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The Violet Quill: Sex, Drugs, Alienation, and Elitism in 1980s New York
Did you ever wonder about the origin of the stereotype of gay men as wealthy, over-educated, over-sophisticated, and indolent, doing nothing all day but lounging on the beach, so they can spend their...
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Gangster's Boy: Jackie Cooper Falls in Love
Born September 15th, 1922, the blond, pug-faced Jackie Cooper (left, with Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney) was the Ricky Schroder of his generation. He got his start in Skippy, an adaptation of...
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The Lost Bodybuilder Cop of Tulsa, Oklahoma
This was the cover photo of a book on constitutional law. A sculpture of family of muscular naked people about to be squished by a scary giant hand.Where did it come from? I wondered. Was it part of...
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The Beefcake of Clovis, California
We think of California as all liberal and gay-friendly, but the farther you get from the gay centers of West Hollywood and the Castro, the more rural, redneck, and mean it gets. Clovis, California...
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The Wrestlers of Arab, Alabama
Do a google search for "Arab men," and you're likely to get a lot of men of Arab ethnicity, who are from or descended from residents of the Middle East, who speak or whose ancestors spoke Arabic. There...
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The Orphans of Small Town Beefcake
I've been having a lot of fun looking for the beefcake in isolated small towns far from gay neighborhoods, some that I've been to, some that I'm afraid to go near. I start off with local high school...
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It's a Man's World: A Gay Threesome from the 1960s
Speaking of Ted Bessell, before That Girl, he starred in It’s a Man’s World (1962-63) as Tom-Tom, a college student obsessed by Beat poetry and jazz, both emblematic of the multisexual bohemian...
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The Bisexual M&M
I really dislike advertising mascots who belong to the group that is being eaten. There's something grotesque and ghoulish about sentient beings proclaiming how good they taste after being killed and...
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Four Questions about Ashwaubenon
I found this photo while googling for small town beefcake. His wrestling singlet reads "Ashwaubenon Jaguars."Two questions:1. Where is Ashwaubenon?2. How soon can I be there?Ok, a third question:3....
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Mickey Rooney: Gay-Vague Teen Hunk of the 1940s
Mickey Rooney, who just died at age 93, played elderly men for so long that it's hard to remember that once upon a time he was the biggest teen hunk in Hollywood. Born Joe Yule in 1920, Mickey got his...
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Is "Lost in Space" Worth the Trip?
Baby Boomers remember Lost in Space (1965-68) fondly for its crazy plotlines and endearing characters: the Robot, the blustering gay-vague Dr. Smith, cute-as-a-button Will Robinson.But you really had...
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The Better-Dorks of Bettendorf, Iowa
I grew up in the Quad Cities, actually six or seven cities (depending on who you ask) straddling the Mississippi on the Illinois-Iowa border. Rock Island, Illinois was the poorest, and Better-Dork,...
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Even More Nolan Gould
Modern Family, the oddly popular sitcom about an extended family of annoyingly privileged people in contemporary Los Angeles, began in 2009, with eleven-year old Nolan Gould as the youngest kid in the...
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10 Fratboys in Bondage
When I was in high school, we used the term "fratboy" to refer to a boy who had wealthy parents and could sport $20 haircuts, designer shirts in pastel colors, and his own car; plus was an athlete, a...
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The Most Beautiful Beefcake in Illinois
I just read a click-bait article on "The Most Beautiful Small Towns in Every State." For mystate of Illinois, it named Galena.A small town on the Mississippi in the northwest corner of the state,...
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Philips Andover Aquatics: Beefcake since 1912
Phillips Andover Academy, an elite private school in Andover, Massachusetts, has trained hundreds of notable people, including Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator of Tarzan), Presidents Bush Junior and...
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Searching for Beefcake in Kokomo: The Ugliest Town in America
According to a survey in Travel and Leisure, the ugliest towns in America are Wilson, North Carolina; Fort Pierce and Kissamme, Florida; Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Anderson and Kokomo, Indiana; and Utica...
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Searching for Beefcake in the Least Athletic Colleges in the U.S.
According to College Magazine, here are the ten colleges with the most unathletic (i.e., least attractive) guys. Let's see if they offer any beefcake potential.1. Northwestern University, the Ivy...
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The Top Ten Nature Show Hunks
When I was little, the only nature program we had was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1963-1985), with a grandfatherly host, Marlin Perkins, who didn't actually go into the field; he just narrated, and...
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Max Thieriot: The Gay Villains of Yesteryear
You probably remember Max Thieriot from Catch that Kid (2004), a teen heist movie in which a girl and two boys (Max, Corbin Bleu of the High School Moviefranchise) break into a bank vault). It was...
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