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"The Arabian Nights" Beefcake Fantasies
European artists constantly draw on ancient Greek mythology and the Bible for their beefcake, but what about The Arabian Nights?The Arabian Nights, aka The Thousand and One Nights, is an Arabic story...
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Arabian Nights on Stage: Bare Chests and Turbans
I knew I'd find beefcake in The Arabian Nights eventually. A dramatic adaption by Dominic Cooke, first performed in 1997, is making the rounds of high school and college drama departments. It goes...
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The Beefcake of Chaffee, Missouri
Chaffee, Missouri, is in southeastern Missouri, 130 miles from the nearest big city, St. Louis. The nearest town with a gay bar is Carbondale, Illinois, 60 miles away. It's isolated!There's a Circle...
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10 Things You Should Know About "The Tick"
1. The spoof superhero first appeared in 1986 as the mascot of the New England Comic Book Stores.2. His costume looks like this. The muscles are latex, but the bulge isn't.3. He has appeared in three...
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Jerzy Has 24 Hours to Pick Up a Twink
West Hollywood, August 2017I'm back in California for a week to visit my old friends and old haunts, staying in West Hollywood with Infinite Chazz. We're having dinner at Sammy's Thai restaurant on...
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The Gay Journalist and the Three Beefcake Boxers
I love researching the people in old beefcake photographs. These three specimens:Left, with long arms: Joe-ClaesCenter, with basket: Petit Riquet ("Little Riquet." because of his height?).Right, tall,...
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Bill and I Fall Asleep Reading Uncle Scrooge
Random kidsWhen I was a kid in the 1960s, it was hard to find comic books. I didn't get a regular allowance until junior high, and when I did manage to earn a quarter or a dime, Schneider's Drug Store...
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Robert Ellis: Gay Best Friend of the 1950s
This rather buffed young man looking rather unhappy at being hugged by a girl is Robert Ellis. He was famous during the 1950s as Dexter Franklin on Meet Corliss Archer (1951-52), the first of many...
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Ricky Nelson
Ricky Nelson was the first teen idol produced by television. He was born in 1940 to show biz parents, band leader Ozzie Nelson and singer Harriet, who played "themselves" on The Adventures of Ozzie...
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Drake on a Date with Ricky Nelson and Bob Ellis
Hollywood, May 1956One day in the spring of 1956, Harriet Nelson (who played "herself" on the long-runnng Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet) invited her friend MJ (Mary Jane Croft) over for coffee, and...
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The Cities with the Most and Least Attractive Men
The dating app Clover, which is like Grindr for heteros (although it allows gay members), has analyzed data from 500,000 users, and found the cities and states with the most attractive men in the U.S....
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Five Guys in One Day, Plus the Roommate
Plains, May 2017I live in the Straight World now, where EVERYBODY over age 25 has a house.It's a sign of maturity and stability, of adulthood. When you tell them you have an apartment, they act as if...
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An Interview with the Most Attractive Man in the World
Los Angeles, August 2017When I was in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago, I reunited with Zack the Photographer, who I met when he was the most stunningly handsome guy in the world, a 19-year old...
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Georgian Men
If you're like me, you've often wondered why there is a country named Georgia in the Caucasus mountains, with no connection to the U.S. state of Georgia.Georgia the state was named after King George...
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The Ghost with the Kovbasa+
Bronx, September 2004With a B.A. in art and part of a M.F.A. in Photography, 26-year old Zack is living in Soho, sharing a 1-bedroom apartment with 4 other guys (he gets the couch in the living room...
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The Death of Pup Danny
I met Danny on an online dating app about six months ago. His nude photo showed a long handsome face with blue eyes, a smooth chest, nice abs. 25 years old, working for a cell phone company.His...
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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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The Scream King Hooks Up with Ricky Schroder
Three days after his high school graduation in 1981, Mark Patton, a country boy from Kansas City, Missouri, was immersed in the gay mecca of Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Ten day after, he landed a...
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Yakutsk Beefcake
What do you think of when you hear the name Yakutsk?1. Yakut, a Siberian Turkic language, spoken by 80% of the population.2. Winter temperatures of -30 F.3. The woolly mammoth discovered fully intact...
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Hi, Guy!: Cruising in a 1970s TV Commercial
Between 1969 and 1972, and then again in 1978, Right Guard deodorant aired a series of commercials in which an unsuspecting apartment dweller (Bill Fiore) opens his medicine chest, only to discover...
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