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Haka: The Maori Dance of Posturing and Muscle
Haka means "dance" in the Maori language, and kapa haka a line dance, performed at all types of public events.We are most familiar with the war haka, the traditional dance performed before a battle, in...
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African Muscle #4: North Africa
North Africa, called le Maghreb in French, has always had a fascination for Europeans, perhaps because it's only a short distance across the Mediterranean, but vastly different in religions, languages,...
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Gay Fan Art 1: Max Goof
Go to deviantart.com or one of the x-rated yaoi sites and do a keyword search for "Max Goof slash."You'll find dozens of fan-produced pictures of the Disney character kissing a guy, hanging out in his...
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Sinner Beefcake, Part 1
When I was growing up in the Nazarene church, Sunday school teachers and youth leaders cautioned us about being "unequally yoked with unbelievers," that is, being friends with "sinners."All other...
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Sinner Beefcake, Part 2
When I was growing up in the Nazarene church, Sunday school teachers and youth leaders told us that almost every other Christian church was wrong. Some were only a little off, so we could be friends...
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Michael Seater: Buddy for Life
Born in 1987, Canadian actor Michael Seater was on tv nonstop from 2000 to 2010, with a series of homoromantic buddy-bonding roles.Spencer Sharpe, boyfriend of paranormal investigator Zack (Robert...
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Searching for Cowboys in Norco
Norco sounds like a conglomerate, "Norco Brand Shredded Beets," and it's actually named after the Northern Corona Land Company. It's a planned community in Riverside County, about 60 miles east of West...
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Asian Muscle #1: Central Asia
Who hasn't dreamed of Central Asia? The fabled Silk Road, with the Samarkand, Tashkent, and Bokhara? Alexander the Great. Transoxonia. The Golden Hoarde. The Empire of the Steppes. Tamurlane....
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Nazarene College Beefcake
When I was growing up in the Nazarene Church, higher education was frowned up. Secular universities were full of atheists and Catholics who would brainwash you. Besides, what did you need a college...
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Totalitarian Television: Underdog and Friends
When I was a kid, all of the grown-up men I knew worked in the great smoking factory that my Dad called "the goddam hellhole." And all of the grown-up women were their wives, cooking and cleaning and...
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The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Sabrina the Teenage Witch first appeared in the anthology series Archie's Madhouse in 1962, as a glamorous although rather malevolent witch perhaps inspired by the movie Bell, Book, and Candle (1958)....
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Small Town Wrestlers
I'm getting tired of looking for small town beefcake. Time to move on to something else. But I have a file of photos of miscellaneous small town guys to post. First up, the wrestlers.1. Arkansas...
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Devon Sawa
I wasn't happy when Casper (1995) made the Harvey Comics character into a real ghost -- a dead boy -- rather than a magical being, and then eliminated the gay subtext by giving him a girlfriend. So,...
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Small Town Swimmers
I'm getting tired of looking for small-town beefcake. It's always the same: some high school swimmers and wrestlers, and if I'm lucky, some bodybuilders down at the local gym. Time to move on to...
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Enrico Natali: Accidental Beefcake
Enrico Natali was born in Utica, New York in 1933, and moved to New York in 1954. His photographs of people on the New York Subway were published in 1960. During the next decade, he traveled to...
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Luke Perry: From Teen Idol to Hot Gay Nerd to Riverdale Dad
Viewers of the prison drama Oz in the spring of 2001 were treated to the sight of disgraced evangelical preacher Jeremiah Cloutier (Luke Perry) having his towel stolen as he leaves the shower, forcing...
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More Small Town Swimmers
I didn't quite finish with my last post on interesting pictures of small-town swimmers.1. Annandale, near Washington, DC. I've never seen swimmers wearing Santa Claus hats before. Their swim trunks...
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Small Town Muscle
Ok, time for the rest of my small town beefcake photos. These are bodybuilders, powerlifters, and miscellaneous cute guys.1. Camp Ridgecrest, an evangelical Christian summer camp dedicated to the...
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Balkan Beefcake
The Balkan Peninsula is one of the most fascinating regions in the world, the site of the Byzantine Empire, under Ottoman Rule for centuries (so there is a substantial Muslim population), fought over...
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969) was advertised as a hilarious comedy about a group of Ugly Americans on a whirlwind tour of Europe, but I found it heartbreaking. In fact, I was hesitant...
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