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Pride Month on Disney Plus: A Boy Who Wears Pink, A Girl with Fangs, and the...
Disney+, the brand that closets everybody or brags about its inclusivity while reducing queerness to a subtext, actually has a Pride Month category. I was curious to see what would be included.1....
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"Big CIty Greens": Disney Channel Cartoon with Gay Characters (If You Freeze...
Big City Greens is a Disney Channel animated series about a family of hillbillies -- Dad Bill, preteen son Cricket, preteen daughter Tilly, Grandma -- who move to the big city (named Big City), where...
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"Young Royals": The Prince of Sweden Falls in Love with a Scholarship Boy
I met Carl Gustaf, the King of Sweden, 30 years ago when he visited Rock Island, and my friend Zack claims to have hooked up with his son, Prince Carl Philip, when they were both attending the ritzy...
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Steve Lawrence: All the Sad Young Men
Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme were mainstays of The Carol Burnett Show during the 1970s, appearing in 27 episodes. He also appeared by himself on The Hollywood Palace, Ed Sullivan, Laugh-In, Here's...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "Fear Street"
I don't usually pay much attention to "the greatest artistic achievement in television history" hype, but when the superlative-slugging ads started appearing for Fear Street, I noticed that the series...
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"Bureau of Magical Things": Dumb Title, Cute Teencom
Is it possible to have a school of magic after Hogwarts, or will any attempt inevitably be compared and criticized? Let's find out with the Australian teencom with the rather clunky name The Bureau...
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Sex/Life: Rich Bad Boy or Rich Boring Guy?
Netflix tells me that I am a 97% match for Sex/Life, a soap opera about the mom in a heterosexual nuclear family whose bad boy ex shows up. The blurb sounds annoyingly heterosexist; I highly doubt...
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Oscar is Gay: LGBTQ Representation on the Duolingo Language App
The Duolingo language learning app gives you points for completing exercises, stories, and podcasts in your chosen language (or languages). I've been using it for over two years, and tried out almost...
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"Beyond Evil": Gay Cops Chase a Korean Serial Killer
Two guys face each other. Younger: "I'm going to move here." They get even closer. Older: "What about me interests you so much?" They get even closer, their faces inches apart. Younger: "What...
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One Night in Bangkok, Three Hundred Nights at Mugi
From 1985 to around 1993, I was in Mugi, the gay Asian bar in Hollywood, at least once a week, sometimes twice. Probably 300 times in all. And every single time I was there, they played "One Night...
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Shawn Roberts' Top 15 Boyfriends
How is it that I've never heard of Shawn Roberts before? He's got the pecs and biceps that dreams are made of. Nice delts, too. And he's been acting since he was 10 years old, in 1994. Surely I've...
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Ahhhh! The Horrible, Heteronormative, Offensive, Disgusting, No-Good End of...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a huge series of movies starring Marvel superheroes, who all know each other, interact to each other, and refer to events and situations from previous movies, so you...
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"The Great Wall": Lots of Monsters, No Heterosexual Romance
After the nightmarish debacle of 10,000 superheroes settling down on farms with their True Loves or missing Her (see The Horrible End of the Marvel Cinematic Universe), it was a welcome relief to see...
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Major Grom, Plague Doctor: Time-Traveling Cop versus 1970s Gay Villain
The title Major Grom: Plague Doctor is misleading and grammatically suspect: Major Grom is not a doctor working on the cure for a plague. He is a loose-cannon cop fighting a serial killer dressed like...
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"Ojos in d'House": Nigerian Sitcom about the Jeffersons, with Fart Jokes
Ojos in d' House is a Nigerian sitcom about a noveau-riche family culture-clashing with their snooty neighbors. Sounds derivative, and there won't be any gay characters -- Nigeria was listed as the #1...
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Finding a Movie that isn't Terrible at 4:00 am
When we used to see movies in a theater, you would stick around to the end, no matter how disgusting, disturbing, or homophobic the content. I can only remember walking out on Spiderman (2002)...
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"Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest": Russian Witch Steals Children
The puppy-dog-cute 17-year old Oleg Chugunov (left) stole the show as the naive assistant to loose-canon police detective in Major Grom: Plague Doctor. So naturally I wanted to know if he starred in...
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Danger & Eggs: Transgender, Lesbian, and Non-Binary Characters, But None that...
Danger & Eggs, which aired on Amazon Prime in 2017, sounds relatively mundane, a cartoon about the danger-loving D.D. and her bff, a giant egg named Philip. But it holds the record as the first...
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J.C. Leyendecker: Your Grandfather's Gay Artist
In The Web and the Rock (1940), a classic American novel by Thomas Wolfe, the teenage George goes off to college, where he falls into star-struck, stammering love at first sight with Jim Randolph:A...
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LGBTQ Representation in "Never Have I Ever": Fewer Bulges, More Gay Guys
An Advocate article tells us that Dino Petrera was happy to be called back to play the out-and-proud Jonah on Season 2 of Never Have I Ever, about an Indian-American girl struggling to become popular...
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