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Ryan's Three-Way with Harry Styles
Plains, October 2016In search of celebrity dating and hookup stories, I've been asking all the gay men I know, with little luck. But I got a good one last night, from of all places, Ryan H., the...
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Bruce Springsteen: Gay Ally with a Sordid Past
Bruce Springsteen, "The Boss," went completely under my radar in the 1970s and 1980s. I knew "Blinded by the Light" (1973), but only through the 1977 cover by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, something...
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Top 20 October Dates, Hookups, and Sausage Sightings
It's October, my favorite month of the year! The days get longer, tv and theater seasons are in full swing, the air is brisk, running outside is a pleasure rather than a sweaty chore. You get apple...
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Wearing a Gay Pride T-Shirt in Public
Plains, October 2016Unless I'm in a gay neighborhood, I'm never out in public. No gay pride t-shirts, no lambdas, no pink triangles, no rainbow flags. No holding hands with my date. My book on a gay...
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The Famous Five Have Plenty of Fun
The Famous Five were Britain's answer to the Boxcar Children or the Hardy Boys, five youthful detectives who appearing in 21 volumes by Enid Blyton from 1942 to 1962.There have also been original...
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10 Gay Movies I Loved
Ok, here's my list of 10 gay movies that did it right: coming out is not necessarily traumatic, gay and transgender are two different things, gay communities exist, heterosexuals are not necessarily...
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My Scary Half-Date with the Teenage Lawnboy
West Hollywood, October 1992The Boy Next Door didn't really live next door. He lived at one of Lane's mother's rental properties, a five-unit building on La Jolla. When Rosa got sick in the summer of...
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Jesse Bradford
Born in 1979, Jesse Bradford made his acting debut at the age of 8 months, in a Q-Tips commercial (it was a non-speaking role). He was busy as a child, playing the son of a screenwriter with lung...
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Wilbur and Ed in the Barn: The Gay Subtext of "Mr. Ed"
I never actually saw Mr. Ed (1961-1966) -- it was before my time. But the older generation of baby boomers has fond memories of the story of newly-married architect Wilbur Post (Alan Young, 52 years...
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The Last Half of My Scary Date with the Teenage Lawnboy
West Hollywood, March 1995After my scary half-date with the jailbait lawnboy James in October 1992, I thought I'd never see him again. But he continued to live in Rosa's apartment building with his...
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Who was Gay on "Salute Your Shorts"?
Salute Your Shorts (1991-1992) was one of the first teencoms on the fledgling Nickelodeon network, a sitcom for and about kids. It was set in a never-ending summer camp, Camp Anawanna (as in "I don't...
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Red: Retired Operatives are Lethal and Heterosexist
I just saw Red (2010), a wisecracking caper movie about a bald, crotchety retired CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), probably so named to reflect the saying "older than Moses," although Bruce...
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Veep: In the Vice President's Office, Everyone is Obsessed with One Thing
In the midst of the strangest presidential campaign in U.S. history, where one of the candidates can spout racist and sexist polemics worthy of the Ku Klux Klan, yet still draw over 40% of potential...
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Infinite Chazz Goes to Disneyland
Anaheim, California, February 1994My job at at a camp for juvenile delinquents lasted for only about six months, from July 1992 to January 1993: too many crazy rules, too homophobic. The only kid I...
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Tintin and Captain Haddock
When I studied Spanish, I got songs about liking blonde girls ("Las rubias me gustan mas") and a story about Juan y Maria in love, though when I snooped around on my own, I found Papa Solteroand the...
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The Cute Young Thing of Tel Aviv
West Hollywood, December 1991I'm back in West Hollywood after a failed semester studying Biblical Hebrew at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Lane has invited some friends over for a welcome home party. I...
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Three TV Hunks on a Cold Winter Night
Davenport, Iowa, January 1980January 15, 1980, a very cold, snowy Tuesday night during my sophomore year in college. Fred the Ministerial Student and I are watching tv in his living room. He is my...
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A Gaggle of Rockies from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
Arguably one of the main draws of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is Rocky, the gold lame-clad muscle hunk who is created by Dr. Frank-n-Furter and experiences sexual awakening:I am just seven hours old,...
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Remy the Jerk: The Worst Date in Ohio History
Dayton, October 2005For 20 years all of my friends and neighbors, the guy on the next treadmill at the gym, the couple ahead of me in line at the grocery store, everyone I passed on the street was gay....
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Jake and Logan Paul, the Internet Brothers who Became Superstars
Getting famous today doesn't require an agent, a recording contract, or a public relations firm. It requires a social media account, creativity, and killer abs.Jake and Logan Paul are brothers from...
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