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Pete and Nick Spanakos, the Boxing Twins
Identical twins Petros (Pete) and Nicholas Spanakos were born on July 26th, 1938 in the working-class Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. They were the youngest of eight boys born to Greek...
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The Top 14 Hunks of "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"
Kimmy Schmidt is kidnapped as a teenager and taken to a bunker, where she and three other women are held captive by the Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne. 15 years later, she is rescued, and moves to...
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Three Nights with Troy and His Boyfriend: Boomer's Version
Upstate, July 2017Every year I go back to Upstate New York. I didn't actually like my four years there -- too remote, too isolated, too rustic. But I liked my Troy, the SUNY French major who was my...
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Perry Anzilotti: From Usher to Marijuana Chef
The other day on the treadmill at the gym, I saw an episode of Seinfeld from 1993, "The Movie," in which the gang goes to the movies, and is beset upon by ticket lines, multiple theaters, saving...
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Bob Hooks Up with Five Guys at the Lake
Upstate, July 2017Bob's version of what happened during our three nights with my ex-boyfriend Troy and his current boyfriend Charles:I've never had a boyfriend before -- I only was with one guy before...
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Pufnstuf
H.R. Pufnstuf (1969-70) was by far the most popular of the Krofft Saturday morning tv shows about boys trapped far from home (others included Lidsville and Land of the Lost). Today I can’t watch H. R....
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Benjamin Lasnier: the Danish "Justin Bieber Lookalike" and His Hot Male Friends
Danish teenager Benjamin Lasnier started his internet career two years ago, and quickly acquired over 6 million followers on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (400 likes in 10 seconds). His songs,...
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The Twins Day Festival of Twinsburg, Ohio
Twinsburg, Ohio, is a small town of 18,000 near Cleveland, founded in 1817 by identical twins Aaron and Moses Wilcox. In honor of its origin, it hosts the Twins Day Festival, the world's largest...
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Karol Krauser, the First Superman
The first Superman cartoons appeared in 1941, only three years after the Man of Steel first appeared in Action Comics. They were produced by the Fleischer Studio, which also gave us Betty Boop and...
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Donnie's Gay Sex Party with Jack Wild
Jack Wild (1952-2006) was the teen star of the Saturday morning life action show H.R. Pufnstuf, about a boy trapped in a distant magical land with a friendly dragon and a cranky old witch. Gay...
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Matthew Laborteaux
Born in 1966, Matthew Laborteaux starred in several movies and tv series, including The Red Hand Gang, but he first drew the interest of gay boys and their straight female friends around 1980, when his...
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Summertime Beefcake at the County Fair
If you wanted to insult a Nazarene, you accused them of being "worldly," engaging in behavior that wasn't sinful, but veered a little too close to the behaviors of "the wicked old world."For example,...
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My 10 Favorite Pictures of Nolan Gould
I haven't watched Modern Family since I got rid of my cable last year, and I didn't like it much to begin with -- the depiction of gay people and women is rather retro, and one gets tired of the...
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One Night in Bangkok, Three Hundred Nights at Mugi
I went to Mugi, the gay Asian bar in Hollywood, at least once a week, sometimes twice, from 1985 to 1993, when I started hitting Basgo's instead. Probably 300 times in all. And every single time I...
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Tony Dow and Kurt Hook Up with a High School Boy
I've been asking friends, ex-boyfriends, and ex-boyfriends of ex-boyfriends for gay dating or hookup stories involving Tony Dow, the Baby Boomer icon, Wally on the nuclear family sitcom Leave It to...
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Ken Clark: Bodybuilder on My Sausage Sighting List
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've seen live performances of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacificabout a dozen times, but never the 1958 musical. Until now.Beefcake abounds, of...
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Raphael De Santo: Pulp Illustrator of Muscular Men
I found this book at a used bookstore in Davenport, Iowa: Gods and Demons (Greek, Roman, Nordic, Celtic, Indian), published by Lyon Library sometime in the 1960s.The cover illustrations: a very...
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The Gay Couples of "Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag"
In some movies, you get exactly what the title says: Snakes on a Plane; Sharknado; Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997).The heads are in the custody of mafioso Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci), who is...
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The Joy of Summer #5: Watching Guys Mow Lawns
I hate summertime, but I have to admit, it has some beefcake benefits, like car washes; dunking booths at county fairs; and guys mowing lawns.During the 19th century, most people in the U.S. cities...
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Walk on the Wild Side
The gay world is always hidden, flickering on the edge of our vision, invisible to the average person. Merely a shadow to us. But then one day something happens. By accident or design, we go down...
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