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Virgil Finlay: Pictures of Naked Astronauts
When I was a kid in the 1960s, we were all revved up on space exploration -- Lost in Space, Star Trek, the juvenile novels of Robert Silverberg and Robert Heinlein. Our games involves outer space....
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Summer 1974: A Hint of Gay Romance on the Radio
When I was a kid in the 1970s, we never heard about gay people, not even in a whisper. We assumed that heterosexual desire was a universal of human experience, that every boy on Earth longed for...
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200,000 Photos of Naked Harvard Men
From 1940 to sometime in the 1970s, all incoming freshmen at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and some of the sister schools, including future presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, were photographed....
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How to Survive the Top 10 Problems of Summer
Summer is here. I know, it's May 1st, technically still spring, but in academe summer begins the moment classes end and the students scatter.It's my least favorite season of the year, hot, boring,...
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Porgy and Bess: Black Beefcake Folk Opera
I never saw "the American folk opera"Porgy and Bess (1935) before my celebrity boyfriend took me in the spring of 1987, though we played some of the songs in orchestra in high school. They're fun,...
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Spring 2001: Skinny Dipping with the Biggest Guy on My Sausage List
The Biggest Guy on my Sausage List was Jermaine, a political science major at Harvard with a spectacular Kovbasa++++. We hit it off when I went to Boston for a job interview in February 2001, but...
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Who is Gay in "Get Fuzzy"?
Stephen Pastis (born 1967) and Darby Conley (born 1970) both belong to the new generation of comic strip artists who create "edgy" material rather than endlessly repeating gags about husbands asleep on...
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Jan-Michael Vincent's First Boyfriends
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968-70), was a Saturday morning anthology series starring an animatronic rock band, with psychedelic blackouts, corny jokes, very bad songs, and cheesy cartoons. But...
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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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David and Ricky Nelson: Teen Idols Show Off on the Flying Trapeze
Sons of bandleader Ozzie Nelson and his wife Harriet, David Nelson (born 1936) and his kid brother Ricky Nelson (born 1940) began their careers playing "themselves" on The Adventures of Ozzie and...
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How To Date Younger Guys (When You're Over 40)
Ever since I turned 40, some fourteen years ago, I have a simple strategy for hooking up with twinks (guys under age 30):1. Go to wherever they are.2. Wait 30 seconds for one to approach and say "Take...
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David Faustino: Deliberate Gay Subtexts
David Faustino is best known for the acerbic Married..with Children(1987-1997), which skewered the Reagan-Bush Era obsession with "family values" by presenting a heterosexual nuclear family in the most...
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Spring 2008: Hit on by a High School Boy
Spring 2008, a warm afternoon in April. I am jogging in Fairborn Community Park near Dayton, Ohio. The jogging path is about 3/4 miles long, through woods, over Beaver Creek, and then past the high...
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The Carpenters: A Brother and Sister Pretend to be in Love
Nazarenes disapproved of rock music, which they defined as basically any music performed by a group with guitars. They disapproved of songs that mentioned alcohol, tobacco, extramarital sex, or...
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15 Teachers I May (Or May Not) Have Hooked Up With
I think one of the reasons that younger guys are always hitting on me is: they have teacher-student fantasies. Kept after school. Spanked for having bad grades. Told they need to do something special...
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The Theme Song of 300 Nights in a Leather Bar
In West Hollywood, gay bars always had a theme song that you would hear over and over, at least once an hour, every time you visited.From 1985 to 1989, I went to Mugi, the Asian bar in Hollywood,...
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Spring 1986: Hooking Up with the Most Conservative Professor on Campus
The University of Southern California in the 1980s was extremely elitist, stuffy, and conservative, and Charles Bertan was the most elitist, stuffy, and conservative of the faculty. A little shorter...
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Papa soltero: Telemundo Teens on the Beach
When cable became common in the 1980s, the number of stations available increased from 3-4 to hundreds, and Boomer kids from small towns in the Midwest got Telemundo, and heard Spanish spoken for the...
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Bugs and Porky meet a Drag King: Warner Brothers Comics
When I was a kid in the 1960s, my favorite comic titles were Harvey (gay-vague Casper the Friendly Ghost), Disney, Archie, and the Gold Key jungle adventures. Comics featuring Warner Brothers cartoon...
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Fall 1974: Kept After School by My Science Teacher
#4 on the list of teachers I may have hooked up with: Mr. Peterson, who taught chemistry and physics at Washington Junior High.He was the most physical teacher in the school. Most teachers hide their...
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