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The Gay Connection of "Rocky and Bullwinkle"
Jay Ward's Rocky and Bullwinkle (1959-64, and rehashed into many different series during the 1960s) is often praised as genius, a classic of animation. Amazon promises: "the wittiest, most inspired,...
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Nosferatu: The First Gay Vampire
According to the IMDB, the Transylvanian Count has appeared in over 400 movies and tv series since the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1891. The first, other than the lost Hungarian Drakula...
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10 Gay Things You Should Know About Cornwall
Cornwall is a peninsula in the west of England, famous for King Arthur (whose Camelot was probably Tintagel Castle), and its long history of paranormal events, with stories of goblins, fairies,...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the Blacksmiths with Brawny Arms
One of the poems parodied on Rocky and Bullwinkle was "The Village Smithy," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1840):Under a spreading chestnut-tree the village smithy stands.The smith, a mighty man is he,...
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The Fabulous Bottoms Boys
The Last Picture Show (1971) starred Timothy Bottoms and Jeff Bridges as high school graduates trapped in a small-town hell, plus Sam Bottoms as a mentally-challenged street sweeper. There were hugs,...
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Joel McCrea: The Bisexual Cowboy and His Beach-Movie Son
Speaking of showbiz families, Joel McCrea (1905-1990) was a tall, lanky, and muscular, perfect for roles as white-hat cowboys. And he played a lot of them during his 50-year movie career. But you're...
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The Naked Ghost of Hylton Castle: A Gay Murder Mystery
Hylton Castle in Sunderland, near the Scottish border, is closed now, but for centuries staff and visitors reported seeing a naked teenage boy wandering the hallways. When they approached him, he...
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12 Forgotten Beefcake Boys of the 1980s
When I was living in West Hollywood during the 1980s, we didn't go to movies much, due to the rampant homophobia. Nearly every movie featured a discussion of how much the main characters hated gay...
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Fall 1973: Have You Had a Squirt Today?
When I was a kid, whenever I had the flu or an upset stomach, my parents would force-feed me 7-Up, the carbonated lemon-lime flavored soft drink.As a direct consequence, I hated all lemon-lime flavored...
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Two Zombie Movies with Gay Characters
There have been 100,000 zombie movies, all with about the same plot: an accident or plague turns almost everyone into plodding, brain-gouging zombies. A ragtag group of survivors hole up somewhere and...
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The Tragedy of Man: Male Nudity and Hungarian Heterosexism
Maybe it's because they've suffered through one invasion after another, from Mongols, Turks, Hapsburgs, Nazis, and Soviets, but the Hungarians like their stories sad. And heterosexist. And long.The...
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The Top 10 Public Penises of Estonia
Summertime in Estonia means guys taking their shirts off, to work wrestle, jump over bonfires, hang out on the beach, or cruise. If you're there at another time of the year, don't worry -- there's lots...
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Summer 1974: The Boy on the Prospect List
When I was growing up in Rock Island, anyone who set foot inside the Nazarene Church for any reason, but didn't "get saved" and become a member, was placed on the Prospect List. Even if they just came...
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Jeremy Sumpter: A Normal Kid
Jeremy Sumpter's biography on IMDB states that he was a "normal kid," and that seems to be the mantra of the former child star's career: be normal, be heterosexual, flee from anything that might hint...
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Henry: A Surreal Comic Strip about Oral Fixation
When I was growing up, my parents didn't approve of reading anything but the Bible -- you remember what happened to My Book of Cute Boys . But they still had a stash: Collier's Encyclopedia, the...
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The Mysterious Disappearance of Mr. Gay Austria
34-year old Aeryn Gillern was living the life that every gay American wants: he had a beautiful apartment in Vienna overlooking the Danube, a job at the United Nations, and a face and physique that won...
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Loki: Beefcake and Gay Rivalry in Norse Myth
In Norse mythology, Loki was a trickster god with a dark side. Jealous over the attention that the other gods were giving Baldur the Beautiful, Loki arranged for him to be assaulted by a spring of...
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The Hottest, Coolest, and Most Homophobic Daytime TV Judges
When I was living in Florida, there were judge shows on nonstop every day from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm: Judge Judy, The People's Court, Divorce Court, Judge Joe Brown, Judge Mathis, Judge Hatchett, Judge...
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The Beefcake Museum of Vienna
I love museums, especially museums with ancient Egyptian antiquities, Greek and Roman sculptures, or a good selection of European paintings from the Renaissance to the present. The Kunsthistorische...
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The Princess: Sometimes Boys are Girls
Sometimes boys are girls. Eight-year old Seth may have male physiology, but who cares? She has been telling her parents that she is a girl since she learned to talk. Her father and aunt are ok with...
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