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Saturday Morning with Joel and the Bots
During the 1990s, when I was living in West Hollywood, we watched a show called Mystery Science Theater 3000 every Saturday morning, before gong off to buy groceries or go to the gym or do whatever...
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Amazon Prime's Gay Movie Bonanza
Amazon Prime's recommendations this morning are surprisingly gay-inclusive.1. From Zero to I Love You: A gay guy (left) falls in love with a guy with "a perfect wife and children." Gay Theme2....
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"Merli": Catalan Boy Studies Philosophy, Has Sex with Cougars, and Displays...
In college I took a class in "Modern Philosophy," assuming that the philosophy would be modern. No, it's 18th century. All I remember about it is: "Berkeley" is pronounced "Barkeley." But the teaser...
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A Fashion Photographer Tied to a Merry-go-round in his Underwear
David Anthony was a fashion photographer on Swinging Sixties Carnaby Street, who had a brief career as a singer, under the name "Charles Dickens."Apparently Mr. Dickens released three singles: "That's...
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Better Nate Than Ever: Gay Kids, Wacky Aunts, and Beefcake
Big Nate is a comic strip character who first appeared in 1990. Since then, there have been many collections, a series of chapter books, some activity books, a musical, and an animated tv series (with...
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"Two Second Horror Stories, Season 3": More Cautionary Tales with LGBT...
In the anthology horror series Two Sentence Horror Stories, the first sentence sets up a mundane problem. and the second an ironic, humorous, or scary twist. In between we get a rather cliched...
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Dennis the Menace
Newspaper comics aren't for kids. They never have been. We couldn't understand Blondie and Dagwood or Hi and Lois; if the husbands and wives hated each other so much, why didn't they just leave?...
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"Sonny Boy": Gay Villain, Hunky Crony in a High School Lost in Space
Seeing a feminine/masculine same-sex couple hugging in the bathroom prompted me to watch Sonny Boy on Hulu, even though I generally dislike anime. Scene 1: A feminine boy named Nagara (Aoi Ichikawa,...
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"Back to Fifteen": No Adult or Teen Beefcake, But a Trans Best Friend in this...
Researching Back to 15, the new Netflix Brazilian comedy-drama about a 30 year old who travels back in time to relive her teenage years, resulted in superlatives: "the most anticipated Netflix show of...
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Spin and Marty: Summer Camp Boys in Love
In the spring of 1955, William Beaudine began casting an adaptation of the novel Marty Markham, about a wealthy mollycoddle who learns to be a regular fella at summer camp. When buzz-cut jock Tim...
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The Gay Henchman of Marvel's MODOK.
Gay characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are as rare as non-closeted gay men in Tuscaloosa. Writers, editors, producers, and corporate suits think that the movies are for kids, and kids must...
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What's Wrong with the Extremely Offensive, Homophobic Term "Homosexual"?...
Some people who comment on this blog actually use the extremely offensive, homophobic term "homosexual." I delete their comments. The word makes my ears hurt. I will not permit it to be said in my...
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The "Better Nate Than Ever" Series: Gay Theater Kid from Pennsylvania
I have reconciled myself to the fact that the Better Nate Than Ever series by Tim Federle has nothing to do with the Big Nate series by Lincoln Peirce. The characters just have the same name and age,...
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Taarak Mehta kkk Chhota Chashmah: A Spin-Off of a Spin-Off of a Spin-Off
"Duniya Ne Undha Chasma" ("The World in Dark Glasses") was a humorous weekly column by Taarak Mehta (1929-2017), whose trademark was glasses worn upside-down. It appeared in the Gujarati magazine...
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"The Strain": Vampire-Zombies Fight An Annoying Sexist Jerk
Last night we watched the premiere of The Strain (2014-2017), presumably a post-Apocalyptic vampire-zombie horror series.Scene 1: A Berlin-New York plane is about to land. The flight attendant spars...
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Totalitarian Television: Underdog and Friends
When I was a kid, all of the grown-up men I knew worked in the great smoking factory that my Dad called "the goddam hellhole." And all of the grown-up women were their wives, cooking and cleaning and...
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Davey and Goliath: Gay Christian Allies
During the 1960s, if you happened to be too sick to go to church but not too sick to stay in bed, you were stuck watching Rocky and Bullwinkle, Totalitarian Cartoons, Wild Kingdom, or the claymation...
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Andre Norton: Gay Subtext Science Fiction in My Junior High Library
I found The Hobbit during fifth grade, in the Folklore section of the Denkmann Elementary School Library, and thought it the best book ever written. There were rumors of a sequel, something about...
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"What Happens Next": Old Guy Falls for Twink, with Lots of Gay 101 Lessons...
What Happens Next (2012), on Amazon Prime, "explores the meaning, definition and redefining of family, the nature of relationships, the meaning of the varieties of love as a concept, attitude and...
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Alphonse and Gaston: Your Grandfather's Gay Couple
If I was living my last life during the 1890s, as Raphael the Gay Psychic Angel said, I would have been around for the first years of newspaper comic strips: The Yellow Kid, The Katzenjammer Kids,...
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