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The Winner of the Biggest Penis Contest
Dayton, April 2008When I was living in Dayton, I went to weekly M4M Parties hosted by a guy named Rode, held in the basement of his small, rather run-down house in the Oregon District near downtown....
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Top 10 Public Penises of the South
Many people in the northern states of the U.S. are afraid of the South, that vast territory that extends from Washington DC, 1200 miles to Miami Beach, and west 1000 miles to Kansas City. It's full of...
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The Boys of Flipper
Flipper (1964-67), was like Lassie or Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, except set n the Florida Everglades, with a dolphin instead of a collie or a kangaroo, and no women in sight. It seemed designed...
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Finding Small Town Gay Men on Grindr
In the book Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today (1976), Howard Brown expresses horror over a gay friend's decision to move away from Baltimore to a small town:...
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Teenage Millionaire: The Teen Idol Career of Jimmy Clanton
Have you ever heard of Jimmy Clanton?I thought I was an expert on teen idols, but I missed this one.Born in 1938 in Louisiana, he burst onto the charts right after high school, eschewing the usual rock...
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Spring 1983: Reading Faulkner: Redneck Muscle and Boys in Drag
Nothing brings back my memories of college literature classes more than William Faulkner. Other authors I can return to with respect, even with pleasure, but Faulkner is mostly incomprehensible, and...
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The 10 Hottest Small Guys
The average size the U.S. is between 5" and 6." But everyone thinks it's about 8", so average-sized guys often feel insecure, and small guys always try to hide it. But small ones work just like big...
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Aldo Ray: The Voice, Chest, and Endowment that Wowed Old Hollywood
Aldo Ray is on my list of gay and gay-friendly people born in 1926, but I didn't know anything else about him until I started looking for photos.He was a blond, beefy screen hunk with a deep voice and...
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Picking Up a College Track Star in Small Town Illinois
Small Town Illinois, September 2016We're on our way back from a funeral, my brother and sister-in-law in the front seat, me in the back, driving down I-74 through a wilderness of small towns and vast...
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Victor Mature: Supersized in Old Hollywood
Speaking of well-endowed Old Hollywood, check out this guy's swimsuit bulge.He's Victor Mature (1913-1999), beefcake star of the 1940s and 1950s. A Kentucky boy, son of Italian immigrants, he moved to...
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Pat Boone, Gay Icon
It's hard to imagine, but conservative spokesperson Pat Boone was once an icon for gay kids. In a 1959 version of the Jules Verne classic Journey to the Center of the Earth, one of a series of...
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The Nude African Men Photographed by Louis Agassiz
You know Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) as the geologist who discovered evidence of past ice ages and theorized that the Earth was far older than the 6,000 or so years proposed in the Bible (although he...
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Dick Sargent's Three-Way with Pat Boone
West Hollywood, March 2003Conservative superstar Pat Boone, the World's #1 homophobe, had a three-way with Darrin of Bewitched?I'm back in West Hollywood for a post-Oscar party thrown by Lane and his...
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Daniel Boone: a Big Man
Daniel Boone was a man --He was a big man!Sounds good so far. When I was seven or eight years old, I was all for watching tv shows about a man, especially a big man. Especially a big man who was a...
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13 Things I Hate About Will and Grace
Will and Grace (1998-2005) was a multiple-Emmy award winning sitcom about a gay man, Will (Eric McCormack), his best friend Jack (Sean Hayes), and their heterosexual female life partners, Grace (Debra...
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Suske en Wiske: Beefcake and Adventure in Flemish Comics
Suske en Wiske, aka Spike and Suzy, Bob and Bobette, Finn and Fifi, Ze y Maria, Willy and Wanda, and so on, are a pair of adventurers in a long-running comic strip created by Willy Vandersteen in 1945....
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Farshad's Date with Leonardo DiCaprio
Paris, June 2015I'm in Paris for the first time in eight years, visiting my old haunts and catching up with old friends. Farshad, the French Moroccan on my Sausage List, and his roommate Michel have...
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Pietro Boselli: The Engineer Who Became a Model
Extremely attractive men (and women) have constant problems with objectification. Strangers think that they have the right to walk up to them and grab their butt or feel their biceps. So-called...
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Cruising My Cousin's Son at a Funeral
Garrett, Indiana, July 2002When I was a kid, we drove from Rock Island to Garrett in northeastern Indiana at least twice a year to visit my parents' family. But after I moved to West Hollywood, I...
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The Most Boring, Stupid, and Heterosexist State Songs
At every school assembly when I was a kid in Rock Island, we had to sing the state song. You were also forced to sing it at football games, wrestling matches, and political rallies:By thy rivers...
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