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The Roman Catholic High School of Philadelphia
This photo caught my attention: a high school sports team -- basketball, soccer, or lacross, it's hard to tell -- photographed on the roof, with one of its members inexplicably shirtless.The caption...
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Ross Lynch and His Brothers: Gay Positive or Homophobic?
You may think of Ross Lynch as just a voiceover artist and the star of the Disney Channel's Teen Beach Movie, or the gay-subtext Austin & Allie, along with Calum Worthy (middle), who stars in this...
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Bob's Burgers: The Most Gay-Positive Sitcom on TV
Since 2011, Bob's Burgers has been airing on Sunday night, in the company of Family Guy and American Dad. But it is quite different from those programs.1. The father and mother in the nuclear family...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina"
I'm about halfway throuth The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the Netflix series revamping Sabrina the Teenage Witch from Archie Comics, although I must admit to fast-forwarding past the many smarmy...
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The Beefcake of My Cousin's Cousin's Home Town
I have to fly to South Carolina for a funeral, and my mother wants me to look up some sort of distant non-relative, the son of my cousin George's cousin on his mother's side. I checked him out on...
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Tiny Toon Adventures
Everyone misunderstands the Tiny Toons. They weren't kid versions of classic Warner Brothers characters -- Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and so on. They weren't the offspring of the classic Warner Brothers...
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Newcastle, Wyoming: A Guilty Pleasure
Newcastle, Wyoming, a town of 3,000 near the Black Hills of South Dakota, advertises itself as a "nice little town" where "we still believe in the AMERICAN DREAM." No doubt they also believe in Making...
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Sage Northcutt
I'm sure you are wondering about Sage Northcutt, who played the martial arts-expert bud of the androgynous Moises Arias on his 2009-2010 reality series Moises Rules.He just graduated from high school...
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Threatened and Threatening Gay Kids
The early 1960s were all about children. Two of three households in the United States contained children under age 18. Entire neighborhoods were occupied by families with young children, with...
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The Beefcake Curse of "Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors"
I was never much of a fan of 1980s psycho-slasher movies, especially the Nightmare on Elm Street series. Freddy Krueger was arrested for killing 30 kids, but got released because "someone didn't sign...
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More Rowing Beefcake
I already posted on crew (competitive rowing), thinking that it was practiced solely at ultra-exclusive Ivy League colleges and the private boarding schools for the children of the rich and famous....
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The Boy Who Ran Away to Manitowoc
My father was adopted by the Davis family when he was five years old. He remembered almost nothing about his biological mother, and even less about his grandparents, only that they lived in Howe,...
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My Two Dads
In West Hollywood in the late 1980s, Sunday meant church, brunch at the French Quarter, cruising at Mugi or the Faultline, then Chinese take-out in front of the tv, watching 21 Jump Street,...
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The Best Week of the Best Month of the Best Year for Music
The best year for music was 1977, the best year March, and the best week March 14th-20th It's a scientifically proven fact.I was a junior at Rocky High, 16 years old (but not able to drive yet). I...
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In Search of Track Team Beefcake
My post on "The Top 12 Track Team Bulges" on Tales of West Hollywood" reveals a lot more of this guy than I can show here, plus his hot friend. I definitely want to know what college he's running for....
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In Search of Basque Beefcake
I've always been fascinated by the Basque language of northern Spain -- not related to any other language on Earth, with words that date back to distant prehistory. And the Basque physique, with...
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Welcome to the Family: Beefcake, Not Much Bonding. A-
Benvinguts a la família (Welcome to the Family) is a 2018 Catalan sitcom, which automatically makes it interesting -- who doesn't want to hear people speaking in Catalan? But it also has some...
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Teenie Harris and the African-American Physique
Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908-1998) grew up in the Hill District, Pittsburgh's African-American neighborhood, and became a professional basketball and baseball player in the Negro League. Later he...
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Mount Vernon, Home of the Son of Mr. Blowfish
The Midwest is dotted with towns named other towns. The first residents may have come from there, but most likely someone looked in an atlas and thought the name sounded elegant. Near my home town of...
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The Heteronormative Creepypasta of "Dream Door"
I was conned into buying Season 4 of Channel Zero, "The Dream Door." First, it got lots of excellent reviews: a triumph, a visual delight, the best horror tv series of the decade, and so on , and so...
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