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More Riverdale Beefcake
The second season of Riverdale has a convoluted plotline about a serial killer named the Black Hood, a sort of Zodiac stalking the town's "sinners," who has a special bond with Betty Cooper.Plus a drug...
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Beefcake in the Home of Happiness
In The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its sequel-of-sorts, Shock Treatment, Brad and Janet are from Denton, a "typical American city." But which Denton?Fans claim Denton, Ohio, because Janet is shown...
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The Tarzan Who Might Have Been
Remember Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981), the big-budget, big-breasted , Jane-centric Tarzan for the 1980s, featuring it-girl Bo Derek in darkest Africa in the altogether? She and her producer/director/...
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David Cassidy's Comic Book Career
In 1972, when I was 11 years old, David Cassidy was everywhere, literally.On tv, as Keith Partridge on The Partridge Family. On Saturday morning cartoons. On the radio, where the Partridge Family was...
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The Gay Enchanted Forest of Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost
When I was a kid in the 1960s, my favorite comics by far were the Harvey supernatural titles: ghosts, witches, and devils roaming an oddly-Medieval Enchanted Forest where same-sex desire was...
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Tales of the City: Gay Guys, San Francisco, Who Cares?
Year after year, people tell me "The Tales of the City books are stupendous! Amazing! Wonderful! The best thing every written!""And they're historically vital! Gay author Armistead Maupin...
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The Top 10 Problems of Summer
For teachers and college professors, summer begins when you turn in the final grades in May, and ends when you stand in front of that first class in August.I hate it. Three long, hot, boring,...
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Kon-Tiki: 6 Guys on a Boat
Boys growing up in the 1960s were encouraged to read High Adventure, tales of exploration and conquest: Robert Peary's expedition to the North Pole; Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole;...
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Why I Walked Out on Spiderman
I was asked if I ever see a movie that doesn't have gay characters or a gay subtext.Not often. If it's of historical importance, or if the premise is intriguing, maybe.For instance, let's look at the...
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Mothman's Home Town
If you're at all interested in the paranormal, you have to visit Point Pleasant, West Virginia. It's a bit of a drive, 4 hours from Cleveland, 2 hours from Columbus and Dayton, but worth it to...
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A Beefcake Tour of the Louvre
I love the Louvre. I could go every day. But everybody else on Earth, literally, wants to visit, too. It gets 8,000,000 visitors per year, so if you're not careful, you'll be caught up in the...
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Roswell: Aliens and Beefcake
Most people think of Roswell only as the site of the alleged 1947 flying saucer crash. Actually, the town seems rather embarrassed by the paranormal enthusiasts. It doesn't try to capitalize on aliens...
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A Paranormal Tour of San Jose
San Jose is 55 miles south of San Francisco, about 1 1/2 hours by BART, or an hour if you rent a car. In the high-tech Silicon Valley: its top employers are Adobe, Apple, and Intel. Yet, with all the...
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Bill and I Fall Asleep Reading Uncle Scrooge
When I was a kid in the 1960s, it was hard to find comic books. I didn't get a regular allowance until junior high, and when I did manage to earn a quarter or a dime, Schneider's Drug Store would be...
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Boy Meets World
Boy Meets World (1993-2000) was a teencom about a boy named Corey (Ben Savage, left), his girlfriend and eventual wife Topanga (Danielle Fishel), and her jealousy over his his stylish, feminine,...
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The Corridor of Evil in Long Island
As you're driving on the Southern State Parkway through Long Island, en route to the gay resort of Fire Island, you come to the town of Babylon.Yes, BabylonWhose bright idea was it to name a town after...
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Summertime Car Washes
One of the joys of summer is the car wash fundraiser. Check your local event calendar, and you'll find one or two per week: a club, class, team, or church group is raising money by washing cars. The...
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The Gay Ghosts of Southern Iowa
Taking Interstate 80 through central Iowa is a straight shot of 300 miles from Rock Island to Omaha, five hours on an unbroken line of bright, glittering modern freeway passing through green rolling...
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Deciphering the Mysterious Headline: Gruden, Yoked, Deuce.
I was looking for Omaha beefcake, searching under "Creighton University" and "powerlifting," when I came across this mysteriousheadline:"John Gruden's Yoked Son Deuce Just Won a Powerlifting Gold...
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All Hail King Julien: Mort Still Has a Foot Fetish
Remember King Julien, the androgynous, booty-shaking lemur king from the Madagascar movies (2005, 2008, 2012) and the tv series Penguins of Madagascar (2008-2015)? Dreamworks has produced a prequel,...
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