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Bamm-Bamm's Muscles: Gay Promise on "The Flintstones"
Quick, name a cartoon character who came from outer space, was adopted by a human family, and has superpowers?Right, Bamm-Bamm Rubble.In an October 3rd, 1963 episode of The Flintstones, about "a modern...
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Peter Brown: Buddy-Bonding Cowboy of the 1950s
I never saw this massive chest before yesterday, that I remember, and he has a pretty common name, so sorry if I get the pictures wrong. He's Peter Brown, a heart throb to the first generation of Baby...
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The Gay Adventures of Jerry Lewis
When I was growing up, every summer and sometimes at Christmastime, we drove 300 miles from Rock Island, Illinois to Garrett, Indiana, to visit my parents' family. We usually stayed with my Aunt Nora,...
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A Beefcake Tour of the Louvre
I love the Louvre. I could go every day. But everybody else on Earth, literally, wants to visit, too. It gets 8,000,000 visitors per year, so if you're not careful, you'll be caught up in the...
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Joel Creasey: Gay Aussie Muscle God Comedian
Joel Creasey could probably make it big as a beefcake model, but he decided to go into stand-up comedy instead. After winning the Best Newcomer Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the...
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Maxwell Caulfield: Responding to Gay Rumors with Homophobia
Have you heard of Maxwell Caulfield? During my senior year in college, he was being hailed the Next Big Thing.Born in Scotland, Caulfield moved to London at age 15 and became a nude dancer at the...
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What's Gay About Don Juan?
Today we call a man a "Don Juan" if he's very competent at "getting" women. It's a complement. But the original Don Juan was evil, a Spanish nobleman who cruelly manipulated both men and women.That...
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The Penis Shrine of Thailand
When I went to Thailand to "rescue Alan" in 1988, I didn't have a lot of time for sightseeing, so I missed the Chao Mae Tuptim Shrine. Businessman Lert Sreshthaputa or Nai Lert (1872-1945), developed...
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What's Gay About Chess?
When I was in junior high, chess was a big deal. When Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky to win the World Chess Championship, he became a national hero. Lest anyone think that chess was "for sissies,"...
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A Beefcake Tour of the Musee d'Orsay
The Louvre is my favorite museum in Paris, but the Musée d'Orsay has some points in its favor: It's housed in the old Gare d'Orsay railroad station, which is kind of cool. It's smaller and less...
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Samson Burke: the Villain of 1960s Bodybuilding Movies
If you saw The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962) -- and every Boomer kid did -- you probably that Joe DeRita, the most flamboyantly feminine of the Stooges, was trying his best to appear afraid rather...
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The Muscles of Morris Street
A few days ago, one of the readers of this blog told me that he grew up in Morris, Illinois, about 120 miles from Rock Island.Reading the name instantly aroused the conmingling of joy, anxiety, and...
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The Naked Pumpkin Runs
Naked festivals are held in many cities around the world, but in most parts of the United States, public nudity is a criminal offense. Back during the freewheeling 1970s, it was merely a violation, or...
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Prime Time Drama Thinks You Don't Exist
I usually don't watch contemporary tv dramas, because I never get past the first episode, no matter how interesting the premise. Every one of them, at least every one that I've tried to watch, begins...
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The Following: 2 Gay Myths in 1 Episode
According to the FBI statistics, there were 14,000 murders in the U.S. in 2012, about 1/10th of 1% of all violent crimes reported. And most murders are committed by family members or friends of the...
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Jean-Claude Brialy: Gay Actor in 1960s France
Gay actor Jean-Claude Brialy (1933-2007) lived in the days when LGBT people had to spend their lives hiding, so he hid, coming out only in his autobiography Le Ruisseau des singes (The River of...
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Weeds: Gay and Gay-Vague Drug Dealers
You're probably wondering what Alexander Gould has been up to since he played David Collins, the young heir to the Collins fortune, in the 2005 reboot of the vampire soap opera Dark Shadows.He's done...
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Was My Grandfather Gay?
My father was adopted!I didn't find out until grad school in Bloomington, when I became interested in family history, and began reading old newspapers to see if there was any mention of my...
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James Whitcomb Riley: Even Dull, Depressing Poets Can Be Gay
When I was growing up in Rock Island, teachers thought it their duty to lecture incessantly on local writers and artists, like Carl Sandburg, gay jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke, and Isabel Bloom. My...
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Who Says Childhood is the Best Time of Our Lives?
After reading about the 38 gay events from my childhood -- marrying the boy next door, seeing my cousin Joe naked, getting kissed by a boy vampire, slow dancing in the school gym, my boyfriend Bill...
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