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The 10 Worst Cities in Texas
I spent 9 execrable months in Hell-fer-Sartain in 1984-85, and ever since, I judge any day that I don't spend in Texas a good day. But, believe it or not, some cities in the state are worse than...
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Top 10 Public Penises of the South
Many people in the northern states of the U.S. are afraid of the South, that vast territory that extends from Washington DC, 1200 miles to Miami Beach, and west 1000 miles to Kansas City. It's full of...
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Gary Gygax and the Homophobic World of Dungeons and Dragons
When I was in college, Dungeons and Dragons was The Big Thing. Everybody who was anybody -- and by that I mean the guys who hung out at Adam's Bookstore -- played. Actually, I never got into it, but...
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Youth Wrestling
I don't understand competition. Why does there have to be a winner and a loser? There's no point in hurting someone's feelings just because they didn't perform as well as someone else. In teaching you...
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Superstore: Just Leave It on and Watch
Superstore (2015-) is a workplace sitcom set in the vast Wal-Mart like Cloud 9, where responsible, by-the-books Amy (America Ferrara, best known from Ugly Betty) butts heads with the free-spirit Jonah...
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Love Beat: Tony DeFranco
Listen to my heart beat -- it's a love beatAnd when we meet, it's a good vibrationWhatever that means, it brings back a rush of memories of the fall of 1973: pep rallies at Washington Junior High;...
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Cuckoo: Constantly Shifting Britcom
I don't understand the Britcom Cuckoo, which has been playing on British tv since 2012 and Netflix since 2016. It keeps changing its premises and its cast.Season 1 (2012) was simple: Stuffy...
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The Most Embarrassing Team Name at the Most Embarrassing High School
One of my grandmother's ancestors was Nathaniel Hicks, who moved from England to Long Island in 1630, when New York was still a Dutch colony. He is in no way connected to the town of Hicksville, Long...
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Gay Characters in America's Favorite Novels. Part 1
Last summer PBS broadcast "The Great American Read," a listing of the top 100 best-loved novels as derived from a survey. Many of them I've never heard of, and others I've heard of but ran away from....
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Gay Characters in America's Favorite Novels Part 2
I'm going through the list of America's Favorite Novels, as determined by a PBS survey, to see if there are any gay characters or gay subtexts. Some of them I've read; others I ran away from in...
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Gay Characters in America's Favorite Novels, Part 3
On to #51-75 of America's best loved novels, as determined by a PBS survey. Let's see if I've read it or ran away screaming, and if there are any gay characters or subtexts.51. Their Eyes were...
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Gay Characters in America's Favorite Novels, Part 4
Ok, home stretch. #76-100 of America's favorite novels, as determined by a PBS survey. We're getting into mostly unknown territory here, but let's see how many I've read, heard of, or ran away from,...
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The Beefcake of My Home Town
My parents grew up in Garrett, Indiana, a small town in the northeastern corner of the state, near the borders of Michigan and Ohio. I was born there, and if my father hadn't been transferred, I might...
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The Most Isolated Town in the United States
To find the most isolated town in the United States, I took a map of the lower 48 and circled a 100-mile radius around 23 towns with strong gay neighborhoods (I was being generous, and included...
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"Circus Camp," AKA the Four Frizzy Hairs and their Boyfriends
I was looking for Charlie Barnett, the costar of the Netflix dark fantasy Russian Doll, and I saw that his first screen role was Circus Camp (2006).A trapeze artist opens a circus camp for kids on a...
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The Top10 Hunks of "Once Upon a Time," Season 6
In the 6th and sort of final season of Once Upon a Time, about storybook characters having soap opera battles, the writers rev things up by throwing in characters from every storybook they can think...
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Russian Doll: Skip the Last Episode
The Netflix series Russian Doll stars Natasha (Nadia Vulvokov), a New Yorker. Rather, she is New York, the city personified: big, brash, flashy, sarcastic, irreverent, gravel-voiced, with frizzy hair...
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Mitchell, South Dakota: Corn, Tourism, and Bulges
Mitchell, South Dakota is a small, square townof 15,000, on the Plains about 70 miles west of Sioux Falls. Known for its corn, tourism, and corn-based tourism.And bulges.Here are the top tourist...
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Falcon Beach: Canadian Teen Soap About Bare Chests
Falcon Beach (2006-07) is a Canadian teen soap, available on youtube and Amazon, about bare chests and kissing.1. The central bare chest belongs to Steve Byers as Jason Tanner, a shirtless golden boy...
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"Birdy": A Gay Film?
One of my readers is very insistent that I watch Birdy, the 1984 film starring Nicolas Cage and Matthew Modine as Vietnam War-era buddies: "Obvious gay subtext! Barely hidden gay romance!"Two...
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