'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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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.

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.

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

Bce noted that he had been proposned by two fellow shipmat “to be a partner a homosexual act, ” but had cled, though “the temptatn was strong. Concerned about Bce’s purported ndn, the Navy cid to send him for “nro-psychiatric nsultatn” sce he had “a tremendo amount of homosexual drive wh some d amount of overt homosexual tennci.

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