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The Top 40 Reasons to Visit Youngstown, Ohio
A clickbait article on Facebook named the worst city in America. To my surprise, it wasn't a city in the Deep South, or in the flat monotony of Kansas, or in the homophobic mountains. It was...
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More Unexpected Theatrical Beefcake
You go to see Tarzan primarily to see a buffed guy in a loincloth. There may be other reasons to go to Streetcar Named Desire or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but a half-naked Stanley or Brick is certainly...
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Danny Ponce after Hogan
Danny Ponce was arguably the heartthrob of The Hogan Family(1986-1991), surpassing Jason Bateman in the number of first gay crushes he elicited, and in the number of teen magazine shots featuring...
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The Beefcake of MadisonCounty
Winterset, Iowa is the smallest small town in the United States.Not because of its size -- 5,000 people.Or its isolation -- Des Moines is only half an hour way. Because it is the quintessential...
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Jimmy Olsen, Superman's First Boyfriend
Many gay boys growing up in the 1950s and 1960s dreamed of dating Superman. In 1954, Daily Planet reporter Jimmy Olsen got his chance: he began to appear in his own comic book title, as Superman's...
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Real Raytown Beefcake
Mama's Family (1983-1990) is fondly remembered for the sharp-tongued Mama (Vickie Lawrence in old lady drag) and the blatantly displayed biceps and even more blatantly displayed package of her grandson...
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Why You Should Pay Attention to Crew Crews
While searching for small-town beefcake, I've been concentrating on swim and wrestling teams, and ignoring crew, because the athletes don't typically take their shirts off.I'll have to rethink that...
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10 Gay Surprises of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song
In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles had had enough of the Man, and set out to bring the Black Community together with a movie about a hero who triumphs over white oppression. He had no money, so he shot a lot...
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Why Easter is Better than Christmas
Easter is one of my all-time favorite holidays. I love the juxtaposition of the iconic event of Christianity, the solemn death and glorious resurrection of Jesus Christ, with the gaudy triviality of...
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Some Bunny Ears and Easter Baskets
How did bunnies become associated with the solemn religious holiday of Easter? There's speculation that the rabbit was an ancient symbol of fertility, the companion of the Goddess Ostara (from whom we...
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Kamloops Beefcake
Kamloops is a city in British Columbia, about 200 miles from Vancouver. Surrounded by mountains and rivers, known for its outdoor activities: skiing, snowboarding, fishing. There's also the Secwepemc...
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10 Surprising Beefcake Stars of "The Walking Dead"
Are you still watching The Walking Dead? We are, although I'm not sure why. Season 8 has been horrendous, as Rick's Alexandria community (I can't call them the good guys, as they do reprehensible...
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Amish Beefcake
Why do we find Amish men so attractive?Maybe because they combine our images of the rural Adonis -- barbaric, uncivilized, passionate, sexually uninhibited -- with our image of the religious --...
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The Beefcake of Benicia
Benicia (pronounced Ben-i-sha) is a town of 27,000 in Solano County, California, known for not much. The Castro, the heart of the gay universe, is about 30 miles away, 45 minutes by car on a good...
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The Gay Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
When I was in high school in the 1970s, a series of paperbacks appeared at Readmore Book World with weird, evocative titles: The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath; The Doom that Came to Sarnath; At the...
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Gay Content in "Gulliver's Travels"
How did Jonathan Swift's biting satire of British mores, published in 1726, become a children's classic?Maybe because of the little people?Most of us don't get farther than the voyage to Lilliput,...
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10 Shirtless Photos of Ben Schreiner, Sort Of
Someone said that Ben Schreiner, who appeared on six episodes of You Can't Do That on Television in 1984, near the end of its run, is gay.Ok, I never heard of him, so I did an internet search.He must...
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Searching for Acalanes
This photo was just captioned "Acalanes." Was it a person or town?I googled it, and found more Acalanes. Maybe it means "swimsuit" in Catalan.Or "embarrassment of riches."Turns out it's a high...
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Donelan: It's a Gay Life
When I was in grad school in Bloomington in 1982 and 1983, I was able to get copies of The Advocate at the adult bookstore. One of my favorite features was a series of single-panel New Yorker-style...
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An Unfortunate Series of Unfortunate Events
There are a lot of things I like about season 2 of A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Netflix adaption of the book series about the unfortunate adventures of the orphaned Baudelaire children, Violet,...
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