After joining the Army at age 19, Bodē went AWOL but later received an honorable discharge due to a psychiatric diagnosis [REF].
Around 1970-1971, conversations with the guru Prem Rawat and fellow cartoonist Jeffrey Catherine Jones (with whom Bodē shared a studio in Woodstock, New York)[REF] led Bodē to cross-dressing, transvestism,[REF] and even a short-lived experiment with female hormones [REF].