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"Crack-Duck": A Gay Couple in a World of Monsters
Danny Lacy (1989-2019), son of actors Jerry Lacy (Dark Shadows) and Julia Duffy (Newhart), died on April 5th after a long battle with depression.A 2007 graduate of Agoura High School in Agoura Hills,...
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"Karate Kid," 34 Years Later:"Cobra Kai"
June 22, 1984: Karate Kid premieres. Diminuitive, baby-faced good guy Danny Russo, wearing pure white and mellowed by Taoist wisdom, clobbers the snarling, black-clad, bullying, hulking Johnny...
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How Many Boys Have You Loved Before?
If I tried to get every boy I had a crush on in high school into the same room, I'd have to rent a convention center. Jocks, nerds, theater types, preacher's kids, teachers, coaches, my friends, my...
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"Where's the Money?" Where's the Black Beefcake?
There was a guy who used to play basketball in the campus gym while I was running laps. Whenever he made a basket, he would yell "Give me my money! Give me my money!" at the top of his lungs. I...
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West Liberty University: Not Fundamentalist, In Spite of the Name
Have you ever noticed that "Liberty" and "Freedom" usually appear in the titles of organizations that are about taking away our liberty and freedom? They're dedicated to criminalizing gay people,...
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"Roswell, New Mexico": At Least the Gay Guys Kiss
The poster of the new tv series Roswell, New Mexico shows a man and a woman in a heterosexual embrace, and the promo shows four hetero lip-locks!I'd be noping out of the room, but I heard that there...
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The Top 10 Problems of Summer
For teachers and college professors, summer lasts for about 3 1/2 months, begins when you turn in the final grades in May, and ends when you stand in front of that first class in August.I hate it. 3...
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Two Boys are "Eaten By Lions" in a New British Comedy
In Eaten by Lions (2018, on DVD in 2019), hunky teenage Omar (Antonio Aakeel) and his half-brother Pete (Jack Carroll) who has cerebral palsy and a penchant for shoplifting, are orphaned when their...
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A Man Like Mobeen
As America descends into hate-fueled, border-wall, concentration camp fascism, the racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia that we thought espoused by only a few loonies suddenly supported by half the...
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"Dead to Me": "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," with Plot Twists
C.S. Lewis wrote that when he was a kid, he loved being sick, because he could stay in bed all day and read. When I'm sick, I lie on the couch all day and watch tv. And yesterday I binge watched the...
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Tuca & Bertie: Female Empowerment among Birds
Reading the press -- "Creator Lisa Hanawalt is fighting back against the repressive boys' club of adult animation"; "She expects men to hate-watch her show" -- I expected the new animated series Tuca...
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The Many Faces of Sam McCarthy
Sam McCarthy stole the show on Dead to Me, flawlessly portraying Jen's teenage son as by turns vulnerable and angry, bitchy and endearing. So naturally I wanted to research this up-and-coming teen...
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"Boys in the Trees": My Favorite Movie of the Year
Boys in the Trees (2016) turned out to be my favorite movie of the year, but I would never have known from the trailer. It's another one of those misleading trailers that makes a drama look like a...
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Gay Byways of Disney Comics
They say that the golden age of comic books was during the 1930s and 1940s, when hundreds of superheroes filled the skies, but I think it was from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s, when my friends and I...
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J.R.R. Tolkien, the Heterosexual Who Wrote about Men in Love
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was one of the iconic authors of my childhood, his Lord of the Rings trilogy one of the first gay novels I ever read. I didn't even know what "gay" meant yet, but I knew...
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"The Society":Two Gay Guys, No Beefcake, Not Enough "Lost"
In the elite, entitled small town of West Ham, Connecticut, 200 high school kids ignore the ominous portents around them (a mysterious smell, the phrase "mene mene tekel upharsin" scrawled on a wall, a...
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Gays Next Door in 1972: The Doris Day Show
In 1972, when I was 11 years old, my friends and I liked a sitcom called The Doris Day Show, mainly because it was squeezed between the beefcake-heavy Here's Lucy and Sonny and Cher. It was a Mary...
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Gather the Faces of Men: Homophobia in American Literature Class
When I was a junior in college, I took courses in "The Modern British Novel", "The American Renaissance," and "Modern American Literature," plus German, French, and Spanish Literature. And I forever...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina," Season 2
I'm not liking the second season of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, about the adventures of half-witch Sabrina as she straddles the witch and mortal worlds. The coherent plotline about Sabrina...
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"Pose": Let Your Body Move to the Music
I was around in 1987, but almost nothing in Pose (2018-) is familiar. In retrospect, I was enjoying a lot of privilege: white, middle-class, conventionally masculine, HIV negative, able to escape from...
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