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15 Reasons to Skip Christmas
I'm not a big fan of Christmas. I dread seeing the first Christmas ads of the year, in August or September. The decorations going up in stores in October. And the day after Thanksgiving, when the...
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My 12 Christmas Boyfriends
After my 15 Reasons to Skip Christmas post, you may think that I've had nothing but dreary, depressing, heterosexist holidays. Actually, only about 30% of the Holiday Seasons I recall have been...
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The Kid from "A Christmas Story"
Even though 30 years have passed, Peter Billingsley is still know as the kid from A Christmas Story (1983). You know -- the bespectacled 9-year old whose only Christmas wish is "a Red Ryder BB gun...
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Cruising Preachers, Priests, Monks, and Rabbis
I have always been attracted to clergy. There's something about a devotion to the spiritual world that makes your presence in the physical world especially erotic. Maybe the paradoxical juxtaposition...
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Legends of the Superheroes: a Long-Forgotten Beefcake Fest
January 18, 1979, a Thursday night. I was 18 years old, upstairs in the room I shared with my brother. At 7:00, he turned on the tv. I expected Mork and Mindy, but he turned the channel to Legends of...
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Gay Connections of the "Christmas Story" Kids
A Christmas Story (1983) is not just about Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) lusting after a rifle and a lady-leg lamp. There are other plots and gag bits, other actors who are forever known as for their...
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Fall 1998: Landing My Boyfriend's Roommate
Blake: Manhattan EliteI met Blake in the fall of 1998, when I was in grad school in New York. At first he seemed like an ideal boyfriend, with four of the five characteristics I find attractive:...
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Spring 1981: Spending the Night with Baptist Boys
When I finally managed to drop out of the Nazarene church, during my freshman year of college, my parents told me, "You don't have to be a Nazarene, but you can't be a heathen! Find another church to...
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He Walked Around the Horses
I'm a big fan of the paranormal, especially mysterious disappearances, people who suddenly and inexplicably vanish.You and a friend are hiking in the woods. He's a few paces ahead. You see him go...
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The Top 12 Public Penises of Australia
The Land Down Under is surprisingly scarce in its male nudity in public art. Maybe you're expected to make do with nude beaches, runs, and art exhibits, plus the nude selfies of sports hunks like...
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Jose Pablo Cantilo: First Gay Character in Science Fiction
We've been watching The Walking Dead, a postapocalyptic zombie tv series. It's aggressively heterosexist, eliminating or "straightening out" characters who were gay in the original comic book series,...
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5 Heterosexist and 5 Gay-Inclusive Christmas Specials
Have you ever noticed that most Christmas specials are annoyingly heterosexist. Here are the worst examples:1. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962): Why is Magoo/Scrooge so miserable? He was so...
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What's the Gay Connection in "The Sound of Music"?
When I was living in West Hollywood, people kept saying things like:"I can't go out tonight -- The Sound of Music is on!""Which Sound of Music character are you?""The Sound of Music is playing at the...
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The Bible Boy in the Locker Room
When I was in eighth grade at Washington Junior High, Dan and I were "together," but we also got hung up on other boys.My big crushes of the year were:Paul Getty Jr., the kidnapped heir to the Getty...
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Fall 1974: A Naked Man for Christmas
When I was a kid in Rock Island, Illinois, we had a number of local celebrities, like jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke, poet Carl Sandburg, and sculptor Isabel Bloom.Born Isabel Scherer in 1908, she grew...
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Gambling, Drinking, and Shooting Guns: My Grandpa Howard's Gay Connection
My Grandpa Howard died 36 years ago today.It was easy to find the gay connection in my father's parents, Grace and Lloyd Dennis and Frank Jackson. There were anecdotes, photographs of men in...
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Love Beat: Tony DeFranco
Listen to my heart beat -- it's a love beatAnd when we meet, it's a good vibrationWhatever that means, it brings back a rush of memories of the fall of 1973: pep rallies at Washington Junior High;...
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American Horror Story: Gay World
The anthology series American Horror Story is a hit in gay communities. It's stylish, witty, adequately creepy -- and gay inclusive, a rarity in horror tv. Here's my rating of the gay content of the...
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The Naked Man at the Crossroads
Mary Prater was only 16 when her parents announced that they had arranged for her to be married to 33-year old Ell Hicks.She didn't mind: he was a good catch. He had a nice farm near Pyramid,...
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Fetish 101: The Truth About Being into Feet, Feathers, Balloons, or Cake
What do you find most attractive about this guy? A. His basketB. His bicepsC. His shoesIf you said B, you have partialism, an erotic interest in parts of the human body other than the sex organs.Like...
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