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The Top 7 Hunks of "Manifest"
Manifest (2018-2021) was on my Vudu wish list for a long time. I was intrigued by the premise of an airplane taking off from Jamaica in 2013 and landing in New York five years later, but it might be...
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Trese: Filipino Supernatural Crime Anime
An animated supernatural crime drama set in the Philippines? I'm there! Who cares if it's called Trese, which evokes long girlish tresses, or if it the icon shows a heavily made up girl -- I'll be...
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"Black Summer," Season 2: Bury Your Hunks
I watched the first season of Black Summer when it appeared on Netflix two years ago: the first days of a zombie Apocalypse (very fast-moving zombies, not the Walking Dead kind). Everyone is rushing...
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More "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" Beefcake
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a 2012 play about two middle-aged siblings living in one of those Chekhov plays about nouveau-poor aristocrats struggling to survive financially on a doddering...
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A Gay Couple Arrives on "Sesame Street" (No, Not Bert and Ernie)
"Sesame Street’ Drops Special ‘Family Day’ Episode Featuring Two Gay Dads." Wait -- why did they drop it? Kowtowing to the pressure from homophobic groups who scream "The homosexual agenda! You...
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Love and Monsters: It's a Beatiful Day in the Neighborhood, Except for the...
"In a post-Apocalyptic world, a boy travels across a monster-infested wilderness to reunite with his girlfriend." Heteronormative garbage! Why did Bob order it for Netflix movie. Besides, we've both...
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"Record of Ragnarok": The Final! Apocalyptic! Battle! Between! Gods! and Men!
I've been getting tired of Ragnarok, the Apocalyptic battle between Norse gods and giants that ends the world -- there are two tv series by that name, plus one or more Marvel Universe movies. But...
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"Weird City": Dylan O'Brien and Ed O'Neill Fall in Love
Weird City is a streaming series on Youtube (yes, Youtube has its own series now) about a future dystopian city divided by a great wall into the Haves who live Above the Line and the Have Nots who...
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Luca: Two Gay Boys in Love, But Don't Tell Disney/Pixar
In the new Disney/Pixar Luca, teenage sea monster Luca (Jacob Tremblay) lives beneath the sea in Italy. He is forbidden from going above the surface, because the humans who live there are savage...
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My 3.5 Minutes in the Ghetto of Rio de Janeiro with "Dom"
The trailer for the Brazilian tv show Dom, on Amazon Prime, shows two hot guys interacting. Ok, one of them has a woman gazing at him with a sucker in her mouth, but I can stand a little heterosexual...
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The Lost Bodybuilder Cop of Tulsa, Oklahoma
This was the cover photo of a book on constitutional law. A sculpture of family of muscular naked people about to be squished by a scary giant hand.Where did it come from? I wondered. Was it part of...
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Legends of the Superheroes: a Long-Forgotten Beefcake Fest
January 18, 1979, a Thursday night. I was 18 years old, upstairs in the room I shared with my brother. At 7:00, he turned on the tv. I expected Mork and Mindy, but he turned the channel to Legends of...
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"So Not Worth It": Korean Sitcom with College Student Con Artists
So Not Worth It is a Korean sitcom about college students in an international school in Seoul. I watched Episode 1 to see if there were any gay characters.Scene 1: The upscale plastic-and-glass...
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"Katla": Everyone in Iceland is Depressed, Dying, or Full of Secrets
The Icelandic drama Katla got good reviews, and has an interesting premise. Plus Haraldur Stefansson, who plays Einar, is gay. Maybe there are some gay characters as well.Episode 1, Scene 1: A...
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Flack about "Flack": A Britcom about Quieting Celebrity Scandals, Like Being Gay
Flack, apparently about a woman who does damage control for celebrity scandals, popped up on my "Pride Month" list on Amazon Prime, so I plugged it in.Scene 1: In a ritzy hotel room, a woman named...
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Will Episode 6 of "Flack" Vindicate Patrick? And the Show?
I watched half of Episode 1 and a quarter of Episode 2 of Flack, the Britcom about women who handle celebrity scandals. The casual homophobia was too disconcerting: gay life as a sordid, sinister,...
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"Dancing Queens": Not Enough Drag Queens. Or Hunks. Or Gay People.
How hard is it to get in a drag show? The ones I've been to are open anyone who wants to slap on a wig and a dress and lip-synch Madonna. They're for small-town queens to express their inner...
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Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
I don't care for rap music, but who in 1991 wasn't paying attention to rapper Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, whose "Good Vibration" reached #1 on the US Pop Charts? We really weren't paying attention...
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"The Seventh Day": Gay Priest Saves the Day, the Movie Gets an A
The trailer of The Seventh Day, on Netflix, appeared to show a hot guy being rescued from a zombie -- by a priest invoking the Power of Christ. Turns out to be an exorcism movie: the hot guy is...
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Boomerang: Queer Inclusivity and Tequan's Pecs
Eddie Murphy is a major homophobe, so I haven't seen many of his movies, and I never heard of Boomerang (1992). It sounds dreadful: a player gets his comeuppance when he falls for a female version of...
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