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Walt Whitman comes out on `Dr. Quinn'
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19970405
Author:Renee Graham, Globe Staff
It is not uncommon for CBS's "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" to sprinkle messages of tolerance amid its weekly dose of treacle, but tonight's episode also does a surprisingly effective job of setting history straight.
Donald Moffat guest stars as poet Walt Whitman, who arrives in Colorado Springs to recover from a mild stroke. But it isn't just the presence of this revered man of words that has the small minds of townspeople abuzz, but the whispered knowledge that Whitman is gay.
As the episode, airing at 8 on WBZ-Channel 4, begins, businessman Preston Lodge III (Jason Leland Adams) is absolutely ...
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