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I Finally See the Suit Man Naked
West Hollywood, May 1994In the spring of 1994, I had an actual full-time job, a rarity in West Hollywood, as an architectural assistant at Gruen Associates, the guys responsible for popularizing the...
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American Horror Story, Apocalypse: Male Models Fully Clothed, Teenage Boy Naked
My favorite season of American Horror Story was Coven, with the New Orleans witches. It's been all downhill since then. I keep watching, mostly because of all the hype, but I'm usually...
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"Bojack Horseman": Hetero-Romantic Aces, but No Gay Men
Bojack Horseman, the animated tv biz parody about the washed-up star of a 1980s TGIF sitcom, is back for Season 5, and heterosexist as ever. Bojack is now starring in a bad detective series, Philbert,...
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The Dark Mysteries of Croatan High
Remember the Lost Colony of Roanoke, the first English settlement in the New World, which mysteriously vanished, leaving only the cryptic word "Croatoan" carved into a tree?Not so mysterious after all...
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Dick York: Bewitching Beefcake
I imagine that most gay male and heterosexual female Baby Boomers have been desperate to see Dick York with his shirt off ever since their diaper days, when they saw him eye-bulge as Darren Stephens,...
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I Cheat on Fred with a Goblin
Davenport, Iowa, March 1980In December 1979, when I was a sophomore at Augustana College, I got my first actual boyfriend: Fred, 27 years old, a graduate of McCormick Theological Seminary taking his...
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The Hollywood Legacy of Zane Danton
In "The End," the first episode of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, high schooler Timothy Campbell finds out that he has received a prestigious college scholarship. A moment later, the sirens go...
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Mae West: Gay Diva of the 1930s
She appeared in ten movies between 1933 and 1943 -- a rather small body of work (during the same period, Mickey Rooney appeared in over fifty). And two others during the 1970s. Yet she is instantly...
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I Solve the Mystery of Fred's Goblin Boyfriend
I never wrote about Dale Schaefer-Shit before because it is not a pleasant memory -- in the spring of 1980, when I was a 19-year old college sophomore, there was something foul lurking in my first...
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31 Reasons Why Autumn is My Favorite Season
1. New TV shows.2. A new theater season.3. Classes start over.4. Halloween5. Apples by the bushel.6. You can wear nice jackets and sweaters outside.7. The air gets a brisk chill8. The campus becomes a...
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Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller: Duelling Tarzans
In 1931, MGM was auditioning musclemen with exceptional swimming ability for a new movie about Tarzan, the Edgar Rice Burroughs pulp hero. It would be a big deal, the first Tarzan talkie, with real...
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Beefcake on the Route of the Interrupted Journey
The first documented alien abduction case in the U.S. happened on September 19, 1961, when Betty and Barney Hill were returning to their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire from a vacation to Niagara...
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Nebraska Cornhusker Beefcake
Fred and I moved to Omaha in the summer of 1980, just after my sophomore year in college, and though I hated it at the time, it was probably just too much to bite off all at once: my first apartment,...
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More Orphans of Small Town Beefcake
I've had these small town photos in my file, waiting to use them in posts, but either there aren't enough, or I don't find the town interesting enough to write about, or I can't figure out where they...
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10 Muscular Musselmans
When I was a kid, you found your images of hot guys anywhere you could. Like on the jar of Musselman's Apple Sauce in the kitchen.I don't like apple sauce -- sauce isn't a food, it goes on foods --...
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Why the Hell Did I Buy "What the Hell did I Just Read"?
Earlier this week, while I was looking for a book on Scandinavian languages, I came across a loud, blaring ad for What the Hell Did I Just Read?At first I thought it was a book of literary reviews, but...
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Lucas and Marcus Dobre, the Kissing Twins
19-year old twins Lucas and Marcus Dobre-Mofid are the sons of former Olympic gymnast Aurelia Dobre and coachBoz Mofid, who now own the Dobre Gymnastics Academy in Gaithersburg, Maryland (about 20...
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Mattoon: Home of the Mad Gasser and Modern Bodybuilders
Mattoon is in eastern Illinois, about halfway between St. Louis and Indianapolis, just west of Eastern Illinois University. Centrally located, but not a big tourist destination. Only four claims to...
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Once Upon a Time: Finding or Losing True Love
In the idyllic New England town of Storybrooke, a young boy named Henry (Jared S. Gilmore), adopted son of Mayor Regina (Lana Parilla), suddenly realizes that everyone around him is a story book...
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The Georgia High School Swimming Awards
"The 2018 GHSA Swimming and Diving State Championships were held Feb. 1-3 at the Georgia Tech McAuley Aquatic Center." No mystery in that, except GHSA (Georgia High School Association). But there's...
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