEAR THE SHOW’S SP-OFF, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DURG HIS STT ON M*A*S*H AND AFTER, OGN STIERS APPEARED UNTLS TELEVISN AND MOVIE ROL, GENERALLY AS A SUPPORTG PLAYER. MOST RECENTLY, HE LAND REGULAR ROL ON THE SERI THE DEAD ZONE AND STARGATE: ATLANTIS. HE’S ALSO APPEARED A NUMBER OF WOODY ALLEN MOVI, CLUDG ONE, ANOTHER WOMAN, WHERE HE PLAYED AN EERILY ACCURATE-SEEMG YOUNGER VERSN OF HIS FORMER ACTG MENTOR, THE LATE JOHN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WAS HIS POST-M*A*S*H REER AS A VOICE ACTOR WHERE HE ONCE AGA FOUND MAJOR SUCCS. IRONILLY, WAS THE FLAMBOYANT NATURE OF SOME OF THOSE ROL THAT HE SAYS NTRIBUTED TO HIS STAYG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“COGSWORTH, THE CHARACTER I DID ON BETY AND THE BEAST, ULD BE A B FLAMBOYANT ON SCREEN, BEE BASILLY HE IS A RTOON,” HE SAID. “BUT THEY DIDN’T WANT COGSWORTH TO BEE DISNEY’S GAY CHARACTER, BEE GOT AROUND A GAY MAN WAS PLAYG HIM.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}REGARDG THIS SIGNATURE ROLE THE CLASSIC DISNEY FILM (WHICH ODGEN STIERS ALSO NARRAT), THE ACTOR REPORTEDLY AD-LIBBED THE LAST PART OF COGSWORTH’S FAMO ADVICE TO THE BEAST ON WHAT TO GIVE BELLE: “WELL, THERE'S THE UAL THGS: FLOWERS... CHOLAT... PROMIS YOU DON'T TEND TO KEEP...”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT ON THE SUBJECT OF ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN THE ANIMATED MOVIE DTRY, ODGEN STIERS IS QUICK TO ADD, “I HAVEN’T WNSED SUCH THGS OCCURRG A LONG, LONG TIME.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

“I enjoy workg and even though many have this ialistic belief that the entertament dtry and studs like Walt Disney are gay iendly.

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Former ‘M*A*S*H’ star says he is gay .

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