said by StuartMW:Well Are You Being Served? is about 40 years old and from a time when societal norms were different. I think it's unfair to compare it with today's standards.
I'm not. I saw it when it was first broadcast in the early 1970s and thought it was dreadfully unfunny then.
But back to your original point: yeah, it was explicit. That was the entire joke: "he's a homosexual: ha, ha".