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Summer 2001: The Amish Boy in Red Bikini Briefs
Whenever I tell someone about the rules in my childhood church: no dancing, movies, cards, mixed swimming, eating out on Sunday, secular literature, theaters, circuses, carnivals, jeans, earrings,...
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My Date with the Nastiest Guy in the World
During my first year in New York, I was living in graduate student housing at SUNY Stony Brook, nearly 2 hours from Manhattan by train, and trying to figure out a way to move to a gay neighborhood....
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Spring 2009: The Klingon and The Sword Swallower
When I moved to Upstate New York in the fall of 2008, my social calendar was soon crowded with invitations from members of the Gang of Twelve, guys who had known each other for years, and who shared...
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The Gay Canary Islands
One reason I wish I lived in Europe is the easy access to..well, everywhere. From London, it's only a 2 hours to Austria and Italy, 3 hours to Morocco and Russia, 5 hours to Israel. From New York, add...
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The Gay Connection of Julio Iglesias and Sons
Julio Iglesias is a famous singer in Spain and Latin America, with dozens of gold and platinum albums. I knew him primarily from a series of duets performed in the 1980s with an eclectic assortment of...
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Albanian Boys
Through my childhood, I designated several countries as "good places," where you could escape the brainwashing chants of "what girl do you like? what girl do you like? what girl do you like?"Where...
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Spring 1983: Cruising Dublin with James Joyce
After The Waste Land and the horrifying Sound and the Fury, the work of Great Literature that my South Asian friend Viju and I loved to hate the most during the spring of 1983 was James Joyce's...
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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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Spring 1983: Is Joseph Gay or Bisexual?
When I was in grad school in English in the early 1980s, we had to learn all about Great Literature, which meant long, boring novels about heterosexual men lusting after women. And we had to watch...
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Bachelor Weekend: Six Irish Guys Get Naked on Holiday
You're probably wondering about muscular, bulgeworthy, and otherwise memorable actors illustrating my post on James Joyce.They're from a 2013 Irish film called The Stag, or in America The Bachelor...
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The Biggest Guy on my Sausage List
#15 on my Sausage List, the biggest guy I've ever met, was a 21-year old political science major from Harvard.We met in the spring of 2001, when my doctorate in sociology was nearing completion, and I...
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Mikel Murfi: Intellectual, Avant-Garde, Gifted Beneath the Belt
Speaking of Irish men that I want to see a lot more of:I saw the movie The Last September (1999) because Elizabeth Bowen, who wrote the 1929 novel, often included gay-coded characters. So I figured...
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The Mystery Man of the Little River Band
I happened upon this picture on the internet. A shirtless hippie, short, beautifully sculpted, standing in a group of his mates. The caption read: "Russ Johnson, Mississippi."Ok, I figured it was some...
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Fall 1996: My Date with the Vampire
When I was living in San Francisco, a newcomer showed up in church one Sunday: mid 30s, very tall and pale, with a long face, long hair, and a weird Satanic goatee. He was wearing sunglasses, but...
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Terry and the Pirates
Terry and the Pirates (1934-1973) presented the most overt adult-teen homoromance in the comic strips. When fourteen-year old Terry Lee first set out to search for his missing grandfather, accompanied...
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Elfquest
When I was an undergrad at Augustana College in the early 1980s, the Bookstore Gang was all wild over Elfquest, a comic book series created by Richard and Wendy Pini in 1978, and still going on in...
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What's Wrong with the Word "Homosexual"?
Some people who comment on this blog actually use the term "homosexual." I delete their comments. The word makes my ears hurt. I will not permit it to be said in my classrooms. I never use it in my...
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Summer 1999: Third Wheel to a Muscle God
In gay neighborhoods, the custom of "sharing" one's boyfriend with friends and roommates applied only to guys in committed relationships. It was practically unheard of for you to be invited into your...
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Fall 1987: The Universal Agony of Heterosexual Life
Fall 1987: I'm in grad school in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, enrolled in a Seminar in Modern Literature.Big mistake. I've had my share of elitist, condescending,...
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Parry Glasspool: Naked and Proud on Hollyoaks
Parry Glasspool has been making his mark on the British stage in comedies and dramas of gay interest:Proud (2012): Lewis, an 18-year old Olympic boxing hopeful with a 40-ish boyfriend who comes out to...
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