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A Catholic Priest in Love: The Little World of Don Camillo
After I spent the night with Todd in the summer of 1976, after my sophomore year in high school, I became obsessed with all things Catholic. One day I found The Little World of Don Camillo (1950) at...
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Bill and I Turn Music Class Gay
When we were in fifth grade at Denkmann Elementary School, my boyfriend Bill and I hated music class, or as we called it, Muse-Ick!1. The teacher, Miss Randall, was a power-mad martinet: tall,...
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My Boyfriend Bill Grows Up
Remember my first boyfriend, Bill, from Denkmann Elementary School? We were inseparable for three years, walking to and from school, watching Captain Ernie's Cartoon Showboat, reading comic books,...
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Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom
Everyone has heard of 120 Days of Sodom, the much-excoriated novel by the Marquis de Sade, written while he was in prison in 1785, and not published until the 20th century. But most people haven't...
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Adventure Time: Gay-Positive Cartoon Series
The Looney Tunes Show notwithstanding, the Cartoon Network usually gets it right. Adventure Time (2010-) is a sort of reflection of the 1975 sci-fi classic A Boy and his Dog (with Don Johnson):Finn...
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13 Gay College Boys
I spent my undergraduate years at Augustana College, never hearing about gay people in class or from friends or on the street, There were no gay clubs, organizations, newspapers, or books, as far as I...
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Why We Should Keep the T in LGBT, and Add More Letters
Have you heard about the movement to remove the T from LGBT, making us gay, lesbian, and bisexual only?The problem is, we've never been gay, lesbian, and bisexual only. We've always been open to...
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Shaken, Not Stirred: The Gay James Bond
I think I've only seen three James Bond movies all the way through: Diamonds are Forever (1972), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and Casino Royale (2006). But I've seen many, many clips of pivotal scenes,...
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Top Coming Out Stories: Louie the Lilac to "Getting Some Cocks"
During the 1980s and 1990s, every time you met a new person, you exchanged coming out stories.It doesn't happen anymore. No one offers, and if you ask, the under-30 crowd says "What? Oh, I've always...
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Space: 1999
When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I was a sci-fi nut, but Space: 1999 was a little far out, even for me.It appeared sporadically from 1975 to 1979, a few episodes on Monday nights, then off for two...
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Christopher Knight/Peter Brady
Speaking of childhood icons, which of the Brady kids did you like? (The Brady kids were the six children in the blended family of The Brady Bunch (1969-1974). Every Baby Boomer has every episode...
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Rev. Jasper and His Cute Boys
I don't remember where I met Rev. Jasper. Not at MCC, maybe at Evangelicals Together, the gay evangelical network in West Hollywood. He was in his 40s, a little taller than me, and very muscular,...
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The 20 Most Beautiful Men in the World
One day Thomas Hardy saw a person on the bus of remarkable beauty "such as we see sometimes among strangers but never among our friends." Who knows them? He wondered. Who sees them at the breakfast...
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The Penis Park of Norway
The best way to get to Iceland is from Norway or Denmark, so before you head out to the Icelandic Penis Museum, be sure to visit Oslo. See the Viking Ship Museum, have dinner at the gay-friendly Cafe...
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Fall 1987: Heterosexualizing My Childhood Hero
My friends and I at Denkmann Elementary School in the 1960s liked Disney comics -- Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Junior Woodchucks -- but they were hard to find. Schneider's Drug Store didn't stock...
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Andrew Lawrence
Andy Lawrence was born in 1988, when his older brothers, Joey and Matthew (ages 12 and 8, respectively) were already well-established child actors.Growing up with two extremely successful, amazingly...
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Jimmy Bennett: No Ordinary Teen Idol
Jimmy Bennett is only 18 years old, but already a favorite of gay kids, and not just because of his preference for appearing shirtless or semi-nude. He has already produced a substantial body of work...
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Naked Nazarene #15: Danny and His Boyfriend
At the beginning of fourth grade, there was a new boy sitting in the back of the class: short, slim, with brown hair and glasses, wearing a red sweater."This is Danny," Miss Johnson told us. "He just...
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Bert Convy Spends the 1970s Nude
I suppose you're wondering who this Bert Convy was, who took his clothes off on both Love Boat (6 times) and Fantasy Island (4 times)?I'm not sure. He seemed to just appear in the 1970s,. He was over...
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Michael Sarrazin: In the Most Homophobic Movie of All Time?
Handsome "new sensitive man" Michael Sarrazin was a reliable source of beefcake and bulges through the 1970s; unfortunately, you had to look past an endless series of naked ladies to see him.Born in...
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