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Searching for Beefcake in Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park covers 3,500 square miles in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. It receives 4 million visitors per year, mostly in the summer, when they can fight the crowds, pay exorbitant prices...
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The Gay Connection of Three Radio Tarzans
By 1930, radio was the most popular medium in the United States. Over 50% of urban and 30% of rural households had radios at home, and you could also listen at bars, nightclubs, restaurants. Edgar...
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Jackie Coogan's Boyfriend
When I met Keith Coogan in 2013, nearly the first thing I asked was, "Whose idea was the underwear scene in Toy Soldiers? (1991).You're making a movie about the boys at an elite boarding school being...
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Which 1960s Sitcom Star was Gay?
Picture it: the mid-1960s. The height of the Flower Power generation, when the teenagers were wearing long hair and tie-dye t-shirts and grooving on the Beatles, and kids read comic books, listened to...
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Mikel Murfi: Intellectual, Avant-Garde, Gifted Beneath the Belt
Speaking of Irish men that I want to see a lot more of:I saw the movie The Last September (1999) because Elizabeth Bowen, who wrote the 1929 novel, often included gay-coded characters. So I figured...
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The Windsors: Royal Gossip and Beefcake
I rather like The Windsors (2016-). It's raunchy and silly, but endearing, an exaggeration of the foibles of the British royal family, told as a soap opera.The central figures, Wills and Kate (Hugh...
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The Men and Boys of Minot, North Dakota
North Dakota has no iconic destination sites nor any particularly pleasant scenry, and it's not a state you'd go through to get anywhere else. The main reason to visit is that you're a completist,...
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Saturday Morning Beefcake: the 1990s
When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, Saturday morning tv was strictly for little kids. By junior high, I watched only the live-action programs like H.R. Pufnstuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters,...
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Who Was Gay on "Perry Mason"? Everyone, Apparently.
To my parents' generation, Perry Mason was The Lawyer, what lawyers were all about: stern but caring, eminently professional (with no social life to speak of), defending clients on trial for murder,...
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The Strongest Boy in England
Kids of all ages can benefit from strength training, and 13-year olds can compete in amateur bodybuilding events.teenage division of bodybuilding competitions are open to anyone aged 13 to 19. My...
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Randall Hooks Up with Three Cast Members of "Rebel without a Cause"
West Hollywood, March 1996Lane and I are back in West Hollywood for the Oscar party. As the nominees are announced, guys yell out "I've had him!" or "I've been with him!"Brad: Tim RothA Cute Young...
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Teenage Bodybuilders
For many years, the rule of thumb in bodybuilding was: no one under 18. It was assumed that still-developing muscles were incapable of intense training. It might even be injurious.Times have changed....
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Searching for Beefcake in "Boys' Life"
When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, Boys' Life magazine was everywhere: in the children's room of the library, in the waiting room of the doctor's office, in my friends' bedrooms.The articles...
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Gay Hints on "Let's Make a Deal"
Monty Hall, who died last year at age 92, was not exactly a gay icon, like Tarzan or James West, but he offered a few gay hints during my childhood. He was the host of Let's Make a Deal, the game show...
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Eddie is an Eye-Witness to Prince Charles Having Sex with an Extremely...
Boomer: Hi, Eddie. Did you know that I'm the sixth cousin, once removed, of Prince William? His mother, Princess Diana, and my mother share great-great-great-great grandmothers.Eddie: Brilliant!...
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Out Our Way: Teenagers Before Girl-Craziness
When I was a kid in the 1960s, I was jealous of the comics they got across the river in Davenport, Iowa. They got Peanuts, we got Winthrop. They got The Wizard of Id, we got Apartment 3-G. I sort of...
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Men of Steel
Superman is the most recognizable superhero in the world, a perennial favorite in comics, movies, and tv shows. And for cosplay.You can buy a superman costume, complete with built-in muscles.Or you...
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Bobby Darin: Dream Lover of the 1950s
Bobby Darin (1936-1973) grew up in East Harlem, New York. His first foray into the music business was as a songwriter, paired with future radio great Don Kirshner. But he hit the big time in 1958...
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My Hookup with Robert Redford
West Hollywood, February 1986One Sunday after church, my ex boyfriend Alan, the Pentecostal Porn Star, appears at my table at the French Quarter. "Are you doing anything Tuesday night?""The usual --...
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The Gay Hint of "Where's Huddles"
At the 1970 Superbowl, played on January 11th at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Minnesota Vikings 23-7. The Chiefs got 16 first downs and 151 net yards efficiency. Len...
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