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Beau Mirchoff: Awkard Bromance
I am often asked if I can find a gay subtext in anyone, anywhere. Let's try it out:The Wizards of Waverly Placereunion movie (2013) splits young-adult wizard Alex Russo (Selena Gomez) into good and...
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Peter Panama: The First Gay Character on TV
Everybody knows that the first regular gay character on tv was Peter Panama (Vincent Schiavelli) on The Corner Bar (1972-73). . But how many people have actually seen it?It starred Gabriel Dell (right,...
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The Boy Named BooBoo
I've heard the name Booboo Stewart frequently for the past few years, but I knew nothing about him. I was curious about a boy named after Yogi Bear's sidekick, especially when the first google images...
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Wally Cox: Was Mr. Peepers Gay?
On February 9, 1970, Here's Lucystarred Alan Hale Jr. as Moose Manley (yes, that's his name), who worries that his son Wally (Wally Cox) is not manly enough -- he's "shy around girls." I had never...
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Nicholas Hoult: A Gay Adolescence
Born in 1989, Nick Hoult began acting and modeling at the age of six, and first drew attention in About a Boy (2002), as the boy being big-brothered by the man (Hugh Grant). Then in the British tv...
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Steve Bond: Most Famous Nude in Hollywood
The October 1975 issue of Playgirl featured several nude photos of model/actor Steve Bond. They quickly became the most famous male nude photos in the world.Not because he was a man-mountain -- no...
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Grease 2: The Gay Connection
Grease (1978) played into the 1950s nostalgia craze, united two of the biggest stars of the era, and featured songs that wowed audiences on Broadway. The sequel, Grease 2 (1981), did none of those...
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Ryan Cooley: Queer as Folk
Born in 1988, Canadian actor Ryan Cooley has appeared in several gay- and lesbian-subtext programs, such as I was a Sixth Grade Alien (1999-2001), as the alien, with future bodybuilder Daniel Clark as...
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All in the Family's Gay Episode
Speaking of firsts, the first specifically identified gay character on tv appeared on an episode of All in the Family on February 9, 1971, only 1 1/2 years after Stonewall. I didn't see it at the...
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Why I Walked Out on Spiderman
I was asked if I ever see a movie that doesn't have gay characters or a gay subtext.Not often. If it's of historical importance, or if the premise is intriguing, maybe.For instance, let's look at the...
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What is a Man: Proving You're Not Gay in 1971
December 3, 1971, Christmastime in 6th grade. I'm having a friend over: Brian, with a belligerent smirk but otherwise cute: a tanned face, sandy blond hair, pale blue eyes with eyelashes so blond they...
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Three's Company
Three's Company (1977-84) premiered at the height of the disco era, when sex was on everyone's mind, and it was about people having sex. Or, rather, about people thinking that other people were having...
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Kevin Corcoran: Savage Sam
The Disney Adventure Boy was usually a teenager (Tommy Kirk, left, James MacArthur, Roger Mobley, Kurt Russell,Jeff East) who demonstrated his all-American masculinity by taking off his shirt (as...
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Richard Chamberlain: King of the Miniseries
Some Boomers recall gay actor Richard Chamberlain as the young, idealisticvDoctor Kildare (1961-66), or the swashbuckling adventurer of The Three Musketeers (1973), The Count of Monte Cristo (1975),...
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David Labiosa: Tight Jeans on Seinfeld
Seinfeldwas not well known for its beefcake. There was a parade of spongeworthy guest stars, such as Anthony Starke in "The Jimmy" (1995), but they were rarely displayed shirtless or in swimsuits. But...
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10 Gay Movies I Hated
I haven't seen a lot of gay-themed movies since 2005, when I moved to small-town American: they rarely make it out to the multiplex next to the Wal-Mart. But before that, living in West Hollywood, New...
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Gay American Renaissance
During my junior year in college, I took Modern American Literature, Modern British Literature, Introduction to German Literature, and several other heterosexist courses. But Dr. Ames, who taught...
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Prime Time Drama Thinks You Don't Exist
I usually don't watch contemporary tv dramas, because I never get past the first episode, no matter how interesting the premise. Every one of them, at least every one that I've tried to watch, begins...
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Confusing Children and Angels: Laugh-In
When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, my friends and I hated variety shows: Ed Sullivan, Red Skelton, Carol Burnette, Andy Williams, Glen Campbell (left). They were old, square, has-beens. But...
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10 Gay Movies I Loved
Ok, here's my list of 10 gay movies that did it right: coming out is not necessarily traumatic, gay and transgender are two different things, gay communities exist, heterosexuals are not necessarily...
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