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Dino Boy and Ugh
Did we actually watch Dino Boy in the Lost Valley in the 1960s?Ok, we watched -- but we didn't watch very closely. "Watching TV" meant talking, reading, or playing with the TV set on, a flickering...
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"Vida": Queer Characters, Female Empowerment. What's Not to Like?
In Vida (2019-), two estranged Mexican-American sisters, party girl Lynn and responsible Emma, reunite at their estranged mother's funeral in Boyle Heights (a Hispanic neighborhood just east of...
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10 Little House on the Prairie Hunks
When I was in high school and college, if I was home on Monday night at all, I was watching a hip sitcom like The Jeffersons or WKRP in Cincinnati, certainly not Little House on the Prairie (1974-83)....
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Dave Draper Doesn't Get the Girl
Dave Draper, "The Blond Bomber," was the go-to guy for movie bodybuilders during the 1960s, when most of the bulkers had moved to Italy to do sword-and-sandal flicks. He never appeared in the gay-vague...
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A Wholesome Family Weekend
I was in Indiana last weekend to visit my mother and sister, and got overloaded with "wholesome" family activities. Fortunately, we were able to squeeze in some physique-watching.Saturday:We arrived...
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"The Boys": Superheroes, Homophobia, and the Girl of His Dreams
The Boys, on Amazon Prime, has been promoted and double-promoted a theatrical experience far superior to anything you have ever experienced before, the best tv series of all time -- no, the greatest...
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"No Good Nick": The Gay Kid Comes Out
Kamala Epstein played a gay kid on The Fosters, so naturally I was going to watch his new Netflix sitcom, No Good Nick (2019-) Even though it also stars former Sabrina the Teenage Witch Melissa Joan...
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The Gay Tease of "Sinfonia"
I don't know what Sintonia is about -- the title means "Tune" in Portuguese -- but Netflix keeps recommending it to me with a picture of a stunningly beautiful teen idol type with frosted hair and a...
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Twelve Forever: The First Gay Protagonist of Any American Children's Program
In Twelve Forever, a 12-year old girl named Reggie is terrified by the prospect of growing up, so she creates a fantasy world called Endless Island, and populates it with interesting characters like...
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Justin Morrit, the Guy Who Shared Rob Lowe
Have you seen the famous Rob Lowe sex tape? It depicts then-Brat Pack star Rob Lowe and a friend having sex with two women in a hotel room in Atlanta in 1988, on the night before the Democratic...
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The 1970s Debacle of "Mrs. Columbo"
Columbo (1971-1979, and many movies thereafter) turned the whodunit on its head. Instead of a two-fisted man's man detective, Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) is frumpy, disheveled, disorganized. And the...
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Cowboy and Indian Toys
When I was a kid in the 1960s, cowboys and Indians were has-beens. Older kids watched Western tv and remembered six shooters and Davy Crockett hats, but my friends and I played at being spies, Jonny...
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The Top 3 Hunks of "Star Trek: Voyager"
I'm being forced to watch Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001): the aptly-named starship goes off in search of Maquis rebels, when both are zapped to the other side of the galaxy, 70,000 light years from...
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"The Almighty Johnsons": Norse Gods Kissing Girls in New Zealand
On the eve of his 21st birthday, Auckland boy Axl Johnson (Emmett Skilton) and his mates are out buying beer, when they stop to watch a meteor shower. Suddenly a car almost runs him over. A lady...
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"Los Espookys": Who You Gonna Call?
I've been posting about a lot of disappointing tv series -- gay teases that don't follow through, gushing praise that masks endless boy-girl kissing. It's high time we get to a series that it's...
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Brainerd Boyfriends
Brainerd, population 13,000, is on the Mississippi River about 2 hours north of Minneapolis and 2 1/2 hours east of Fargo. It's in a lake-abundant resort area, as you can probably tell from the...
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The 13 Hunks of "13 Reasons Why"
I'm not actually planning to watch 13 Reasons Why, the teen drama now in its third year on Netflix. I never understood the point of depressing "entertainment," and 13 Reasons is overwhelmingly dark...
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Team Stomp Wrestling: Come for the Beefcake, Stay for the....
I don't know exactly what Team Stomp Wrestling is. Its website doesn't work, and its Facebook page is a masterpiece of lack of information. All I've been able to discover is:1. It's in Lima, Ohio.2....
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McCook, Nebraska: Population 7,000, beefcake population 23,000
Pity the gay people of McCook, Nebraska, population 7,000, in southwest Nebraska nowhere near anywhere. The nearest gay neighborhoods are in Denver, 4 hours away, and Omaha, 4 hours away in the other...
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"American Princess": My New Favorite TV Show
Entitled, detached-from-reality Jewish American Princess Amanda (Georgia Flood, who looks exactly like Kristen Ritter of Don't Trust the B__ in Apartment 23) is planning a "fairy tale wedding" in the...
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