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Boomerang: Queer Inclusivity and Tequan's Pecs
Eddie Murphy is a major homophobe, so I haven't seen many of his movies, and I never heard of Boomerang (1992). It sounds dreadful: a player gets his comeuppance when he falls for a female version of...
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Mickey Rooney: Gay-Vague Teen Hunk of the 1940s
Mickey Rooney, who died in 2014 at the age of 93, played elderly men for so long that it's hard to remember that once upon a time he was the biggest teen hunk in Hollywood. Born Joe Yule in 1920,...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "Dear White People," Season 3
Dear White People (2014) was a drama with comedic elements about a radio show that points out microaggressions and white privilege at an elite Ivy League college.The first season of the Netflix tv...
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"La Grande Classe": Outing the Bully
In La Grande Classe (Back to School, 2019), heterosexual life partners Pierre-Yves and Jonathan (Jérôme Niel, left) were brutalized in middle school, bullied by and his gang ("fat, small dick....
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"The A-List": Bingeworthy "Lost" Meets "Riverdale"
I sat down to watch The A-List at 12:30, planning on watching one episode before going to work. Two hours later, I said "Well, maybe one more episode." And another. And another.It begins as...
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Watching the Muppet Show
When I was an undergraduate at Augustana College, I spent most of my free time in a little bookstore off the Student Union lobby. It stocked some bestsellers and miscellaneous nonfiction, including The...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance"
I never saw the original Dark Crystal movie. In December 1982, I was in the middle of my first year in grad school at Indiana University, and I didn't have time for "The Lord of the Rings with...
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Teen Angels
A year before they caused a counterculture-establishment standoff with their Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-70), comic duo Tommy and Dick Smothers starred in an "I've got a secret" sitcom, The...
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"This Close" Deaf "Will and Grace"
I don't recall any tv series featuring deaf characters in starring roles, so I went into This Close (2018-), on Amazon Prime, with high hopes.It's sort of Will and Grace with deafness. Gay...
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13 Diverse Hunks on Eastsiders (aka Silverlake Light)
I only got through 10 minutes and a few fast-forwards of Eastsiders, a Netflix drama about the self-involved, petty disputes of a group of post-twinks living in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los...
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The Subtext in Casper the Friendly Ghost
When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, my favorite comic book title was Harvey, with its odd jack-in-the-box logo and its fantasy characters (Casper the Friendly Ghost, Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost,...
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The Top 10 Nowhere Boys
Nowhere Boys, on Amazon Prime and Vudu, is an Australian teen supernatural drama about four boys who get lost in the woods on a school field trip, When they return, everything is different. A...
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Kamal Ellis
Kamil Ellis is the young Australian actor who starred in seasons 3-4 of Nowhere Boys. This was the first time he played a generic role: previously his characters tended to embrace his aboriginal...
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Bobbseys, Boxcars, and Beefcake
I was never much of a fan of the mystery genre, but many gay kids liked the gentle, pre-Hardy Boys exploits of The Famous Five or their American counterparts, the Bobbsey Twins and the Boxcar...
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Christopher Knight/Peter Brady
I was saddened to hear of the death of Florence Henderson, who played (among other roles) Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch, surrogate mom to millions of Boomers. Every Brady Boomer had every episode...
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Mid90s: Drugs, Suicide, Homophobia, and Pedophilia
Jonah Hill says "It was important to tell the truth" in Mid90s, his directorial debut, and hopefully his swan song. I think it's more important to not make viewers sick.When I searched for one of the...
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31 Reasons Why Autumn is My Favorite Season
1. New TV shows.2. A new theater season.3. Classes start over.4. Halloween5. Apples by the bushel.6. You can wear nice jackets and sweaters outside.7. The air gets a brisk chill8. The campus becomes a...
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Coffs Harbour: Big Bananas, Aboriginals, and Drag Queens
Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, is about halfway between Sydney and Brisbane.Originally its economy was based on bananas, so there are many big bananas in town, including the Big Banana Fun Park.And...
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The I-Land: "Lost" Written by a Writing-School Dropout
10 people on a desert island, with no memory of who they are or how they got there. Sounds interesting, sort of Lost light.We discover almost immediately that this is a computer simulation (the title...
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"Riot Girls": Closeted Lesbians, No Beefcake, B-
The premise of Riot Girls (2019): most of the population of Potter's Bluff has been killed by a mysterious plague, leaving only teenagers and a scattering of 10-year olds.So many questions: How long...
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