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Richie Brose: 1980s Beefcake Star Opens a Restaurant
This is the physique of a pizza chef.Richard Brose may not be a household name today, but he was a regular guest star on 1980s tv. Whenever a casting agent needed a man-mountain, especially for a...
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Mark Munford: Fight Club with Buddy Bonding
Mark Munford has been in five movies. Two involve him taking his shirt off, getting into fights, and bonding with other boys.1. He plays one of a trio of bullying brothers in Ironsides (2009), who...
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Sumo Wrestling for the 21st Century: Bodybuilders and Gay Contexts
Sumo wrestling gets a bad rap in the West. It's stereotyped as a ridiculous sport involving exceptionally fat men. Originally the wrestlers were fat. They had to be, in the era before scientific...
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Aladdin: the Musical is More Homoerotic than the Movie
Aladdin, the Chinese boy who finds a magic lamp, does not appear in the original Arabic stories of The Thousand and One Nights. He was apparently invented for the French translation (1704-1717), which...
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Spring 1998: Was It a Screen?
Speaking of clueless straight guys, in the fall of 1997, when I was in grad school at Stony Brook University, the eight grad students in my "cohort" all shared an office. We hung out there and...
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Fall 1991: Finding Larry's Fetish
I spent the fall of 1991 in Nashville, studying Biblical Hebrew at Vanderbilt Divinity School and dating country-western stars.I also met Larry, one of the "lost souls" that I'm always drawn to.He was...
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The Top 10 Public Penises of Hinduism
If I had to select a religion based on beefcake alone, Jainism would be #1, where the holy men walk around naked.But #2 would have to be Hinduism. Where else can you find a god who offers wisdom,...
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10 Things I Hate About Will and Grace
Will and Grace (1998-2005) was a multiple-Emmy award winning sitcom about a gay man, Will (Eric McCormack), his best friend Jack (Sean Hayes), and their heterosexual female life partners, Grace (Debra...
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The First Nudie Musical: 1970s TV Stars Get Naked
A few years after Oh, Calcutta! came The First Nudie Musical (1976), a sort of smutty parody of the 1930s "let's save something by putting on a show!" musicals with Mickey Rooney and Judy...
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Cory Haim's Bubble Bath
The Lost Boys (1987) was directed by Joel Schumacher, who is gay, and starred teen idol Corey Haim, who was widely rumored to be gay at the time. The plot, about high schooler Sam Emerson (Corey)...
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My Top 10 Gay Childhood Experiences
After 2 years of 2 or more posts per day, I have posted on nearly everything of gay interest that happened to me during the last 50 years. I've completely forgotten about many of the posts. Others...
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Steve Burton: Out of This World
During the 1960s, there was a fad of tv programs about adults who were "different" and had to keep their secret lives hidden from the world. During the 1980s, there was a fad of tv programs about...
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5 Cartoon Couples That You Thought Were Gay, But Probably Aren't
I'm all for subtexts. This blog is about finding gay connections in texts where the writer, director, and fans are all yelling "No, no, no!" And I've found them in dozens of children's tv shows, from...
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My Top 10 Gay Experiences in West Hollywood
I tell people that I lived in West Hollywood for 13 years, but actually, it was a little over 10 years, from June 1985 to August 1995, and even that was broken up by a summer in Japan and semesters in...
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Devon Ke Dev: Queer India Comes to Television
Like many former British colonial possessions, India has a rather homophobic climate. Sodomy laws were just re-instated, gay-themed movies are regularly censored, and pundits continually howl "We...
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Gavin Fox: Not Enough Nudity
Gavin Fox, the son of Canadian tv star David Fox, has not given his spectacular physique the exposure it deserves. He got his start as a production assistant, working for such programs as The...
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Laurel and Hardy: 1930s Gay Couple
One Christmastime in junior high, around 1973 or 1974, I happen to be walking through the room while Grandma Dennis and her friend are watching an old black and white movie on tv. Two guys, one fat...
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Pehlwani Wrestling of India
It seems that every culture has its own way of getting muscular men to take off most of their clothes and press their bodies together, while audiences watch.Oil Wrestling in TurkeyNaadam in...
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Ronnie Burns: Gay Teen of the 1950s
The comedy team George Burns and Gracie Allen spent years on Vaudeville and in movies about George being exasperated by Gracie's daffiness, but anxious to date her anyway. They moved into radio in...
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The Gay Monk and the Homophobic Demon
This is my weirdest paranormal experience:I spent the summer of 1999 in Paris, ostensibly researching French social thought, but really just...well, being in Paris. I had a small but cozy apartment on...
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