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"Why Don't Ya Come Ovah?": Tarik Hooks Up with a Ghost
Norfolk, July 2000Tarik was 32 years old, working as a dietician in a hospital and cruising for older white guys, preferably cops.Norfolk was a rough town, and rather homophobic, so you had to be...
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Wild Boy: The Gay Jungle Boy of 1950s Comics
There were many variations of the Tarzan mythos during the middle years of the 20th century, but one of the most fondly remembered by the first generation of Baby Boomers was Wild Boy, Prince of the...
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2nd Generation: The Worst TV Series I Have Ever Seen
While looking up Charlie Gillespie, the current uber-hot it-boy, I found a reference to 2nd Generation (2018), a 6-episode Canadian tv series:'A coming of age story set in today's harsh melting pot...
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Charlie Gillespie: Gay Characters? Gay in Real Life? Beefcake? Or Not
I'm not going to let the 2nd Generation debacle dissuade me from researching Charlie Gillespie. His Sperman-cape photo was mega-hot, and I'm pretty sure his character was gay or gay-coded.Any other...
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Three's Company
Three's Company (1977-84) premiered at the height of the disco era, when sex was on everyone's mind, so of course it was about people having sex. Or, rather, about people thinking that other people...
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Chesterfield, Missouri: Obfuscating High Schools and a Gay Botanist
Marquette High School is not in Marquette, Michigan, which one would naturally assume: Father Jacques Marquette (1637-1675) was the first European to visit what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and...
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Keeping Northwest High School Under Wraps
What's up with websites that refuse to tell you the venue's geographical location?I found this photo labeled Northwest High School, and wanted to find out what town it was in, so I could research small...
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Bowling Green: Popular Culture and Beefcake
You've probably wondered through your whole life about Bowling Green State University, the only university in the U.S. where you can get a Ph.D. in Popular Culture. I wonder about the job prospects in...
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10 Things You Should Know about Sportsball Player Rob Gronkowski
I don't usually do sportsball players, but apparently everybody knows about this one, so I have to do a 10-things article to get up to speed.1. Rob Gronkowski was born in 1989 in New York.2. After...
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"Another Life": 3 Shirtless Men and 3,300 Women in Bikinis
I've completely run out of tv programs to watch on Netflix, when I get an email: "We added a program you might like, Another Life." So I start watching. Juliet from Lost, or someone who looks like...
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10 Forgotten Musclemen of Movie Serials
Between 1936 and 1955, you didn't just go to a movie; you went to a whole evening's entertainment, with cartoons, newsreels, two features, and a serial -- a cliffhanging, 12-15 chapter adventure,...
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Beefcake at the Top of Iowa
I've lived on the Plains for 5 years, which means that I've crossed "The Top of Iowa" about 12 times. It is becoming a place of pleasant memories, but I was my pleasant memories are due to traveling...
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Swinging Bachelor Detectives of the 1960s
The early 1960s was overloaded with tv shows about "swinging bachelors" who dug the ladies but found their deepest emotional bonds with each other: Route 66, Follow the Sun, Bourbon Street Beat, It's a...
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Kurt Russell's Secret
We usually went to church on Sunday nights, but for some reason I was home one night in November 1968 to see the last half of the best movie ever made, The Secret of Boyne Castle, on the anthology...
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Fred with Tires: The Iconic West Hollywood Photograph
This is one of the iconic photos of West Hollywood. Nearly everyone I knew had a print in their living room or bedroom. It was a fixture in our homes, like the family photos that heterosexuals keep...
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Michael Landon, Gay Ally
Michael Landon arrived in Los Angeles at age 19 and immediately started landing roles as tortured outcasts and juvenile delinquents, such as the gay-vague protagonist in I Was a Teenage Werewolf...
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"A Whiter Shade of Pale": Existential Angst or Hetero Sex?
I usually hate the expression "It ruined my childhood." It's usually used by homophobes who discover that someone they admired in childhood is gay. But a little piece of my childhood died when I...
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"Cousins for Life": My Gay Dads
Nickelodeon's Cousins for Life is basically Drake and Josh, about two mismatched kids who become related when their parents marry. Ok, the parents, are canonical brothers, so the mismatched kids are...
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Was Dr. Smith Gay?
Millions of Baby Boomers know exactly who Dr. Smith was: the foil/ pain in the neck/ comic relief on the iconic sci-fi series Lost in Space (1965-68).A nuclear family (Mom, Dad, teenage girl, preteen...
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The Point of Stevens Point
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, population 26,000, is in central Wisconsin, nowhere near Lake Michigan. The Wisconsin River runs through it, but I can't find a "point" anywhere.Oh, there it is. SPASH,...
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