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been reading 'Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present', which is very very good. there's a bit in the World War 2 chapter than amused me MASH-nerdishly ...

The US military informally channeled identifiably gay GIs into a variety of stereotypically homosexual jobs - [...] men served as clerks*, medics**, hospital corpsmen***, chaplains' assistants**** and female impersonators in musical revues and morale-boosting shows***** (someone show me how to do footnote tags on lj)

* Radar and Klinger
** ... everyone (medics doesn't EXACTLY equal doctor, but still)
*** Radar and Klinger again, also Mulcahy
**** kind of Klinger, although I think him helping Mulcahy isn't part of his job - he just likes to. it's an odd and very background pairup, but it's there a lot, and it's very cute. (it makes me think of the Janitor and his Todd-Ted-Doug braintrust on Scrubs ... minor character solidarity!)
***** Klinger AGAIN

I don't know how much the army changed between WW2 and the Korean war, and obviously not everyone in those positions was gay, but amused I was and amused I remain. Mash is teh gay

(cross-posted from my journal)