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Marcus Hooks Up with One of the "Hollywood Squares"
West Hollywood, November 1988It's my 28th birthday, near the end of my "twink" years, and my friends are pranking me with oldster gifts: a VHS tape of Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), a record of Andy...
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Adam West: Playing Gay before Batman
In the 1960s, when my friends and I watched the camp superhero series Batman (which, by the way, we didn't realize was camp), we zeroed in on Burt Ward's Dick Grayson/Robin, because he was a teenager,...
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Wlastimil Hofman: Gay Polish Artist
Wlastimil Hofman (1881-1970), was born in Prague but spent all of his life in Krakow, except for studying in Paris and the period 1942-1945, when he fled both the Nazis and the Soviets and ended up in...
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Andi Mack: Genderqueer Teen and Her Gay-Vague Posse
You know right away from the intro to the Disney Channel teencom Andi Mack (2017-) that this will be an unusual experience. Characters created out of jigsaw puzzles and pieces of paper, close-ups...
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I Arrange Some Muscle Daddy Hookups for Yuri
I used to go to Europe at least once a year, sometimes twice. But the vagaries of teaching, conferences, and job interviews, plus the extreme annoyance of flying today, have dampened my ardor a bit,...
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Pre-Teen Teen Idols
When I was a kid, teen idols were young adults. David Cassidy released his first single when he was 20 years old.John Travolta first played Vinnie Barbarino in Welcome Back, Kotter at age 21.Child...
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David Hooks Up with 5,000 Guys
Plains, June 2017David is the only guy I know who still uses the telephone instead of texting -- a good way to put you on the spot!"I've got a couple of weeks off in June," he said. "I'd like to fly...
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The 10 Best Gay Neighborhoods in America
During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the first thing you did after "figuring it out" was pack all of your stuff and move to a gay neighborhood, where you could be free from stares and jeers and shrieks...
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Bill Bixby: My Favorite Martian
Bill Bixby played swinging 1960s bachelors with glamorous jobs, cool pads, boss threads, and a never-ending supply of babes -- until one day something happened that changed everything, made his...
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12 Shirtless Pictures of Asa Butterfield, Sort Of
Ok, people keep telling me that #6 on the list of "Pre-Teen Teen Idols" is not Asa Butterfield.I've never heard of that person, and never seen him before, that I know of. It's hard to distinguish...
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10 Shirtless Pictures of Jacob Sartorius, Sort Of
Asa Butterfield was fun, so let's try another. I did a google search on Jacob Sartorius -- no idea who he is, or what he looks like, or why he's named after a leg muscle. Here are the results. Which...
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My Nephew Fixes Me Up with His Central Asian Friend
Indianapolis, June 2017Every year my father celebrated his birthday by hosting a barbecue for his family and friends, held on the Saturday afternoon closest to June 6th. I always tried to schedule my...
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Orange is the New Black Season 5 Beefcake and Nudity
The fifth season of Orange is the New Black (2017) occurs during a riot at Litchfield Prison in the aftermath of Poussey's death. 1. C.O. Humphrey (Michael Torpey), who has been brutally victimizing...
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Why You Should Visit South Dakota Next August
In the summer of 1995, shortly after Lee and I moved to San Francisco, my parents decided to sell their house in Rock Island and spend their retirement years in their old hometown in Indiana. That...
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K-11: The 1920s Pansy Craze in a 2012 Prison
K-11 (2012) is a cell block for gay and transgender inmates at Los Angeles County Jail. There is, in fact, such a cell block, but it's nothing like this movie. Record producer Raymond Saxx (Goran...
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Lane on the Plains: Twinks, Daddies, Cowboys, and a Rabbi
Plains, June 2017"It's not fair," I told David. "Since I left San Francisco, you've been out to visit me four times. Since he moved to London, Yuri has been out to visit me four times. But Lane...
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Corn on the Cob, Fireworks, and Naked Men: 34 Reasons to Like Summer
Summer is my least favorite season, and we're right in the middle of it, with the heat, humidity, tv reruns, people forcing you to play outside, all of your friends away on vacation, long, boring days...
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A Beefcake Tour of Amsterdam
Many people think of Amsterdam as a place for a sex holiday, 24-hour bars, saunas, sex clubs, sex shops, and after-hours parties.Those venues are plentiful, and a nice change of pace for visitors from...
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The Beefcake and Homoerotic Art of Ex Libris Bookplates
Back when books were always hardback and frightfully expensive, when a hundred books was a vast library and a thousand out of reach for all but the very rich, you would protect your books from being...
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Sad Sack
When I was a kid, I loved Harvey comics' supernatural titles, Casper, Spooky, and Hot Stuff having science-fiction and espionage adventures in the Enchanted Forest. In a pinch, I didn't mind the...
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