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Bug Hall: Always Undressed
Bug Hall was nine years old when he won the role of scrawny Alfalfa in Little Rascals (1994), a modernization of the 1930’s shorts, but heavy on heterosexual romance. He was asked to appear in his...
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Fall 1997: Gay Panic and the Obnoxious Roommate
When I first started out in grad school at Long Island University, I couldn't live in Manhattan right away: everything there was frightfully expensive, $900 to sleep on someone's couch, $1000 for a...
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The Russian Penis Museum
Are you interested in seeing the 13-inch long penis of Grigor Rasputin, the mad monk of Imperial Russia, pickled in a jar?Or a painting by Vera Donskaya-Khilko of Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin...
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A Beefcake Tour of the Louvre
I love the Louvre. I could go every day. But everybody else on Earth, literally, wants to visit, too. It gets 8,000,000 visitors per year, so if you're not careful, you'll be caught up in the...
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The Joy of Guys Who Aren't Naked
Have you ever noticed that some guys look better with their clothes on? Seeing them naked doesn't add to their charm, and may even detract from it.Clothes were originally designed as ornamentation,...
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A Time Traveler from 1979 Brings Me Guys
Plains, September 2016 I'm having a terrible month: my father is sick, my boyfriend has moved away, and my classes are going horribly. Depressed, I go jogging, and then stop into the gay-friendly...
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Richie Brose: 1980s Beefcake Star Opens a Restaurant
This is the physique of a pizza chef.Richard Brose may not be a household name today, but he was a regular guest star on 1980s tv. Whenever a casting agent needed a man-mountain, especially for a...
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Willie Aames: From Buddy to Bible Man
Born in 1960, Willie Aames was a television fixture from 1971 through 1990. The only question is, when precisely did he turn from "cute kid" to a bodybuilder that drew the attention of every gay male...
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Bugs and Porky meet a Drag King: Warner Brothers Comics
When I was a kid in the 1960s, my favorite comic titles were Harvey (gay-vague Casper the Friendly Ghost), Disney, Archie, and the Gold Key jungle adventures. Comics featuring Warner Brothers cartoon...
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Unexpected Beefcake on "My Name is Earl"
I've been re-watching My Name is Earl (2005-2009), about a lowbrow ne-er-do-well (Jason Lee) trying to reform by going through his list of misdeeds and righting them, one by one. He's assisted by his...
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Ghostwriter: Urban Teen Muscle
If you were a kid in the early 1990s -- or even if you were a teenager -- you probably watched Ghostwriter (1992-95), the most popular PBS series of all time. Instead of the raucous muppets of Sesame...
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The Top 10 Gay Rumors about Scott Baio
Today Scott Baio is a bitter, right-wing blowhard who regularly makes homophobic and Islamophobic comments and is a passionate supporter of the Orange Fuhrer. But when I was living in West Hollywood...
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The Worst Heterosexist Movie of All Time: "Knowing"
I'm starting a new prize for the worst heterosexist movie of all time.Heterosexist movies have no gay characters or gay subtexts, plus a hetero romance. That is, most movies churned out by Hollywood....
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How to Survive a Football Game
No matter how you guard against it, if you live in the United States, sooner or later you will be forced to watch a football game.It's a national obsession, especially among heterosexual men. It's all...
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The Naked Goldenboys at Football Try-Outs
Rock Island, August 1975"All entering sophomores invited to try out for junior varsity football," Dad reads from a brochure that came in the mail."That's nice," I say, immersed in a course catalog....
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5 Cartoon Couples That You Thought Were Gay, But Probably Aren't
I'm all for subtexts. This blog is about finding gay connections in texts where the writer, director, and fans are all yelling "No, no, no!" And I've found them in dozens of children's tv shows, from...
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Searching for Beefcake on the Plains
Plains, February 2017I like hookups, but they're a lot of work. You have to find the guy, interview him, deal with stupid or annoying questions, clean your apartment, take safety precautions, do 100...
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John Stamos
Gay boys all but ignored 20-year old John Stamos when he was playing streetwise Blackie on General Hospital (1983-84). Not many watched soap operas, and his pleasantly slender physique seemed bit too...
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I Spent My High School Years with Barry Manilow
Speaking of singers that you couldn't avoid hearing during the 1970s, I spent my entire three years at Rocky High and most of my four years at Augustana College running in the other direction while...
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Cruising in a Straight Bar
Plains, February 2017I've dated or hooked up with men in 38 states and 20 countries, I've met them in art galleries, restaurants, museums, movie theaters, monasteries, doctor's offices, bookstores,...
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