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Lizzie Borden Chronicles: Beefcake and Splatter
The Lizzie Borden Chronicles is an 8 episode miniseries that aired on Lifetime in 2015 and is now on Netflix. It chronicles the adventures of the famous Lizzie Borden (1860-1924), after she was...
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Wally Cox: Was Mr. Peepers Gay?
On February 9, 1970, Here's Lucystarred Alan Hale Jr. as Moose Manley (yes, that's his name), who worries that his son Wally (Wally Cox) is not manly enough -- he's "shy around girls."I had never heard...
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Randall's Hookup with Dick Sargent, Cary Grant, and Groucho Marx
West Hollywood, Fall 1994It is the evening before the AIDS Walk, an event almost as big as Halloween or Gay Pride, and Lane and I are having some guys over for dinner, including Will the bondage boy,...
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The 10 Best Gay Neighborhoods in America
During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the first thing you did after "figuring it out" was pack all of your stuff and move to a gay neighborhood, where you could be free from stares and jeers and shrieks...
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Summer 1990: In Search of Remembrance and Penises in Poland
West Hollywood, Summer 1990I'm working at the Getty Consternation Institute, my first actual 9-5 office job, and I hate it. The same four walls, day in and day out, five days a week. My summer...
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Bewitched, Bewildered, and Gay
You can always distinguish between gay and heterosexual Boomer boys by asking: Bewitched orI Dream of Jeannie?Jeannie (1965-70) offered the sexist fantasy of a man whose semi-nude, subservient genie...
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Pogo: The Gay Possum of Okefenokee Swamp
There have been three major comic strips devoted to the naivete, colorful traditions, and homespun wisdom of the hillbilly:Li'l Abner, about a backwoods Adonis allergic to hetero-romance.Snuffy Smith,...
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A Hookup with the Waiter at a Christian Pizza Restaurant
Plains, Spring 2015Restaurants in the Straight World are a gamble. You never know which are gay friendly, and which are homophobic, until you get there.Except for the Pizza Ranch.I ate there once when...
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Mickey and Goofy, the Gay Couple of "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories"
Way to feel old. I just bought the 75 Anniversary Edition of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, the flagship of the Disney comics empire.I bought the 50th Anniversary Edition in 1991.And I was alive...
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Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe started his career as one of the slim, androgynous prettyboys who populated the 1980s (others included Tom Cruise, Peter Barton, Corey Haim, and John Stamos). He played a teenage father in an...
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The Bodybuilder and the Teenage Underwear Thief
Wilton Manors, Summer 2001I have just moved from New York to Wilton Manors, Florida, to live with Yuri and his housemate, bodybuilder turned gym owner Barney. On my first weekend in town, in an...
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Mitch Vogel: The Bulge and Biceps of Bonanza
We needed as many freckle-faced redheaded boys as possible during the 1970s: Ron Howard on Happy Days, Johnny Whitaker on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and Mitch Vogel on Bonanza (1970-73). He played...
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Fall 1987: Mario's Date with Rob Lowe
West Hollywood, Fall 1987When I first arrived in West Hollywood in 1985, Rob Lowe was an androgynous prettyboy who took off his shirt a lot in Brat Pack classics like The Outsiders (1983), Class...
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Justin Morrit, the Guy Who Shared Rob Lowe
Have you seen the famous Rob Lowe sex tape? It depicts then-Brat Pack star Rob Lowe and a friend having sex with two women in a hotel room in Atlanta in 1988, on the night before the Democratic...
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A Teenager Doing Pushups on TV
Today you can go online and see 100,000,000 pictures and videos of naked bodybuilders and athletes flexing for selfies, and every actor with even minimal musculature takes off his shirt at the drop of...
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Summer 2002: Kicked Out of the Russian Army for Being Gay
Wilton Manors, Summer 2002Whenever he's asked for his coming out story, Yuri tells about that night in December 1997, when he was a 23 year old graduate student, new to America, who claimed to be...
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Martin Spanjers: 8 Simple Rules for Playing Gay
In case you're wondering who this boy is who showers wearing a towel and seems very happy to be looking at the muscular adult hunk, his name is Martin Spanjers, and he was playing the teenage Rory on...
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The Hogan Family
During the 1980s, the buzzword was "family values," which meant that only people who had heterosexual nuclear families had value. We heard again and again that the only life worth living involved...
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Handsome and Small or Sleazy and Gigantic? Corbin's Choice
San Francisco, Spring 1996A few weeks ago, Lane and I drove back to West Hollywood for the annual Oscar party. Then, unexpectedly, he had to take care of something about the apartment building he...
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Quentin Crisp: Homophobic Gay Pioneer
This elegantly-attired, feminine person, who looks a lot like my Grandmother Davis, is Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), who spent his life saying and doing exactly what he wanted.He didn't like doing...
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