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The Gay Men of Roy Crane's Adventure Comics
When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, a cute teenage boy rode by on his bicycle every morning about 6:00 am and threw a tightly-bound copy of the Rock Island Argus onto our porch. It had to...
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10 Guys Who Got Away
I am rarely rejected for dates or hookups; so rarely, in fact, that when it happens, I'm shocked. I want to ask "Didn't you understand me?"But rejections are useful. You can analyze them, identify...
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77 Signs that You're a Fairy
In my junior high, the worst possible fate was to be a "fairy." Not a boy who was interested in boys -- we didn't have the slightest inkling that same-sex desire existed, anywhere in the world. A boy...
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Cartoon Muscle: Not Just Superheroes in Spandex
When I was a kid, you could occasionally see shirtless boys or men in Saturday morning cartoons, but it was rare, primarily on jungle or prehistoric adventure series like The Herculoids. Mostly you...
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More 1970s Saturday Morning Beefcake
During the late 1970s, I watched several live-action Saturday morning tv programs, like Space Academy and The Kids from C.A.P.E.R., but the 70s Live Action Kid Vid website gives some details about many...
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Philip McKeon after Alice
Philip McKeon was one of the biggest teen stars of the 1970s, mostly for his role as Tommy Hyatt, son of single mom Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin) on Alice(1976-85), and also because he was the brother of...
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Land of the Lost
Saturday morning tv in the 1960s and 1970s was full of teenage boys trapped far from home. From 1974 to 1977, that boy was a hot teenager named Will (Wesley Eure), who was on a "routine expedition"...
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Spring 1982: 36 Hours of Cruising at Lambert International Airport
I don't hook up in public, period. No parks, no nature preserves, no secluded hotel restrooms, no booths at the Pleasure Palace. No way, no how.But back in college in the Midwest in the 1980s, I...
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Peter Panama: The First Gay Character on TV
Everybody knows that the first regular gay character on tv was Peter Panama (Vincent Schiavelli) on The Corner Bar (1972-73). . But how many people have actually seen it?It starred Gabriel Dell (right,...
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A Boy Named Angel Helps Me Figure It Out
When I was in grade school, I had a regular boyfriend, but I liked lots of other boys: Craig, who sat next to me in class; Joel, who also liked looking at boys with muscles; Robbie, a hookup at the...
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The Male Ladybug and His Biceps
17 episodes of The Bugaloos aired during the 1970-71 season, and were rerun in 1971-72. That's a little short, even for a Sid and Marty Krofft live action-animatronic series: Sigmund and the Sea...
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The Hookup at the Sleepover
When I was a kid, the Baby Boom was in full swing, so we rarely did anything alone. I invited a friend for dinner, or got invited to dinner, at least once a week. I invited a friend to stay over...
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The Venture Brothers
I usually avoid the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. The animation is usually miserable, the concepts stupid -- talking fast food wrappers? -- and the homophobia intense.The Venture...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "Orange is the New Black"
I've been watching Orange is the New Black, the Netflix series based on the memoirs of Piper Kerman, a spoiled rich girl whose thirst for adventure led her to drug-running, and a 15-month sentence in...
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20 Celebrities I May (or May Not) Have Dated
When I was living in West Hollywood, my mother called every Saturday morning and asked "How many movie stars have you met this week?" Like most people who have never been to Los Angeles, she thought...
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The Boys of Flipper
Flipper (1964-67), was like Lassie or Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, except set n the Florida Everglades, with a dolphin instead of a collie or a kangaroo, and no women in sight. It seemed designed...
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Smalltown Boy: Subtext Songs of the 1980s
After the demise of the drag-queen ABBA and the faux-gay Village People, I started listening to popular music more aggressively, looking for "real" gay-friendly songs. Or at least songs with subtexts....
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10 Things They Don't Want You to Know About Turning 40 (or 50, or 60)
I often hear complaints that "Gay culture is too youth oriented! Older guys are shunned!"One of my dissertation respondents said "I hate being gay! It's ok now, but what about when I'm 50? I don't...
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The Jacoby Boys
There were three Jacoby boys in Hollywood during the Boomer generation, half-brothers (plus their two sisters). 1. Scott (born in 1956) was the serious actor, specializing in weird, quirky movies,...
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10 Snappy Comebacks to Your Crazy Fundamentalist Relatives
Summer is coming, which means you will probably be dragged out of the safe haven of your home and family, shoved onto an airplane, and forced to spend ten days "back home" in the Straight World.Where,...
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