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The Top 10 Hunks of The Cosby Show
10. Malcolm Jamal-Warner as Theo.On a 1986 episode of The Golden Girls, the girls are planning a funeral, but of course they can't hold it on Thursday night, because of The Cosby Show.During the...
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Uncle Sam Wants You: the Gay Connection of America's National Symbol
I'm not very patriotic. I hate all of those companies that try to sell you lawn mowers or shoes with red white and blue logos and yells of "Freedom!" and "Liberty!"Wilkes-Barre has a Freedom Farm,...
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The Andy Warhol Museums: Erasing the Gay
You probably know that Andy Warhol, the gay-yet-homophobic pop artist, was the son of immigrants from Miková, a small town in Slovakia, near the Polish and Ukrainian borders. You probably don't know...
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Freedom to Marry at Washington Junior High in 1974
When I was in eighth grade at Washington Junior High, I was forced into a class called Civics, where the teacher, Mrs. Dunn, devoted most class sessions to jingoistic rants: "This is the only country...
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Fall 1997: Gay Panic and the Obnoxious Roommate
When I first started out in grad school at Stony Brook University, I couldn't live in Manhattan right away: everything there was frightfully expensive, $900 to sleep on someone's couch, $1000 for a...
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Summer 2005: Searching for Beefcake at a Slovak Waterpark
One day in Levoča, Doc and some of the other faculty got saddled with the job of chaperoning 20 students on a day trip to Tatralandia, a water park about an hour's drive west of Levoča.and he invited...
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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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What Happened to the Black Beefcake?
During the 1960s, there were only a few Black actors working on television, and they never, ever displayed their physiques, not even in teen magazines.In the 1970s, I liked Mike Evans of The Jeffersons...
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I Spent a Month in Cleveland One Night
I just had the world's worst night in Cleveland.1. We were delayed, so we arrived during rush hour.2. At the Thai restaurant, they brought Jeremy's food but not mine. Some investigation revealed that...
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Top 10 Public Penises of Switzerland
When I visited Switzerland after my junior year for the Nazarene International Institute, I didn't have a chance to do much sightseeing. But there is a surprising amount of beefcake art. Here are the...
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Mark Lester after Oliver
Every kid I knew was forced to see Oliver! in 1968. Our parents had the impression that musicals were somehow educational, and besides, it was Dickens.Most of the kids I knew disliked it. After all,...
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Homophobia at the Fashion Institute of Technology
The Fashion Institute of Technology is at 227 West 27th Street in Manhattan, in the heart of Chelsea, a few blocks from the Eagle, the Barracuda, the Dave Barton Gym, and lots of other gay venues. And...
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Jim Thorpe: Native American Beefcake of the Jazz Age
When I was a kid in the 1960s, we lived down the street from a bar called Thorpe's. To Nazarenes all bars were dens of abomination, so I never went near it, but it was hard to miss the lights and...
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Robert Conrad Dares You
We're used to thinking of Robert Conrad as a two-fisted action hero, but he originally wanted to be a singer. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the former professional boxer released a number of...
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Jay North's Gay Connection
Dennis the Menace (1959-63), the sitcom adaptation of Hank Ketcham's comic strip, was before my time and rarely rerun, so I have never seen it. But I knew Jay North's Dennis, a gangly blond wearing a...
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The Chilean Bad Boy and his Boyfriends
George de Cuevas (1885-1961) was the son of a Chilean diplomat, but he wasn't interested in politics. He wanted a Ronald Firbank life of opera, ballet, lavish outfits, opulent parties, and men....
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Hi, Honey, I'm Home: 1950s Sitcom Transported to the Present
Pundits think that people who watch tv can't tell fiction from reality; they're walking around in a daze, accosting soap opera villains in the supermarket and insisting that only NCIS lawyers take...
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The Red Band Society: Buddy-Bonding Teens in a Barcelona Hospital
The Red Band Society (Polseres vermelles) is a Catalan tv drama, based on the novel The Yellow World (El mundo amarillo), about six residents of a children's hospital (where they wear red hospital ids...
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The Top 12 Public Penises of Minnesota
I have just moved to Minnesota to take a tenure track job. We came up to go camping a few times when I was a kid, but otherwise I was here just for my interview. What I've noticed so far:1....
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