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Showering with Two Boys at a Church Conference
Zermatt, Switzerland, June 1977When I was sixteen years old, I was selected to join 500 Nazarene teenagers from around the world in Fiesch, Switzerland for our International Institute.It was like...
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Orlando
We always remember where we we were, and what we were doing, when we first hear of terrible events, the events that cause the world to become a darker, colder place.The Assassination of President...
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Zagor, the Italian Tarzan, Batman, Robin, Phantom, and Cisco Kid
Zagor is a comic book series first published in Italy in 1961, with later versions in the former Yugoslavia, Austria, Greece, Israel, and Turkey. It is set in early 19th century Pennsylvania, a...
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The Public Penises of Vatican City
Vatican City, the holy of holys for a billion Roman Catholics, is a purely spiritual realm, right?Well, there is a lot of beefcake to be found.The Vatican Museum has a huge number of nude Greek and...
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Yuri and His Boyfriend Find a Gay Hangout
Setauket, Long Island, February 1999This is Yuri's third date with Daniel -- they met on Valentine's Day -- and he has invited me and some of his other friends out to dinner to meet him. Daniel seems...
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Cain and Abel: The Homoeroticism of the Biblical Brothers
When I was growing up, one of my favorite stories in my Children's Bible was of Cain and Abel.They are the children of Adam and Eve, the first two brothers in the world. They both offer food to God,...
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18 Yiddish Words for Penis
A Germanic language influenced by Slavic and Hebrew, Yiddish was spoken throughout the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe from the 9th century on to World War II.Jewish immigrants to the United...
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The Boy with a Crush on My Dad
When I was growing up, I was fascinated by a photo of my father sitting on a burro in Tijuana.Dad is tanned, muscular, smiling, wearing a sombrero that invites us to "Kiss My Ass!"The photo is dated...
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Being Asexual in a Sex-Infused World
In West Hollywood, we had spent so many years hearing that same-sex desire was evil, aberrant, incomplete, faulty, sick, or non-existent that we celebrated it -- a lot.Most conversations involved who...
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The Giver
The Giver (2014) just showed up on my Netflix recommendations. It was about a teenager who "thinks thinks" in a conformist dystopia -- pretty much the protagonist of every young adult movie -- and...
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The Man on the Flying Trapeze: William Saroyan
During my first year in college, the drama club performed The Time of Your Life (1939), William Saroyan's Pulitzer-prize winning play about the lost and wounded denizens of a seedy San Francisco bar....
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Meeting Six Guys at Freshman Orientation
Plains, June 2016I never do anything erotic in my office. It's down a narrow corridor, with six other offices right there, and thin walls so everyone can hear everything.But earlier this week I made...
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Fred MacMurray's Gay Career
I saw Fred MacMurray's career backwards.When I was very little, he was on My Three Sons (1960-1972). I paid most attention to the college-age son Robbie Douglas (Don Grady, left), who like boys, but...
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Anton Yelchin
I was saddened to learn of the death of 27-year old Anton Yelchin in a tragic accident Sunday morning. Best known for playing Chekhov in the new Star Trek movie series, Yelchin was a rising star adept...
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Jaanipaev: The Midsummer Beefcake Festival of Estonia
In 1998, Yuri and I were in Johvi, Estonia for Jaanipäev, St. John's Day, a national holiday.The day before, June 23rd, is Võidupüha, Victory Day, commemorating the Estonian War of Independence, and...
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Will and Scott Have a Wild Night with Keanu Reeves
When I met Will the Bondage Boy in November 1987, he was the picture of a Silverlake leatherman.He was in his 30s, short and compact, bearded, with a muscular, hairy chest and a little belly. He worked...
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Corn on the Cob, Fireworks, and Naked Men: 34 Reasons to Like Summer
Summer is my least favorite season, and we're right in the middle of it, with the heat, humidity, tv reruns, people forcing you to play outside, all of your friends away on vacation, long, boring days...
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The Shy Kentucky Boy at the Bathhouse
January 7th, 2011. Cleveland, Ohio.My boyfriend Troy and I are traveling crosscountry from Upstate New York to Indianapolis to visit my relatives. Cleveland is a convenient halfway point, so we get a...
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Allan Kayser: the Bodybuilder of Mama's Family
During the 1970s, a series of sketches on The Carol Burnett Show featured the young Vicki Lawrence in old-lady drag as the abrasive matriarch of a dysfunctional Southern family. In 1983 she spun off...
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What's Gay about "Married with Children"
One day in 1988, I was at the gym in West Hollywood, and I saw someone wearing a t-shirt reading "Married...with Children Fan Club."I knew about Married...with Children. On Sunday nights, my roommate...
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