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My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea: Disaster Anime with...
When a movie with the odd title My Entire High School Sinkinginto the Sea appeared on Netflix, I figured it was based on one of those Japanese manga about horrible things happening to schoolkids....
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The Scrappy Wrestlers of Fort Dodge
"Fan Reaction to National Wrestling Title."The article goes on to say that Drake, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, claimed gold at the 2017 Cadet Freestyle National Championships.Fan reaction was ecstatic, by...
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Special Olympics Swimmers
In Like Normal People (1979), Shaun Cassidy played a teenager suffering from what we used to call "mental retardation," someone with a low IQ, who was nevertheless amazingly talented, an accomplished...
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Sausage Sighting of Billy Mumy and Jon Bon Jovi
Hi, Boomer,This is Jeremy, Infinite Chazz's partner. I saw Bill Mumy on your hookup wishlist. I hope this is what you were looking for:Summer 1991! There has never been another summer like it....
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What's the Difference Between Joplin and Marshfield, Missouri?
Most of Missouri thinks it's in the North, but about the southern third of the state -- everything south of Rolla -- is distinctly country-western music, Confederate flags, Bible Baptist churches, and...
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Peter Pan
I'm fine with drag now, but in 1966, I was freaked out by Mary Martin's portrayal of Peter Pan,a monstrous conflation of male/female and child/adult (Peter is traditionally played by an older woman, in...
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Reefer Madness
I've shown many classes the 1936 film Reefer Madness. It was originally released as Tell Your Children, a cautionary tale about the dangers of marijuana. But it was so off-the-wall, with atrocious...
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12 Fairytale Hunks of "Once Upon a Time"
Once Upon a Time is a pastiche of feuding figures from fairy tales (mostly Disney versions), mythology, novels, folklore -- you name it. The main characters are Snow White, Snow's daughter Emma, her...
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The Gay Subtexts of "Apple and Onion"
The cartoon universe is full of anthropomorphic animals, but I can't think of any anthropomorphic foods, other than the candy people of Adventure Time.Enter Apple and Onion, a Cartoon Network program...
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The Bisexual Fairy Godfather of the Summer of 1984
Between 1982 and 1984, I was studying for my M.A. in English at Indiana University. I did not do well. I couldn't focus on any one topic, or any one department -- I rushed around in the 3,000+...
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Edwin Landseer and Jacob Bell: Victorian BFFs or Boyfriends?
I found this in, of all places, a book on Alice in Wonderland. Male nudity in art is not a violation of Blogger policy, so it's ok to show.It is actually a painting from A Midsummer Night's Dream...
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Wayne, New Jersey: A Beefcake Desert
Every September academic job openings begin to appear in the journals. I always check them out, to see if there are any gay studies positions in gay neighborhoods -- the impossible dream, I know --...
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Cartoon Muscle: Not Just Superheroes in Spandex
When I was a kid, you could occasionally see shirtless boys or men in Saturday morning cartoons, but it was rare, primarily on jungle or prehistoric adventure series like The Herculoids. Mostly you...
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Top 10 Wrestlers from Teams Called "The Bears"
I'm trying to cut back on small-town beefcake posts, since they don't get a lot of page views. .Obscure teen idol who took his shirt off in an after school special in 1978 and hasn't appeared on...
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The Beefcake of the LGBT-Friendly Oasis in the Middle of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas is promoted as "a LGBT-friendly oasis in the middle of a prairie." It is the only town in Kansas with a gay rights city ordinance. The University of Kansas has a Women, Gender, and...
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20 Harvard Hunks
Every time I go to Boston, I have to visit Harvard University, the Oxford of the U.S., our oldest and most prestigious university, where 6,700 students, the elite of the elite, move toward the bright...
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Will and Grace Rebooted: Not Awful, and There's Kissing
I don't have network tv anymore, so I only learned through the grapevine that the 1990s "gay men are really women" fest Will and Grace was getting a five-episode reboot. I just found out that it...
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In Search of the Wrestler Who Dresses to the Right
The guy on the left, Travis, was a Nazareth College wrestler who won the PIAA Class 3A Northeast Regional in Lehigh Valley in March 2017. Whatever those words mean.But I wanted to know about the guy...
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American Horror Story: A School for Boys Run By Gay Men
American Horror Story: Apocalypse has gone to a toxic but beefcake-heavy place.The last episode, "Could it Be...Satan," was the catch phrase of the Church Lady on Saturday Night Live. It is mostly a...
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Why We Watched "The Nanny" in West Hollywood
We didn't watch a lot of tv in West Hollywood, but we did manage to watch The Nanny (1993-1999), part of the "servant brings joie de vivre to a dysfunctional family" sitcoms that extends back to Hazel...
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