After serving 30 months in the Navy and participating in four overseas invasions during World War II, comedian Lenny Bruce went to the sick bay on the U.S.S. Brooklyn in May 1945 to report that he was feeling a little gay.
From Lenny Bruce’s Gay Naval Ruse
This just may be the funniest Lenny Bruce bit ever and it played to an audience of one. Don’t ask, don’t tell, laugh hysterically?
