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On the Road: The Gay Beat Generation
On June 21st, 1985, I drove cross-country 1860 miles from my parents' house in Rock Island, Illinois to West Hollywood, my 10-year old Dodge Dart packed with bedding, dishes, clothes, and mementos....
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Spring 2005: The High School Bodybuilder
I was always mature for my age, so I attracted guys a few years older than me. So it came as quite a shock when I hit 40, and things were reversed. The guys staring at me, approaching me at parties,...
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Fangorn's First Hookup, with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
San Francisco, November 2010I'm living in Upstate New York, but back in San Francisco for a conference, staying with my friend David. We meet some guys at the Red Jade Restaurant on Church Street:...
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Why the Devil Has No Penis
When I was a kid at Denkmann Elementary School in Rock Island, my friend Greg, the vampire boy who gave me my first kiss, had a small oil painting on his bedroom wall: a muscular guy plunging headlong...
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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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The Disney Channel's Gay Programming Blocks
Like Nickelodeon, the Disney Channel airs its teencoms in programming blocks interspliced with short segments: reviews of Disney movies (always thumbs up!), interviews with Disney Channel stars,...
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My Friday the 13th Date with Kevin the Vampire
Plains, Friday, January 13th, 2017It's my second date with Wagner the Music Major, who I picked up in the Student Union earlier this week. We're seeing Hairspray at the University Theater -- in the...
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David Labiosa: the Biggest Bulge on Seinfeld
Seinfeldwas not well known for its beefcake. There was a parade of spongeworthy guest stars, such as Anthony Starke in "The Jimmy" (1995), but they were rarely displayed shirtless or in swimsuits. But...
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Brad Pitt or Skyler Stone: Which Celebrity Dating Story Should David Use?
San Francisco, October 2010Everybody has dated or hooked up with someone famous, or at least someone who's been in front of a tv camera, but a good celebrity dating story has to have five...
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Ryan Potter: Asian Gay Superhero
Ok, he's half-Asian, and he hasn't actually made a public "coming out" statement, but he's definitely a superhero.Supah Ninjas (2011-13) was a Nickelodeon teencom about a boy, Mike Fukanaga (Ryan...
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Searching for a Gay Connection for Jackson Lueders
Someone found his way to this blog by searching for "Jackson Lueders shirtless." I'm pretty sure there is no reference to Jackson Lueders on Boomer Beefcake and Bonding. I never heard of him before.So...
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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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My Date with Nate Richert and his Kielbasa
West Hollywood, March 2000In March 2000, I was back in West Hollywood for my friend Larry's annual Oscar party. March 25th, the night before, Lane and Randall (the bear with the pierced penis) took me...
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The Smiling Boy at the Gym
The other night at the gym, a college boy cruised me.This might not seem unusual. I've been a twink magnet for years. I picked up the waiter at a restaurant in Indianapolis just a couple of weeks ago,...
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Ed Fury
On January 5th, 1955, My Little Margie (1952-56) featured the first bodybuilder on prime time television.Like I Love Lucy and I Married Joan in the 1950s and I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched in the...
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The Homoerotic Horror of Edgar Allan Poe
When I was a kid in the 1970s, Chuck Acri's Creature Feature broadcast a lot of very loose adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories: The House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror, The...
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My First Word Was My Boyfriend's Name
Garrett, Indiana, July 1978When I was born in November 1960, my parents were living in a house on South Randolph Street in Garrett, a small town in northern Indiana. We lived there until I was four...
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Mary and Rhoda and Gordie the Weatherman: 1970s Hip Sitcoms
During the 1970s, the success of All in the Family led to a fad for sitcoms with hip, relevant, "mature" themes. Most were set in "real places," not New York or L.A., and juxtaposed the work and home...
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Mary Tyler Moore and the Two Richies
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966) was before my time; I don't remember seeing any episodes when it first aired, although I have seen a few later. It was a hybrid workplace-nuclear family sitcom. Rob...
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The Only Gay Guy at a Straight Party
Plains, January 2017The Unitarian Church hosts regular "circle suppers," where eight or so people assigned "at random" meet at someone's house for a potluck. It's not really random: I am usually...
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