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How Proust Can Bore You to Death
I have a confession to make: I have a B.A. in Modern Languages, a M.A. in English, and almost a doctorate in Comparative Literature, and I've never made it through more than a few pages of Proust's...
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Pushing a Shopping Cart Up Castro Street
San Francisco, May 1996Castro Street, the heart of the gay universe, is actually quite compact. There are two blocks of bars, restaurants, and boutiques: Twin Peaks, Orphan Andy's, Almost Home, Thai...
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Our Hook Up with Brad Pitt
San Francisco, August 1996One night late in August 1996, I invited my new friend David and Corbin, the gym rat from Oakland, who I shared with Drake and Zack a few months ago, to dinner at Thai Thai....
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Homophobia and Gay Subtexts in Horrible Bosses
Last night I watched Horrible Bosses (2011) on Netflix. I resisted when it originally appeared due to its reputation for extreme homophobia, but, strangely enough, I didn't find it particularly...
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The Edwardian with the Footlong and the Fetishes
San Francisco, October 1996One day in October 1996, Corbin the gym rate with the Mortadella+ and I were walking down 16th Street, near Gold's Gym, when we saw the Edwardian: in his 30s, very handsome,...
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Don Johnson and the Gay Community
Don Johnson had a close relationship with the gay community from the start. In 1968 he dropped out of the University of Kansas to enroll in the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and...
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My Ex-Boyfriend Hooks Up with the President's Son
Claremont, California, August 1988My ex-boyfriend Fred has just moved to California to study at the Claremont School of Theology, about 40 miles east of West Hollywood, along with his boyfriend Matt....
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Kaptara: Will and Grace in Space
I heard that Chip Zdarsky, who wrote the "Jughead" reboot for Archie comics with Jughead as asexual, was doing a new graphic novel series, Kaptara, about a gay space hero, so I bought the first...
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My Date with the Boy Who Cried "Fabulous"
Wilton Manors, Fall 2004How is it possible to get into a relationship with someone that you don't even like? I met Florian when the South Florida Gay Men's Chorus performed at our church. He was a...
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Dustin Hoffman: The Gay Graduate
Gay subtexts usually require longing looks, physical contact, or at least a same-sex friendship, but in The Graduate (1967), there is none. The plot centers on Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a...
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My Date with the Teenage Boy and His Mom
Plains, August 2016August 1st! 2/3rds of the hot, unpleasant, excruciatingly boring summer is over. I've been going stir crazy with nothing to do all day but sit around the house and read snapchats...
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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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Where's the Beef?
This muscle photo by flickr photographer Deanna Lynne is captioned "Here's the beef."Gay-positive bodybuilder Kai Greene uses it to sell a muscle mass-building supplement.The phrase is so universally...
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20 Plains Pickups, Hookups, Dates, and Boy Toys
Guys in the Straight World hook up a lot more than we ever did in gay neighborhoods. We had sex at the end of dates or parties, and hooked up only very occasionally. There was too much else going on:...
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Gregg Sulkin: Gay-Friendly Werewolf
Of all the hunks of the Disney Channel's "my secret" teencom The Wizards of Waverly Place(Dan Benson, David Henrie, Chad Duell, Jake T. Austin), Gregg Sulkin's conflicted werewolf Mason Grayback is...
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A Guide to Physique Watching
There's nothing like a bulge, or better yet a sausage sighting, but have you ever seen a picture of a penis without the guy it's attached to? Boring! We're attracted to everything that makes a man a...
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The Little Psycho...I mean the Little Prince
When I was in college, Adam's Bookstore had six copies of The Little Prince, a "beloved children's classic" on the shelf, in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Latin (it has been translated...
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David Is Hit On by a High School Boy
Castro Street, July 2014I'm back in San Francisco, Gay Heaven, visiting my friend David for a week.When I met David in 1996, he was 43 years old, newly out, with a wife and children back home. He had...
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Katts and Dog
The Canadian kid-oriented series that aired in the U.S. during the late 1980s came in all varieties. You Can't Do That on Televisionwas sketch-comedy, Degrassi Junior Highteen angst, and Katts and Dog...
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My Date with a Star of "The Wizards of Waverly Place"
Plains, April 2014I'm at Whiskey River, a Plains restaurant which doesn't really serve whiskey, with Jimmy, the housemate of my older platonic friends: 21 years old, slim, sandy-haired, with the most...
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