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Balkan Ghosts: A Lost Gay World
When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, teachers and textbooks never mentioned the Balkans, except for a few guarded references to the Soviet Bloc. So in my earliest childhood, my information was...
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The Adamites: No Private Property, Marriage, or Clothes
The Adamites were an early Christian sect that tried to restore the innocence of Adam and Eve by not wearing clothes, especially during their religious services, and by abolishing marriage and having...
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Christian Boeving: Fitness Expert turned Porn Star turned Movie Monster
With a name like Christian Boeving, you expect someone from Belgium or the Netherlands, but in fact the bodybuilder was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in Missouri. He began posing for muscle and...
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Dierich Bouts: Medieval Beefcake Painter
A scary monster is carrying away a naked guy. I guess we're supposed to feel terror, but when I was a kid and saw this painting in my friend Greg's house, the only thing I could think of was "I can...
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"Out of My League": Italian Romcom with Dying Girl and her Straight Gay Best...
Three people are jogging, a girl bookended by a man and a woman. They are apparently stalking a hot guy, who catches on and asks the girl what she wants. "Dinner," she says.The movie is Out of My...
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15 New Movies on Amazon Prime: How Many Won't be Awful?
I've been out of town on vacation for two weeks, with little access to tv. Let's see if Amazon Prime has gotten any new terrible selections.Translated: Paul, who may or may not be the Apostle Paul,...
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15 New Movies and TV Shows on Netflix. How Many Won't Be Awful?
Yesterday I went through the "Movies We Think You'll Like" list on Amazon Prime, searching for something that wasn't about a boy and a girl falling in love. One or two out of fifteen -- not bad....
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"The Chair": A Woman of Color Chairs a Department Full of Doddering,...
In The Chair, Ji-Yoon (Sandra Oh) has just been appointed Chair of the English Department at absurdly elegant, Ivy League on steroids Pembroke University. Her colleagues consist of:1. Four doddering,...
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Arnold
Arnold needs no last name. He almost single-handedly took bodybuilding out the realm of Muscle Beach physical culturists and Italian sword-and-sandal movies and created the genre of Man-Mountains. His...
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Brian Thompson: Is the Action-Adventure Thug Gay?
It was recommended that I do a post on Brian Thompson. My first thought was that he was the gay guy from Second City TV, but that's Scott Thompson. I never heard of Brian, so I looked him up.Ok, he...
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto: The First Gay Couple
When I was a kid in the 1960s, we were all about astronauts and outer space. Cowboys were strictly for squares. We had a few cowboy toys, presented by clueless adults, but we didn't dare bring them...
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"Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off": "I guess I've always known, on some level,...
I was asked to review Eddie's Million Dollar Cookoff, a Disney Channel movie from 2003 about a boy who scandalizes the world with his "girly" interest in cooking. I'm not sure why. Star Taylor Ball...
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The Top 7 Hunks of "He's All That"
I'm not going to actually watch He's All That (2021) on Netflix, the distaff redo of She's All That (1999). First, the trailer revealed the entire plot, and it's heterosexist to the max, dude: a girl...
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"Legend": Tom Cruise Grins, Tim Curry Growls, and Everyone Gets Drenched with...
When Legend premiered in April 1986, I was living in West Hollywood, where everyone assumed that 23 year-old Tom Cruise was gay. But no one I knew saw it. Last night we watched the director's cut,...
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Swordsmen and Sorcerers of the 1980s
For over a century, people have been rejecting naturalistic literature to write heroic fantasy. In Britain, mostly about unlikely heroes who travel through magic-laden Medieval landscapes to fight...
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"Haunted Hotel": 8 Stories from 8 Writers and 8 Directors. How Many Gay...
Haunted Hotel (2021) is an anthology: eight decades, eight ghost stories (with eight writiers and eight directors) set in the same creepy English hotel, the Great White Horse in Ipswich, Suffolk....
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The Coming-Out Episode of "Family Reunion"
Family Reunion is a sitcom about a family who moves from the Pacific Northwest to the South to get closer to their roots. I reviewed an episode earlier to see if the boy Mazzi was gay (turns out that...
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"I Heart Arlo": Gay Alligator Boy in the Big City?
Arlo is a 15-year old alligator-boy who grew up in the swamps of Louisiana, but now lives in Seaside, New York. He has a Southern accent that keeps slipping away, a penchant for bursting into song,...
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My Boyfriend Ed Asner and I Make Gay History
Hi, Boomer,I'm Michael, from the gay synagogue in L.A. Here's my gay celebrity romance story:The episode "My Brother's Keeper" of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (January 13, 1973) is an icon of gay...
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"Diary of a Future President": Bobby's Coming Out Story, Part 1
The conceit of Diary of a Future President, on the Disney Channel, is that we're watching the memories of U.S. President Elena Cañero-Reed in the distant-past year of 2020, when she was in the sixth...
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