“And I’m looking at him like, ‘Dude, I’m having homosexual thoughts right now.’ But I locked it up.
“I’m being asked by a stud, a guy with bulging biceps, wearing pants that are practically painted on,” Cope White recalled in a phone interview from his Los Angeles home, laughing. When he went to enlist with his best friend, he learned he would have to answer a few questions. It was 1979, and Greg Cope White was a scared, skinny kid who thought it might be fun to join the Marines.
