Small Town Beefcake
I'm moving the small town beefcake to tumblr; that way I can just post the pictures, without thinking of something interesting to say about the town. Here's the link:Smalltownbeefcake.tumblr.com
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How Homophobic is High School for the Boys of Boise?
In the biggest homophobic witch hunt of the pre-Stonewall Era, the town of Boise, Idaho was shaken in October 1955 by allegations that a notorious "homosexual ring" was corrupting local boys.Most real...
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Is Everything Up To Date in Kansas City?
I always thought of Kansas City as ultra-homophobic. My friend Matt grew there, and describes it as a wasteland of fundamentalist churches and redneck bars. Besides, it's like the Nazarene Vatican,...
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Tracking Down the "Do It For God's Glory" Hunks
These three superlative examples of hunkitude are apparently basketball players. My only clues to their home base are: a dark blue and white color motif, "Do It For God's Glory" on the gym wall, part...
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"Candle Cove": Another "Channel Zero" Zero
Well, I got conned again, with another season of the Sci-Fi series Channel Zero. But this time wasn't my fault. It was based on a very cool creepypasta, written in the form of posts to a message...
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The Beefcake of Baraboo
Baraboo, Wisconsin was the winter home of the Ringling Brothers Circus. With its circus museum and the Al. Ringling Mansion, it was once famous as "Clown Capital U.S.A."Maybe it still is.Baraboo hit...
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St. John's College: Great Books and Great Physiques
St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland is unique for its Great Books Program: all students engage in "lively and unmediated discussion" of a series of the Great Books of Western...
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"No-End House": No-End Heterosexism from the Sci-Fi Channel
"No-End House," Season 2 of Channel Zero, is based on a creepypasta about a guy whose buddy talks him into going to the titular haunted house: 8 rooms, each more terrifying, and if you make it through...
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Peter McEnery: The First Gay Teenager
In Victim (1961), 21-year old Peter McEnery played the first explicitly identified gay teenager in film, a working class boy named Boy who commits suicide in prison. His affluent, middle-aged lover,...
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The Skowhegan Indians
I'm interested in these two guys at a high school or college graduation, who flash open their robes to reveal, not nudity, but wrestling uniforms. They both have orange sashes and lapel pins with the...
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Sunny's Mac Finds His Pride
I last posted on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in 2013. I was a big fan of the show, about five schemers who run Paddy's bar in Philadelphia.1.-2. Self-absorbed Ivy League educated Dennis and his...
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The Beefcake of Science Hill
I would certainly not expect a school to be called Science Hill High in Tennesee, the site of the Scopes Monkey Trial and the Grand Ole Opry. Especially not in Johnson City, in the Smokey Mountains...
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Amarillo, Texas: Keep Driving
As you drive on Interstate 40 through the middle of nowhere, a thousand miles from the bright lights of civilization, you suddenly hit a big city. You ease into it gradually, with gas stations and the...
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The Gay Language of the Philippines
Tagalog has 28 million native speakers and another 45 million second-language speakers in the Philippines, plus 3-4 million in the rest of the world. It is in the Austronesian family, related to the...
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El Paso: Worth Stopping For
Speaking of places you may be tempted to drive through without stopping, let's take a look at El Paso, Texas.Ordinarily I avoid Texas -- I'm still traumatized by my horrible year in Hell-fer-Sartain --...
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UFO: the Shirtless SHADO Warriors
Before books like Whitley Strieber's Communion (1985) and Budd Hopkins'Missing Time (1988) popularized the idea of aliens grabbing people from their beds to perform scientific experiments on, the tv...
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10 Reasons Why Thanksgiving is the Gayest Holiday
If you're not from the U.S. you might not be familiar with Thanksgiving, a holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November (it's also celebrated on different dates in Canada, Liberia, and...
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The Beefcake of Bob Jones
You've probably heard of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, the most achingly fundamentalist college in the U.S. before Jerry Falwell opened Homophobia U. It was founded in 1927 by...
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The Dutch Reformed Beefcake of Grand Rapids
I've heard about Grand Rapids, Michigan throughout my life because it's the home of Eerdmans, a major publisher of scholarly religious books, and the ultra-Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church. (Now just...
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What Kind of Flower are You: Queer Boys of the 1920s
Before World War II, teenage boys were not expected to like girls. At Everett High School in Washington, most of the boys in the graduating class in 1925 are memorialized in their yearbook with manly...
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