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Gay Fan Art 1: Max Goof
Go to deviantart.com or one of the x-rated yaoi sites and do a keyword search for "Max Goof slash."You'll find dozens of fan-produced pictures of the Disney character kissing a guy, hanging out in his...
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Gay Fan Art 2: Invader Zim
Invader Zim lasted for only a season and a half on Nickelodeon (2001-2002) before it was cancelled due to low ratings. But it got a new life through internet downloads and DVD sales, and later it was...
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The Biggest and Smallest Penises in the World
I'm sure you've seen the famous World Map of the Penis, which lists the average size of men in every country in the world. I'm not sure how reliable the data is, since there's such a wide variability,...
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10 Gay Things You Didn't Know about "White Christmas"
1. White Christmas is not about Christmas. It's a backstage musical that just happens to end at Christmastime. Backstage movies were well-known for gay subtexts.2. The songs are by Irving Berlin, who...
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Gay Fan Art 3: Beast Boy in love with Robin, Aqualad, Cyborg...
I have never seen Teen Titans (2003-2006, 2012-), the cartoon series based on the DC comic books, so I don't know much about the shapeshifting Beast Boy. But according to Wikipedia, he is portrayed as...
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The Eastwood Insurance Cowboy: Cruising in the Shower
Insurance companies go to great lengths to produce clever, memorable commercials, but they rarely venture into the realm of beefcake. That's why the Eastwood Insurance cowboy was so memorable.In...
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My Sunday School Teacher's Stripper Sons
When I was a kid in the 1970s, my favorite Sunday school teacher was named Brother Dino (not his real name). He was young, in his mid-20s, with black hair and a thick black moustache -- rare for...
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Prison Beefcake
After a B.A. in Modern Languages, a M.A.in English, and a Ph.D. in Sociology with a concentration in Gender and Sexuality, how in the world did I end up teaching penology?The history of prisons.Well,...
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Said Taghmaoui: Who Says You Can't Be Gay and Muslim?
I never heard of Saïd Taghmaoui until I saw him in the deplorable remake of Conan the Barbarian (2011), and decided to google him.This picture, the first thing that came up, is stunning enough for a...
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Michael Forest: Playing a God of Masculine Beauty
The September 22nd, 1967 episode of Star Trek had the cryptic title "Who Mourns for Adonais?"Even when I grew up and studied English literature, the title was still cryptic. It comes from "Adonais,"...
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Gay Fan Art 4: Cartoon Kids Grow Up
Fan artists enjoy depicting their favorite cartoon characters involved in same-sex romances or explicit sexual situations.But there's a problem with many of the more popular characters. Regardless of...
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Fall 2005: The Secret Life of Rod the Pharmacist
When I was living in the gay neighborhoods of West Hollywood and Wilton Manors, you never dated more than one guy at a time. If you went on a second date, you were a couple, and "abandoned all others"...
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A Dwarf Goes into a Gay Bar
It's not the beginning of a dirty joke. It's the beginning of the worst date in West Hollywood history. I have always been attracted to guys who are short, the shorter the better. Under 5'8" is good,...
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Fan Art 5: Gay Crossover Romances between Jake, Danny, and Ron
Usually fan artists prefer to stay within the universe of a single tv program, envisioning their hero in a romantic or sexual bond with one of his antagonists. For instance, teen ghost Danny Phantom...
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Fall 2006: My Two Closeted Boyfriends
In 2005, after 20 years in gay neighborhoods, I moved to the Straight World of Dayton, Ohio. There were some gay people around, of course, but they adopted an aggressively heterosexual public life.They...
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The Sacrifice of Isaac
One of the most horrifying stories in the Bible is the Sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22).You probably remember it: God tells Abraham to kill his son. So he takes Isaac out into the woods, ties him up,...
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Junior Durkin and Henry Willson: Hollywood's First Gay Romance
When 15-year old New York boy Trent Durkin was contracted by Paramount Pictures, his name was changed to "Junior" to make him seem more wholesome and All-American. The ploy worked: Tom Sawyer (1930)...
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The Worst Date in West Hollywood History
I have always been attracted to guys who are shorter, the shorter the better. And muscular. So in the spring of 1992, when I got the number of the muscular, 4'0" Ryan at the Faultline, it was a major...
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Chasing the Boy with the Guitar
One of my earliest memories:It's a warm night in the springtime. We're living on Randolph Street in Garrett, Indiana, so I must be about four years old. My bedroom window looks out on the alley and...
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Nathaniel Choate: Gay African-American Sculptor of 1960s New York
When I was living in New York, I had a friend who lived near the Klitgord Center, at the corner of Jay and Tilly Street in Brooklyn, the heart of the New York City College of Technology. Every day...
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