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My First, Second, and Third Time with David from San Francisco
San Francisco, June 2018One of the problems with being an academic is constantly moving from job to job, which means you make a lot of new friends, then move away, then make more friends, and so on and...
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The Beefcake of Chicago's Wealthy Northwest
There are 12.8 million people in Illinois. 9.5 million of them live in the Chicago metro area, suburbs extending out from the Loop for 100 miles in every direction except east (where you hit Lake...
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Beefcake on the Harrowing Highway Across Chicago's South Side
The South Side of Chicago is rough. Industrial, highways everywhere, horrendous air quality, crime rampant. I've passed through it a hundred times, on the way to my parents' relatives in Indiana, and...
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A New Sensitive Tarzan
Miles O'Keeffe graduated from the University of the South with a degree in psychology, and worked for a year as a prison counselor, before heading for Hollywood, hoping to make it big as an actor.He...
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From Joliet to Dyer: Beefcake on the Family Trip to Indiana
When I was growing up in Rock Island, we would cross the southside of Chicago two or three times a year to visit my parents' relatives in northeastern Indiana, but we never took the horrible...
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Men in Handcuffs
If you're interested in BDSM, sooner or later you will run across someone's stash of photographs of attractive men who have been arrested, and are being led off (or dragged off) in handcuffs....
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Tracking down the Mystery of Tamaqua's Mashack
Another photograph mystery: "Tamaqua's Mashack Earns Gold."Except this extremely noteworthy wrestler is obviously from Tri-Valley.1. Who is he?2.Who is Tamaqua's Mashack?The article read: "No. 1 seed...
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Dreamboat or Dud?: Heterosexism and "Mystery Date"
Mystery Date was a board game introduced by Milton Bradley in 1965. The object was to assemble the proper cards to create a full girl's outfit for a formal dance, bowling, the beach, or skiing. Then,...
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The Beefcake of Naples, Florida, the Wealthiest Town in the U.S.
We're in a new era of the glorification of wealth, where people gawk at the gold-plated bathroom fixtures and mink-lined carpets in the private jets of the Rich and Famous. If you want to meet the...
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I Spend the Night with Calvin and His Four Brothers
Calumet City, Illinois, February 1982When I was an undergraduate at Augustana College, there was no place to meet gay men except for Rock Island's only gay bar, the Hawaiian Lounge. I was too young...
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The 14 Most Unusual High School Names
Speaking of high schools with unusual names, Orlando, Florida wins the prize. It must have something to do with all those theme parks.Some of them are among the best in the U.S., and some are among...
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"The Good Place": Afterlife Beefcake and Bonding
Eleanor (Kristin Bell) has just died. Her guide, Michael (Ted Danson), says that after a complicated algorithm analyzed her good and bad deeds, she has been assigned to The Good Place, a village...
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The Slut Shaming of Geoffrey Owens
I don't actually watch Trump News...um, I mean Fox News, but this story has been all over the internet: a "human interest story" doing the male equivalent of slut shaming: fat shaming and bad job...
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The Beefcake that Might Have Been: Missed Opportunities for Physique-Watching
You walk into a restaurant. There's a cute guy sitting at a booth, and an empty booth next to him. Beefcake alert!"A booth, please," you ask the hostess.And she leads you right past the cute guy to a...
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The Strongest High School Students in America
In May 2018, USA Weightlifting, the national governing body of the sport of weightlifting in the U.S., crowned 20 athletes as the Strongest High School Athletes in America. 136 students from 40...
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The Kensington Runestone
Every summer from kindergarten to college (when I decided to stay home), my parents dragged me on a week's camping trip somewhere up north, to Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, or Canada. Other than the...
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Rabun, Georgia: The Heterosexual Weight Lifting Capital of the U.S.
In the USA Weightlifting competition for the top high school weightlifters in America, 3 of the top 10 were from Rabun High School in Georgia.So where is this high school, and how is it getting so many...
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The Nice Guys: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, and Heterosexism
I was not in a good mood yesterday. Two books arrived from Amazon.1. The Strange Library, by Haruki Murakami. "A charming, surreal story." "It had me enthralled." "A wry metaphysical play."It's a...
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We Could Take in an Old Steve Reeves Movie: My Quest for my First Porn Magazine
West Hollywood, April 1986In the 1980s, photographs of naked men were rare, even in West Hollywood. There were a few gay porn magazines -- Mandate, In Touch, Blue Boy -- but they were hard to find --...
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Disenchanted: A Gay-Free Heroic Fantasy Spoof
I'm not very happy with Matt Groening's (or his writers') inclusion of gay characters. The Simpsons has a very occasional homophobic stereotype prancing about, plus Smithers (who finally came out after...
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