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10 Shirtless Pictures of Daniel Skye, Sort of
I never heard of 17-year old Daniel Skye before, but apparently he's one of the top teen idols in the U.S. He's got 9 songs listed on AZ Lyrics, all about love, 5 of the 9 using an incessant "girl!...
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Oumpah-pah and Hubert
Oumpah-pah is a distinctively Belgian comic book character, written by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo of Asterix fame and serialized in Tintin magazine for a brief period in the late 1950s and early...
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Boldly Going Where No Heterosexual Has Gone Before
Science fiction has been notorious for promoting an exclusively heterosexual future, insisting over and over again that gay people do not exist. The Star Trek tv series have been the worse offenders,...
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Oumpah-pah and Hubert
Oumpah-pah is a distinctively Belgian comic book, written by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo of Asterix fame. After a false start in the early 1950s, it was serialized in Tintin magazine from 1958 to...
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Yuri and I Go to Amsterdam for the Horseman's Club
Amsterdam, June 2017June has been a month for visiting old friends, or having them visit me -- first David, then Lane, and now Yuri, who I met in grad school in New York in 1997. He's an atmospheric...
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Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin
On winter afternoons in fourth or fifth grade, I was stuck in the house listening to my kid brother's Disney record. He loved that darn thing, and played it over and over and over. It was a small...
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The Homophobic Small-Town Manhattan of "Friends"
Friends (1994-2004) was set in the same intimate, "small town" Manhattan as Seinfeld. But it lacked the New York color -- it could have been set in any big city -- not to mention the witty dialogue,...
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Bob Morley and His Posse
While looking for "Bob Marley" on google, I came across this photo of Bob Morley and his posse frolicking in the sun.I never heard of any of them before, but it turns out that they're mostly starring...
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Are Mike and Calvin Friends or Lovers?
Wilton Manors, October 2004You're at a party, and you want to know if it's ok to flirt with that hot person who came with the hetero guy. Are they just friends, or lovers?Easy: if it's a man, they're...
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Pinocchio in Outer Space: Gay Subtext Classic Cartoon
Most of the various renditions of Pinocchio, the Italian puppet who becomes a real live boy, emphasize heteroromance, giving Pinoke or his creator Gepetto a girlfriend. But the odd film Pinocchio in...
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Trapped in a Dormitory with College Freshmen
Long Island, August 1997On August 26th, 1997, at 10:00 pm, I got on an airplane with two suitcases, leaving friends, my boyfriend, most of my stuff, and memories of home, to go to graduate school at...
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Summertime Beefcake at the Dunking Booth
Among my favorite summertime sights are the dunking booths at festivals, county fairs, Celtic games, school carnivals, summer camps, and various parties.They are descended from the old dunk tanks used...
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David and Ricky Nelson: Teen Idols Show Off on the Flying Trapeze
Sons of bandleader Ozzie Nelson and his wife Harriet, David Nelson (born 1936) and his kid brother Ricky Nelson (born 1940) began their careers playing "themselves" on The Adventures of Ozzie and...
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My Embarrassing Date with the Teenage Farmboy
Long Island, September 1997Friday, September 12th, 1997. The end of the my first week of classes at Setauket University, my 10th day in New York. 10 days after moving to West Hollywood, I found a gay...
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Top 16 Public Penises of the Cowboy States
I'm afraid of the Cowboy States, that swath of ranches, grassland, and mountains west of Minnesota and east of California. I've driven through them four times, and they are very pretty, with the amber...
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The Gay Myths of Orpheus
You're probably thinking, "Orpheus? Wasn't he that musician who was trying to lead his wife out of Hades, but he looked back, so she was lost forever? Moral: Never look back. Also: Be...
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Vintage Beefcake and Homoerotic Ads
When we were kids in the 1960s, there was virtually no beefcake on tv or in movies, but if you looked carefully, you could find shirtless boys and men in kids' magazines like Boys' Life. This one is...
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Cruising in Lithuania
West Hollywood, June 1997Lane and I haven't lived together for a year, and I've been sort of dating Kevin the Vampire, so we're not sure if we are a couple or not. But we don't want to break our...
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Hookup with Brothers at the Dentist's Office
Plains, June 2017The Wednesday after my return from Amsterdam, I'm at the oral surgeon's office, waiting to get a wisdom tooth removed.It's a more delicate procedure than you might think. No solid food...
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"U Are Gay!"
Most comments on this blog consist of:1. You said he played a gay character for the first time in 1993, but actually he played a character that was probably gay in an off-Broadway play in December...
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