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Spring 1989: A Bodybuilding Contest in Turkey
In September 1988, everything was going wrong. I passed my qualifying exams for my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, but my committee nixed my dissertation topic, same-sex desire in Renaissance Drama....
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Jerry Quarry: Boxer with Something Extra
When I was a kid in the 1960s, my friends and I liked to read boxing magazines and watch boxing on tv. Not because of the pummelling -- because of the beefcake. Our favorite boxer was Jerry Quarry,...
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Was Norman Rockwell Gay?
Most of my relatives are allergic to reading. You never see a book in their houses. My parents owned none. My Grandma Dennis had a few, but they were about art (she originally planned to become an...
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Bugs and Porky meet a Drag King: Warner Brothers Comics
When I was a kid in the 1960s, my favorite comic titles were Harvey (gay-vague Casper the Friendly Ghost), Disney, Archie, and the Gold Key jungle adventures. Comics featuring Warner Brothers cartoon...
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Spring 1989: More Turkish Bodybuilders and Culture Shock
After reading my post on my semester in Turkey, you may have gotten the impression that it was a homoerotic paradise, full of oiled-up wrestlers, bodybuilding contests, and cruising at the hamam. But...
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The New Boyz: Shirtless Instagram Pics and a Gay Tweet
You have to be very careful in reviewing rap artists. Homophobia is ubiquitous. For every gay-positive rapper, like Romeo, you find a dozen who bellow against gays with the raw hate of a...
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Why You Should Visit Belgium Next July
When I was a kid in the 1960s, my boyfriend Bill's grandparents were Flemish, from Belgium -- his big brother Mike used to sing Flemish songs for us --so I thought of Belgium as a "good place."As an...
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Jessie: The Disney Channel's Worst Show
I've reviewed a lot of Disney Channel programs, and there are usually ample gay subtexts, whether accidentally or by design. But I've found nothing on the three episodes of Jessie (2011-) that I've...
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Manneken Pis, the Urinating Boy of Brussels
Fred, the ministerial student who I dated in college (and moved to Omaha with), had a wine decanter topped by an image of a naked boy. The wine would come out through his penis, as if he was urinating....
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Dog with a Blog: The Disney Channel's Second Worst Show
The Disney Channel used to be better than Nickelodeon in airing teencoms with gay subtexts, but the last couple of years, it's been slipping. Of the current crop, the only shows of much interest to...
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Summer 1987: The Bullfight in Tijuana
When my roommate Alan wasn't jetting off to Japan, Thailand, or France to start a gay Pentecostal church, he was cruising. He liked his guys short, slim, passive, and a little feminine. Asians,...
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Lange Wapper, the Phallic Giant of Antwerp
The Manneken Pis is not the only famous penis in Belgium. Outside of Het Steen, the castle on the border of the central city of Antwerp, this statue shows two men of regular size looking up in awe at...
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12 More Disney Channel Teen Hunks
The Disney Channel may be slacking off on the gay subtexts in its teencoms, but it is still scouring the countryside for beefcake. Even Jessie, the Disney Channel's Worst Show, has an unending parade...
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Fall 1986: Raul and My Bed-Switching Roommate
In the fall of 1986, shortly after I returned from Japan, I was living with Alan, who dragged me to the gay Asian bar Mugi twice a week. Our other roommate, Chaiyo, was from Thailand. I was taking a...
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Spring 1976: Marrying Donny Osmond
In grade school, there were lots of tv programs that my friends and I would turn over heaven and earth to watch -- Batman, Lost in Space, Mission: Impossible --, but in high school, not so much. I...
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Six Degrees of Separation: Lucas Cruikshank to John Cena
1. You remember Lucas Cruikshank: he tore up the internet with his webseries Fred, about an oddball teenager, which spun off into three movies and two Nickelodoen tv series -- Fred (2008-2010) and...
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The Top 10 Public Penises of Prague
It's 8 hours by train from Antwerp to Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, but worth it. Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Try the view from Charles Bridge at night, looking...
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Dillon Casey's Gay Day
Dillon Casey's main claim to fame for gay fans is his steamy love scene with John Barrowman on the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood (2011), probably the first gay kiss on any science fiction tv series....
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Tommy Knight: The First Gay Kid on Children's TV, Almost
The CBBC children's sci-fi series The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007-2011) spun off Time Lord Dr. Who's companion Sarah (Elizabeth Sladen) into modern-day London, where she fought monsters and aliens with...
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Rufus and Joel, the Gay Couple of Gasoline Alley
When you search on "Gasoline Alley" and "muscle" in Google Images, this is what pops up. I don't know why, but I never pass on beefcake photos.I already posted on Skeezix, Walt Wallet's adopted son in...
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