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Superhero Sidekicks in Bondage
Pulp magazine covers often featured a woman drawn in the style collectors called GGA or Good Girl Art, tied to something and about to be murdered or violated by a drooling villain, while the hero...
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With Voyeuristic Intention: The Joy of Watching Other Guys
I've always been a big fan of watching other guys doing it.Half the fun of bear parties and sharing is watching.Especially boyfriends. On the first few dates, you may get a little jealous, but once...
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Gay Pride Has Changed
I've been marching in gay pride parades since they were called gay rights marches.I was in the first ever to be held in the state of Iowa, in June 1981. When I lived in California and New York, from...
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Fred with Tires: The Iconic West Hollywood Photograph
This is one of the iconic photos of West Hollywood. Nearly everyone I knew had a print in their living room or bedroom. It was a fixture in our homes, like the family photos that heterosexuals keep...
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Kafka's Boyfriend: 10 Surprising Gay Facts about Everybody's Favorite Writer
The one thing I learned from studying literature for ten years at Augustana College, Indiana University, and USC:Writers must never, ever be gay.If their gayness is undeniable, it is a trivial thing,...
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Looking for Muscle on "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
The Dick Van Dyke Show won 15 Emmies during its five seasons (1961-1966), and is constantly praised today as one of the greatest TV shows of all time (TV Guide ranks it at #13). It came on before my...
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Who are the Guys in Sweat Pants on My Twitter Feed?
This showed up in my Twitter feed, a welcome change of pace from the outrage over the lunatic in the White House."Thanks for the great weekend, boys," the tweet said, signed Dante Colle. And at the...
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Homophobic Moment in History: Bob Hope's AIDS Joke
Bob Hope (1903-2003) was probably the most famous and beloved entertainer of the 20th century, from the 1940s Road movies with Bing Crosby (Road to Morocco, Road to Singapore) to 30 years as a radio...
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Levi's Date with a Star of "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
West Hollywood, June 1995It's the night before Gay Pride, so of course Lane and I have a full house: Infinite Chazz, my ex-boyfriend Fred and his boyfriend Matt, Randall the Bear with the Pierced Penis...
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The 4th of July in the Straight World: Fireworks, Cruising, and Searching for...
Plains, July 2016In gay neighborhoods, we never went to 4th of July Fireworks. Deliberately watching loud, flashy explosions? More of a heterosexual thing. Besides, gay people were criminals in 23...
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My Hookup with a 48 Year Old.
Plains, July 2017Four things you need to know to understand how amazing that is:1. Plains is crowded with twinks and Cute Young Things. They're everywhere, in the campus gym, at the gay-friendly coffee...
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J. Allen St. John: The Beefcake Artist of Tarzan
In spite of his aristocratic name, J. Allen St. John was born in Chicago in 1872, when it was still a small town, and lived there throughout his life, except for studying in New York and Paris. But his...
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Sean Flynn: Was the Son of the Legendary Actor Gay?
Born in 1941, Sean Flynn was the son of infamous bisexual superstar Errol Flynn (and uncle of his namesake Sean Flynn, star of the Nickelodeon teencom Zoey 101). Handsome, muscular, and the son of a...
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The Van Patten Brothers
Speaking of show biz dynasties, Dick Van Patten's three sons and his younger brother all began appearing on screen at the same time in the late 1970s and early 1980s, producing a quadruple-threat of...
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My Mother the Car
I don't know why people think of Jerry Van Dyke as a failure. Sure, he never reached the Emmy-winning tv-classic status of his older brother Dick, but he's had a 50 year-long career, starting with...
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Ricky/Rick Schroder
Ricky Schroeder was the iconic "cute kid" of the 1980s. With his cherubic round face, baby blue eyes, and dimpled cheeks, he looked like a Campbell's Soup kid, or Richie Rich before his muscle spurt...
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Randall and Dick Sargent Compete Over a Disney Adventure Boy
West Hollywood, June 1995It's the night before Gay Pride, and Lane and I are having about a dozen guys over, so they'll be able to get to the staging grounds easily tomorrow, or find a good place to...
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12 Forgotten Beefcake Boys of the 1980s
When I was living in West Hollywood during the 1980s, we didn't go to movies much, due to the rampant homophobia. Nearly every movie featured a discussion of how much the main characters hated gay...
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Tex Smutney and Buddy Stanley: The Homoerotic Icons of George Platt Lynes
George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) was an intimate of many of the gay writers and artists of Paris between the wars, such as Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder, Rene Crevel, and Jean Cocteau, as well as the...
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Boris Vallejo: Bodybuilder turned Fantasy Artist
During the 1970s, the covers of your Conan, Tarzan, John Carter, Doc Savage, and miscellaneous barbarian hero books were likely to feature a heavily-muscled, naked or nearly-naked muscle-god fighting...
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