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The Beefcake of Mormon Central
You may think that Salt Lake City, headquarters of the LDS Church, is Mormon Central, but actually it's 50% Gentile. To get to real Mormon country, where alcohol and coffee are as rare as Methodist...
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Rocky Horror Show Live: New Brads, Janets, and Rockies in Gold Lame Shorts
What can you do with a movie that encouraged a generation of LGBT people, "Don't dream it -- be it"?That encouraged the audience to participate by talking back, throwing things, and playing along with...
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Can You Ever Have Too Many Tarzans?
Of course not. The musical may be schmaltzy and uber-heterosexist, but it gives dozens of local hunks a chance to show off their pecs and abs.Here are some of the Tarzans who swung across the stage...
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Sonora: Beefcake and Rocky Horror in the Sierra Mountains
I'm not sure why you would want to go away from San Francisco, except maybe to see this guy, but if you do, you could do worse than Sonora, California, an old mining town about 140 miles east, in the...
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Steven Ford: from President's Son to Soap Hunk
Born in 1956, Steven Ford was the youngest son of Gerald Ford, President of the United States from 1974 to 1977. By that time he was in college far from the White House, studying ranching at Utah...
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Which Military Academy Has the Best Wrestling Physiques?
After discovering that the members of the Air Force Academy wrestling team were all gifted in the singlet department, I thought it would be fun to see if other U.S. military academies drew similarly...
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Chris Galya: Actor Slash Model
David DeCoteau directs horrible closet-gay movies in which lots of cute guys lounge around in their underwear while awaiting monsters or psycho-killers. But none of them are gay. Like Playgirl,...
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Unusual High School Names, Part 2: Tallahassee
Tallahassee is in the Florida panhandle, what they call the Big Bend. It's the most southern of Florida cities: 470 miles from Miami but only 10 miles from Georgia, and 30 from Alabama. Yet it's also...
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Chidi Takes His Shirt Off
On the last episode of The Good Place, the gang discovers that they will be sent to the Bad Place when they die, regardless of what they do.Chidi (William Jackson Harper), the uptight professor of...
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Best Worst Weekend Ever: Best Teencom Ever
Teen movies have two pitfalls that generally make them unwatchable:1. Incessant bullying. The protagonist lives in a world where all boys are sneering, chest-pounding Neanderthals.2. Incessant...
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Jaws and Gay Romance
In 1975, I was too young to see Jaws. I saw it anyway. All of my friends told me that it was terrifying -- and it was -- but no one mentioned the sizzling intensity of the attraction between police...
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Ten Teen Idols of the "Goosebumps" TV Series
Goosebumps (1995-98), based on the long-running series of children's horror novels by R. L. Stine (231 to date), provided chills for the pre-teen set. A jack-o-lantern comes to life. The lunch lady...
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The Beefcake of Oakville or Oakdale or Oak Something, Ontario
If I had a choice of living anywhere in Canada, my list would be:1. Montreal2. Toronto3. OakvilleOakville?Or Oakdale, or Oak something generic.But the town itself isn't generic.It's a suburb of...
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Tarzan Also-Rans
Most people prefer Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan. In 12 films (1932-1948), the former Olympic swimmer embued Edgar Rice Burroughs' creation with a savage innocence borrowed directly from Rousseau....
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Big City Beefcake
I'm testing the theory that small towns are more likely than big cities to publish beefcake photos -- that is, photos of local athletes with pecs and abs on display. In small towns there is less to do...
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The Hunks of the Millennium's Worst TV Series, 2000-2009
My clickbait said that these are the worst tv shows of the 21st century, by year. The ones I remember were decidedly awful, but they still managed to display some hunkitude. Here are the top hunks of...
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The Hunks of the Millennium's Worst TV Series, 2010-2018
And now on to the clickbait list of the worst tv series of 2010-2018, and the mega-hunks who (almost) made them worth a look:2010. Mental: A psychiatrist (Chris Vance) can see into his patients'...
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Jake Thomas in the House
The Disney Channel teencom Lizzie McGuire (2001-2004) had the usual gay subtext, between Lizzie (Hilary Duff) and her best friend Miranda (LaLaine). 10-year old Jake Thomas was underutilized as the...
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Ricky/Rick Schroder
Ricky Schroeder was the iconic "cute kid" of the 1980s. With his cherubic round face, baby blue eyes, and dimpled cheeks, he looked like a Campbell's Soup kid, or Richie Rich before his muscle spurt...
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Gay Boys and Ghosts: Jeremy Lelliott
Born in 1982, Jeremy Lelliott skipped the kid-comedy routine and went straight into a soap, playing the noble, longsuffering David Patterson on Melrose Place (1997-98). Threatened kid roles followed:...
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