I thought that was the reason why, and I thought I remembered the marriage on _AfterMASH_ (though I think I was ten when that was on), so I remembered. As far as insanity, I have read a number of psychiatrists saying the only reason homosexuality was taken off the books as a disorder was because of the gay lobby, though there was strong evidence that it shouldnot have been. I wish I could remember the psychiatrist who wrote that in a letter to the editor in _The Indianapolis Star_. Farr called Klinger a "silly fag" in the documentary _Making M*A*S*H_. Scott On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote: > At 12:54 PM -0400 3/2/98, Scott Hutchins wrote: > >Jamie Farr said Klinger on _M*A*S*H_ was supposed to be a "silly fag," but > >I didn't follow the show enough to know if the character was actually gay > >or just liked to wear dresses. > > Actually, he was wearing dresses in order to get released from the army on > a "section 8" -- the insanity discharge. Klinger was never gay, at least > in my recollection (he married a Korean woman in the last season of the > show, and the two of them became the central characters of the blessedly > short-lived "AfterMASH"). But it's nonetheless interesting to remember > that cross-dressing, and thus, on some level, non-heterosexuality, was > still in the late 1970s popularly encoded as insanity. > > Kathleen > > ********************* > Kathleen Fitzpatrick > Department of English > New York University > [log in to unmask] > ********************* > > ---- > To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]