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Fall 2004: The Boy Who Cried "Fabulous"
How is it possible to get into a relationship with someone that you don't even like? I met Florian when the South Florida Gay Men's Chorus performed at our church. He was a Cute Young Thing, a fencing...
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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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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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Finding the Mormon Missionary Who I Cruised 30 Years Ago
In the summer of 1980, I left my first boyfriend in Omaha and drove cross-country 3 days to Los Angeles, looking for a safe place, with no idea that I would one day be moving there. One the way back...
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Jozin z Bazin: The Czech Swamp Monster and His Boyfriend
The Czechs and the Slovaks were joined into Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1993 because they have similar histories, cultures, and religions. Their languages are mutually intelligible:English: My penis...
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Jimmy Baio: Scott's Cuter Cousin
Jimmy Baio never hit the stratospheric heights of admiration enjoyed by his cousin Scott, but he had a solid teen idol career, with two claims to fame that Scott doesn't: he starred in a groundbreaking...
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Ken Clark: Bodybuilder on My Sausage Sighting List
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've seen live performances of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacificabout a dozen times, but never the 1958 musical. Until now.Beefcake abounds, of...
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The Gay Connection of Paper Towels. Seriously.
Paper towels are just there. They do the job. They're about as exciting as toast. During the 1970s, two advertisers tried to make paper towels more exciting. Bounty got feisty comedienne Nancy...
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Spring 2003: A Sikh Sausage Sighting at Barney's Gym
I've always been attracted to religious guys. There's something erotic about the juxtaposition of the physical and the spiritual, muscles and Bibles, penises and prayer shawls. I've dated or had other...
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Little Lulu: The Perils of the Gay Child's World
During the 1960s, when Bill, Greg, and I zoomed into Schneider's Drug Store to blow our allowance on comic books, we zeroed in on the Gold Key jungle titles (Tarzan, Korak), Disneys (Donald Duck, Uncle...
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My Top 15 Sausage Sightings
A Sausage Sighting is a glimpse of a guy's beneath-the-belt gifts that doesn't go anywhere else -- no dating, no romance, no hooking up, not even a few minutes in the dark room at the Duplex Bar in...
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Bob Paris: The World's First Out Gay Bodybuilder
I started working for Joe Weider's Muscle and Fitnessin July 1985. Bob Paris was on the cover. We had a lot in common: he was one year older than me, grew up in Columbus, Indiana (near where my...
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The Biggest Bodybuilder on My Sausage Sighting List
When I lived in Upstate, I had a third floor apartment, directly above a crazy bodybuilder named Richard.He wasn't really a bodybuilder, but he had a respectable physique, big biceps and a thick, hairy...
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What's Gay about Sesame Street?
Come and play, everything's a-okFriendly neighbors there, that's where we meet.Sesame Street premiered in 1969, with the goal of giving inner-city kids a "head start" in reading and math skills. We...
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Spring 2008: Carlos and His Two Secrets
For many gay men, the ideal is on the left: thick biceps, shoulders like epaulets, xylophone-abs, minimal or no chest hair, with the icy perfection of a Greek god.For others, he is on the right: soft...
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The Gay Symbolism of Betty Boop
Around 1980 or 1981, the PBS tv series Matinee at the Bijou, which tried to recreate an old-time moviegoing experience, broadcast an old black-and-white cartoon, "Minnie the Moocher" It starred a...
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Sausage Sighting #2: The Korean Muscle Bear Forgets His Underwear
One of the most interesting of my Sausage Sightings was the Asian muscle bear.When I was growing up in Rock Island, you were white or black. There was one Chinese kid in my junior high, and my judo...
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Fall 1970: What is Gym Class For?
When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, I hated gym class.1. Trying to catch a projectile aimed at your head.2. Not catching it, and being jeered by your classmates.3. Or catching it, not knowing what...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: What the Socks Covered
Anyone who performs wearing only a sock over his penis is ok in my book. But I have no idea who he is.Well, now I know he's Anthony Kiedis from the band Red Hot Chili Peppers, but I never heard of him...
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How to Survive Gym Class
During the six years of Junior High and High School, I was in gym class every day -- that's about a thousand days. And I still have no idea what it was for. It was technically called "physical...
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