Here's How 'Quantum Leap' Depicted Gay Rights In The Milary In 1992 | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• HERE'S HOW 'QUANTUM LEAP' DEPICTED GAY RIGHTS IN THE MILARY IN 1992
• MASON ALEXANR PARK PARTNER: IS QUANTUM LEAP CAST GAY? GENR AND SEXUALY
• NBC TAK H OVER GAY ISSUE ON ‘LEAP’ SHOW
• WHEN ‘QUANTUM LEAP’ LOOKED BACK AT GAYS IN THE MILARY

HERE'S HOW 'QUANTUM LEAP' DEPICTED GAY RIGHTS IN THE MILARY IN 1992

Debate over “ Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ” ― the sce-repealed policy banng gay and lbian people om servg the U. Tommy/Beckett disvers that his iend, Phillip (Sean O’Bryan), has been expelled om their naval amy bee he intifi as gay.

By the ncln of the episo, Tommy mt prevent Phillip om beg murred a hate crime and, dog so, prove to the naval amy that s l prohibg gay recs are wrong.

”“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was enacted some two years after the episo aired 1994 and, at the time, was nsired by some to be a step forward for gays and lbians the ary. In the March issue of Physics Today is a story about how the Amerin Physil Society (APS) has put together an ad hoc mtee to look to issu relevant to physicists who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT), or other sexual or genr mory.

MASON ALEXANR PARK PARTNER: IS QUANTUM LEAP CAST GAY? GENR AND SEXUALY

He is gay and a member of the APS ad hoc mtee on LGBT issu. I didn’t see the two [beg gay and beg a physicist] as beg related.

I saw my inty as a gay man as somewhat cintal. When I was dog the visg assistant profsor job at Case, I had a slightly negative teractn wh a younger creatnist grad stunt, who was tellg me rather equently that I was gog to Hell for beg a homosexual. “There is this notn STEM that your work is the only thg that should matter, ” says Ron Buckmire, a math profsor and gay man at Occintal College Los Angel, California.

In the summer of 1989, between my bachelor’s gree and the begng of graduate school, I realized I was gay. I started nng the gay stunt group, was elected as a graduate senator, and started wrg for the stunt newspaper. PT: How do beg gay terface wh your amic reer?

NBC TAK H OVER GAY ISSUE ON ‘LEAP’ SHOW

When I was a graduate stunt, I met the then chair of Occintal College’s mathematics partment bee me and my boyiend had attend a gay men’s movie night wh him. Stunts put bizarre ments that were related to my sexual orientatn, like, “Why do he have to be so gay? There are many gay people who overachieve many areas and spend so much time and energy focg on that, they sublimate their sexual orientatn.

“So beg gay, you add that to , I jt stand out more.

WHEN ‘QUANTUM LEAP’ LOOKED BACK AT GAYS IN THE MILARY

To me, I jt uldn’t be gay. And I thought, “I’m gay.