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The 10-Foot Penis of Mongolia
Mongolia is a little remote for most Westerners, 20 hours by air from New York, 17 hours from London, but it might be worth the effort for the Naadam, the Festival of Manly Arts, held throughout the...
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Wild Things: The Gay Art of Maurice Sendak
Adults like to think of childhood as a blissful Eden, a period of endless joy, unblemished by anxieties over money or sex or death. But they're wrong. Childhood is terrifying and painful, crowded...
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The Soloflex Guy
In 1984, ads for Soloflex home gym equipment with this model began to appear in magazines, and an infomercial began to play nonstop on tv, and gay male teenagers all over the world froze in their...
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20 Bear and Daddy Boyfriends
Guys who are over 40 (called Bears or Daddies, depending on their shape) have a lot to offer. They are comfortable in the gay community, not newly out and scared. They have cars, swimming pools,...
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12 Unexpected Disney Channel Teen Hunks
The Disney Channel is very good about providing beefcake for its teen and tween audience (girls, no doubt, since they have frequently expressed disbelief that gay juveniles exist). Jocks and male...
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Love Beat: Tony DeFranco
Listen to my heart beat -- it's a love beatAnd when we meet, it's a good vibrationWhatever that means, it brings back a rush of memories of the fall of 1973: pep rallies at Washington Junior High;...
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The Ultimate 12 Public Penises of Russia
When I was a kid, they advertised "The Ultimate Adventure": the Trans-Siberian Railway. Even going to Russia was adventurous, and the 5,772 mile network of railroads connecting Moscow to Vladivostok...
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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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Making Your Own Bulgeworthy Halloween Costume
In gay neighborhoods, Halloween is all about the beefcake. Your costume should be clever and creative, but it should also display your biceps or bulge to good advantage: the stressful...
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20 Nazarene Boys
I spent the first 20 or so years of my life in the Church of the Nazarene, a hardcore fundamentalist church that was against everything, from rock music to Roman Catholics to wearing short pants. But...
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Movin' on Up: The Jeffersons
A spin-off of All in the Family, The Jeffersons set into the vacuum caused by the demise of Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers in January 1975.It followed a nouveau-riche African-American couple,...
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10 Forgotten Musclemen of Movie Serials
Between 1936 and 1955, you didn't just go to a movie; you went to a whole evening's entertainment, with cartoons, newsreels, two features, and a serial -- a cliffhanging, 12-15 chapter adventure,...
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Top 7 Halloween Movies for Gay Kids
When I was a kid, Halloween was my favorite holiday -- no gifts of football equipment, no hanging out with boring relatives, no Judy Garland singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." Instead,...
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Hansel and Gretel Grow Up and Get Boyfriends
Remember Hansel and Gretel, the Grimm fairy tale about a father who tries to kill his children by abandoning them in the woods, whereupon they stumble upon a candy house, and a witch who wants to eat...
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Manneken Pis, the Urinating Boy of Brussels
Fred, the ministerial student who I dated in college (and moved to Omaha with), had a wine decanter topped by an image of a naked boy. The wine would come out through his penis, as if he was urinating....
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Teen Angels
A year before they caused a counterculture-establishment standoff with their Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-70), comic duo Tommy and Dick Smothers starred in an "I've got a secret" sitcom, The...
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The Naked Pumpkin Runs
Naked festivals are held in many cities around the world, but in most parts of the United States, public nudity is a criminal offense. Back during the freewheeling 1970s, it was merely a violation, or...
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Childhood Boyfriend #8: Kissing a Boy Vampire
I'm pretty sure that I kissed the boy next door when we got married in the first grade, but it was a purely ritualistic kiss, necessary to seal our bond. My first unscripted kiss was in the fall of...
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18 Gay Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, Aliens, and Assorted Undead Bogies
I love the paranormal. Alien abductions, mysterious disappearances, time slips, vampires, ghosts. Those few paranormal experiences I've had in real life can usually be explained as misinterpretations...
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Uncle Tom Award #2: So You Think You Can Dance
So You Think You Can Dance (2005-) is a dance-competition series that is too heterosexist for words: men and women paired together to replicate the myth of universal heterosexual desire and the erasure...
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