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Jamie Bell: Not Wearing a Sign
Born in 1986, Jamie Bell first gained the attention of gay viewers with Billy Elliot (2000), about a boy who wants to become a ballet dancer in spite of the disapproval of his working-class British...
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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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Bobby Darin: Dream Lover of the 1950s
Bobby Darin (1936-1973) grew up in East Harlem, New York. His first foray into the music business was as a songwriter, paired with future radio great Don Kirshner. But he hit the big time in 1958...
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Trauma, Terror, and Beefcake of Junior High Shop Class
I read somewhere that the number of shop classes in elementary and high schools has dropped 75% during the last 20 years.This is a cause for celebration. Shop class was the biggest trauma of junior...
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Mason Gamble
In the science fiction thriller Gattaca (1997), young Vincent (Mason Gamble) is "different,""inferior" in a society of genetically engineered supermen. He excels anyway, besting his brother Anton...
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Sausage Sighting: The Ex-Wrestler with the Kovbasa
Long Island, Spring 2000When I was a graduate student at Long Island University, New York, I wanted a sausage sighting of Dr. Chester, a former professional wrestler who taught the history and...
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Buster Keaton: Gay Icon of the Silent Screen
I've never understood the comedy of the early 20th century, whether it's comic strips, silent movies, or the short stories of P.G. Wodehouse. Maybe it's the cultural barrier.Silent movies,...
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David Cassidy
The oldest of a show biz family (his brothers are Shaun, Patrick, and Ryan), David Cassidy got his start on The Partridge Family (1970-74), about a family of pop singers who tour the country in a...
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18 West Hollywood Stories of Celebrity Dates and Hookups
In the gay neighborhoods of West Hollywood and San Francisco, not so much in New York or Florida, everyone had a celebrity dating or hookup story. Here are the most famous or most believable I've...
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New Template
You may have noticed that I changed the template. After four years, it was time for a change, thought "magazine" style looked cool.The indexes are still there, but they'll pop up in the text.You can...
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Toy Soldiers: Muscle on Parade
Every once in a while, a movie producer hires all of the teen hunks he can find, puts them in an all-male environment, and orders a script that involves fighting a common adversary with their shirts...
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Derek the Fitness Model's Date with David Cassidy
West Hollywood, Summer 1989It's my third date with Lane, the date you traditionally introduce him to your friends, so we're having dinner at my house with Raul, Will, my Celebrity ex-boyfriend, Fred...
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Spring 2016: Doing What Straight People Do
Plains, April 2016It's a "nice" day on the Plains. You know: bright sizzling sun like an angry gash in the world, sky so blue and cloudless that it makes your eyes ache, endless horizon that makes you...
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What's Wrong with Open Relationships?
In gay communities, people who have open relationships are often criticized as shallow, sex-obsessed, afraid of true intimacy. Or sometimes they're pitied. If only they could experience the...
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10 Things I Hate About the Wizard of Oz
From 1959 to 1991, The Wizard of Oz, was shown on tv every year, on CBS until 1968, and then on NBC.Nazarenes weren't allowed to go to movie theaters, but watching movies on tv was fine, so our parents...
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Guys Who Need to Come Out on "Fear the Walking Dead"
I'm watching the second season of Fear the Walking Dead (2015-) about a family caught up in the first days of the Zombie Apocalypse of The Walking Dead. The first season was slow and dull and...
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Public Penises of Eastern Europe
You'll find a lot of muscular guys in Eastern Europe, where bodybuilding is nearly as popular as soccer (pictured: Bulgarian bodybuilder Dimitar Dimitrov). But outside of the Czech Republic and...
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Beau Mirchoff: Awkward Bromance
I am often asked if I can find a gay subtext in anyone, anywhere. Let's try it out:The Wizards of Waverly Placereunion movie (2013) splits young-adult wizard Alex Russo (Selena Gomez) into good and...
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Summer 1996: David Hooks Up with the Bible Boy of Castro Street
San Francisco, Summer 1996I'm starting a new part-time job at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. During my all-day orientation, I meet a newcomer to the City, David:Older than me, balding, handsome,...
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When Doves Cry
The summer of 1984 was the summer of "When Doves Cry," by androgynous musician Prince. I don't usually like sad songs, but there was something so wistful about the self-incrimination, something so...
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