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John Manning and His Beefcake Brothers
Born 1936 in Portland, Oregon, John Manning moved to Los Angeles during his teens and began putting his physique and penis to work. He was photographed by most of the gay physique photographers of the...
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June 1976: A Squirt Gun Attack and a Forced Kiss
Many non-runners don't realize that runners get harassed a lot. People yell out criticisms, slurs, and epithets, Over the years, I've heard:"Run faster!""Run! Maybe you'll catch up with...
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Ryan's Three-Way with Harry Styles
Plains, October 2016In search of celebrity dating and hookup stories, I've been asking all the gay men I know, with little luck. But I got a good one last night, from of all places, Ryan H., the...
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The Beefcake Bonanza of Surfing Ads, Logos, Decals, and Miscellanea
If you're a collector of beefcake art, check out surfing miscellanea: decals, logos, posters, and ads, meant to be thrown away after use, and so quite rare today. You can get some surfing history and...
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Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby: Bodybuilder and Buddy
Speaking of bodybuilder buddies, when Bill Bixby finished his gay subtext series My Favorite Martian and The Courtship of Eddie's Father, he cashed in on the 1970s superhero craze in The Incredible...
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I Become a Birthday Present at the Horseman's Club
Back before I met Troy, who doesn't care for traveling, I used to go to Europe at least once a year, sometimes twice, usually at Christmastime or in the spring. I flew into Paris or Amsterdam,...
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Fabian Forte at the Beach
Born in 1943, Fabian (he didn't need a last name) was a superstar by age 16. He was a competent singer, but in a market flooded by teen singers, it was his curly hair, heavy-lidded gaze, and buffed...
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The Boy Meets He-She
Boy Comics, aka Boy Illustories, was a Golden Age comic book (1942-1956) with a revolving cast of boy heroes: a boxer, a pilot, a Tarzan clone.But the star was Crime Buster, aka Chuck Chandler, a...
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The Beefcake Bonanza of Hula Boy Memorabilia
The hula is a traditional Hawaiian interpretive dance accompanied by music. Although practiced for hundreds of years, it did not become widely known outside Hawaii until the Tiki Craze of the mid-20th...
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You Can't Do That on Television
In 1981, the new children's network Nickelodeon was filling space with anything it could find, from 1930s-era Warner Brothers cartoons to the teen soapDegrassi Junior Highto the old British series...
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10 Shirtless Photos of Ben Schreiner, Sort Of
Someone said that Ben Schreiner, who appeared on six episodes of You Can't Do That on Television in 1984, near the end of its run, is gay.Ok, I never heard of him, so I did an internet search.He must...
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Beefcake and Gay Characters in "Dear White People"
Dear White People (2014) was a comedy-drama about black students at an elite Ivy League school facing microaggressions, institutional racism, and "There's no racism here!" Samantha White (Tessa...
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My Nephew Tries to Turn a Boy Gay
Wilton Manors, March 2003One morning in March 2003, just after I got back from visiting West Hollywood and San Francisco for spring break, my mother called -- at 6:00 am! "Your nephew is in jail!"...
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The Glory Hole in the Library Bathroom
The summers I remember as a kid were crowded with activity, which makes the summers of adulthood even more intensely dull.Last Friday the campus was deserted. Even the secretary in the main office was...
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Tom of Finland
When I was in grad school in Bloomington, Indiana in the early 1980s, I used to buy a gay porn magazine at College Avenue Books: In Touch for Men, which featured not only pictures of naked men, but...
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Nancy: Lesbian Panic in a 1950s Comic Book
The cheesecake comic strip Fritzi Ritz premiered in 1922, with gags involving the aspiring model and her series of boyfriends, notably the nerdish Phil Fumble. In 1933, Fritzie took in her orphaned...
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My Uncle's Queer: Joel's Transformation from Choir Boy to Punk Rocker
Rock Island, December 1999I am in grad school in New York, visiting Rock Island and Indianapolis for the holidays, staying with my brother Kenny in his rundown, rambling house downtown. The house is...
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Tatar Boys
Tell me you're not fascinated by the history of the Tatars: the heirs of Genghis Khan, the Golden Horde that conquered western Asia in the 13th century and invaded Russia, establishing the Khanate of...
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Who Killed Cock Robin: The Only Gay Nursery Rhyme
When I was a kid in the 1960s, I liked science fiction, like The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet and The Spaceship Under the Apple Tree, but I hated fairy tales, and I especially hated nursery...
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The Gay Connection of Paper Towels. Seriously.
Paper towels are just there. They do the job. They're about as exciting as toast. During the 1970s, two advertisers tried to make paper towels more exciting. Bounty got feisty comedienne Nancy...
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