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The Top 12 Public Penises of Australia
The Land Down Under is surprisingly scarce in its male nudity in public art. Maybe you're expected to make do with nude beaches, runs, and art exhibits, plus the nude selfies of sports hunks like...
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A Hookup with the Surly, Crazy-Eyed Guy with the Mortadella+
Philadelphia, March 2013I'm at the gym at my job in a small private college near Philadelphia, having a bad day -- most days in Philadelphia are bad. And now the guy on the butterfly press is just...
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The Worst Date in West Hollywood History
I have always been attracted to guys who are shorter, the shorter the better. And muscular. So in the spring of 1992, when I got the number of the muscular, 4'0" Ryan at the Faultline, it was a major...
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10 Gay Movies I Hated
I haven't seen a lot of gay-themed movies since 2005, when I moved to small-town American: they rarely make it out to the multiplex next to the Wal-Mart. But before that, living in West Hollywood, New...
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My Textbook Rep is a Gay Porn Star
Philadelphia, March 2013Every academic is pestered by textbook company representatives pushing for you to assign your students their latest frightfully over-priced, generally gay-free textbook instead...
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The Good Samaritan: Two Nude Men Embrace
Everybody gets the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10 wrong. Remember, a traveler was accosted by thieves, who robbed him, stripped him naked, and left him by the side of the road. A Pharisee and...
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My Big, Flashy, Screaming-Queen Cousin and the Gay High School Boy
Indianapolis, September 2006When I was a kid, we visited my Mom's dad and brothers and sisters in Garrett twice a year. We also visited her brother in Kentucky, and we drove all the way down to...
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10 Things You Should Know about Dating Introverts
Alan, Lane, David, Yuri, Troy, Gabe, Dustin -- almost all of my friends and boyfriends have been extroverts: outgoing, aggressive, the life of the party, never wanting to stay home, always eager to get...
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Tarzan's Boy: Johnny Sheffield
When MGM executives wanted to expand the audience of their extremely successful Tarzan series by giving the Ape Man and his Mate (Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan) a child, they faced a quandary:...
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Joseph Cali: from Physique Model to "Saturday Night Fever"
Joseph Cali was a familiar face in the late 1970s and 1980s, playing handsome Italian Stallion types: John Travolta's friend Joey in Saturday Night Fever (1977), Joey Santorini in Trapper John MD...
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The Gay World of Frank Sinatra
The first teen idol, Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) had bobby-soxers and gay greasers swooning with syrupy-voiced romantic ballads like "Night and Day" (1942), "Begin the Beguine" (1946), and "I've Got a...
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Is Sex Fun?
I get annoyed when people on dating apps say they are up for "some fun." Especially the one who keeps sending me Grindr messages that consist of his penis and the phrase "Fun Fun."I never thought of...
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Jeff East: from Disney Adventure to Superman
During the 1950s and 1960s, Walt Disney single-handedly selected and groomed boys whom he thought could represent "youthful masculinity" -- and make money for the studio: Tommy Kirk, Kurt Russell, Tim...
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The 12 Most Homophobic, Heterosexist, and Horrible Songs
Heterosexism is commonplace in the "girl! girl! girl!' banter of popular music. But some songs are so heterosexist, homophobic, or otherwise horrible that I literally can't stand to hear them. If...
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My Date with the Grooms' Grandson at a Gay Wedding
Salt Lake City, Utah, September 2015One day in the summer of 2015, a few weeks after the Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage in the U.S., I get a wedding invitation in the mail, and...
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Lane Cruises a Gay Barber from 30 Years Ago
West Hollywood, January 1982This is Lane's weirdest paranormal experience:When he was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, he and his parents often went to the Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. It was...
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One Day at a Time (the Gay Daughter Version)
One Day at a Time (1975-1984) was one of my favorite childhood tv series: Bonnie Franklin starred as a divorced woman (unheard-of at the time) raising two teenage daughters, the rebellious Julie...
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How Much Does Astrology Know About Your Sex Life?
I'm a big fan of the paranormal, but not astrology. It's too complicated: I am a Scorpio with Virgo in my Second House (21.02), the Moon in Jupiter, Mercury in Sagittarius, the Sextile Sun in Jupiter,...
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A Celebrity Tries to Steal My Boyfriend
My friend Alan, who dragged me to Japan, came to Los Angeles to become an actor in 1974, and ended up working in the gay porn industry. He knew lots of celebrities and celebrity kids, like David...
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Vince Edwards: from Nude Model to TV Doctor
Speaking of Chad Everett, Boomer kids in the early 1960s could watch another beefcake-heavy medical drama: Ben Casey (1961-66), with Vince Edwards as the original young, idealistic surgeon butting...
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