Speak its Name / by Macadamanaity (PG-15)
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makoyiTitle: Speak its Name
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Macadamanaity
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Pairings: BJ Hunnicutt/Hawkeye Pierce,BJ Hunnicutt/Sidney Freedman
Genre: Postwar, Angst
Length: Very Short (Words: 5,265)
Author's Summary:
"He was seated at the table and used no amplification for his voice, but BJ would know it anywhere, anytime, with any number of bombs dropping around them."
Review:
Sidney Freedman, psychiatrist, is spending the postwar years advocating for the removal of homosexuality from the DSM (de-medicalizing it, stopping it from being considered a disease you can be diagnosed and treated for). That's the subject he's speaking about at a medical convention BJ attends and they get to talking. This isn't a romance fic and the pairings aren't really important --- it's more about identity, activism, and life after war. I really like the glimpse into this era in LGBT history that this fic gives and I like the characterizations and the ambiguity of their own identities.
Some people might have a problem with so many of the characters being some shade of queer identity (Hawkeye and BJ are represented as bi, Sidney and his son are identified as gay, and Klinger is still crossdressing but straight). To my mind, it's only a short fic and the point is sexual identity issues so I don't think it becomes an Everyone Is Gay problem, but YMMV.
Speak its Name (on AO3)
Author:
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Pairings: BJ Hunnicutt/Hawkeye Pierce,BJ Hunnicutt/Sidney Freedman
Genre: Postwar, Angst
Length: Very Short (Words: 5,265)
Author's Summary:
"He was seated at the table and used no amplification for his voice, but BJ would know it anywhere, anytime, with any number of bombs dropping around them."
Review:
Sidney Freedman, psychiatrist, is spending the postwar years advocating for the removal of homosexuality from the DSM (de-medicalizing it, stopping it from being considered a disease you can be diagnosed and treated for). That's the subject he's speaking about at a medical convention BJ attends and they get to talking. This isn't a romance fic and the pairings aren't really important --- it's more about identity, activism, and life after war. I really like the glimpse into this era in LGBT history that this fic gives and I like the characterizations and the ambiguity of their own identities.
Some people might have a problem with so many of the characters being some shade of queer identity (Hawkeye and BJ are represented as bi, Sidney and his son are identified as gay, and Klinger is still crossdressing but straight). To my mind, it's only a short fic and the point is sexual identity issues so I don't think it becomes an Everyone Is Gay problem, but YMMV.
Speak its Name (on AO3)