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Spring 1999: Sharing the Muscle Bear
In the spring of 1999, when I was dating Joe the Regular Guy, we took the train up the Hudson Valley to Rhinebeck to visit his ex boyfriend Travis, the first guy he ever dated, back when he was a...
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My Date with Liam and His Brother
Liam started hanging out in the Long Island chatroom in the fall of 1998. I didn't need clues: he told me right off that he was in high school.I immediately crossed him off the list of potential...
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Dennis the Menace
Newspaper comics aren't for kids. They never have been. We couldn't understand Blondie and Dagwood or Hi and Lois; if the husbands and wives hated each other so much, why didn't they just leave?...
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Daniel Boone: a Big Man
Daniel Boone was a man --He was a big man!Sounds good so far. When I was seven or eight years old, I was all for watching tv shows about a man, especially a big man. Especially a big man who was a...
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Dennis Cole
Most heterosexuals go about their daily lives as if they are alone in the universe. If asked, they will say "Sure, some men are gay, which means they're into men, not women," but in the next moment,...
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South Pacific: A High School Music
I don't care much for musicals, but I've had a soft spot for South Pacific (1949), the Rogers and Hammerstein musical adaption of James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific (1948), ever since I saw...
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Beefcake Dads of 1950s Sitcoms
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, there was a fad of nuclear family sitcoms, set in small town Mayfields, with a pipe-smoking Dad, a Mom who did housework in high heels, groovy teenagers, and...
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Why My Nickname is Boomer, Reasons #1 and #2
You've probably noticed that I started using the nickname Boomer for all of my autobiographical posts.It has nothing to do with Linwood Boomer, creator of Malcolm in the Middle, the dog in the 1970s...
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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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Yuri and the Muscle Daddies
I used to go to Europe at least once a year, sometimes twice. But the vagaries of teaching, conferences, and job interviews, plus the extreme annoyance of flying today, have dampened my ardor a bit,...
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Why There's a Picture of Me and a Girl in My Parents' Bedroom
Younger gay guys are often shocked to discover that I used to date girls. "Are you bisexual?" they ask. "Were you trying to 'turn' straight?" Was it a screen, so no one would find out?"...
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10 Gay Facts about "Psycho"
If you haven't seen Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), get it now. It's a suspense classic, a precursor of the psycho-slasher genre, and over-loaded with gay texts and subtexts. (Spoilers below.)1.It...
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My Top 10 Turn-Offs
You already know the characteristics that I find attractive:1. Religious. Minister, priest, rabbi, imam, Buddhist monk, seminary student, Mormon missionary...2. Short. Definitely under 5'8". Under...
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Brandon DeWilde
Speaking of Westerns, Brandon De Wilde became famous as the ten-year old kid who shouts "Come back, Shane!" in the iconic scene from Shane (1953), but he was a busy child star before that. And he...
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Troy and the Satyr's Sinister Scheme
Me and sports don't get along. My eyes glaze over during discussions of rbis and forward passes. If I am forced to go to a sports match, I try to focus on the biceps and bulges. I can barely tolerate...
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Spring 2009: The Stonewall Veteran and the Bodybuilder in the Park
When I moved to Upstate New York in the fall of 2008, my social calendar was soon crowded with invitations from members of the Gang of Twelve, guys who had known each other for years, and who shared...
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Sage Northcutt
I'm sure you are wondering about Sage Northcutt, who played the martial arts-expert bud of the androgynous Moises Arias on his 2009-2010 reality series Moises Rules.He just graduated from high school...
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Krazy Kat: The First Gay Comic Character
From 1913 to 1944, newspaper readers could read a sparely drawn comic strip, an anomaly in the era of lush art deco masterpieces likeLittle Nemo, in which a small, squiggly cat named Krazy professes...
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Visiting Larry the Fetishist in New Mexico
You remember Larry, the "lost soul" in Nashville with the crazy, obsessive lifestyle, who finally got involved in the gay leather community?After I left Nashville, we called and emailed each other...
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Tony Dow/Wally Cleaver
I was born too late to catch the first generation of Boomer sitcoms -- Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, Donna Reed, Leave It to Beaver -- and the teen idols they created -- Ricky Nelson, Billy...
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