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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LENNY BCE'S GAY NAVAL RE
He got out of the Navy by sayg he was gay, wh a long story of fallg love wh a fellow sailor. A doctor’s evaluatn: “This patient has a tremendo amount of homosexual drive wh some d amount of overt homosexual tennci.
Brooklyn May 1945 to report that he was feelg a ltle gay. ” It was the “knowledge that was a crime agast society and the navy” that kept Bce, 19 at the time, om mtg homosexual acts, he wrote.
‘M*A*S*H’: ONE MAJOR CHARACTER WAS INIALLY WRTEN TO BE A GAY MAN
Wh days, a Navy medil officer reported to the ship’s mandg officer that Bce told him of “supprsg homosexual tennci and the sire is beg stronger, ” acrdg to a May 1945 Navy memo.