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Bert Convy Spends the 1970s Nude
I suppose you're wondering who this Bert Convy was, who took his clothes off on both Love Boat (6 times) and Fantasy Island (4 times)?I'm not sure. He seemed to just appear in the 1970s,. He was over...
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Keith Larsen: The Bare Chest of 1950s TV
Have you ever heard of Keith Larsen? Me, neither. But the first generation of Baby Boomers have fond memories of a tv series called Brave Eagle (1955-56).Picture it: a kid in the 1950s. No internet...
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Top 10 Public Penises of the South
Many people in the northern states of the U.S. are afraid of the South, that vast territory that extends from Washington DC, 1200 miles to Miami Beach, and west 1000 miles to Kansas City. It's full of...
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Beefcake, Bonding, and a Movie Called "She"
H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) wrote adventure novels about swashbuckling, devil-may-care heroes exploring lost civilizations in Africa, precursors of both the Tarzan books and the Indiana Jones movie...
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The Gay Connection of Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays
I hate sports. I've never seen a sports match on tv all the way through. I have no idea who belongs to what team, or what RBA the MVP has with what blocking average and defense in the line draw. I...
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Dore Alley: the San Francisco Fetish Festival
When I was living in West Hollywood, many people made the six-hour trek north to San Francisco often, once a month, even once a week. West Hollywood might be a gay mecca, but San Francisco was Gay...
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Fall 1985: A Norwegian Con Artist Steals My Boyfriend
Maybe the cold makes people want to hug, but I've found the wintertime to be good for starting a new romance: I started dating Fred the Ministerial Student in December, Verne the Preacher's Son in...
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The Graduate Revisited
This post on The Graduate (1967), starring gay ally Dustin Hoffman, finds lots of gay subtexts in the tale of the alienated young man who has an affair with his girlfriend's bored Establishment...
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10 More Public Penises of the South
I've already covered the public penises of the Deep South, the reddest of the red states. Now it's time to look at the Southeast, which has some mind-numbing homophobia, plus nice gay neighborhoods...
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Raul and My Bed-Switching Roommate
In the fall of 1986, shortly after I returned from Japan, I was living with Alan, who dragged me to the gay Asian bar Mugi twice a week. Our other roommate, Chaiyo, was from Thailand. I was taking a...
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Manga: Gay Japanese Comics
When I visited Japan in 1986, I saw manga everywhere: thick, heavy books of sequential art, similar to Western comic books but with a different history, a distinctive style, and a much larger audience....
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Winthrop: A Gay Kid in 1960s Comics
When I was a kid, if you wanted a good comic strip, like The Wizard of Id or Doonesbury, you had to go across the Mississippi to Iowa and buy the Davenport Times-Democrat. A lot of people did. Rock...
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Henry Danger: A New Nickelodeon Gay-Subtext Classic?
The Disney Channel loves teencoms about kids who are training to become singers.Nickelodeon puts them into bizarre, unexpected situations.Which would you rather watch?In Henry Danger, the new...
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Bring on the Spider-Men
I'm not a big fan of superheroes in general, and Spider-Man is at the bottom of my list. I walked out on the first movie (2002) starring Tobey Maguire, and I've never seen The Ultimate Spider-Man, in...
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Fall 2006: My Personal Trainer
For twenty years, I only went to gay-specific gyms. Who wanted to work out with a bunch of heterosexual gym rats talking about breasts and making homophobic jokes? So I went to:1. The Hollywood Spa...
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Michael J. Pollard, Lost Boy
When I was a kid in the 1960s, I thought Michael J. Pollard was the cutest guy around. He was short, husky, and blond (I thought), with an impish smile. And he always played lost boys.I first saw him...
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Fall 1987: My Date with Richard Dreyfuss
In the fall of 1987, my roommate Alan moved to Thailand in yet another attempt to start a gay Pentecostal church among cute Asian guys (he tried in Japan in 1986), so I needed a new place to live. I...
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Fall 1982: I Visit an Adult Bookstore
I "figured it out" during the summer of 1978, but my real "coming out" was on September 25th, 1982, a Saturday night during my first year in grad school at Indiana University.As an undergraduate at...
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The Gay Werewolf of Steppenwolf
When I was an undergraduate at Augustana College in the early 1980s, I took three German classes with tall, gray-haired, constantly-scowling Professor Weber, who was obsessed with demonstrating that...
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Fall 1976: Discovering What Gay Means
Up until my junior year in high school, I had no idea that gay people existed. I knew about fairies, boys who had the audacity to pretend that they were girls (bad at sports, good at schoolwork), and...
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