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The Culkin Brothers: Always Mistaken for Gay
Quick -- which of the Culkin brothers is this?Hard to tell, isn't it?The Culkin Dynasty began with Home Alone (1990), a Christmas movie about a young boy (10-year old Macaulay Culkin) accidentally left...
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Zephyr Benson
What is it like to grow up with a father who was the most beautiful teen idol in the world, the source of gushing romantic fantasies for millions of gay boys and straight girls?Of course, I'm talking...
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On My Knees in Central Park with the "Home Alone" Kid
Orange County, August 2017I'm back in West Hollywood to see my old friends and visit my old haunts. Tonight I'm having dinner in Orange County with my ex Lane and his husband Ben, plus four of their...
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Don't Cry Now: David and Andy Williams
Born in 1960, twins David and Andy Williams (the latter named after their famous crooner uncle) began their teen idol career performing on Uncle Andy's variety show -- true, no kids watched, but that's...
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Wild Things: The Gay Art of Maurice Sendak
Adults like to think of childhood as a blissful Eden, a period of endless joy, unblemished by anxieties over money or sex or death. But they're wrong. Childhood is terrifying and painful, crowded...
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Three Twinks and a Bear on the Same Night
West Hollywood, August 2017I haven't been back to West Hollywood for four years, and I probably won't be back for awhile, so I want to make the best of it, as many friends, sights, hangouts, and...
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Bedouin Beefcake
When I was a kid, I read Sonia and Tim Gidal's Sons of the Desert, about the wild freedom and pristine purity of the nomadic Bedouins, and I was hooked. Arab boys, slim, hard-bodied, dark-skinned,...
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Top 10 Beefcake Horror Movies: the 1950s
My brother and I spent many Saturday nights in the 1970s in our attic room, watching old horror and sci-fi movies on Chuck Acri's Creature Feature on our portable black & white tv set (it was past...
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Lost in Space
I don't remember the first season of Lost in Space (1965-68), when the family of colonists -- waylaid en route to Alpha Centauri was having realistic science fiction adventures. I only remember the...
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Matthew Lawrence
Born in 1980, Matthew Lawrence is Joey's younger brother, just as muscular, and even more gay-friendly (if that is possible). It is hard to think of a project he's been in that didn't involve...
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The 10 Best Pics of Jerry O'Connell
Jerry O'Connell has been on our minds since My Secret Identity, back in the 1980s, and Sliders (1995-1999). We went to some horrible movies, like Body Shots,Tomcats, and Dave's Apartment, just for...
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Jonathan Brandis
Probably the most famous of the Neverending Story boys was Jonathan Brandis, who played Bastian in #2. Born in 1976, Brandis began acting during the 1980s, with small parts in tv series like Webster...
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Tarik Hooks Up with Jonathan Brandis and Insane Ian
Norfolk, Virginia, July 1995I'm 34 years old, living in West Hollywood but visiting Alan for a few days. He's back at his sister's house in Norfolk, so I'm staying with my friend Tarik: about my age,...
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10 Beefcake Stars of the 1950s and 1960s.
The 1950s was the era of the chest, when actors started taking off their shirts regularly on screen, and buffed, brawny "he-men" took precedence over the slim, svelte sophisticates of previous...
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Jason Bateman Dating Story #1: The Porn Star
West Hollywood, March 1987.Even though my celebrity boyfriend and I dated for only about six weeks, our breakup was devastating -- particularly since he dumped me for my roommate Alan!For three days I...
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Cops Tied Up
Many gay men into BDSM have a special interest in police officers, either getting tied up by them or tying them up.In part because of the authority of the uniform, but not entirely -- other authorities...
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Swamp Thing's Teen Sidekick
In 1990, the newly founded USA Network was looking for series ideas, and they latched onto the DC comic book character Swamp Thing, a human-looking mass of vegetation who wreaks vengeance on people who...
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Jan-Michael Vincent's First Boyfriends
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968-70), was a Saturday morning anthology series starring an animatronic rock band, with psychedelic blackouts, corny jokes, very bad songs, and cheesy cartoons. But...
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Alan's Gift From Beyond the Grave
Indianapolis, January 2005In January 2005, I got a phone call in Indianapolis saying that Alan, my ex-boyfriend, roommate, and close friend for 20 years, had died of AIDS-related cancer. The memorial...
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Elijah Wood: Fear of the Buddy-Bond
Unlike his Lord of the Rings costar Sean Astin, Elijah Wood never got much play as a teen hunk, and he didn't do a lot of buddy-bonding roles; the only one that springs to mind is Radio Flier (1992)...
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