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Spring 1967: Marrying the Boy Next Door
Long before I met Bill, before my first date, when we were still living in Racine, Wisconsin, I married the boy next door.This isn't him; he would have about my age, six or seven years old, in first...
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Fall 1976: Discovering What Gay Means
Up until the fall of 1976, I had no idea that gay people existed. I knew about fairies, boys who had the audacity to pretend that they were girls (bad at sports, good at schoolwork), and swishes,...
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Summer 1976: Male Bonding at the Altar Call
When I was a teenager in the 1970s, church services typically ended with an "altar call," an invitation for people to come down to the long, low railing at the front of the sanctuary, kneel, and "get...
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How Do You Handle a Hungry Man?
I'm not a big fan of soup, especially that partially coagulated Campbell's stuff. Besides, they had a stupid logo -- "Mmm, mmm, good," not even words -- and the most cutesy-disgusting advertising...
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Peter Coe: The Edge of Gay Hollywood
If you were watching Chuck Acri's Creature Feature or any of the other local creature features of the 1960s and 1970s: Ghoulardi, Sir Graves Ghastly, Count Scary, Svengooli, Zacherley -- then you've...
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Spring 1977: A Nude Conversation with the Preacher's Son
Every four years, the Nazarene Young People's Society held an International Institute, where selected Nazarene teenagers from around the world gathered to "deepen their spiritual witness" and "spread...
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Andre Kinney: Disney Teen Star, Gay Without a Doubt
In Armored (2009), 19-year old Andre Kinney played Jimmy Hackett, the younger brother of security guard Ty Hackett (Columbus Short, left), and the object of his last-minute rescue and fade-out hug.In...
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Why My Parents Took So Many Shirtless Pictures
Got enough evidence yet, Mom?I keep getting asked for more shirtless or preferably nude pics of Verne, the preacher's son who liked nude horseplay, or Todd, who I spent the night with at music camp, or...
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Kimba, the Italian Tarzan
I'm a devotee of all things Tarzan, including the original novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the movies, the tv series, the comic books and comic strips, the Big-Little Books, the pastiches and parodies....
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TKKG: German Boyfriends Who Solve Mysteries
Radio dramas about TKKG, a group of German teen sleuths like the Three Investigators or The Famous Five, first appeared in 1981,and are still going strong, with episodes like "The Treasure in the...
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Spring 1977: The Rabbi's Son Who Didn't Know He Was Gay
During my junior year in high school, I was acting the Johnny Nazarene, going to all of the church activities, going to the altar, and planning to attend Olivet, our Bible college on the prairie. And...
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Kostja Ullmann after Summer Storm
You've probably seen Kostja Ullmann in Summer Storm (Sommersturm), the amazing German movie (2004) about gay people who aren't trapped in a pre-Stonewall world of angst, homophobia, and silence. The...
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Summer 1977: Dancing with a Leather Boy in Switzerland
During the summer after my junior year at Rocky High, I was one of the delegates to the Nazarene Youth Society International Institute, 500 cream-of-the-crop teenage Johnny and Suzie Nazarenes from...
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Gay Characters in an Arabic Movie from 1978
The last thing I expected was to find gay characters in a movie from the Middle East, produced in 1978. But there they are, in Alexandria...Why (Iskanderija...Lih?), directed by Youssef Chahine. It...
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Summer 1977: The Gay Ghost of Davenport House
Darry: always standing beside me11th grade was so crowded with new friends and boyfriends - - the preacher's son who liked nude horseplay, the rabbi's son who didn't know he was gay, the boy I slept...
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Fall 1977: I Become My Boyfriend's Best Man
Verne and JeffIn August 1977, just before my senior year at Rocky High, I helped Verne, the preacher's son and my sort-of boyfriend, pack for his freshman year at Olivet Nazarene College. We hugged,...
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Henry Brandon and Judy Garland's Husband
Born in Germany in 1912, Henry Brandon had a long career as a character actor, playing villains of every ethnic group.Silas Barnaby in Babes in Toyland (1934).Chinese mastermind Fu Manchu in the...
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Lloyd Daniels: G-A-Y Nudity
Music competition programs like X Factor and American Idol tend toward the heterosexist: judges' comments regularly assume that gay people don't exist, and when a candidate is a bit androgynous, the...
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Edd Byrnes: The Ginchiest Gay Hustler
During the 1950s, lots of young musclemen found ways to earn some extra cash with their biceps and bulges, as bodybuilders, physique models, and hustlers for the newly-organized gay community. A few...
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Shane Harper: Closet Heterosexual
Shane Harper has been bouncing around the Disney Channel for a few years, guest starring in Zoey 101, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Good Luck, Charlie. He just had an album released, so I check out the...
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