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A Beefcake Tour of Cleveland
That's right, Cleveland.Since flying became such an ordeal, I've been driving back home every year to visit my parents in Indiana, and Cleveland, Ohio is about halfway. It has the Flex Spa, one of the...
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Spring 1965: The Book of Cute Boys
I love books. Who cares about Kindles and Scribds and .pdfs? I love browsing through used bookstores, driving home from the mall with a Barnes and Noble bag beside me, checking my recommendations on...
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James Royce Edwards
If you've been anywhere near a muscle magazine in the last ten years, you know fitness model and personal trainer James Royce Edwards (left).But he is also an accomplished singer, dancer, and actor....
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Summer 1969: Give Me a Prehistoric Man
During the summer of 1969, when I was 8 1/2 years old, my Grandma Dennis came to visit, and took us to the store to pick out any toy we wanted. My brother Kenny asked for a bicycle, and I asked for a...
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Eddie Cantor: The Craziest Reason for Gay Rumors
One of the cartoons I saw on Captain Ernie's Cartoon Showboat as a kid was Billboard Frolics (1935), which spoofed contemporary radio stars. I didn't recognize any of them at the time, of course, but...
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Ernst Josephson: A Water Sprite Disguised as a Boy
Ernst Josephson (1851-1906) was the "father of Swedish modernism," a painter who drew on folkloric and mythological themes and infused his work with private symbolism.Sounds like a fertile place to...
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10 Teen Hunks of Disney's Summer Movies
Instead of yet another installment in the endless High School Musical franchise, this summer the Disney Channel is offering the distaff side of two 1980s sex comedies. Although they are about girls,...
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Dylan Playfair: Some Assembly Required
Speaking of retreads, Disney's True Jackson, VP was about a 15-year old girl who becomes the vice president of a quirky fashion company. The Canadian series Some Assembly Required (2014-) goes one...
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Summer 2001: The Amish Boy in Red Bikini Briefs
Whenever I tell someone about the rules in my childhood church: no dancing, movies, cards, mixed swimming, eating out on Sunday, secular literature, theaters, circuses, carnivals, jeans, earrings,...
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Mark Trail: A Substandard Tarzan
This is not a parody beefcake cover; it's the real thing. Mark Trail Magazine, the Magazine of Adventure for Boys, gave Boys' Life some strong competition during the 1960s, with articles about...
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MyMusic: A Webseries with Nudity and Deliberate Gay Subtexts
Back when I was a kid, and great herds of dinosaurs thundered across the prairie, every night you turned a knob on a small box in the living room called a "TV." After it warmed up, you could watch a...
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Spring 2001: Are You Ever Mistaken for Gay?
In the spring of 2001, I was finishing my Ph.D. at Stony Brook University, in Sociology with a concentration in Gender/Sexuality (read: Gay Studies) and a dissertation on gay community strength (but my...
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DH Lawrence and the Naked Cornish Farmer
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was the darling of the grad English students when I was at Bloomington, maybe because he was more accessible than James Joyce or T.S. Elliot, but still Great Literature, and...
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10 Gay Reasons to Visit Malta
Malta is one of the smallest countries in the world, 122 square miles (smaller than Philadelphia), and one of the more isolated, but you can fly there from Paris (3 hours) or Athens (2 hours), or take...
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Irv Docktor: The Power of the Male Form
Some of the my favorite childhood books were illustrated with striking, often frightening beefcake images. Nude or semi-nude, muscular men at weird angles, merging into the objects around them or into...
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10 Things You Should Know About Brandon Jones
Other than the obvious.1. His first screen role was "Obnoxious Senior" on 90210 in 2009.2. He's not the same Brandon Jones as the gay porn star.3. In 2010, he appeared in the web reality series If I...
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The Homoerotic Horror of Edgar Allan Poe
When I was a kid in the 1970s, Chuck Acri's Creature Feature broadcast a lot of very loose adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories: The House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror, The...
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Guys and Dolls:Musical with Mostly Guys
Instead of watching the execrable Chicago (2002), watch Guys and Dolls (1953), set during the same time period, but with gamblers instead of murderers, and a gay subtext.It's about the friendship...
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Henry Fuseli: The Gay Painter of the Romantic Era
Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) was born Johann Heinrich Füssli in Zurich, Switzerland. He studied theology, but after publishing a pamphlet critical of the Swiss government, was forced to flee to Britain,...
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Fall 2001: The Police Cadets of South Florida
In June 2001, after completing my Ph.D. in sociology and meeting the Amish boy in red bikini briefs, I moved to Florida, on the invitation of my friend Yuri. I immediately felt at home. It was like I...
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