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Eerie, Indiana: Omri Katz, Paranormal Investigator
Israeli actor Omri Katz played J.R.'s son on Dallas (seen here hugging his gay-vague nanny, played by Christopher Atkins), and a scientist's son zapped into a world of sentient dinosaurs in Adventures...
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The Gay Connection of Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays
I hate sports. I've never seen a sports match on tv all the way through. I have no idea who belongs to what team, or what RBA the MVP has with what blocking average and defense in the line draw. I...
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How Queer is "Carmen Sandiego"?
Millions of millennials grew up with Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (1991-1995), a game show based on a video game where contestants answered geography questions in order to track down the...
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The Top Beefcake Stars of the Disney Channel, 2019
Disney Channel sitcoms used to be almost entirely about teenager girls who want to become singers, or who already are singers. Remember Austin & Ally, Sonny with a Chance, Jesse, Hannah Montana?...
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The Top 6 Beefcake Stars of "Power Rangers Beast Morphers"
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers premiered on the Fox Kids Network in August 1993, when I was living in West Hollywood and a big fan of some of the classic kids' shows like Tiny Toon Adventures,...
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The New "Are You Afraid of the Dark": Are They Afraid of Beefcake?
Everything old is new again on Nickelodeon. The venerable children's network is brushing off several long-lost shows and giving them a 2019 treatment:All ThatThat's So RavenMighty Morphin Power...
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"Carol's Second Act": Frankie from "The Middle" Goes to Medical School
Remember Scrubs (2001-2010), about some new doctors or interns or something who clash with the medical hierarchy? I don't remember much about it, except for the jerk doctor who disapproved of...
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The Beefcake of My Cousin's Cousin's Home Town
I have to fly to South Carolina for a funeral, and my mother wants me to look up some sort of distant non-relative, the son of my cousin George's cousin on his mother's side. I checked him out on...
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How to Cut Down Your Netflix List
In the old days, there were 3 channels with three hours of programming each per day, excluding Saturday and Sunday (when no one watched tv). So between 9 and 18 programs to choose from each day. But...
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Is Toon Gay?
Toon (pronounced "tone") is a Dutch dark comedy about a painfully shy jingle-writer (Joep Vermolen) who becomes an internet sensation when he picks up a guitar during his birthday party and sings "I...
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"LIving with Myself": A Techno Take on the Identical Cousin Trope
Miles (Paul Rudd) is a middle-class heterosexual shlub with problems out of a John Updike novel: he's bad at his job selling amalgamated sprockets, bad at his marriage, overweight, under-appreciated,...
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"Killer Klowns from Outer Space": Gayer Than You Think
Why have I not seen Killer Klowns from Outer Space before? Other than the ridiculous premise, that is.We open at a lover's lane, where some of the parked cars are not occupied by boy-girl couples!...
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The Bisexual Fairy Godfather of the Summer of 1984
Between 1982 and 1984, I was studying for my M.A. in English at Indiana University. I did not do well. I couldn't focus on any one topic, or any one department -- I rushed around in the 3,000+...
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Zach Galligan: The Bright Spot of the Summer of 1984
Summer 1984: When everything fell apart. I was 23 years old, with a M.A. in English from Indiana University and no job. Over 200 resumes sent out, and an endless stream of "no openings, no openings,...
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The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
When I was in junior high in the 1970s, the anthology series The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie grabbed kids and teens (and sometimes adults) from live-action sitcoms and put them into badly-animated...
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Zip and Zap, Peter Pan, A Crush on Dad, and A Gorilla Sherlock Holmes
The Spanish bad boys Zipi y Zape, sort of Dennis the Menace squared, first appeared in a comic strip in Pulgarcito magazine in 1947, and have since spun off into many more comics, three movies, a...
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"Daybreak": Saving the Non-Gender Specific Person in Distress
I was definitely planning to skip the new Netflix drama Daybreak, about teenagers surviving the apocalypse while the adults are all zapped. Riot Girls, The Last Kids on Earth, Nowhere Boys....I've seen...
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"The Unlisted": Come for the Australian-Indian Culture, Stay for the Gay...
In The Unlisted, twelve-year old twins Kal (the cool one) and Dru (the smart one, signified by his glasses) are...Did I say twelve? They are played by sixteen-year old Vrund and Ved Rao, who could...
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A Gay "Haunting on Fraternity Row"
David DeCouteau used to direct movies in which hunks in their underwear...well, there are hunks in their underwear, and either no girls or a couple of fully-clothed girls in the background. In other...
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Karol Krauser, the First Superman
The first Superman cartoons appeared in 1941, only three years after the Man of Steel first appeared in Action Comics. They were produced by the Fleischer Studio, which also gave us Betty Boop and...
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