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Captains Courageous: Boys Alone on a Boat
Literature is full of poor little rich boys, kids raised in unutterable wealth who nevertheless are missing something essential, something elemental -- and find it, either by design or by fortuitous...
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Hi, Honey, I'm Home: 1950s Sitcom Transported to the Present
Pundits think that people who watch tv can't tell fiction from reality; they're walking around in a daze, accosting soap opera villains in the supermarket and insisting that only NCIS lawyers take...
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Good Morning, World: Gay DJs in Pre-Stonewall Los Angeles
I don't remember a single moment of Good Morning, World (1967-68), even though it starred starred Ronnie Schell (left), who I had a major crush on from his role as best-buddy Duke on Gomer Pyle,...
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Ironton, Ohio: What Fundamentalists Look Like with their Shirts Off
To see more Ironton, Ohio fundamentalists, with or without their shirts, go to A Gay Guide to Small Town America
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Edd Byrnes: The Ginchiest Gay Hustler
During the 1950s, lots of young musclemen found ways to earn some extra cash with their biceps and bulges, as bodybuilders, physique models, and hustlers for the newly-organized gay community. A few...
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The 13 Horrors of "Atomic Blonde", The Worst Non-Homophobic Movie Ever Made
I have just sat through the agony that is Atomic Blonde (2017), or rather, I have spent 111 minutes studying Arabic on Duolingo and occasionally glancing up at the screen, shuddering, and looking away....
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"Come to Daddy": Elijah Wood is Gay for 45 Minutes
The title Come to Daddy, has a creepy, quasi-erotic feel, perfect for a "psychological thriller." It stars Elijah Wood, who always plays gay-vague roles, and Stephen McHattie, who was hot back in the...
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"The Woods": I Know What You Did Last Summer...Um, I Mean 26 Years Ago
The Woods, a 5-episode Netflix mini-series, gets a 97% rating in my recommendations, and the plot sounds intriguing: In 1994, four teens go into the woods, and never come out. Besides, I haven't heard...
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"The Tick": Can a Man and a Boat Find Love?
I'm completely obsessed over the relationship between a man in a moth costume and a talking boat.The Tick. created by Ben Edlund in 1986, is a superhero parody that examines how being super might play...
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Michael Callan: A Gay Guy and His Pretend Wife
One of the most iconic beefcake moments of my childhood came in Mysterious Island, the 1961 adaption of the Jules Verne classic about some Civil War soldiers who end up lost on a mysterious island with...
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"Hanna": A Fairy Tale Ending
I don't know why Bob keeps adding movies about kick-ass babes to the Netflix DVD list. Doesn't he know that they will be 50% closeups of naked girls, and 50% fight scenes with naked girls? I guess...
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Desperately Seeking Arkansas Beefcake
Gay Guide to Small Town America has only two posts on Arkansas, and both are about Catholic high school boys, with minimum beefcake. Where are all the Arkansas physiques?I've tried Fayetteville, Fort...
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Dead Man on Campus
Speaking of Mark-Paul Gosselaar, rent or stream Dead Man on Campus (1998). It's a dark comedy about two college students, Cooper (Mark) and Josh (Tom Everett Scott) who attempt to cash in on the urban...
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"Secret Identity Show": How Many Gay Teases Can One Show Have?
Secret Identity Show: "Follow the exploits of a struggling yet idealistic Superman impersonator (Nathan Ferrier), his dim-witted brother, and a slew of less than super pals...a ridiculously large cast...
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Undercover: Chunky White Men Make Drug Deals
I can't get to the article it's blocked by pop-up windows asking me questions in Dutch -- but this is apparently Belgian bodybuilder Tom Waes, who won a bronze medal at a competition in Antwerp....
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Mickey and Goofy, the Gay Couple of "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories"
Way to feel old. In 2016, I bought the 75th Anniversary Edition of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, the flagship of the Disney comics empire.Back in 1991, I bought the 50th Anniversary EditionI was...
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Texarkana: Two Towns, 200 Bodybuilders
Some of the Texarkana bodybuilders (not all 200) are posted on A Gay Guide to Small Town America
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Jared S. Gilmore, the Top Teen Idol in the World in July 2020
In my day, a teen idol was really an idol, beloved by millions, splashed over every centerfold, with songs hitting #1 on the radio. Today, it's whoever post a picture of himself with his shirt off on...
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The Baby Sitter Club: Kinder, Gentler Teenagers
I never read any ofthe Baby Sitter Club books, because they first appeared in 1986, when I was 25 years old, and because...well, I'm a boy. But I wanted something light and easy, teenagers who...
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A Transgender Kid Gets Out of Pearland
You're a fundamentalist Christian mom in Pearland...ugh..Texas. You attend the infamously homophobic Lakewood Church, home of homophobicus maximus Joel Osteen. And yourr four year old, who is about...
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