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Cracow Monster: Bisexual "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in a Rain-Drenched Poland
Cracow Monsters (2022) sounds like a Polish version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: a teacher and his students, notably the Chosen One, fight demons. Poland is the home of the "no gays allowed" cities,...
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"Jennifer's Body": Beefcake and Gore, but No Body
This week's Movie Night was Jennifer's Body. I can't imagine why Bob chose it, or even researched something that sounds like a heterosexual porno. Don't worry -- we aren't actually subjected to any...
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Cary Grant: Hints and Closets in the 1930s
On November 29, 1986, Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, right across the river from my home town of Rock Island. I was living in West Hollywood at the time, but still, it felt weird to know that a...
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"Human Resources": Hormone Monsters, Logic Rocks, Shame Demons, and Love Bugs
Big Mouth (2017-) is an animated sitcom about middle schoolers negotiating puberty with the advice (good or bad) of hormone monsters, a shame demon, a depression kitty, and various other magical...
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See Here, Private Hargrove: To Be Young Was Very Heaven
When I was an undergraduate at Augustana College (1978-1982), there was a metal book rack in the foyer of the library marked "Take a book, leave a book." There wasn't usually much of a selection:...
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Waltons: The Gay Connection
It's been off the air for 40 years, but people still point to The Waltons (1972-81) as emblematic of "good tv" about "family values," by which they mean it had no bad words, parental disrespect, or gay...
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"One Piece": Buddy Bonding During a Quest to Own Everything in the World
One Piece, a Japanese anime series on Netflix with a 95% "similarity" rating. The only one-pieces I've heard of are ballet leotards. Maybe it's set in a ballet school, with muscles and bulges....
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Disney's "Parallels": Four Friends Explore Parallel Worlds
Parallels, on the Disney Channel: four friends are separated into different parallel worlds. Sounds interesting, and maybe one of the friends is gay.Prologue: 2011. In a rustic Disney Nature Show...
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"Kotaro Lives Alone": A 4-Year Old Boy who Talks Like a Samurai and...
In Kotaro Lives Alone (2022), a 4-year old boy who moves into the apartment next to struggling manga artist Karino (Yokoyama Yu in the live-action version). By himself. When questioned, he states...
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Jaws and Gay Romance
In 1975, I was too young to see Jaws. I saw it anyway. All of my friends told me that it was terrifying -- and it was -- but no one mentioned the sizzling intensity of the attraction between police...
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"Foundation": The Most Boring Novel in the History of Science Fiction Becomes...
Every three or four years since I was around 15, I've picked up Isaac Asimov's Foundation (1951), lured by assurances that it's a magnificent accomplishment, a classic, essential reading, the book that...
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Three One-Piece Movies in One Sitting: Will There Be Any Gay Representation?...
Having seen five or six of the 1000-plus episodes of the Japanese anime One-Piece, I feel qualified to watch some of the spin-off movies. The premise: invincible trickster god-pirate Luffy and his...
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"The Last Bus": British Teens Bedeviled by Glowing Soccer Balls
The Last Bus, on Netflix, a British post-Apocalyptic horror series starring teenagers. I wonder if they can't stop the bus, or they'll succumb to the zombie virus. Be careful: The Last Bus is also a...
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It's a Man's World: A Gay Threesome from the 1960s
Speaking of Ted Bessell, before That Girl, he starred in It’s a Man’s World (1962-63) as Tom-Tom, a college student obsessed by Beat poetry and jazz, both emblematic of the multisexual bohemian...
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Eight is Enough
Oh we spend our days like bright and shiny new dimes,If we're ever puzzled by the changing times.There's a plate of homemade wishes on the kitchen window sill,And eight is enought to fill our lives...
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"Cheaper by the Dozen": Twelve Kids, Some Beefcake
This is one of the iconic beefcake scenes of the 1960s, at least for those of us who were kids in an an era where bare chests were as rare as gay characters in the movies: the hunky 18-year old Tim...
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The Hottest 10 Ten Doctors of "Scrubs"
I can't tell you how much I dislike Scrubs (2001-2010), the "comedy" about obnoxious doctors acting like jerks. In last night's episode, they were all in a tizzy because Elliot (a female doctor) was...
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The Subtext in Casper the Friendly Ghost
When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, my favorite comic book title was Harvey, with its odd jack-in-the-box logo and its fantasy characters (Casper the Friendly Ghost, Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost,...
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Little Max: A Gay Father in 1950s Comic Books
When I was a kid, whenever we visited my relatives in Indiana, I spent the night with my Cousin Buster in the trailer in the dark woods, and we would squeeze into his narrow twin bed, our bodies...
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"Wafku" or "Wakfu" or Something: Rampant Heterosexism and Sexism in a...
The trailer to the French series Wafku displayed animation resembling Elfquest, with muscular magical beings running around with swords. And no heterosexual romance. So I'll give it a try.Scene 1: A...
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