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Noah Hathaway
After starring as the barbarian Atreyu in The Neverending Story (1984), Noah Hathaway got the full teen idol treatment. His cut-off t-shirt and skin-tight white shorts became a common sight in the...
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"Raising Dion": Gay kid with superpowers and his Scoobies fight monsters,...
There are lots of movie and tv shows about teenagers discovering that they have superpowers, but not many about eigh-year olds. In Raising Dion, single mom Nicole must deal with her own problems and...
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Cartoon Muscle: Not Just Superheroes in Spandex
When I was a kid, you could occasionally see shirtless boys or men in Saturday morning cartoons, but it was rare, primarily on jungle or prehistoric adventure series like The Herculoids. Mostly you...
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Lucky Vanous: The Diet Coke Guy
Like Scott Madsen, the Soloflex Guy , and Clara Pelter, who asked "Where's the beef?", Lucky Vanous became famous in an instant. Though the Nebraska native had been modeling and studying acting for...
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Gideon in the Friend Zone, with explicit photos of Gideon Gemstone and Keefe...
I don't usually post Gemstone-specific stories here, but I really liked the way this fan fiction turned out. Gideon, the 23-year old grandson of mega-church pastor Eli Gemstone, has a crush on his...
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The Binge: A bad 1980s teen nerd movie made in 2020, with two queer codes,...
A review of The Binge (2020) praised the "strong friendship" between the central pair. Strong friendship means gay subtext, right?So I sat through 20 minutes of a bad 1980s teen nerd comedy until the...
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The Dreamy Boys and Teen-Nerd Girl of "A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting"
A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020) is part of Netflix's "Representation Matters" collection, so I figured there were gay characters. Besides I erroneously believed that it was a...
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Willie Aames: From Teen Idol to Hallmark Dad, with a cruise, a conversion,...
Born in 1960, Willie Aames was a television fixture from 1971 through 1990. The only question is, when precisely did he turn from "cute kid" to a bodybuilder that drew the attention of every gay male...
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My Boyfriend and My Satanist Ex-Boyfriend at Thanksgiving Dinner: A...
"Mama!" Keefe exclaimed. "Why on Earth did you invite my ex-boyfriend to Thanksgiving Dinner, when you knew that Kelvin was coming?"She frowned. "Well, why not? Daedalus came to every Thanksgiving...
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The Swashbuckling Boyfriends of November
November is my favorite month. The colors are soft and muted, the sky is not too bright, the air is cool but not cold, it's festive but not overwhelming like December, and it contains my birthday and...
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John Stamos
Gay boys all but ignored 20-year old John Stamos when he was playing streetwise Blackie on General Hospital (1983-84). Not many watched soap operas, and his pleasantly slender physique seemed bit too...
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"The Eyes of Tammy Faye": A gay-positive light in a homophobic era
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) takes us back to the golden age of televangelism, when the big names were world-famous celebrities with huge political and social influence. They had dinner at the...
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Euphoria: High school boys in love, gay/bi affairs, toxic masculinity, and...
I went in Euphoria Episode 2.3 cold, with no prior research. All I knew was that Brock O'Hurn had a nude frontal (fully aroused, not a prosthetic). And I had a vague impression that the show was...
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Was Joe on "Halt and Catch Fire" gay, bi, or straight? Fans couldn't agree,...
The title Halt and Catch Fire is misleading, evoking the gruesome deaths of soldiers in battle.but the series (2014-2017) is not about war, and no actually catches fire. It's about software...
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A World of Jimmy Olsens
In an April 1940 episode of the radio Adventures of Superman, the Man of Steel helped a young boy named Jimmy Olsen protect his mother's shop from racketeers. Sensing audience identification, the...
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Why the Devil Has No Penis
When I was a kid at Denkmann Elementary School in Rock Island, my friend Greg, had a small oil painting on his bedroom wall: a muscular guy plunging headlong from a sky of thundering, blue-black...
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"Vacation": Skyler Gisondo as the victim in a horribly homophobic scene. And...
I didn't see the original National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), due to the vocal homophobia of star Chevy Chase. I'm definitely not going to watch the sequel, Vacation (2015), in which Rusty, the kid...
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Spring 1973: My Date Must Be a Boy
When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, heterosexual desire was assumed a constant, a universal of human experience. Same-sex desire was not only never mentioned, it could not be mentioned. It...
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"The Out-Laws": Adam Devine has a crush on Pierce Brosnan. Don't you?
If I'm checking Adam Devine's work for gay subtexts, I'm going to have to review The Out-Laws sooner or later, regardless of its embarrasingly low Rotten Tomatoes score. It features Reyn Doi, who...
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Moschino models: gay-positive, socially-aware, sometimes naked couture
Moschino Couture is a Milan-based fashion company that specializes in bright colors, reflections of pop culture, and social activism.Although it produces clothing, accessories, and perfume for men,...
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