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Cesar's Hookup with Desi Arnaz Jr. and Dean Paul Martin
Brentwood, May 1991Cesar Romero, the 1940s heartthrob and 1960s Batman villain, is telling me about some of his more memorable hookups. "I was the go-to guy of Hollywood," he brags. "Gay, bi,...
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Jerry O'Connell's Secret Identity
During the late 1980s, the conservative political atmosphere resurrected the old "I've Got a Secret" sitcom genre of the 1960s (Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Mr. Ed, My Favorite Martian). Nuclear...
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Cruised by a Waiter at a Crazy Retro Restaurant
Indianapolis, December 2016Who ever talked me into going to this crazy restaurant? I guess my friend Tyler, Fred's "son," did. It's a few blocks from where he works, so good for having dinner while...
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The Gay Couple of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015-) takes the standard sitcom premise -- innocent in the big city, surrounded by crazies. -- and turns it upside down. Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) is a scatterbrained yet...
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Tim Matheson
During the 1960s, Tim Matheson voiced some of my favorite cartoon adventurers -- Jonny Quest, Sinbad Jr., Jace on Space Ghost, Young Samson -- all with strong homoerotic friendships.I didn't actually...
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Spring 1997: How Matt Started Renting Himself Out
One night in the spring of 1997, around 11:00 pm,I got a phone call out of nowhere."It's Matt -- I'm at the Castro Street Muni Station. Come pick me up!"Matt the Cute Young Thing?Nine years before, my...
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Davis Cleveland Hangs Out with the Big Boys
If you watch the Disney Channel, you've probably seen the 14-year old child star Davis Cleveland around. The Houston native started out modeling and doing television commercials, then moved to Los...
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David's Top 20 Hookups and One-Night Stands
David, my friend in San Francisco, spent the first 43 years of his life in small-town Arkansas, a conservative Baptist minister who had barely heard that gay people existed, and certainly didn't know...
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The Ice Storm: The Most Hetero-Phobic Movie Ever
The Netflix blurb of The Ice Storm (1997) said something about "hidden secrets coming out during Thanksgiving," and the director was Ang Lee of Brokeback Mountain, so I ordered it, expecting gay...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "Spartacus"
Spartacus (111-71 BC) was a gladiator who led a slave revolution that threatened the Roman Republic. Although there's no evidence that he was fighting against slavery as an institution, he's been...
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Topped by the Twink Next Door
Plains, January 2017The day after I got back from Christmas in Indianapolis, a new guy showed up on Grindr, 200 feet away!I've met about 20 of the 100 or so people living in this apartment complex, and...
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The Jacoby Boys
There were three Jacoby boys in Hollywood during the Boomer generation, half-brothers (plus their two sisters). 1. Scott (born in 1956) was the serious actor, specializing in weird, quirky movies,...
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David's First Sexual Experience, at a Gas Station in Arkansas
Of all the hundreds of coming out stories I've heard, David's is the most remarkable. A conservative Baptist minister in small-town Arkansas, married with children, figuring it out on his 43rd...
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Edvard Munch's Male Nudes
Most people know Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) from The Scream (1893), the expressionistic portrait of an agonized figure under an orange sky. When I was in West Hollywood, you could get...
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Toddler TV
Adults think that gayness is something that "happens" to you late in life, after a childhood of girls mooning over teen idols and boys grinning at the girl next door. But we know that they are wrong....
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Slim Goodbody
When I was a kid, I had a toy called "The Visible Man." It was a model of a man with no skin. You had to assemble the skeleton and put all of the organs in place (sadly, no penis), I guess to teach...
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The Music Major's Top Turn-On
Plains, January 2017First day of the semester. A day of anticipation and dread. Will my new classes be a pleasure or a pain? Which students will be eager to participate? Which will be taciturn?But...
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Summertime Car Washes
One of the joys of summer is the car wash fundraiser. Check your local event calendar, and you'll find one or two per week: a club, class, team, or church group is raising money by washing cars. The...
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The Netflix Unfortunate Events Series: Transphobic as Ever
In case you haven't read the originals Series of Unfortunate Events, the lachrymose Lemony Snicket narrates the adventures of the three newly-orphaned Baudelaire children, 14-year old Violet, 12-year...
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A Public Encounter in an Elevator
Montreal, August ____.Tommy was 22 years old, tall and very slim with short black hair, a smooth chest, and nicely developed legs. He was a political science major at Ohio State University, on the...
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