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Greatest American Hero
None of the science fiction comedies that filled the airwaves in the 1970s and 1980s (Automan, My Secret Identity, The Powers of Matthew Star, Misfits of Science) were entirely heterosexist; the...
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The Sausage Sighting at the Film Festival
The Plains, Spring 2015When I lived in the gay neighborhoods of Los Angeles, New York, and Fort Lauderdale, there were annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals to attend.In the Straight World, not so...
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Madame's Place: TV's First Drag Queen Sitcom
In 1982, I got my B.A. in English and Modern Languages and moved to Bloomington, Indiana, to study for a M.A. in English. I wasn't planning on an academic career; I thought the M.A. would assist me in...
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Wahlburgers: 4 Seasons, No Underwear
Marky Mark Wahlberg, who rose to fame as a pants-dropping rapper and later spun his mega-buffed physique into serious dramatic roles, is now in his mid 40s, and the star of a reality series,...
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Beefcake Alert: Shirts vs. Skins Basketball in the Campus Gym
Since time immemorial, I've run at 2:00 pm Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Three or four miles outside in the summer, sometimes five, and in the winter, a quick three miles plus warmup on a treadmill...
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Do Levis Show Bulges Better Than Armani Wool Slacks?
When I was a kid, my family was distinctly working class. Dad worked in the factory, and Mom worked at the mall. Our house was about the size of small apartment.90% of dinners consisted of spaghetti,...
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Top 12 Public Penises of South America 1: The East
Since I was doing the public penises of Central America and the Caribbean, I thought I would South America as well. I visited Colombia once, 30 years ago, but otherwise it is completely uncharted...
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Fall 1993: Cruising East of Alvarado
West Hollywood, Fall 1993"Where are all the Hispanic guys?' I asked Lane one day. "The population of Los Angeles is about 50% Hispanic, but you never see any here. We don't even have a Mexican...
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It's Garry Shandling's Show
I was saddened to hear of the death of Garry Shandling, the 66-year old comedian best known for The Larry Sanders Show (1992-1998), and before that, It's Garry Shandling's Show (1986-1990).In West...
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Adam West: Playing Gay before Batman
In the 1960s, when my friends and I watched the camp superhero series Batman (which, by the way, we didn't realize was camp), we zeroed in on Burt Ward's Dick Grayson/Robin, because he was a teenager,...
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16 Naked New Yorkers
I lived in New York from 1997 to 2001, while in graduate school at Long Island University: a year in a graduate student apartment on campus, and three years in the East Village, sharing an apartment...
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Lane's Date with Batman, Robin, and the Joker
West Hollywood, Spring 1991Everybody in West Hollywood had a good celebrity dating story.Older guys claimed that they had dated Marlon Brandon, Cary Grant, or Rock Hudson. Younger guys claimed hookups...
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Top 12 Public Penises of South American #2: the West
Our Public Penis tour of South America left off with Argentina. Next stop: Uruguay.1. Greetingman, a 20-foot tall blue naked man, bows in Buceo, Uruguay to demonstrate friendship. He is the creation...
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Easter at the Bath House
Columbus, Ohio, April, 2007My boyfriend Paul was devout Catholic, so he did the works: Ash Wednesday, then Lent, for which he gave up soda. Then Palm Sunday and Holy Week: services on Maundy Thursday,...
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13 Writers and Artists of the Romantic Era That You Didn't Know Were Gay
When I was studying for my M.A. in English (1982-84), I had to select two adjacent historical eras for my Comprehensive Exams. The problem is, gay content seems to go up and down, a homophobic...
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Spring 1990: Bedroom First, Socializing Later
West Hollywood, Spring 1990Lane and I have been dating for almost a year. Almost every night, he stays over in my house near Sunset and San Vicente, or I stay over in his apartment on Hacienda, about...
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The Patty Duke Show
I was saddened to hear of the death of Patty Duke today, at age 69. The actress was a long-time friend of the gay community, supporting gay rights and AIDS research, and appearing in a number of...
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Spring 1984: Dumped by the Rich Kid
Louisville, Kentucky, Spring 1984I was in Bloomington to get my M.A. in English, but on a campus that offered Elementary Lithuanian, Sufi Poets, Mongolian Civilization, and Serbo-Croatian Epics, who...
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Fall 2004: Wade the Beachboy Cruises for Hawaiian Men
Wilton Manors, Summer 2004"I read an interesting article in the Gay News," Wade and Yuri's hookup says. "It was about the gay traditions of kanaka maoli, traditional Hawaiian society. "With three...
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We Got It Made: 1980s Sitcom with Gay Actor Tom Villard
When I was at Indiana University studying for my M.A., lots of the guys in Eigenmann Hall watched the sex comedy We Got It Made (1983-84), about two nerds who hire Mickey (Teri Copley), one of those...
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