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Lionel Wendt, the Oscar Wilde of Colombo
Lionel Wendt (1900-1944) was a photographer, cinematographer, pianist and scholar, who had a profound impact on the development of the fine arts in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon, a British colony until...
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The 10 Most Gay-Positive Nickelodeon Shows
Guys my age and older are always talking about a golden age, back when things were nicer, kinder, simpler, more innocent, interesting, authentic, creative, humane. They usually mean their childhoods,...
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70 Years of Archie Beefcake
K. J. Apa is not the first beefcake star to portray perennial comic book teenager Archie Andrews. Archie has been around since 1941, after all, and there have been five other tv versions.Archie: To...
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The Sons of Two Famous Actors Hook Up with Tarzan
This story comes from Zack, the ex-boyfriend of Drake the Teddy Bear Artist, who apparently heard it from Gordon Scott:Rome, June 1964Jim Mitchum, son of action-adventure star Robert Mitchum (Night of...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury’s science fiction novels were popular in my junior high, and I read all of them, even those with language somewhat too complex and florid: The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine, The...
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Johnny Crawford: Growing Up in the Old West
Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s were good for beefcake but not for bonding. The days of the cowboy and sidekick were long gone, replaced by single fathers and womanizing card sharks. The Rifleman...
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Tad's Wild Night with the Rifleman and His Son
Readers have been asking for a story about a Chuck Connors - Johnny Crawford romance ever since I started this blog.I don't know why. Most Baby Boomers have never seen The Rifleman (1958-63), about...
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Charles Addams/The Addams Family
The 1950s was obsessed with marriage and reproduction. Movies, tv programs, presidential speeches, school textbooks, and Sunday morning sermons all pushed the heterosexual nuclear family with...
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Heterosexual for a Day
Remember "What do the Simple Folk Do?" from Camelot:What do the simple folk doTo cheer them when they're feeling blue?When they're beset and besieged, the folk not noblesse obliged,How do they manage...
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Ike Eisenmann: Beefcake Summer
Ike Eisenmann has had a long career in acting, production, and voice work, but for gay boys growing up in the 1970s, he was famous for this scene:Before 1978, he was a child actor, cute if a bit...
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Jerry Mathers as the Beaver
Teenager boys in the 1950s were expected to be girl-crazy, but preteens were expected to find girls odious, to make their presumed pubescent "discovery" more dramatic. Thus, teenage Wally (Tony Dow,...
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Dylan Playfair: Some Assembly Required
Speaking of retreads, Disney's True Jackson, VP was about a 15-year old girl who becomes the vice president of a quirky fashion company. The Canadian series Some Assembly Required (2014-) goes one...
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A Hookup with an Abuse Survivor
Plains, November 2017When I was a Nazarene, most Sunday school classes were about finding God' Will for our lives.It was an important question. If we followed God's Will, we would be blessed with...
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Justin Long: The Biggest Homophobe in Hollywood?
You have to be careful with mainstream Hollywood movies. Reviews don't always warn you that they're homophobic. That's why I usually stick to juveniles and sci-fi, set in worlds where gay people do...
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Eric Shares the Rifleman and His Son
This is the second Chuck Connors-Johnny Crawford hookup story I heard when I was living in West Hollywood. I don't remember who told it. Probably one of Will the Bondage Boy's friends:Hollywood, Fall...
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David Cassidy
The oldest of a show biz family (his brothers are Shaun, Patrick, and Ryan), David Cassidy got his start on The Partridge Family (1970-74), about a family of pop singers who tour the country in a...
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The Midnight Hookups of Philadelphia
ThursdayI'm back in Philadelphia, where I lived for an execrable nine months. It was ugly, dirty, crowded, expensive, dangerous, and it had the most unfriendly gay people anywhere.My horrible flight...
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Academic Nudes: 18th Century Beefcake
It's a myth that the muscular modern physique didn't exist until the 20th century, when scientific weight-training and nutritional supplements bulked us up. The muscular physique has always been a...
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The Gay World of Dr. Seuss
When I was a kid in the 1960s, I hated fairy tales, but I liked Dr. Seuss. No heterosexist boy-girl plotlines, no boy-girl romances of any sort, just pleas for tolerance of diversity, ambiguity,...
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10 Reasons Why Thanksgiving is the Gayest Holiday
If you're not from the U.S. you might not be familiar with Thanksgiving, a holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November (it's also celebrated on different dates in Canada, Liberia, and...
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