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Sam and Colby: Often Shirtless, Maybe Gay
Sam Golbach (right) and Colby Scherer (left) are a youtube, instagram, vine pair of internet stars with 1.7 million subscribers. Their schtick is paranormal investigation:"Queen Mary: The Night We...
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"The Package": A Sausage Fest with a Closeted Gay Guy
I'm sorry, but I'm definitely going to watch a movie about a penis, regardless of how bad it is.Netflix's The Package (2018) is bad.The premise: three high school buds go on a "bud only" bonding...
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Snellville: the Georgia Town Founded by a Gay Couple
Snellville, Georgia, in Gwinnett County about halfway between Atlanta and Athens, has an interesting name: "All the Snells down in Snellville liked Christmas a lot."Or maybe it's a tv show, with Papa...
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Insatiable Homophobia on "Insatiable"
I thought the Netflix series Insatiable (2018), starring former Disney teen Debbie Ryan, was a porno about a girl with an insatiable sexual appetite. Turns out she has an insatiable appetite for...
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The Beefcake of Dana Point, the Town Named After a Gay Sailor
In 1834, 19-year old Harvard undergrad Richard Henry Dana, a Boston aristocrat who grew up with James Russell Lowell and was tutored by Emerson, dropped out of the conventional heterosexual trajectory...
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Norwich University: Military Academy Beefcake
A few years ago, when I was applying for jobs, I had a phone interview at Norwich University in Vermont. The recruitment officer said that it was a military college (not a military academy). About...
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7 Teen Idols Named Simpson
Have you ever noticed that teen idols tend to have similar-sounding names? In the 1990s, there were like 12 Coreys. In the 1980s, there were Jacksons everywhere. In the 1970s, you never stopped...
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Middlebury: The Most Pro-Gay, Least Athletic College in the U.S.
When I was an undergraduate at Augustana College, the Middlebury Summer Language School advertised in the Student Union every spring. 6-8 week immersion programs for college students, where you speak...
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Collinsville: Indian Mounds, Wrestling Singlets, and Ghosts
When I was growing up in Rock Island, we visited St. Louis quite often, and Carbondale, in the southern part of the state, once or twice, and on the way there or back we sometimes stopped...
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10 Things You Should Know about Chris Petrovski
Someone found his way onto this website by googling "Chris Petrovski gay." I never heard of Chris Petrovski before, so I had to look him up. I discovered 10 essential facts.1. He is 27 years old,...
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Boys from Houses Made of Ticky-Tacky in Stevenson Ranch, California
West Ranch sounds like it's a town out in Wyoming or Montana, but it's actually a high school in California.Located in the town of Stevenson Ranch!Stevenson Ranch, population 17,000, is in the desert...
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10 Reasons Not to Visit St. Tropez
I don't understand St. Tropez. You fly all the way across the ocean to France, and you go to Paris, with the Louvre, the Musee d'Orsay, Notre Dame, and about a dozen bathhouses, right? Or you tour the...
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Uriah Shelton: Former Gay Christian Ally
Speaking of Jimmy Bennett, his costar in Alabama Moon, Uriah Sheldon, made a splash among gay teens in the 2000s, mostly because of his music. His performances of "Lifted" and "Come Inside" with Dash...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "Madam Secretary"
I'm not much for political dramas. You can get more than enough politics by watching the news. But Madam Secretary (2014-2018), starring Tea Leoni as Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord, also had...
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The Beefcake of Grand River Avenue
Detroit goes on forever and ever, with streets named after how far they are from downtown: 8 Mile Road, 16 Mile Road, 21 Mile Road, 840 Mile Road, and so on. Grand River Avenue goes northwest from the...
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I Still Think Birch Bayh is a Ridiculous Name
After 40 years, I'm still fuming about the American history class I took during my sophomore year of high school, in spring of 1976, when Mr. Manary told us that sometimes pollsters make up names on...
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The Beefcake of High School Row, Manoa, Hawaii
I didn't think of looking for beefcake in Hawaii 50% of the population is Asian/Pacific Islander, and it's always summer, so isn't it all beefcake, all the time?But I had to look into Manoa, the ritzy...
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My Terrible, Horrible, Harrowing Walk Home from the Gym
Plains, August 2018This morning I went to the gym with Bob, but had to walk home because he needed the car to work. I couldn't run because I was fully clothed. It's only 2.3 miles, but it was a...
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Handmaid's Tale Season 2: Torture Porn
"Torture Porn" is the unofficial name for a genre of fiction designed not to scare you, but to hurt you. You have to endure reading about or watching people undergoing horrible ordeals of pain and...
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Battlestar Galactica: Star-Fighting Boyfriends
On Sunday nights in the fall of 1978, Boomer kids who were too young for All in the Family sat watching Battlestar Galactica, the beginning of a mythos that would last for three decades and rival Star...
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