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Hookup with the Water Delivery Guy
In February 2009, around Valentine's Day, Chad the Satyr's housemate and I broke up, and I was ready to start dating and hooking up again. I was getting tired of the Gang of Twelve, the guys in Upstate...
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Cruising Waiters in West Hollywood, Florida, and New York
Ok, I've told you about 114 boyfriends, dates, hookups, and sharing experiences on four continents over a period of 36 years. I have a few more good dating/hookup stories, but it's about time to...
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12 Hookups and Dates that Sound Like the Plots of Porn Movies
Every day we see, hear, and talk to friends, neighbors, coworkers, students, strangers -- and dozens of service people, the pharmacist, the plumber, the carpenter, the bus driver, the pizza delivery...
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Why I Read "Pearls before Swine," Homophobia and All
As social media makes everyone's life a fishbowl, an ongoing issue becomes: should I read this book or comic strip or see this movie after the author or director has made a homophobic comment?There are...
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Top 12 Public Penises of Finland
That's right, Finland, the conservative outsider of Scandinavia, somewhat isolated from the usual tourist circuit (but you can fly from London in about 3 hours), cold and cloudy, with a...
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Porn Movie Hookup #1: Waiter at a Mexican Restaurant
One night in 1993, Lee and I went to a movie at the Cinerama Dome, the giant "shower cap" on Sunset, and on the way home, about 8 blocks from the border of West Hollywood, we saw a Mexican restaurant...
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Jimmy Olsen on TV
In an April 1940 episode of the radio Adventures of Superman, the Man of Steel helped a young boy named Jimmy Olsen protect his mother's shop from racketeers. Sensing audience identification, the...
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Our Date with the Teenage Beach Boy
In West Hollywood in the 1980s and 1990s, hooking up was unheard of. You dated -- you met someone, then planned a full evening of social activities five or so nights later. Even when you were...
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Watching the Muppet Show
I didn't watch the premiere of The Muppets last night. I was worried that it would remind me too much of my college days, when I watched the original Muppet Show. Or that it wouldn't.In college I...
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Tarzan's Boy: Johnny Sheffield
When MGM executives wanted to expand the audience of their extremely successful Tarzan series by giving the Ape Man and his Mate (Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan) a child, they faced a quandary:...
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The Beefcake is Back: Axl in Underwear on "The Middle"
Beefcake alert -- I just saw the season premiere of The Middle. The episode itself wasn't great -- about Sue going off to college. But Axl (Charlie McDermott) spent the entire first two acts in his...
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Yuri and the Bodybuilder Who Never Got Naked
At every gym, there are two kinds of guys in the locker room. Displayers: guys who strip and then nonchalantly stop to chat, who wear their towel on their shoulders as they head for the showers, their...
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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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The Marine Who Wanted to Be with 10 Guys at Once
One of the perils of hosting M4M Parties is the constant stream of invitation requests from guys who say "I want to be with 10 guys, Mortadella or bigger. Will that happen at the party?"If I'm in a...
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The Cowboy of Sunset Boulevard
Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, fall 1988. A small town of tree-lined streets. Small shops, restaurants, and bars where gay men and lesbians gathered in search of freedom.The Sunset Strip,...
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The Gay Rat Pack
Between 1960 and 1965, when all-American beefcake was giving way to suave, sophisticated, and cool, The Rat Pack ruled Las Vegas. They were five actors and singers, performing regularly at casinos...
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Sharing Derek's Date with the Teenage Cowboy
When Alan moved to Thailand in the fall of 1987, I moved in with a fitness model-turned-realtor named Derek, a tall, muscular, hairy guy in his 40s, and his lover Chazz, a slim, androgynous twink.They...
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The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet
When I first moved to L.A. in 1985, I met 40-year old David Cameron, a lawyer involved with historic preservation and gay politics -- and a connection to my earliest childhood.When he was nine years...
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Why You Shouldn't Boycott "Stonewall"
Every LGBT person knows, or should know, that on the night of June 28th, 1969, patrons of a Greenwich Village dive bar called the Stonewall Inn fought back against police harassment, starting a...
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The 10 Ultimate Hunks of the Ultimate Spider-Man
I was never a big superhero fan to begin with, and Spider-Man was at the bottom of my list. He's got a crush on a girl, his name has a stupid hyphen, and the 1970s tv series had an awful theme song:Is...
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