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Why Hot Stuff Wears a Diaper
One of the Harvey Comics stable of magical beings, Hot Stuff the Little Devil is a queer outsider. He lives in the same Enchanted Forest as Casper, Wendy, and Spooky, but their paths never cross....
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The Men and Boys of Coney Island
Coney Island is a peninsula in southern Brooklyn, about an hour by subway from Penn Station. It consists of four neighborhoods (Seagate, West Brighton, Brighton Beach, and Manhattan Beach). Beginning...
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Alan Hooks Up with Two Cast Members of M*A*S*H
West Hollywood, June 1985Alan had been living in West Hollywood for seven years. He had done the bar-and-bathhouse thing, starred in porn movies, hooked up with a dozen closet-case movie stars, turned...
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Top 10 Public Penises of Africa
In South Africa in 2000, I met the Hottest Man in the World, and investigated the mystery of the Bushman penis. I'm not sure I want to visit anywhere else in the subcontinent. Rampant poverty, a...
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Searching for Beefcake in Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hamlet (1603) is one of my favorite Shakespearean plays. It's heavy-laden with gay subtexts, from the tortured Hamlet's buddy-bond with Horatio to the backstage chumminess of Rosencrantz and...
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Who Can Tell the Best Celebrity Hookup Story?
West Hollywood, August 2017It seems that all of the celebrity dating and hookup stories I'm getting lately took place in the 1960s or 1970s. They involve Andy Griffith, Bobby Driscoll, Jack Wild,...
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15 Reasons You Should Go to A Bathhouse
There are only about 30 gay bath houses left in the United States, down from the hundreds in the 1970s -- they have fallen prey to homophobic health regulations, a puritanical culture, and hook-up apps...
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Josh Zuckerman: No Gay Men Exist
Josh Zuckerman spend his adolescence in buddy-bonding roles, mostly with other men. For instance, in the Disney Channel movie Twas the Night (2001), irresponsible Nick Wrigley (Bryan Cranston of...
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The Truth About the Formosan Penis
My doctoral program in New York (1997-2001) was not only about studying sexuality. I spent a lot of time seeking out ethnic groups with legendary penises:The Basque, reputedly the largest in the...
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Face to Face with John Stamos' Bulge
In 1984, when I was living in Hell-fer-Sartain, Texas, the one moment of joy in my miserable life came on Wednesday nights, when I could watch Scott Baio in Charles in Charge, followed by 21-year old...
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Fons Ianelli: Photographer of World War II Beefcake
Son of renowned sculptor Alfonso Ianelli, Fons Ianelli (1917-1988) grew up in Chicago, and opened a photographic studio in 1940. I don't know if it's Ianelli or Iannelli -- it's spelled both ways in...
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Fernando Pessoa, the Gay Poet, Novelist, and Flaneur of 1920s Lisbon
If you're like me, you know Spanish literature inside-and-out, but Portuguese is an undiscovered country.Maybe you've heard of Jorge Amado, and Luis de Camoes, who wrote the first epic poem in...
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Death in Venice
My sophomore year in college revealed the world of Winnetou and Bravo magazine, but my junior year was oppressively heterosexist: gay-free Modern British Novel and Modern American Literature, and in...
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Dream Boys in Pain
In a BDSM scene, the top and the bottom negotiate in advance about how they will exert/relinquish power and control. What type of bondage will there be? Will there be humiliation (name calling, slave...
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Looking for a Hula Girl: Erasing Gay People from Ebay
If you want to see just how thoroughly gay people are erased from the world, do some online shopping:Allposters.com suggests that "men" will like posters of female breasts (labeled “Goals”), and women...
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The Bygone Boys of Lake City, Tennessee
I was interested in this photograph from the Bygone Boys tumblr blog, originally from the Tennessee State Library Department of Conservation: two boys with nearly identical faces, one shirtless, facing...
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Extreme Bodybuilding: When Your Biceps are Bigger than Your Head
There are many theories about why most people find muscular male bodies beautiful.1. They represent health and vitality.2. Their strength suggests sexual potency.3. They are able to protect us from a...
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Huck and Jim on the Raft
I don't remember a time when I didn't know Huckleberry Finn. He was everywhere in my childhood: in a tv series starring Michael Shea, in movies starring Eddie Hodges, Mickey Rooney, Jeff East, Elijah...
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You'd Be Perfect for My Grandson: Inner Sanctum
Authorial intent is not necessary for a gay subtext, but since about 1980, subtexts have usually been the result of actors, directors, or writers recognizing the gay potential in ostensibly...
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Michael in the Boys' Room with Cole or Dylan Sprouse
West Hollywood, August 2017I'm back in West Hollywood for a week, visiting old friends and trying to make a few new one. Michael, who I met at Infinite Chazz's dinner last night, is taking me out to...
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