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The 12 Most Homophobic, Heterosexist, and Horrible Songs
Heterosexism is commonplace in the "girl! girl! girl!' banter of popular music. But some songs are so heterosexist, homophobic, or otherwise horrible that I literally can't stand to hear them. If...
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Victor Mature: A Heterosexual who Starred in Heterosexual Movies in...
Speaking of well-endowed heterosexuals in Heterosexual Hollywood, check out this heterosexual guy's swimsuit bulge.He's a straight man named Victor Mature (1913-1999), heterosexual beefcake star of the...
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Reader: "How can you possibly make such an outrageous accusation about this actor? He's normal!"Me: "Um...I said he starred in some gay-positive movies."Reader: "He's normal! He's not gay! I know...
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Integrating the Public Pool
When I was a kid in the 1960s, Rock Island was segregated. Almost all African-Americans lived on the West End. There was only one in my junior high. If I wanted to get a glimpse of black beefcake, I...
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Bobby Sherman: Here Come the Brides
Here Come the Brides (1968-70) was a quasi-Western that delivered lots of bare chested bravado and created two teen idols. In the back story, the idyllic frontier Seattle of the 19th century is...
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All Out of Celebrity Dating and Hookup Stories
I've published about 90 celebrity dating and hookup stories, all of my own, all that I heard when I lived in West Hollywood, and all that my friends and friends-of-friends know. I'm all out, except...
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Mitch Dates George Clooney and a Former Teen Idol
Rosemary Clooney's nephew George rubs me the wrong way. I like his liberal politics and the fact that he's a gay ally. But he has a marginally attractive face, nondescript physique, and no basket,...
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Star Trek Beyond Homophobia
I don't usually post reviews of single episodes of tv series, but I'm being forced to work my way through Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005), the classic Trek prequel about smug, simpering Captain...
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The 10 Most Depressing Christmas Songs
November is my favorite month. The air is brisk and cool but not too cold for jogging, it gets dark at a normal hour, tv and the theater are going strong. Even though there's my birthday and...
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5 Heterosexist and 5 Gay-Inclusive Christmas Specials
Have you ever noticed that most Christmas specials are annoyingly heterosexist. Here are the worst examples:1. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962): Why is Magoo/Scrooge so miserable? He was so...
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Richard Grieco Nudity and Sausage Fondling
I am a strong supporter of your right to be as masculine, feminine, or androgynous as you want to be. Slide some ladies' rings on those long, slender, fingers, get some lovely dangling earrings to...
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What's Gay about Beany and Cecil?
Beany, a grinning 10-year old boy with blond hair, freckles, and a magic beanie that allowed him to fly, first appeared as a puppet on the local Los Angeles tv series Time for Beany (1949-1954). A...
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Steven Hooks Up with George Maharis in Judy Garland's Dressing Room
Another email celebrity hookup story:Hollywood, September 1963.In 1963 my ex-boyfriend Steven was a 21-year old Cute Young Thing, newly arrived from Georgia with aspirations of becoming a great...
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King of the Golden River: Boy Meets Dwarf
Shortly after I was born, my parents bought a set of Colliers Encyclopedia and The Junior Classics, an anthology of mostly Victorian-era stories like Alice in Wonderlandand Jackanapes. During my...
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Peter McEnery: The First Gay Teenager
In Victim (1961), 21-year old Peter McEnery played the first explicitly identified gay teenager in film, a working class boy named Boy who commits suicide in prison. His affluent, middle-aged lover,...
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16 Celebrity Dates, Hookups, or Sausage Sightings
About half the guys I met in West Hollywood were actors, or wanted to be actors. Most had been in just a few minor roles in movies or tv; you wouldn't know their names or faces.Some had been famous,...
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Ricky Nelson and Kent McCord at an All-Male Party
When I was in eighth grade, Martin Milner and Kent McCord, stars of the cop show Adam-12, spoke at the high school, and for some reason my my boyfriend Dan and I were in the audience.Their presentation...
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Georgia Boys are Always on My Mind
Remember the Beatles' song "Back in the USSR"?Well, Ukraine boys really knock me outThey leave the rest behindMoscow boys make me sing and shout,And Georgia boys are always on my mind....If you're like...
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Brokeback Mountain for the 1950s: Laramie
Fifty years before Brokeback Mountain and twenty years before Zachariah, the tv Western Laramie gave us a portrait of two cowboys in love.Shortly after the Civil War, Slim Sherman (played by an actor...
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10 Reasons John Smith Was Probably Gay
1. Not the animated Pilgrim of Pocahontas, the beefcake actor fondly remembered by the first generation of Baby Boomers as the star of Laramie (1959-63). 2. He was a shy, sensitive, artistic child....
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