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Chris Gorham: Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Blind, Always an Ally
Back in 1999, the WB tried to get on the teencom bandwagon with Popular (1999-2001), about two high schoolers, the popular Brooke and the outcast Sam, who become unwilling siblings when their parents...
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Spring 1983: Cruising the Thames with T.S. Eliot
When I was studying for my M.A. in English at Indiana University (1982-84), my professors and most of my classmates agreed that Literature consisted of:1. Ulysses, by James Joyce2. The Waste Land, by...
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Junior Durkin and Henry Willson: Hollywood's First Gay Romance
When 15-year old New York boy Trent Durkin was contracted by Paramount Pictures, his name was changed to "Junior" to make him seem more wholesome and All-American. The ploy worked: Tom Sawyer (1930)...
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Summer 1993: Stranded on the Island of Dogs
Sorry if you love London, or call it home. I can't stand it. I'm always cold, confused, cranky, and really, really hungry.Summer 1993: My partner Lee was a delegate to the World Congress of GLBT...
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I'm depressed today. #1. I had to write a review of a blisteringly homophobic tv show.#2. The agent of Mateus Ward from Lab Rats wants me to take down my post because of its "mature" content. There is...
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The Game: Nice Beefcake, Disgusting Homophobia
American sitcoms are segregated. Some have exclusively white casts, and others, exclusively black. Since writers believe that all gay people are upper-class white men, you rarely if ever see a gay...
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Fall 1979: The German Choirboy
During my freshman year at Augustana College, I declared a major in English and Modern Languages and registered for advanced Spanish and French. So you'd expect me to spend my quarter abroad in Spain...
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Mike Erwin: Home of Phobia
When you do a google keyword search on "Mike Erwin" and "gay," you get 30,000 gay websites discussing how hot he is. Hard to determine if he's played any gay characters, or if he's gay in real...
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Bertie and Jeeves: A Gay Gentleman's Gentleman
In the early decades of the 20th century -- at least in fiction -- there was a certain category of aristocratic but impoverished young men who lived on the largess of imperial aunts. The funds came...
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Fall 1981: The Priest with the Pushy Mom
I began my senior year at Augustana (1981-82) with a single burning question: grad school or a job?My professors claimed that I could use an English and Modern Languages major to launch a career in...
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Cruising Dublin with James Joyce
After The Waste Land, the work of Great Literature that Viju and I loved to hate the most during the spring of 1983 was James Joyce's Ulysses. I was assigned it at Augustana, and found it impenetrable,...
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Moises Arias: Quirky, Androgynous, Gay-Positive
Born in 1994, Moises Arias became famous to millions of tweens as Rico, pint-sized nemesis to Jason Earles' Jackson on Hannah Montana (2006-2011). He made many other appearances on the Disney Channel,...
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Spring 1983: Viju and I Compete Over Pecs
During my first year as a M.A. student at Indiana University (1982-83), I went crazy -- so many options! Augustana offered only the standard French, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Swedish, and...
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Bowery Billy and his Boyfriend Lulu
In my book We Boys Together: Teenagers in Love Before Girl-Craziness, I spend a lot of time on the boy's adventure series of the 1920s (such as the Hardy Boys). They usually involved teenage same-sex...
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Summer 1983: Viju and Cousin Joe Hit It Off
In May 1983, at the end of my first year of graduate school in Bloomington, my sister Tammy graduated from Rocky High. She was the baby of my father's family, so it was a big deal, and everyone would...
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We Got It Made: 1980s Sitcom with Gay Actor Tom Villard
When I was at Indiana University studying for my M.A., lots of the guys in Eigenmann Hall watched the sex comedy We Got It Made (1983-84), about two nerds who hire Mickey (Teri Copley), one of those...
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Seth Green: Werewolf, Gay Party Boy, or Homophobic Robot?
Although Seth Green had been appearing on tv and in movies since 1984, when he was 10 years old, I didn't notice him until Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2000): he played Oz, the laconic high school...
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Mad Dog Morgan: Gay Outlaws in the Australian Bush
During the 19th century, many Australian men who were wanted by the law or had some other reason to vanish took to the bush, where they formed outlaw gangs, bushrangers, who robbed travelers or rode...
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Fall 1983: Is Professor Singer Gay?
In my second year at Indiana University (1983-84), I had to choose two historical eras for my Comprehensive Exams. I decided on the Romantic Era (1770-1830), mostly because of the homoromantic...
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Fall 1983: My Top 10 Cruising Experiences
If you were born after 1970, you may be wondering why I did so much cruising at Augustana College (1978-82), and even more with Viju at Indiana University (1982-84). Seeking out one-night stands in...
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