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Fall 1966: What's Funny about Kissing a Cute Boy?
When I was little, I was always being forced to hug and kiss ladies against my will, just because my parents knew them. For an adult, that would be sexual harassment, but for a kid, it was...
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Jimmy Cavaretta: 1970s Trapeze Artist and Playgirl Model
Donny and Marie Osmond weren't the only gay-vague brother-sister act of the 1970s. They had to contend with Jimmy and Terry Cavaretta.Born in 1949, Jimmy Cavaretta began training in the circus arts...
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Not the Marrying Kind: Gay Burns and Allen
Television was introduced in 1949, just in time for the formative years of the first Boomers (the generation officially started in 1945). Radio performers scrambled to make the transition. Some made...
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My Hookup with an Eskimo
Yuri bringing a guy home for me was not unprecedented. In West Hollywood in the 1990s, Lee and I used to cruise separately. He went to the Faultline, and I went to Mugi. We arranged to meet up at...
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The Hookup of the Magi
When the three guys sharing a house are all actively dating and hooking up, you never know who is going to be at the breakfast table in the morning, or wandering around at 2:00 am looking for the...
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Every Man's Fantasy
Entertainment journalists like to pretend that no gay people exist, usually with the rhetoric of "everybody's fantasy," that this or that male actor draws the interest of every woman in the world, or...
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Fall 1994: Marshall the Virgin
When I was living in West Hollywood in the 1990s, I used to work out at the Hollywood Spa with a ex-soldier named Marshall -- mid-twenties, shorter than me, very pale, with a military haircut and a...
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Chuck Connors
Chuck Connors may be forever remembered as the taciturn, loving, and endlessly shirtless Lucas McCain, Johnny Crawford's dad on The Rifleman, but he had a long career before and after as a screen...
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My Terrible Year in Philadelphia
In 2005, when I moved into the straight world after twenty years in gay neighborhoods, I swore that I would soon be back home again. But gay neighborhoods tend to be in the heart of fabulous big cities...
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Alix and Enak: Jonny and Hadji in Ancient Rome
If the gay kids of Britain had it good, then France must have been a Paradise of beefcake and bonding: bandes-dessinee (hard-bound comic books) overbrimmed with same-sex couples, including Tintin and...
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Matthew Laborteaux
Born in 1966, Matthew Laborteaux starred in several movies and tv series, including The Red Hand Gang, but he first drew the interest of gay boys and their straight female friends around 1980, when his...
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"He Was Looking at Me!": Assaulted by a Naked Man at the Gym
I always try to join a gay gym, so I don't have to deal with heteronormative comments and lady-gawking, and so no one minds if I do a little gawking of my own.During my terrible year in Philadelphia, I...
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The Kensington Runestone
Every summer from kindergarten to college (when I decided to stay home), my parents dragged me on a week's camping trip somewhere up north, to Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, or Canada. Other than the...
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The Top 12 Public Penises of Minnesota
Minnesota is only about a five hour drive from Rock Island, where I grew up, but it's a whole different world.1. Everybody walks around in t-shirts and shorts, even when it's cold outside.2. Prime time...
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Brock Ciarlelli: The Uncle Tom of "The Middle"
As a long time fan of the dysfunctional-family sitcom The Middle (2009), I have complained several times about the incessant heterosexism: boys like girls, girls like boys, period, end of story.Charlie...
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The Satyr and his Boy Toy
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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Joe Penny: A Lifetime of Gay Rumors
Born in 1956, Joe Penny got his start playing rednecks, cops, Scott Jacoby's buddy in a high school sports drama, and a werewolf's buddy in a horror movie. But it was his role as a closeted gay cop on...
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Mohammed Gives Me a Christmas Present
December 18th, 1987My second year in West Hollywood. I was planning to fly home for Christmas the next day, but I woke up sick: feverish, dizzy, headache, sore throat."Why do I always gt sick at...
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The Angelheaded Hipster: Craig Hundley
If you saw the Star Trek episode "And the Children Shall Lead" (1967), in which an alien "angel" brainwashes a group of children into taking control of the Enterprise, you remember Craig Hundley....
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1970s Saturday Morning Beefcake
During the late 1970s, there was a fad for live-action adventure on Saturday morning tv. Mostly low-budget, sometimes stage-bound, but with lots of cute boys and men for the preteen set. Occasional...
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