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June 2007: Spending the Night (and the Day) with the Emo Boy
This is the continuation of the story of my visit to Yuri and Michael in London in 2007. You remember that I hooked up with a South Asian emo boy named Nehal at an Indie bar.Saturday nightTurns out...
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Michael J. Pollard, Lost Boy
When I was a kid in the 1960s, I thought Michael J. Pollard was the cutest guy around. He was short, husky, and blond (I thought), with an impish smile. And he always played lost boys.I first saw him...
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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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He'll Eat Most Anything: Gay Symbolism in Hot Dog Ads of the 1960s
When I was a kid in the 1960s, we couldn't ignore the resemblance between the hot dog and the penis. We used the word "wiener" for both. Consumption of the hot dog became a metaphor for sex, with the...
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I Go Home with the Amazing Invisible Boy
One Sunday afternoon, Kevin the Vampire and I were at the beer bust at the San Francisco Eagle, when a twink caught my eye . He was wearing a white t-shirt with a weird dark stain at the belly, jeans...
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Chuck & Buck: The Most Homophobic Movie since Cruising
Some movies you go into expecting homophobia -- any comedy about young adult slackers, anything directed by Ron Howard, anything starring Will Smith. But sometimes the director or actors are gay, or...
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Summer Beefcake at the Renaissance Faire
In 1963, Los Angeles teacher Phyllis Patterson and her husband hosted a week-long "Renaissance Pleasure Faire" in Irwindale, California, modeled after the "Living History" exhibits then popular in...
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Gay Symbolism in the Tom Swift Books
Adults who knew that I liked boys' adventure stories and science fiction sometimes gave me books in the Tom Swift series. After all, they starred a boy scientist who came up with weird inventions, and...
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My Friend with Benefits Learns About Gay Men
In the fall of 2005, I moved to Fairborn, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton, to take a job at Wright State University. After 20 years in gay neighborhoods, it was a shock. Dayton had only a tiny gay presence:...
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Codpieces: the Renaissance Bulge
Men often try to draw attention to the size of their sex organs. Athletic supporters -- ostensibly to keep them from flopping around, but also serving the function of creating an eye-catching bulge....
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Cruising in the Cub Scouts
I was never a Boy Scout, but I was a Cub Scout -- for about five minutes in the winter of fourth grade.They promoted it heavily in school, with film strips and guest speakers, and a giant assembly...
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Mr. Muscle Doctor Big Basket, Jeff Stryker Italian Stallion
One night at Mugi a very large Asian drag queen in a flowered chemise and blond hair approached me.Before I had a chance to give Attitude, she grabbed my hand. "I am Auntie Bopha. From Kampuchea....
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The Homophobia of "Rocky and Bullwinkle"
Rocky and Bullwinkle (1959-64, and rehashed into many different series during the 1960s) is often praised as genius, a classic of animation. Amazon promises: "the wittiest, most inspired, and...
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The Hitchhiker
Another common porn scenario is picking up a hot hitchhiker, who happens to be gay, gifted beneath the belt, and interested in you.I've only done it once. In West Hollywood you saw guys hitchhiking all...
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Alice's Queer Wonderland
I first encountered Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) when I was 8 or 9, in a volume of the Junior Classics called Stories that Never Grow Old (along with such oddities as The King of the Golden...
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The Top 10 Public Penises of Estonia
Summertime in Estonia means guys taking their shirts off, to work wrestle, jump over bonfires, hang out on the beach, or cruise. If you're there at another time of the year, don't worry -- there's lots...
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The Trauma, Terror, and Beefcake of Junior High Shop Class
I read somewhere that the number of shop classes in elementary and high schools has dropped 75% during the last 20 years.This is a cause for celebration. Shop class was the biggest trauma of junior...
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The Twink Sons of Mr. Blowfish
The class I hated the most in high school was Public Speaking. I didn't mind the speaking -- it was rather fun having an audience. But the teacher, Mr. Blowfish!Actually Mr. Lundquist, he was a...
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Pee-Wee's Playhouse
When I was living in West Hollywood in the 1980s, we watched Mystery Science Theater 3000every Saturday morning, but we stayed away from children's tv. It was crowded with insipid child versions of...
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Summertime Beefcake at the County Fair
If you wanted to insult a Nazarene, you accused them of being "worldly," engaging in behavior that wasn't sinful, but veered a little too close to the behaviors of "the wicked old world."For example,...
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