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"Selection Day": Ultra-Closeted Gay Cricket Players Who Don't Play Cricket
The 2016 novel Selection Day, by Aravind Andiga, traces the journey of two boys, Radhu and Manju, being groomed by their father to become cricket stars. Well, perhaps "aggressively shoved into" is...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland"
Lewis Carroll never intended to create a coherent fantasy world, where people could actually live, with governments, economics, social structures, and logical rules. Alice is dreaming.So when later...
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What's with the Lack of Sex on the Plains?
For my New Year's Resolution, I resolved to make more gay friends on the Plains, instead of having to depend on infrequent and costly trips to Indianapolis, West Hollywood, or San Francisco. I started...
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In Search of the Gay Bacchanal of "The Phantom Tollbooth"
Sometime around sixth grade, I was recommended The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) a "fantasy" about a boy exploring a mysterious land.Sounds great, like Middle Earth, or Narnia, or maybe Oz. A fantasy world...
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More "Boys' Life" Beefcake
When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, the main draw of Boys' Life magazine was the photography: cute boys my age, shirtless teenagers, muscular men in swimsuits.But there were also a lot of comics,...
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"Speechless," Season 2: I Am Disgustipated
I liked the first season of Speechless (2017-), the sitcom starring J. J. DiMeo (Micah Fowler), a teenager with cerebral palsy, who is wheelchair bound and "speechless," and his crazy relatives. It was...
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Annihilation: 10 Minutes of Sadness, 5 Minutes of Confusion, Then Netflix
"I got some new blue-rays for Christmas," my date says. "Take your pick."Ok, this is tricky. The movie can't be too long, or it will postpone the end-of-date trip to the bedroom. It can't be too...
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Eurotrip: Hunkage, Homophobia, and a Gay Subtext
While on the treadmill at the gym, I watched most of Eurotrip (2004), a standard young adult comedy of the era, which means recent high school graduates obsessed with boobs and proving that they're not...
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The Dukes of Hazzard
The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985) wasn't really a hillbilly show, though the "backwood Adonis" theme can be traced back through Jethro Bodine to L'il Abner. It was set in the country (Hazzard,...
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Research Me Obsessively: The Mysterious Jack of LHS
This prime piece of real estate comes from an article stating "Meet the 2018 LHS Pioneers." Unfortunately, it doesn't say what LHS is.Don't worry, I don't intend to contact him or anything. I just...
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Orphans of the Sky
My favorite Robert Heinlein science fiction novels, in order.#10: Starman Jones (1953). The Starman falls for a girl.#9: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961): A boy raised by Martians founds a hippie...
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The Orange Bodybuilders of Alaska High Schools
Bodybuilding is not a popular sport among adolescents, who generally lack the time for two 3-hour long workouts per day and the funds for the expensive protein powders and vitamin supplements. And I've...
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Kotzebue: The Land without Beefcake
Talk about isolation: Kotzebue, Alaska is farther north than Nome, 30 miles above the Arctic Circle, a 2 hour flight from Anchorage (you have to go by plane).There are 3,200 people, 70% Native...
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Kahuku, Hawaii
When I lived in L.A., people kept trying to talk me into going to Hawaii. "It's got beaches!" they exclaimed.I should fly 6 hours across the Pacific for beaches? We have them in L.A., and I never...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "Sex Education"
I haven't had a chance to watch the Netflix dramedy Sex Education yet. I'm torn about whether I want to:Plus: Gillian Anderson, best known as Scully on The X-Files, as a sex therapist with...
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The Forced Skinny Dipping of Wanomie, Pennsylvania
An article in the Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania Times-Leader on 5 June 1947 states that a 20 year old Wanamie youth,Leo Garvey, forced 11 boys to disrobe and jump into the Wanamie Reservoir at...
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Heterosexual Children
After he is bullied by some mean kids, 16-year old drugstore employee Jake (Asa Butterfield) received a telephone call from his raging, delusional grandpa, Abe Portman (Terence Stamp).His deadbeat...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "Once Upon a Time," Season 4
By watching an episode almost every day, we're now near the end of Season 4 of Once Upon a Time. It's been a wild ride, and rather exhausting, with characters from every fairy tale, legend, and...
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In Bed with Mason Cook
In Speechless, the sitcom about a nonverbal special needs kid and his crazy family, gay people generally do not exist. I guess you can have only one Special Thing per series. The only reference to...
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Palm Springs: Not Just for Heavily-Tanned 70-Year Olds
Palm Spring is a small, ritzy town in the desert 120 miles east of West Hollywood, too far to go for a day. Gay men over 50 went there for weekend visits. Around age 70, they moved there permanently....
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