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Saving the Nazarene Boy
For all the misery and deprivation of growing up in the Nazarene Church, there were some advantages. Three services per week, plus Sunday School, Nazarene Young People's Society, Afterglow, summer...
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Eerie, Indiana: Omri Katz, Paranormal Investigator
Israeli actor Omri Katz played J.R.'s son on Dallas (seen here hugging his gay-vague nanny, played by Christopher Atkins), and a scientist's son zapped into a world of sentient dinosaurs in Adventures...
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Dick York: Bewitching Beefcake
I imagine that most gay male and heterosexual female Baby Boomers have been desperate to see Dick York with his shirt off ever since their diaper days, when they saw him eye-bulge as Darren Stephens,...
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Johnny Weissmuller: A Second Rate Tarzan
I have a confession to make: I never liked Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan. I prefer Buster Crabbe, Herman Brix, or Mike Henry.I know, I know, he invented the Tarzan mythos. There were Tarzans on screen...
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Gay Ghost #8: Joseph and I in the Haunted House
One day in July of my first year in grad school in Bloomington, Joseph called: "You up for a road trip this Saturday?""Toga! Toga!" I cried, hoping for a road trip to the gay bars in Indianapolis."I...
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The Golden Girls in West Hollywood
Since I don't drink, bars don't have much of an attraction. But in the late 1980s, when I lived in West Hollywood, Saturday night meant picking up tangerine chicken to eat while watching Throb,...
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The First Time Yuri and I Shared
Yuri knows the exact moment he came out: at 7:40 pm on December 5th, 1997, the night of the department Christmas party.We tried to date, but we were so used to being friends that it was awkward. So we...
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Pasolini's Arabian Nights: Homophobia and Nudity
Between 1971 and 1974, Italian filmmaker Piers Paolo Pasolini produced and directed three adaptions of famous Medieval stories. The Arabian Nights (Il fiore delle Mille et una Notte) was the last, and...
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16 Celebrity Dates, Hookups, or Sausage Sightings
About half the guys I met in West Hollywood were actors, or wanted to be actors. Most had been in just a few minor roles in movies or tv; you wouldn't know their names or faces.Some had been famous,...
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20 Shared Boyfriends, Friends, and Lovers
"Sharing" means a romantic couple inviting a friend or roommate to share them in the boyfriend in bedroom activity. The custom developed during the first years of the AIDS epidemic, when sex with...
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Dan Byrd: Nearly Gay
For someone who is not yet 30 years old, Dan Byrd has an enormous number of acting credits, including more gay, mistaken-for-gay, and nearly-gay roles than any actor in Hollywood. Born in 1985, the...
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Fall 1987: My Boyfriend Gets a Girl Friend
Heinz flexes and cooks weinersIn West Hollywood in the 1980s, the boundary between friend and lover was fluid. A friend might invite you into his bed; a lover might cruise someone else. You might have...
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Why Everyone in West Hollywood Watched "Dynasty"
After spending so many years looking for "a good place," when I moved to West Hollywood in 1985, I didn't want any contamination from the straight world. I read Frontiers and The Advocate instead of...
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Rocket to the Moon: Adventure Boys in Love
Gay boys of earlier generations could find an escape from the incessant interrogation of "What girl do you like" in fiction -- the fast-paced adventure series starring teenage boys.Unlike the Hardy...
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Gay Ghost #18: My Dad's Old Navy Buddy or His Grandson?
Last fall, around Halloween, I met a guy named Phil: in his 20s or 30s, round face, dark eyebrows, nice smile, and very muscular, with well developed pecs and abs.But the most striking thing about him...
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Christopher George: Heterosexual Icon with a Gay Connection
When Steve Bond posed nude in Playgirl in October 1975, he was 21 years old and unknown, except for one role as a child seven years before. When Christopher George posed in June 1974, he was 43 years...
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Gershom and the Gentile
One Friday night after Shabbat services at Beth Chaim Chadashim, the gay synagogue, he approached me at the refreshment table. "Boomer, vi geyt es du?" he said. "Ken ikh fregn ir epes?"Sometimes...
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Gay Ghost #15: The Football Player Who Got Unstuck in Time
You often hear stories about people who get unstuck in time.Two British ladies touring Versailles slip into the era of Louis XIV.A man makes a wrong turn in a department store and finds himself in an...
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Paul Newman and Rocky Graziano: Somebody Down Here Likes Me
Paul Newman and James Dean met in 1952, when they were studying at the famous Actors Studio in New York. They began a passionate affair. But there were problems from the start: Paul didn't like...
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Russell Johnson: The Professor and His Gay Son
Everyone in West Hollywood knew Russell Johnson, who played the Professor on Gilligan's Island. I met him once, and saw him a few times at events. He was a gay ally, primarily due to his son...
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