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Be an Athletic Supporter
When I was a kid, I hated sports -- who would willingly submit to having hard round projectiles hurled at them? -- but my parents wouldn't believe me. "You're a boy! Boys like sports!" they kept...
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Pasolini's Decameron: Nudity Alone
When I was studying Italian literature at USC in the mid-1980s, I liked The Divine Comedy, Orlando Furioso, and the poetry of Michelangeo, but not Boccaccio's Decameron (c. 1350).The frame story was...
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More Gay Plotlines at Degrassi High
If you were a fan of Degrassi Junior High in the 1980s or Degrassi: The Next Generation in the 2000s, you will be interested in knowing that the Toronto high school full of teen drama is going strong...
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10 Homophobic Things About the Big Bang Theory
I occasionally watch The Big Bang Theory (2007-), the sitcom about four science-nerd guys, and more recently their respective girlfriends. I like the science plotlines and the pop culture references,...
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Brando Eaton's Secret Life
With a name like Brando, you have few career options open to you except show biz. Born in 1986, he got his start in a recurring role on the teencom Zoey 101(2006-2008), where his muscles were...
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Danny Greene: Professional Hunk of the 1980s
During the 1970s and early 1980s, producers started realizing that heterosexual women like to look at men, so they began marketing male physiques to them -- Playgirl magazine, the Chippendale Dancers,...
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The X-Files: Only Heterosexuals Believe
The X-Files (1993-20002) came on Sunday nights in the vicinity of The Simpsons, and I'm a big fan of the paranormal, so I watched. It was about two paranormal investigators working for the FBI: True...
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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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The Sentinel: Detective and Grad Student Find Love
If you discovered that police detective Jim Ellison (Richard Burgi, left) was living with an anthropology grad student named Blair Sandburg (Garrett Maggart, below), bringing him to work as a "police...
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The Island in the Sky: My First Boyfriend
Just after Christmas in 1968, when I was in the third grade, a boy named Bill, short and deeply tanned with black eyes and small hard fists, suddenly started to chase me across the schoolyard to my...
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Running Scared: A Hint of Emotional Connection
Running Scared (2006) is a mess. It stars Paul Walker (left) as Joey Gazelle, a Mafia thug entrusted with getting rid of some guns. He takes them home, where his son Nicky (Alex Neuberger) and best...
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The Gays of Eigenmann Hall
After meeting no gay people at all (that I knew of) through high school and college, I moved to Bloomington, Indiana in 1982 to work on my M.A. in English, and within a few weeks I met four! Four gay...
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Evan Hofer's Crew Kickin' It
Leo Howard and Mateo Arias aren't the only bromantic duo on Kickin' It. Evan Hofer had a recurring role as Randy, a teen martial artists who buddy-bonds with the nerd Milton (Dylan Riley Snyder). Evan...
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Steve Lawrence: All the Sad Young Men
Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme were mainstays of The Carol Burnett Show during the 1970s, appearing in 27 episodes. He also appeared by himself on The Hollywood Palace, Ed Sullivan, Laugh-In, Here's...
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Pinocchio in Outer Space: Gay Subtext Classic Cartoon
Most of the various renditions of Pinocchio, the Italian puppet who becomes a real live boy, emphasize heteroromance, giving Pinoke or his creator Gepetto a girlfriend. But the odd film Pinocchio in...
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Mitch Gaylord: Hunk of the Month
In a December 1984 episode of Diff'rent Strokes, Willis (Todd Bridges) inspires his paralyzed friend by introducing him to. . .Mitch Gaylord!!! The studio audience gasps in awe. Mitch Gaylord on the...
View ArticleWTF: Profile suspended due to spam
Profile suspended due to spam! I have no idea what they're talking about. I never spammed my profile in my life. I don't even know how to spam a profile! But there's no recourse, no email address...
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The Pow Wow: A Naked Indian God
Every summer the Sauk and Fox Indians, who used to live on the site of Rock Island, returned for a Pow Wow at Black Hawk State Park. On the Fourth of July weekend in 1970, just after fourth grade,...
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Dewey Martin: Forgotten Screen Hunk
When I was a kid in the 1960s, the Mean Boys made fun of everybody's name, but a few made them downright apoplectic: Clyde, Abner, Dewey. Especially Dewey, since that was the name of the proprietor of...
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