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5 Craigslist Hookups on the Same Day
Plains, October 2017Craigslist is the bargain-basement of hookup venues, full of crazy downlow guys who think it's still the pre-Stonewall dark ages."Are you a cop?""There was someone on the sidewalk,...
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Wahlburgers: 4 Seasons, No Underwear
Marky Mark Wahlberg, who rose to fame as a pants-dropping rapper and later spun his mega-buffed physique into serious dramatic roles, is now in his mid 40s, and the star of a reality series,...
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Mikey Likes It
The blog "Mikey Likes It" is maintained by a gay college student who wasn't even born when the enduring catch phrase was created.It was the fall of 1972, and Quaker Oats was trying to expand out from...
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The Blue Power Ranger Dates Fred and Matt
Fresno, November 1995David grew up in Montana and Iowa, where gay people were assumed not to exist, except as monsters conjured up by the minister at church. He was 14 when Rock Hudson died of AIDS...
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Bruce Springsteen: Gay Ally with a Sordid Past
Bruce Springsteen, "The Boss," went completely under my radar in the 1970s and 1980s. I knew "Blinded by the Light" (1973), but only through the 1977 cover by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, something...
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Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Are You Afraid of the Dark? was a Canadian series broadcast during the Golden Age of Nickelodeon (1992-1996), an anthology of science fiction and paranormal stories: ghosts, vampires, monsters, aliens,...
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A Twink Parade at the Gym
Plains, October 2017I don't know what's going on. Yesterday an amazing success rate in hooking up on the world's worst hookup venue, and today a cruising paradise in the world's worst place for...
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Halloween Tales of Beefcake
Tales of Halloween (2015) is an anthology of 10 Halloween-themed stories. It made the rounds of film festivals and was released on video-on-demand, and now is streaming on Netflix.The stories all have...
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Laverne and Shirley
Laverne De Fazio (Penny Marshall) and Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams) first appeared on an episode of Happy Days, when Fonzie hooks himself and Richie up with two "loose women" who are sure to "put...
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Which Hookup with Eddie Mekka Actually Happened?
In the 1970s I had a big crush on Carmine Ragusa on Laverne and Shirley (right): he was short, broad-chested, and beautiful. And gay-coded: Shirley's platonic pal, variously working as a singer,...
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Wally Cox: Was Mr. Peepers Gay?
On February 9, 1970, Here's Lucystarred Alan Hale Jr. as Moose Manley (yes, that's his name), who worries that his son Wally (Wally Cox) is not manly enough -- he's "shy around girls."I had never heard...
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From Walt Whitman to Tommy in 4 Hookups
Guildford, Surrey, August 1917Maurice was born in Dorchester but grew up in London, where his father was a chemist, a justice of the peace, and an amateur thespian. As a boy he loved everything about...
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Bewitched, Bewildered, and Gay
You can always distinguish between gay and heterosexual Boomer boys by asking: Bewitched orI Dream of Jeannie?Jeannie (1965-70) offered the sexist fantasy of a man whose semi-nude, subservient genie...
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Swim Teams of Yesteryear
Back before tv stars commonly took their shirts off and gay porn was unheard-of, Grandpa got his beefcake by watching sports. Wrestling was the best for bulk and baskets, but for the most exposed...
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Tarzan's Boy: Johnny Sheffield
When MGM executives wanted to expand the audience of their extremely successful Tarzan series by giving the Ape Man and his Mate (Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan) a child, they faced a quandary:...
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Schitt's Creek: A Lot of Beefcake Going On
In the Canadian sitcom Schitt's Creek (2015-), video magnate Johnny Rose (SCTV alumnus Eugene Levy) loses his fortune to a shady business manager, and he and his wife Moira (Catherine O'Hara) and adult...
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Johnny Sheffield Almost Becomes Tarzan's Lover
Born in 1931, son of stage star Reginald Sheffield and socialite Louise Van Loon, Johnny Sheffield was already a star at age five, playing "Pud" in the Broadway play On Borrowed Time.In 1938, MGM movie...
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Bobby and Johnny Crawford
Many Boomer kids aren't aware that Johnny Crawford, the 1950s teen idol, star of The Mickey Mouse Cluband The Rifleman, the bodybuilder with full nude scenes in The Naked Ape, had a older and even more...
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Harry Blondell, the Strongest Living American
Robert Mainardi's book Strongman: Vintage Photographs of a Masculine Icon reproduces a cabinet photo of "Harry H. Blowdell, the Strongest Living American" from 1890.Today his slim chest, undefined abs,...
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Matt Hooks Up with Tarzan's Grandson
San Diego, July 1989My ex-boyfriend Fred's boyfriend Matt was loud and proud, out to everybody and everything. "Hi, I'm gay, and I'd like to order a large pizza." "Hi, I'm gay. What time will the...
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