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Male Nudity in Italian Class
The only good thing about Lone Star College in Houston, Texas, where I taught after getting my M.A. in 1984, was the free tuition for faculty. There wasn't a lot at that I wanted to take, but the did...
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Fall 1999: My Date with Andrew Lloyd Webber
I generally dislike Broadway musicals, and I've seen none of Andrew Lloyd Webber's, except for the movie version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and an occasional drama club production...
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The World Dwarf Games
If you are attracted to shorter guys, and my story about the Worst Date in West Hollywood History hasn't dissuaded you from their pursuit, check out the World Dwarf Games, held every four years by the...
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Noah Fleiss: 1990s Child Star Homophobia
Gay teens in the 1990s liked teenage Noah Fleiss for the beefcake: he appeared in his underwear in nearly every movie, often in the midst of autoerotic activity.They disliked him for his roles as...
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John Milton: 10 Gay Things About the Author of "Paradise Lost"
In one of the iconic scenes in Animal House (1978), Professor Jennings admits that he hates English poet John Milton (1608-1674), author of Paradise Lost: "He's a bit long-winded, he doesn't translate...
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Yuri's Date with John Benjamin Hickey
Before I wrote the story of My Date with Andrew Lloyd Webber, I didn't remember the name of the guy we met at the Broadway Cares Flea Market, who invited us to the party in Brooklyn Heights -- cruising...
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Dag Hammarskjold: Gay Isolation at the United Nations
Augustana College, my alma mater, was founded by Swedish Lutherans, and most of the students were still Swedish Lutherans, so there was an obsession with all things Scandinavian. So everyone read...
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Time Tunnel, 2006: Ruining the Best Gay Couple of My Childhood
I don't remember any tv programs before the 1966-67 tv season, when I was five-six years old, but then the memories come in with amazing clarity, program after program "good beyond hope," opening a...
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The Penis Festival of Japan
You've visited the Penis Park of Sinnam, Korea and the Naked Man Festival of Okayama, Japan. There are a few days left on your tour of East Asia, but not enough time to visit Bhutan, the Land of...
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Fall 1974: Getting Phil to Sin
Phil and FriendWhen I was a kid, most church services ended with an altar call, an invitation to come down to the front of the sanctuary, kneel at the long, low wooden rail, and ask God to forgive your...
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The Line of Beauty: Gay Dating in the 1980s
The BBC movie The Line of Beauty (2006) begins in 1983, the midst of the Reagan-Thatcher era of conservative retrenchment, as a young man named Nick Guest (Dan Stevens, right) goes to live with his...
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Virgil Finlay: Pictures of Naked Astronauts
When I was a kid in the 1960s, we were all revved up on space exploration -- Lost in Space, Star Trek, the juvenile novels of Robert Silverberg and Robert Heinlein. Our games involves outer space....
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Getting Spanked at the Oscars
Nude Yul BrynnerI had a friend in West Hollywood, Larry, who did some acting in the 1970s and early 1980s, and now worked in the casting department at Paramount. He had a very nice house in the heart...
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The Fabulous Bridges Boys
Lloyd Bridges (1913-1998), known to the first generation of Boomers as the hunky, often-shirtless star of Sea Hunt (1958-61), and to the second as Izzy Mandelbaum, the octogenarian personal trainer on...
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Caddyshack: Masculine Women and Feminine Men
Danny gawks at Lacey, while his girlfriend gagsI saw Caddyshack (1980) during the summer after my sophomore year in college, shortly after I got back from my disastrous move to Omaha. It didn't make...
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Fall 1989: The Worst Job in the World
Tom the Big Boss, Sort ofIn May 1989, when my doctoral dissertation committee rejected my third dissertation prospectus, I walked out of the conference room, drove away from USC and never went back.I'd...
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Yul Brynner: Bisexual Beefcake from Hollywood's Golden Age
Speaking of Yul Brynner, the Russian-born actor with the shaved head (1920-1985) was a reliable source of beefcake in the 1950s and 1960s. While other actors were kept strictly under wraps, Brynner's...
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Naked Rugby Team Calendars
When I was a kid in the 1970s, you could see naked guys only by sneaking into a locker room. I didn't even know that pictures of naked guys were available until the spring of my freshman year in...
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Hi, Guy!: Gay Cruising in a 1970s TV Commercial
Between 1969 and 1972, and then again in 1978, Right Guard deodorant did a series of commerciials in which an unsuspecting apartment dweller (Bill Fiore) opens his medicine chest, only to discover he's...
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Jose Orozco:The Beefcake Murals of Mexico
After the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), a number of artists tried to restore the Mexican national identity through muralismo, distilling their anxieties over modernism, industrialization, human...
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