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10 Upstate Vacation Hookups
I lived in Upstate New York for four years (2008-2012), twice as long as in San Francisco, but with far fewer dates and hookups. It was a very small town, with a limited number of gay men, so you...
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Fall 1998: Landing My Boyfriend's Roommate
Blake: Manhattan EliteI met Blake in the fall of 1998, when I was in grad school in New York. At first he seemed like an ideal boyfriend, with four of the five characteristics I find attractive:...
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Scary, Heterosexist Ads of the 1960s
I hate tv commercials where women take a bite of yogurt, cereal, or chocolate, and then roll their heads back and stiffen in orgiastic ecstasy. Or kids see the cereal, macaroni and cheese, or hot dogs...
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ABBA: Not Drag Queens
I first heard of ABBA in the spring of my sophomore year in high school in 1976, when "Fernando" hit #13 on the U.S. charts.It was about a freedom fighter in a South American country and his...
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Top 10 Public Penises of New Zealand #1: The North Island
People in the U.S. tend to think of New Zealand as Australia's smaller, more remote cousin, notable only for Maori culture and some very weird movies.But it has its own culture, with a distinctive...
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Yuri Hooks Up at a Russian Orthodox Seminary
East Village, February 1999Wednesday"I don't visit you in Manhattan next weekend," Yuri said. "I must go to Russian Orthodox seminary Upstate.""A seminary? Whatever for?""There is a weekend for...
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Richard Oliver Gross, the New Zealand Sculptor of Male Nudes
Ok, I had to find out about this Richard Oliver Gross, who scattered statues of nude men all over the Kiwi landscape. He doesn't appear in most directories of 20th century artists, but there's a...
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A Hookup with the Nephew of My First Time
I found the guy I had my first sexual experience with!I was fifteen years old, a high school sophomore, at music camp in Decorah, Iowa. I shared a dorm room with Todd (not his real name).My first big...
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The Unique Gay Romance of "Crashing."
In Britain, "property guardians" move into an abandoned property that wasn't designed for permanent habitation in the first place -- an office building, a school, a warehouse. In exchange for...
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Blake and His Boyfriend: Are All Opera Singers Gifted Beneath the Belt?
Manhattan, June 2009A few weeks after I moved to the East Village in 1998, I started dating Blake, who lived in my building. Seemingly an ideal boyfriend: in his 30s, black, muscular, religious...
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Glitch: Resurrection and Gay Subtexts in the Outback
Another tv series with a gay character showed up in my Netflix recommendations. Glitch (2015-) is set in the small outback town of Yoorana, Australia, where six people inexplicably crawl their way out...
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Bjorn's Hookup with His High School Teacher
Reykjavik, October 2016Yuri and some of his advanced students are in Iceland, researching the impact of global climate change on the aurora borealis, and I flew out for a visit. We're at lunch at a gay...
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The Icelandic Museum of the Penis
After visiting the Penis Park of Oslo and the many public penises in Helsinki, why not visit a museum dedicated solely and exclusively to the wonders of the penis?Iceland may be off the beaten path...
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Halloween Surprise: Tricking and Treating with Yuri's Student in Iceland
Reykjavik, October 2016On Halloween, the second biggest holiday in the gay world, I'm sitting in the Culiacan Mexican Grill in Revkjavik, Iceland, spending $20 for a tasteless burrito. Back home there...
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Superboys: 70 Years of Beefcake Boys of Steel
To the non-comic book fan, it's easy. There's Superman, the Man of Steel, disguised as Clark Kent, a reporter for the Daily Planet in Metropolis, and there's Superboy, the teenage Clark Kent, going to...
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The Naked Icelandic Artist in a Box
Artists often pour their souls into their art, but 23-year old MFA student Almar Atlason put his body on display. For a week in December 2015, Atlason sat naked in a glass box at the Iceland Academy of...
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Mickey and Goofy, the Gay Couple of "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories"
Way to feel old. In 2016, I bought the 75 Anniversary Edition of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, the flagship of the Disney comics empire.I bought the 50th Anniversary Edition in 1991.And I was five...
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The Five Boy Wonders of Batman Comics
If you think Superboy has a confusing pedigree, wait until you hear about Robin, Batman's teen sidekick. There have been five, not including one-shots, fantasies, clones, and Infinite Earths...
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Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen has been a fixture in Hollywood for 50 years, often playing presidents and other figures of grave and pressing authority, but in his early years, he played delinquents and bad boys. He...
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Tracking Down the Sausage Sighting at the Urinal
Plains, November 2016The restroom around the corner from my office is very small: two sinks, two urinals, then on the other side of a wall, another urinal and a stall. Most guys choose the nearer...
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