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Guess Which Celebrities I've Dated
When I was living in West Hollywood, my mother called every Saturday morning and asked "How many movie stars have you met this week?" Like most people who have never been to Los Angeles, she thought...
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Kurt Russell's Secret
We usually went to church on Sunday nights, but for some reason I was home one night in November 1968 to see the last half of the best movie ever made, The Secret of Boyne Castle, on the anthology...
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Peter Barton's Powers
When I met Peter Barton, he was guest starring in some tv shows, doing live theater, and calling his agent every day, trying to transition to a macho 1980s leading man. But just a few years before, he...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "Malcolm in the Middle"
We're in the midst of a Malcolm in the Middle marathon, and I must admit that the dysfunctional family sitcom (2000-2006) was not particularly gay-positive. There were some gay references here and...
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That Boy: My First Porn Film
It may be a little strange to mention a porn film in a G-rated blog, but That Boy (1974) is special. It was a defining moment in my life, the first gay erotic film I ever saw, in the spring of 1984,...
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The Top 10 Public Penises of Chicago
When I was growing up in Rock Island, Chicago was the nearest big city, a three hour's drive across the prairie, so we went quite often. My Spanish class drove there to see La Casa de Bernarda Alba,...
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Sage Northcutt: MMA Fighter from Katy, Texas with Gay Friends
I'm sure you are wondering about Sage Northcutt, who played the martial arts-expert bud of the androgynous Moises Arias on his 2009-2010 reality series Moises Rules.He just graduated from high school...
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Suddenly Susan: Biceps, Brooke Shields, and Pete the Gay Mail Boy
In the fall of 1997, when I moved to New York to work on my doctorate in sociology, you had four main tv choices on Monday nights: America's Funniest Home Videos, the hundredth series starring Bill...
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15 Rules of Gay Cruising
"Cruising" is my generation's word for "hooking up": searching for a sex partner as a form of recreation. No ongoing friendship or romance is expected, although one might develop, and the hunt is...
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Fall 2003: Straight Guys Never Figure It Out
When I was living in Florida, newcomers from the small towns (or big cities) of the vast homophobic Straight World often went crazy with joy: "You can be open here! You can be free!" They found a job...
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Field of Lost Shoes: Buddy-Bonding in the Civil War
I hate movies about war -- actually, I'm not a fan of movies about people dying in general -- so I'm not going to see Field of Lost Shoes (2014). But if you have the stomach for it, it looks like...
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Walt Whitman, The Good Gay Poet
When I was in high school and college it was customary to closet gay writers. The professor might have known, but it was assumed unseemly (at best) to tell a class full of "impressionable youth" that...
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Fall 2000: Breaking Every Rule of Gay Cruising
In the fall of 2000, I was depressed. I was writing my doctoral dissertation, and my committee was making lots of unwelcome "suggestions":Take out that section about gay people not being able to get...
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Where are the Gay-Themed Ballets?
There are two problems with looking for beefcake and bonding in contemporary ballet:1. The ballet is not easy, so you won't see a lot of amateur productions, thus limiting the venues for your search.2....
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Aliados: Argentine Teenagers Save the World
Lots of UFO contactees tell us that this is the final era of humanity. We have only a short time to prove to the Galactic Overlords that we can do the right thing: end war, stop environmental...
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Wild Boy: The Gay Jungle Boy of 1950s Comics
There were many variations of the Tarzan mythos during the middle years of the 20th century, but one of the most fondly remembered by the first generation of Baby Boomers was Wild Boy, Prince of the...
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The Top 10 Public Penises of Islam
Islam doesn't have quite the beefcake potential of Hinduism or Jainism. No androgynous gods, no naked holy men. The Quranic prohibition of idol-worship is often interpreted to mean "no human figures,...
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Steve McQueen's Hunky Family Tree
When I was in high school in the 1970s, the heterosexual girls and gay boys agreed that Steve McQueen was the hunkiest movie star of all time. We couldn't name any movie that we had actually seen him...
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10 More Public Penises of Islam
In your quest for public penises in the Islamic world, don't forget that most Muslims live far from the Arabic-countries of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa, in Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, South...
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Robert Redford on Gay Rights
When I was in high school, the heterosexual girls and gay boys swooned over a trio of adult actors who epitomized cool: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, and Robert Redford.Redford, who was already in his...
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