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Bunks: A Disney Channel Summer Camp-Zombie Movie with a Gay Subtext
Bunks appeared on Disney XD Canada in 2013, but has just made it to Netflix. It stars teen idols Dylan Schmid (left) and Aiden Shipley (below) as troublemaking brothers Dylan and Dane masquerading as...
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Finding Small Town Gay Men on Grindr
In the book Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today (1976), Howard Brown expresses horror over a gay friend's decision to move away from Baltimore to a small town:...
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Two Boys and an Elephant: Jay North on Maya
In the movie Maya (1966), Terry (15-year old Jay North, formerly Dennis the Menace) travels to India with his father, runs away after an argument, and meets Raji (14-year old Sajid Khan) and his...
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10 Okies from Muskogee
When I was growing up in Rock Island, Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee", released in 1969, was a favorite of the country-western crowd.. The lyrics are quite dated now, criticizing hippies and...
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The Mighty Hercules
Before He-Man, there was The Mighty Hercules, part of the 1960s sword-and-sandal fad. He appeared on Saturday morning and sometimes Sunday morning tv from 1963 to 1966, and occasionally afterwards, in...
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The Beefcake of Dauphin County: No Connection to George Boring Shaw
When I saw this photo,and figured out that CD stood for "Central Dauphin," my first instinct was to run away.In high school we were inflicted with Saint Joan (1923), by George Bernard Shaw, the most...
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The Homoerotic Horror of Edgar Allan Poe
When I was a kid in the 1970s, Chuck Acri's Creature Feature broadcast a lot of very loose adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories: The House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror, The...
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Beefcake on the Harrowing Road from Nashville to Atlanta
Nashville and Atlanta both have presentable gay communities, but if you're driving between the two cities, be prepared for mile after mile of homophobic "family values" desolation and despair. .1....
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12 Forgotten Beefcake Boys of the 1980s
When I was living in West Hollywood during the 1980s, we didn't go to movies much, due to the rampant homophobia. Nearly every movie featured a discussion of how much the main characters hated gay...
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Paralympic Muscle Men
There were special Olympic-style competitions for disabled war veterans as early as 1945, but the first Paralympics open to all disabled athletes was held in Rome in 1960. Today thousands of athletes...
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12 Beefcake Boys and Men of "The Fosters"
The Fosters (2013-2018) was a groundbreaking drama on ABC Family, now on Netflix, about a lesbian couple (Stef and Lena) with five children, biological, adopted, and foster (Brandon, Jesus, Jude,...
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Super Mario Brothers
When I was a kid, we had arcade games (for which you went to an arcade), but no video games. In college we played Asteroids, in which your space ship shoots asteroids and flying saucers.Mario Brothers...
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Leadville: An Opera House, a 100-Mile Run, and a Lot of Wrestling
If you want to survive the zombie apocalypse, your best bet is Leadville, Colorado. 2 miles up in the mountains, too high for the zombies to reach, with 67 deserted mines around to hide in, and a...
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John Stamos
Gay boys all but ignored 20-year old John Stamos when he was playing streetwise Blackie on General Hospital (1983-84). Not many watched soap operas, and his pleasantly slender physique seemed bit too...
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The Haunting of Hill House
In the summer of 1992, the five Crane children, Steven, Nell, Shirley, Luke, and Theo, and their parents, move into the gigantic, long-deserted Hill House to fix it up for resale.Scary things start to...
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The Underwhelming Beefcake of Virginia Tech
One of my cousins has moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. She said "We love it there. It's so beautiful, and the people are so friendly."Obviously, my cousin is heterosexual.I can't imagine that any gay...
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Four Scary Swimmers from the Heart of Darkness
"All Area Boys Swimmers of the Year: Jefferson Forest 200 Medley Relay," an article in the News and Advance from April 2018. Of course, nowhere does the article state where this 200 medley relay is,...
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Jack Griffo's Gay Connection
Speaking of Nickelodeon teen hunks, Jack Griffo (left) was both a Nickelodeon and a Disney Channel teen hunk, with a guest spot on Jessie and a starring role in The Thundermans.(2013-2018).Born in...
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The Answer to the Naked Man's Question
Garrett, Indiana, Summer 1970The summer after fourth grade, when I am nine years old, lasts for months and months, hundreds of days, all bright green and dazzling. A week in Indiana, visiting my...
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The Beefcake of Galicia, Spain
"Agrupación Deportiva Fogar da Xuventude nace e legalízase en Carballo no ano 1988 como unha entidade privada deportiva, social e cultural."I knew that was not Spanish, but I could read it, so it must...
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