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Four Questions about Prasad Romijn
Prasad Romijn is a professional model who starred as a boy saddled with a psycho girlfriend in the Ava Max music video. That was his first acting role, and there is very little else about him on the...
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Robin Askwith: Running from Gay Men
Robin Askwith was a reliable source of 1970s beefcake, but, like Michael Sarrazin, you had to look around the naked girls to see it. Born in 1950, the slim, long-haired Boomer boy was a fixture on the...
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The Wrestling Camp of Port Allegany, Pennsylvania
In the early days of the 19th century, travelers would paddle down the Susquehannah River through New York and Pennsylvania, then portage their canoes overland to the headwaters of the Allegheny River,...
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"The League and the Lantern": Let the Buyer Beware
I love heroic fantasy -- fantasy set in Medieval lands with wizards, dragons, trolls, magic swords, Dark Lords, and heroes foretold in ancient prophecy -- but not the stuff aimed at adults, like Game...
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"All-American": Beach Hunks Who Play Football
This Netflix icon is obviously meant to draw the attention of gay men to the tv series, with a shirtless hunk gazing at another shirtless hunk with homoromantic ardour. But I've been burned by Netflix...
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"That Wilkin Boy" and Other Beefcake Wonders of the Archie Universe
The Comic Cave in Rock Island, like most other comic book stores, was devoted to the Marvel and DC lines. If you wanted something else, you had to sort through the "Other" bins, which consisted mostly...
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SOTUS: Thai Pretty Boys in Love at Engineering School
Thai tv shows are coming out all over. The latest on Netflix is SOTUS: The Series, which is based on a Thai web novel of the same name. SOTUS really does appear in the Latin alphabet, with the...
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What Happened to Gay Italy?
In the summertime I usually make the Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam run, but this year I'm going to Italy. It's been 30 years since my ill-fated graduate studies in Renaissance Italy, so I am prepping by...
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"The Shape of Water": The Things We Do For Love
"I've been dying to watch The Shape of Water," Doug says. This is our first date, so I'm inclined to agree to anything, but really, what a dumb title!"Water has no shape; it fills whatever vessel it...
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Beefcake and Homophobia in the Cayman Islands
I was looking for beefcake photos from Grand Island, Nebraska, but Google Images kept giving me the Cayman Islands instead.Ok, so who am I to dispute a search algorithm? Cayman Islands it is.The...
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"The Red Line": Gay, Black, Muslim, Asian, Non-Binary, Boring
During a hard night of saving lives in the ER, young, attractive doctor Harrison Brennan (Corey Reynolds) chats with his husband and daughter back home. Later he stops into a convenience store for a...
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Beefcake and Gay Topics in the Top Rock Songs
I've been going through contemporary music charts, to see if there are any gay themes or performers, or if it's all a wasteland of heterosexist boy meets girl lo-oo-oove. And, incidentally, to see if...
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David's Hookup with Scott Baio and Ron Palillo
This is a Scott Baio hookup story that I never heard before, from Jason in Florida. Apparently he heard it from his ex-lover, David, sometime in the 1990s.West Hollywood, October 17th, 1979The end of...
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"Schooled": "Welcome Back, Kotter" for the 1990s
I got pulled into buying the $1.99 premiere episode of Schooled (2019) with this shot of the abs of star Christian Gehring.Turns out that it's a spin-off of The Goldbergs (2013-), the sitcom about...
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Tales of the City: Gay Guys, San Francisco, Who Cares?
Year after year, people tell me "The Tales of the City books are stupendous! Amazing! Wonderful! The best thing every written!""And they're historically vital! Gay author Armistead Maupin...
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Netflix's "Tales of the City": Not Your Grandfather's San Francisco
I thoroughy dislike the Tales of the City series of maudlin angst-ridden melodramatic novels, so watching the Netflix tv series wasn't near the top of my list. But when I found out that the series was...
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Rod Stewart: Gay Rumors, Heterosexual Songs
This song has been going through my head for two days:It's late September and I really should be back at schoolI know I keep you amused, but I feel I'm being usedYou led me away from home, just to save...
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The Dark Side of Poly Pride
When I saw this "Poly Pride" sweatshirt, my first thought was "polyamorous." But surely this high school student wasn't aware enough to identify as polyamorous (attracted to people across the...
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"Into the Badlands": Beefcake without Bonding in Post-Apocalyptic Oklahoma
A post-Apocalyptic tv series without zombies? How retro!Into the Badlands (2015-2019) is set 500 years after our civilization ended. The Badlands (aka Oklahoma) has developed a society nearly...
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"Don't Feed the Humans": "Big Brother" with Anal Probes
Don't Feed the Humans, on Mondo Media and Youtube, is a 5-minute long webseries created by Jeff Shorkey. It is set in an alien zoo, where a disparate group of abductees is forced to live together in a...
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