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Knoxville: Not as Bad as It Sounds
If I'm going to visit anyplace in Tennessee, it will be Nashville. Certainly not Knoxville, way up in the Smokey Mountains, so far up that even if you find your way there, you may never find your way...
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The Black Beefcake of Miami Gardens, Florida
When I looked up the cities in the U.S. with the largest African-American populations, I expected urban centers like Denver, Chicago, and Los Angeles, plus a scattering of cities in the Deep South....
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Knoxville: Not as Bad as It Sounds
If I'm going to visit anyplace in Tennessee, it will be Nashville. Certainly not Knoxville, way up in the Smokey Mountains, so far up that even if you find your way there, you may never find your way...
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Miracle Workers: It Would Take a Miracle to Make It Non-Heterosexist
Miracle Workers is a much hyped short comedy series set in Heaven, Inc., where doofus angel Craig (Daniel Radcliffe) is the only worker in the Answered Prayer division. He is forbidden from using...
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The Bizarre Beefcake of Poca, West Virginia
Poca, West Virginia lies between the Pocatalico and Kanahwah Rivers in western West Virgina, 20 miles north of Charleston and 40 miles east of Huntington. It's a small town, less than 1000 people,...
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Jan-Michael Vincent's First Boyfriends
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968-70), was a Saturday morning anthology series starring an animatronic rock band, with psychedelic blackouts, corny jokes, very bad songs, and cheesy cartoons. But...
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Blackkklansman: Beefcake and Bad Boys
Anytime anyone laughs in a movie, even once, Hollywood advertises it as a comedy. Blackkklansman is not a comedy. It is a drama.Around 1973 or 1974, straitlaced, conservative Ron Stallworth (John...
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The Beefcake of Truth or Consequences
The game show Truth or Consequences (radio 1940-1957, tv 1950-1974, plus two revivals) had nothing to do with telling the truth or lying. You had to answer an impossibly difficult trivia question....
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Whiskey Something: Spy vs. Spy, with Gender Stereotypes
While researching Miracle Workers, I saw an article entitled "Miracle Workers, Whiskey...." and subtitled "Two shows to keep your eye on."Whiskey what? That's as far as the title went, and I didn't...
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The Top 10 Bodybuilders of "Bigger"
When I first moved to West Hollywood in 1985, I worked for Joe Weider's Muscle and Fitness. It wasn't as much fun as it sounds. This was the era when bodybuilding was trying to rid itself of its...
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Missouri City: 2 Hours from Hell-fer-Sartain
I follow the twitter feed of former Disney teen Doug Brochu. I don't remember why -- maybe a gay subtext in one of his Disney performances. He doesn't tweet much, but last night he retweeted a plea...
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A Gay Teen on the Disney Channel
Andi Mack is a Disney Channel teencom with an unusual premise: Andi discovers that Bex, who she thought of as her older sister, is actually her mother. Celia and Ham, who she thought were her parents,...
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Was Mary Poppins Gay?
The Disney film Mary Poppins (1964) stars Julie Andrews as a magical, mysterious governess who introduces her young charges (and their parents) to the importance of having fun, a direct ancestor of...
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Costume Quest: Frederator Has Done Better
Costume Quest is an Amazon cartoon series based on the children's video game and graphic novel. Just before Halloween, four 12 year old friends go out to test their homemade costumes. They discover...
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Eddie Cantor: The Craziest Reason for Gay Rumors
One of the cartoons I saw on Captain Ernie's Cartoon Showboat as a kid in the 1960s was Billboard Frolics (1935), which spoofed contemporary radio stars. I didn't recognize any of them at the time, of...
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Mary Poppins Helps a Gay Dad
Remember Mary Poppins (1964), the classic Disney movie in which a strange magical governess sweeps down from the sky to introduce joie de vivre into the lives of three kids and their stuffy, negligent...
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The Gauche Beefcake of Fleming Island
Fleming Island, Florida, population 27,000, isn't actually an island; it's a peninsula about 20 miles south of Jacksonville, almost surrounded by water: Doctors Lake to the north, St Johns River to...
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MAGA Beefcake at Perry High
On March 1st, during a "School Spirit Day" at Perry High School in Gilbert, Arizona, there was an altercation involving students wearing pro-Trump clothing and carrying a "Make America Great Again...
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The Mysterious Time Traveler of Grand Haven
Remember Sesame Street? One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong.A foot shorter than the others, shoulder length hair amid short haircuts, and a red Speedo...
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The Order: Mystical Gibberish Sausage Fest
The Order, on Netflix, is advertised as a drama. It's a comedy. Where else but in a comedy would Grandpa -- humorously named "Pops" -- wake his grandson by telling him "hands off snakey," that is,...
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