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William Zorach's Penis Art
What does this look like to you?Me, too.I saw it at the Baseball Hall of Fame, in a painting called The Baseball Player (1940), by William Zorach.It's supposed to be a baseball glove, I suppose, but...
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Best Night at a Bath House Ever! 13 Guys!
Cleveland, July 2017On the way back from New York earlier this week, we stopped in Cleveland. I wanted to go to the Flex Club, a great gay resort/bath house. Bob didn't want to go, but he said it was...
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I Pick Up a Boy at a Gas Station, Sort Of
Rural Illinois, July 2017On our way back from New York, we stop at a travel plaza: a Sinclair station with a giant dinosaur outside. I haven't seen one since I was a kid. It gives me a weird feeling...
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Detective Adventurers of the 1980s
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was a fad for sly, antiheroic, self-referential adventurers. We saw them on BJ and the Bear, The Fall Guy, Magnum P.I., Vegas, and even in science fiction...
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Alan's Friend Has Sex on the Beach with Tom Selleck
You have celebrity hookup stories about Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark-Paul Goesselaer, Tony Curtis, even Groucho Marx. Why not one about Tom Selleck, one of the beefcake icons of the 1980s?He...
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Ten Steps to Successful Boy Watching
"Boy watching" is not about underaged boys. It's the gay equivalent to what straight men used to call "girl watching" -- looking at the cute guys you see in public every day -- with a 21st century...
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Tales of the City: Gay Guys, San Francisco, Who Cares?
Year after year, people tell me "The Tales of the City books are stupendous! Amazing! Wonderful! The best thing every written!""And they're historically vital! Gay author Armistead Maupin...
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The Most Disgusting Hookup of All Time
Rock Island, July 2017When I go home to Rock Island, I usually do quite well with hookups. Being the new guy in town, I get approached a lot, I have the "I grew up here!" conversation starter, and in...
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Tony Dow Stars in the Teen Soap "Never Too Young"
Never Too Young (1965-1966) is famous as the first teenage soap opera, an attempt to draw the Beatles crowd into daytime tv. It was set in Malibu, where Alfy (David Watson) ran the High Dive, the local...
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Nude Wrestling in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Rock Island, July 2017It's the morning after the most disgusting hookup ever. Bob the 19-year old economics major and I are at having egg white omelets and fruit cups at the Quad Cities Pancake...
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Who is Tony Dow's Boyfriend?
This photo is causing a bit of speculation.It looks like Venice Beach in Los Angeles (the cabana in the background says "Charter 0"). The guy on the left is Tony Dow, the teen hunk of Leave It to...
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The Bad Boys of Boston
When you think of Boston, you think of Harvard, Boston Commons, the elegant shops and restaurants of the Back Bay, the gay bars and bathhouses on Tremont and Boylston. Most traveler never get any...
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Bob Hooks Me Up with the Wrong Guy
Davenport, Iowa, July 2017That's the last time I let Bob, the19-year old economics major, arrange a hookup for us. On the way east to New York, he somehow found the most disgusting guy of all time,...
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The Boys of Lassie 2: Tommy Rettig
A major child star of the 1950s era, Tommy Rettig appeared alongside some of the greats of cinema, including Jimmy Stuart (Jackpot), Mickey Rooney (The Strip), Eve Arden (The Lady Wants Mink), Marilyn...
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale (1997) is difficult to watch now, when there are so many parallels between its near-future dystopia and the real society that the U.S. is becoming. Our own Orange Fuhrer and his...
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Gay Dating Stories with Tony Dow
When I lived in West Hollywood, everybody had a favorite celebrity dating story, told at parties and to impress first dates. I often heard about current stars, like Rob Lowe, Matthew Broderick, Tom...
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Buster Brown Comics: 1940s Beefcake at the Shoe Store
The first generation of Baby Boomers watched some crazy kids' shows on their brand-new black and white tvs, like Andy's Gang, aka Smilin' Ed's Gang (1951-1960), with the screechy-voiced hosts Andy...
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Jay North's Gay Connection
Dennis the Menace (1959-63), the sitcom adaptation of Hank Ketcham's comic strip, was before my time and rarely rerun, so I have never seen it. But I knew Jay North's Dennis, a gangly blond wearing a...
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Edmund Teske, the Gay Photographer of East Los Angeles
Edmund Teske (1911-1996) was born in Chicago. Trained as a pianist, he began to work in photography in 1933, when Frank Lloyd Wright hired him to do photographic montages of the relationship between...
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Lane's Friend Hooks Up with Dennis the Menace
West Hollywood, May 1988"Check out the chub!" Lane's boyfriend Danny exclaimed. He pointed to the other side of the dance floor at the Rage. A guy in his late 30s or 40s, short, chunky, with a...
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