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Elite: Polyamorous Pecadillos and Gay Muslim Thugs
I don't typically watch tv series where the first scene of the first episode is a close up of a half-naked girl. But I heard that there were a lot of gay/bi/queer/polyamorous characters, so I watched...
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The Beefcake Desert of Seattle
I don't get Seattle. It has rain, coffee, grunge rock, green spaces, the Space Needle, Frasier, 720,000 people, a gay neighborhood, and the University of Washington. So why doesn't it have any...
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Dan Byrd: Nearly Gay
For someone who is just over 30 years old, Dan Byrd has an enormous number of acting credits, including more gay, mistaken-for-gay, and nearly-gay roles than any actor in Hollywood. Born in 1985, the...
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What do the Crazy Cowboys of Craig, Colorado Do for Fun?
Moffat County, Colorado, population 13,000, is advertised as "literally where the Old West comes to life."It's in the far northwest part of the state, with Wyoming on the north and Utah on the west,...
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Beefcake Alert: Shirts vs. Skins Basketball in the Campus Gym
Since time immemorial, I've run at 2:00 pm Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Three or four miles outside in the summer, sometimes five, and in the winter, a quick three miles plus warmup on a treadmill...
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Searching for Beefcake in Mahomet
If you leave Rock Island at 9:00 am and drive down I-74 toward Indianapolis, by noon you'll be near the Indiana border, at the town of Mahomet. Same thing on the way back.I've stopped for lunch many...
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"You'd Be Perfect for My Daughter!" A Gay Character Revelation on "Fuller House"
When I heard that Neflix was rebooting Full House as Fuller House, featuring the second generation of the Tanners, a blended family in a gay-free San Francisco, I thought, why? Nobody I knew would be...
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The Mystery of Ola High School
Ola means "wave" in Spanish, so when I read the "Ola" on this rather bulbous wrestler's chest, I figured that "Ola High School" must be in an area with a strong Spanish influence. Say, California, New...
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The Bloated White Caterpillar of "A Confederacy of Dunces"
When I was an undergraduate at Augustana College (1978-82), I got bored to death with Southern Gothic. It was all any English major ever talked about, except for Ulysses: I had my fill of The Sound...
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The Other Two: Gay Siblings, Teen Idol Brother
The Other Two stars comedian Drew Carver as Cary Dubek, is an aspiring actor, well into his 30s and still aspiring; his biggest role to date has been "the gay waiter" in an off-Broadway play.His sister...
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The Tots Adorbs Wrestlers of Lake Norman
I don't think I'll ever get tired of looking at Lake Norman Wildcat wrestlers. Whether their singlets are grey, white, or black, whether they say "Lake Norman,""LN," or "The Lake," whether you get a...
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Betty Boop Comics: Masculine Women, Feminine Men
I love Betty Boop. I don't care if she's a heterosexual sex symbol, with an oversized head, long legs, a low-cut dress, and a squeaky baby-doll voice, she's assertive, confident, independent, and...
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Swiss Army Man: Boy Meets Corpse
Swiss Army Man is a gay romance about a man and a corpse.Hank (Paul Dano) has been trapped on a desert island for a long time, and is planning to commit suicide, when a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) washes...
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Finding a Nice Jewish Boy
Teenage boys and girls are always being told to find a nice Jewish boy. Someone who is quiet, studious, polite, good to his parents, who doesn't complain about going to Hebrew school, who is preparing...
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Wesleyan: Where Every Guy has an Enormous Penis and is BFFs with God
When I was in grad school at Indiana University, a very snooty young man in my dorm, a grad student in music with curly hair and an enormous penis, informed me that he had done his undergraduate work...
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Tween Fest: Internet Jerks in the Desert
In the short tv series Tween Fest (2016), available on youtube and Amazon, the young, entitled, and social media-savvy Maddisyn (Joey King) has become internet-famous with her pimple-popping videos,...
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Luke Perry: From Teen Idol to Hot Gay Nerd to Riverdale Dad
Viewers of the prison drama Oz in the spring of 2001 were treated to the sight of disgraced evangelical preacher Jeremiah Cloutier (Luke Perry) having his towel stolen as he leaves the shower, forcing...
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Petaluma: Wrist-Wrestlers and Bare-Chested Full-Body Wrestlers
Remember the Peanuts continuity in which Snoopy goes to the wrist-wrestling championships in Petaluma, California. Thus giving everyone a chance to say "Peta-luma?" with a quizzical expression, sort...
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The "Let's Get the Gay Stuff Over With" episode of "I'm Sorry"
I'm Sorry (2017-) stars comedian Andrea Savage as a comedy writer named Andrea, who, like most comedians gets ideas from her quirky family and friends: her partner Mike (Tom Everett Scott, who used to...
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"Room For Rent": Quirky Gay Subtext Comedy
As a high school student, Mitch (Canadian comedian Mark Little) wins the lottery and goes home with $3.1 million (this is one of those annoying Canadian movies that pretends to be American, so he wins...
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