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Michael Forest: Playing a God of Masculine Beauty
The September 22nd, 1967 episode of Star Trek had the cryptic title "Who Mourns for Adonais?"Even when I grew up and studied English literature, the title was still cryptic. It comes from "Adonais,"...
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Homoerotic Heterosexism
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) is one of the few 1950s musical films that wasn't based on a Broadway play. It's based on a short story, "The Sobbin' Women," by poet Stephen Vincent Benet.It is...
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10 Gay Surprises of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song
In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles had had enough of the Man, and set out to bring the Black Community together with a movie about a hero who triumphs over white oppression. He had no money, so he shot a lot...
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Spring 1988: Curing Homophobia in Pattaya
In August 1987, Alan the ex-porn star moved to Thailand to start a gay Pentecostal church in the Buddhist country. His first attempt to become a missionary to hot Asian guys, in Japan, lasted only a...
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Fall 1984: My Grade School Bully Grows Up
December 21st, 1984, a Friday night. I am teaching at Lone Star College, in Houston, Texas, the loneliest place on Earth -- I've had no dates all semester, except for some very weird one-night...
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The High Chaparral: Billy Blue and the Bulging Manolito
When I was a kid in the 1960s, my friends and i wouldn't be caught dead watching a Western -- we were all about superheroes and outer space. So I never saw a single episode of High Chapparal...
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The Pearl Fishers: Two Guys in Love in Sri Lanka
I hate opera. Long, boring songs, hackneyed, cliched plots, and nothing but hetero-romance as far as the eye can see. Sometimes there's a gay subtext, as in The Spanish Hour or Porgy and Bess, but...
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Spring 1983: Thad and the Chippendale Dancers
During my first year at Indiana University (1982-83), I lived in Eigenmann Hall, the graduate student dorm, and met five gay guys on my floor. I thought that Thad (not his real name), from two floors...
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The Milwaukee Museum of Beefcake
I love museums. I select cities for vacations on the basis of: 1. Gay neighborhoods; and 2. Museums. My favorites are:1. The Louvre2. The Prado3. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam4. The Museum of Beefcake...
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Doc Savage: The First Gay Superhero
When I was a kid, I never cared much for Marvel comics, other than the gay-subtext heavy Werewolf by Night, but in the summer of 1972, my eyes were drawn to the gleaming hard-muscle physique on the...
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The Running of the Nudes
If you've been to a bullfight, you know that it's a bloody, gruesome spectacle, in spite of the gay symbolism and massive bulging of the matadors. It's been outlawed in many provinces, and activists...
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Summer 1999: Yuri Finds the World's Largest Penis
The Basque language, spoken in northeastern Spain and southeastern France, is not related to any other language on the face of the Earth. It is the original language of the people who occupied the...
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Reb Brown: Man-Mountain from the Future
In the way of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan the Barbarian (1982), studios started scouring the countryside for man-mountains that they could shove into loincloths for barbarian hijinks. Yor, the...
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Sanjay and Craig: A Boy and His Snake
I heard that Maulik Pancholy, the voice artist for Nickelodeon's Sanjay and Craig (2013-14), is gay, and recently got engaged to long-time partner Ryan Corvaia. So I watched some episodes to see if...
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Robert De Niro's 10 Gayest Movies
In addition to being one of the most accomplished actors of our time, Robert De Niro is a strong gay ally. One reason why: his father, artist Robert De Niro Sr., came out as gay when he was three...
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The Icelandic Museum of the Penis
After gazing at the shirtless, muscular men at the Milwaukee Museum of Beefcake, the phallic giant of Brugge, or the many public penises of Prague, why not visit a museum dedicated solely and...
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The 10 Ultimate Hunks of the Ultimate Spider-Man
I was never a big superhero fan to begin with, and Spider-Man was at the bottom of my list. He's got a crush on a girl, his name has a stupid hyphen, and the 1970s tv series had an awful theme song:Is...
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On the Town: Three Sailors on Leave in a Gay City
Long before I ever visited New York City, I learned all about the Battery, the Bronx, the Empire State Building, Central Park, subways, seltzer, and delis. Like Los Angeles, it was a magical place,...
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Spring 1977: Scott Waits to be Kissed
Looks like ScottI didn't know Scott very well. I didn't think of him much at all until afterwards. I was busy.It was my junior year in high school (1976-77). I was crushing on Verne the Preacher's...
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Adam West: Playing Gay before Batman
In the 1960s, when my friends and I watched the camp superhero series Batman (which, by the way, we didn't realize was camp), we zeroed in on Burt Ward's Dick Grayson/Robin, because he was a teenager,...
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