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Shaun Cassidy: Not Just David Cassidy's Little Brother
Growing up in the shadow of his brother David, Shaun Cassidy began singing at the age of fourteen, but no one took him seriously until, at eighteen, he landed a role as cleancut teen sleuth Joe Hardy...
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What's Wrong with the Word "Homosexual"?
Some people who comment on this blog actually use the term "homosexual." I delete their comments. The word makes my ears hurt. I will not permit it to be said in my classrooms. I never use it in my...
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Escaping Rancala with Your Boyfriend and Your Lesbian Pals
The Final Level: Escaping Rancala: When a girl discovers that her brother is trapped in a video game....Sounds cheesy, but that's such an unusual configuration. Not a boyfriend? Or a boy saving his...
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Charles in Charge: The First Teencom
Fresh from his tenure on Happy Days, Scott Baio made a dent in the"servant saves dysfunctional family" genre with Charles in Charge (1984-85), about a college student who works as a male nanny, a...
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Nampa, Idaho: Nazarene Hunkitude in a Cowboy State
What are you supposed to conclude about Nampa, Idaho, when whoever is in charge at Google Maps decided that its cover photo should depict a horrible, decrepit, boarded-up building? Is it an old...
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Avengers: End Game: "I Couldn't Save Her." Times Eighteen
I have seen Avengers: End Game (2019). Sort of. I was completely lost through most of it, and kept asking "Who is he?" until Bob said "Just read the synopsis on Wikipedia." So I did, and I was still...
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"Going Postal: You'll Go Postal if You are Forced to Slog Through This Mess
Going Postal means "going beserk," based upon some incidents during the 1970s when postal employees shot up their offices. So why are the actors on the icon wearing Victorian costumes? That's enough...
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Pinky and the Brain
The WB Network's Pinky and the Brain (1993-1999), a spin-off of the execrable Animaniacs, was about two intelligent lab rats who shared a cage and collaborated on schemes to take over the world. At...
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Strangers from Hell: When You Don't Know You're Dead
I don't usually watch Korean tv shows. They'll never show a gay character, and there is an annoying emphasis on boy-girl romance. But I watched Strangers from Hell because it had an intriguing...
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"Carter": Would You Really Watch Jerry O'Connell In Anything
99% of viewers will tune in to the Canadian tv series Carter (2018-2020) to see Jerry O'Connell, the mega-hunk of the 1990s, star of Sliders (1995-2000) and a lot of horndog movies that you rented just...
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Another Round of "Amazon Prime Moves We Think You'll Like"
Ready for another round of "Amazon Prime movies we think you'll like"?Here's how to play: Go through the list of recommended movies to find one that isn't about a man and a woman finding love, or a...
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Manhattan: Forget Oz, Stay in Kansas
There's a lady in Manhattan who posts a lot of physique photos of her two teenage sonsAnd their friends. And their prom dates.But it's not the Manhattan you're thinking of.The full post is on A Gay...
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"The Old Guard": Life is Very Long, Even with a Boyfriend
Immortals usually spend their time becoming Leonardo da Vinci and Mozart, although in one story I read, a girl is trapped forever at age 12, which limits her life chances. They generally keep a low...
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"Spy Intervention": You Knew What You Were Signing On For
I plugged in Spy Intervention, hoping for some beefcake, and maybe a best-buddy spy gay-subtext.Scene 1: A stereotyped caveman and woman (both blond white people). The voiceover: "At the dawn of...
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Lesbian Subtexts in the Harvey Girls: Little Audrey, Little Lotta, and Little...
When I was a kid in the 1960s, I loved Harvey supernatural comics: Casper the Friendly Ghost, with his brave nonconformity to ghost society; Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, who had a homoromantic back...
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Just Another Night of Gay Tease TV
Last night Amazon Prime suggested that I would like The Vanishing Shadow (2019), a homage to old time movie serials. I watched the first five minutes, marveling at the lengths the producers went...
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Leaenworth, Kansas: "Homosexual Conduct" is Still a Crime
This is the best theatrical Tarzans that I've seen in a long time. Normal hair, not those dumb dreadlocks copied from the movie; handsome face; respectable physique, with the abs not blatantly painted...
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What has Ryan Kelley Been Up to Lately Besides Posting Selfies?
Amazon Prime thinks I'll like a movie called The Dust Factory (2003), in which a 13-year old boy falls off a bridge and explores a limbo world between life and death. He meets the Girl of His...
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Manly P. Hall: Gay Psychic Murdered by His Lover
When I lived in Los Angeles, there was a University of Philosophical Research at 3910 Los Feliz, near the Silverlake gay neighborhood. But it wasn't a university, and it didn't do any philosophical...
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The Gay Enchanted Forest of Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost
When I was a kid in the 1960s, my favorite comics by far were the Harvey supernatural titles: ghosts, witches, and devils roaming an oddly-Medieval Enchanted Forest where same-sex desire was...
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