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10 Things I Hated About Summer (and Still Do)
Final are all submitted, graduation is over, the students and faculty have scattered. Summertime is here. Three months of boredom, sitting in the house all day every day except to go to the gym,...
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"Werewolf Castle": Mostly Gay Actors, Mostly Shirtless Scenes, and a Dead Wife
Werewolf Castle (2021) has popped up among my Vudu recommendations. The trailer shows a werewolf eating a girl while Medieval villager Thorfinn (Peter Lofsgard) looks on in horror, but after that...
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"The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" becomes "Bel Air": You Win Some and You Lose Some
In the early 1990s, the violent crime rate was the highest of the century, AIDS deaths peaked at 40,000 per year, and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" allowed gay people to serve in the military as long as...
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"Welcome to Eden": A Wild Party, an Energy Drink, a Shy Boy, and Lots of Girls
Welcome to Eden, on Netflix, seems to be one of those Latin American teen angst dramas with lots of hunks. Ok, I wouldn't mind seeing some hunks.Scene 1: A girl walks through a scary, rocky island,...
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Dennis Cole
Most heterosexuals go about their daily lives as if they are alone in the universe. If asked, they will say "Sure, some men are gay, which means they're into men, not women," but in the next moment,...
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"Welcome To Eden, Episode 2": Searching for LGBTQ Characters among the...
Ok, based on a comment that there are gay, bi, lesbian, and trans relationships, I'm going to do something I almost never do: review the second episode. Welcome to Eden, as you recall, is a Latin...
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"New Heights": Gay Guy Leaves Big City to Run the Family Farm
The Swiss tv series Neumatt (New Heights), on Netflix, is advertised as LGBTQ: "After his father passes away, Michi returns to the family farm" and is involved in small-town intrigues. 100 to 1 he...
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Pippin: a Gay Piece of the Sky
In high school (1975-78) and college (1978-82), I hung out with the drama club crowd and played in the orchestra, so I spent a lot of time playing in, going to, and analyzing musicals. I saw Pippin on...
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"The Lincoln Lawyer": Retro-1970s Horndog Lawyer Drives a Lincoln around a...
When The Lincoln Lawyer popped up on my Netflix recommendations, I assumed that it was about Abraham Lincoln. Turns out that it's a lawyer who drives a Lincoln car. I know nothing about the various...
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"Odd Squad": Any Gay Texts, Subtexts, or Beefcake in the Long-Running PBS...
I was asked to review Odd Squad, on PBS, about a group of little-kid secret agents assigned to "odd" cases like hiccups that make things explode, while teaching us math and science. In the first...
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"Boss Baby: Back in the Crib": Is Boss Baby Gay?
Boss Baby started as a children's book, then became two movies (2017, 2021) and a tv series (2018) about a secret baby-run corporation. In spite of the Hollywood mandate that every boy, regardless of...
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"The Ignorant Angels": Bisexual Rich Guy, Beset-Upon Wife, and Bohemian...
Why did the 2022 Italian tv series Le Fate Ignorante ("the ignorant fairies" get translated into English as The Ignorant Angels? Maybe because the term "fairy" is perjorative slang for gay men, and...
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Beefcake Boys in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"
What gay man of a certain age doesn't have a fond memory of seeing The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)? Dolly Parton as the madam, Burt Reynolds as the sheriff, and the entire Texas Aggie...
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Summertime Beefcake at the Dunking Booth
Among my favorite summertime sights are the dunking booths at festivals, county fairs, Celtic games, school carnivals, summer camps, and various parties.They are descended from the old dunk tanks used...
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When someone tells you that a word causes them pain, what is the proper response:a. Ok, I won't use it around you.b. No, it doesn't. You are wrong. I know what you are feeling, and this word...
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"Young Rock": A Boy Growing Up in the 1980s Becomes The Rock
I've seen some of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's movies, but I can't name any at the moment; my knowledge of professional wrestling amounts to "isn't it fake?", and it took six dowloads to find a...
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"Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water": Isn't it Great that Those Pesky...
There have been several tv series based on The Walking Dead, about a zombie apocalypse (but no one is allowed to call them zombies). LGBT representation is mixed, usually gay characters who die...
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"Louder Milk": Sobriety Can Be Funny, Sort of.
Amazon Prime has pushed a tv series called Louder Milk at me. Curious about how milk can be loud, I checked out the promo: It's actually one word, the name of focus character Sam Loudermilk (why?),...
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The Gay Texts and Subtext on Nickelodeon Now
The children's series on Netflix tend to feature gay characters (albeit identified only by pride flags or closted until Season 2). But outside, in the broadcast world of Nickelodeon, The Cartoon...
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Harrow: How do you solve a gay teenager's murder without promoting homophobia?
According to the Hulu blub, Daniel Harrow is "a brilliant forensic pathologist who solves cases that others can't." Naturally. I'll bet they are all about serial killers...yawn. But Episode 8 is...
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