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The Hunter's Anthology: You've All Done Bad Things, But Which Of You is a Demon?
The Hunter's Anthology, on Amazon Prime: Some people are trapped on the subway by the Hunter, who claims that they are demons. Sounds interesting.Scene 1: The Hunter (Taylor August) is dressed like...
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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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"Inspector Manera": A Dazzling, Dreamy Guy Solves Murders with the Help of...
Last night's Movie Night movie, Ant Man, was too heterosexist and cliched to even review: Scientist mournng dead wife, Scientist's Daughter falling in love with Superhero, whose Comic Sidekick keeps...
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"John Wick Chapter 2": Killing the Gay Villain but Not the Lesbian Bodyguard
Getting this photo of Riccardo Scarmacio was more interesting than watching the movie he starred in.1. I got the odd spelling of both his first and last names wrong several times.2. There are a lot of...
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"Crackanory": Not Worth the Bulge
"Imagine if Jackanory were set free of its childish shackles. What beautifully funny tales would it unleash? Each show is a master class in storytelling and performance."Ok, but...what the heck is a...
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"The Irregulars": Hetero-Horny Hunks Hired by a Heterosexual Sherlock Holmes
In the original Sherlock Holmes stories, there are a few scattered references to the "Baker Street Irregulars," street urchins that Holmes occasionally hires to gather information. The hundreds of...
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Grit: Beefcake and Bonding in an Attic in Rural Indiana
Every summer, and sometimes at Christmas, we visited my Grandma Davis in Indiana. She had an attic full of old magazines, and my brother and I used to spend rainy afternoons there, leafing through...
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Fall 1982: The Gayellow Pages
Sometimes people who are around my age, especially those who grew up on the East or West coasts, wonder how I could have been unaware that gay/lesbian people existed until I was nearly 16 years old....
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Searching for Netflix Shows with No Dead Wives or Girls of Dreams
Usually I do the heterosexism test on Amazon Prime, but today I tried Netflix, where the trailer starts automatically, and if you click on the icon for more information, the movie automatically starts,...
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"Country Comfort": Is Seeing Ricardo Hurtado Worth the Pain?
This is 21-year old Ricardo Hurtado, a perfect combination of face and physique. I would definitely be asking him out -- if I was 20 years younger (or more), if he was into guys, and if he met some...
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"3 Caminos": Catholic Pilgrims Hook Up
"3 Caminos tells the story of five friends connected by El Camino at different moments in their lives." Wait -- isn't an El Camino a car, the one that Clint Eastwood and a drag queen bonded over in a...
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The Gay Surrealism of Kalervo Palsa
Kalervo Palsa (1947-1987) lived and died in a cottage near the town of Kittila, a ski resort in Lapland in the far north of Finland. Like Veijo Ronkkonen, who worked in a paper mill in isolated...
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My Fair Lady: A Gay Couple in Edwardian England
My Fair Lady (1956) is one of my all-time favorite musicals, but there is no beefcake, so I'll illustrate it with some nude shots of actors who have played Henry Higgins in their other roles..It's...
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"Family Reunion": Is Mazzie Gay...um, I mean Musical?
Family Reunion (2019) on Netflix is a throwback to the TGIF sitcoms of yesteryear that I never watched because I was living in West Hollywood, and had better things to do on my Friday nights than...
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Richie Rich Joins a Gym
Richie Rich, an impossibly wealthy kid about twelve years old, was a mainstay of Harvey Comics from his first introduction in 1953 until the company folded in 1982. By the 1970s, he was starring in...
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"Them": Racism and Paranormal in 1950s Compton
Amazon has been pushing its new series Them, based on the movie about an African-American family facing paranormal peril. I liked the movie, although there was no gay content, so I decided to give...
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"Baby Driver": Gay Boy Meets Girl in 1950s/2010s Small Town Atlanta
Last night's Movie Night movie was Baby Driver, which I naturally assumed was a comedy about a chauffeur for a daycare center. Actually, it's a reference to a Simon & Garfunkel song that I never...
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"Hot Date": Netflix Asserts that No Gay People Exist
Hot Date, on Netflix, is a comedy series with interconnected sketches that explore "the perils of dating." This screams out "Heteronormativity!", but just in case, I'll explore to see if by some wild...
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Gilligan's Island
Gilligan's Island (1964-67), the tale of seven nitwits who set out from Honolulu for a “three hour tour” and end up stranded on a desert island is famous for its ineptness and naiveté, but actually it...
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A Teenager Doing Pushups on TV
Today you can go online and see 100,000,000 pictures and videos of naked bodybuilders and athletes flexing for selfies, and every actor with even minimal musculature takes off his shirt at the drop of...
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