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Richie Brose: 1980s Beefcake Star Opens a Restaurant
This is the physique of a pizza chef.Richard Brose may not be a household name today, but he was a regular guest star on 1980s tv. Whenever a casting agent needed a man-mountain, especially for a...
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Garcia Lorca: The Homophobic Gay Poet and his Boyfriend
When I was studying Spanish literature at Augustana College, I never, in a million years, would have guessed that Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was gay (or for that matter his boyfriend, surrealist...
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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959-63) was about a teenager (Dwayne Hickman of Love That Bob) so immensely girl-crazy that in the first season he announced it in every episode: "I'm Dobie Gillis, and...
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Yuri Shares the Twink and the South Asian Bear
When we were living in New York, Yuri and I sometimes took the train to Old Westbury, where Ravi and his partner Claude held monthly "bear parties."Ravi was in his 40s, South Asian, with a very hairy...
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The Nutcracker: Men in Tights
When I was a kid, our church forbade movies, theater, carnivals, circuses -- basically anything that had a plot. And my working-class parents disapproved of anything "long hair." So ballet and opera...
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Pufnstuf
H.R. Pufnstuf (1969-70) was by far the most popular of the Krofft Saturday morning tv shows about boys trapped far from home (others included Lidsville and Land of the Lost). Today I can’t watch H. R....
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The Marx Brothers
I first saw the Marx Brothers at a Film Festival during the Summer of 1978 (along with Animal House, Grease, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show: it was a memorable summer). The anarchic comedians came...
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My Date with Michael J. Fox
This is the story of my date with Michael J. Fox, actor, director, advocate for Parkinson's Disease, and all around nice guy.Wednesday, July 3rd, 1985: I arrive in Los Angeles and stay with my old...
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The Top Ten Nature Show Hunks
When I was little, the only nature program we had was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1963-1985), with a grandfatherly host, Marlin Perkins, who didn't actually go into the field; he just narrated, and...
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American Dad: Horrifying, but not Homophobic
For as long as anyone can remember, Sunday night on Fox has meant animated sitcoms about nuclear families:1. A fat, dopey Dad.2. A slim, smarter Mom3-4. Two kids, a dopey son and a smart but plain...
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Inner City Prettyboy: What's Happening!!
In 1971, there were no network television programs with all-African American casts. In 1976, there were six, including such hits as Good Times, Sanford and Son, and The Jeffersons. But only What's...
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Are the Pantos Gay?
Before researching my post onFather, Dear Father, I had never heard of a pantomime or panto, in spite of my years of study of English literature and hours of watching British tv. Apparently everyone...
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10 Reasons Why Thanksgiving is the Gayest Holiday
If you're not from the U.S. you might not be familiar with Thanksgiving, a holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November (it's also celebrated on different dates in Canada, Liberia, and...
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Gay Comics of the 1980s
When I moved to West Hollywood in 1985, I was astonished. There were no gay characters in any comic book or comic strip I had ever seen before, even in gay magazines, except for an occasional Donelan...
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Spring 1998: Was It a Screen?
Speaking of clueless straight guys, in the fall of 1997, when I was in grad school at Long Island University, the eight grad students in my "cohort" all shared an office. We hung out there and...
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15 Reasons to Skip Christmas
I'm not a big fan of Christmas. I dread seeing the first Christmas ads of the year, in August or September. The decorations going up in stores in October. And the day after Thanksgiving, when the...
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Howard Cruse: The World's Most Depressing Gay Comic Artist
I just bought From Headrack to Claude, a compendium of the work of Howard Cruse, with author commentary.He's one of the most famous gay cartoonists of all time, so I thought I should give his work...
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The African with the Tattooed Penis
When Viju started taking me to the bars, when we were in grad school in Bloomington in 1983, AIDS was practically unknown, there was little fear of being robbed or murdered, and the West Hollywood rule...
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Danny Nucci: Some of My Best Friends
During the early 2000s, the success of Will and Grace prompted producers to flood the market with clones like Some of My Best Friends (2001), about an upper-class Anglo gay guy (Jason Bateman) living...
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Gay Fan Art 3: Beast Boy in love with Robin, Aqualad, Cyborg...
I have never seen Teen Titans (2003-2006, 2012-), the cartoon series based on the DC comic books, so I don't know much about the shapeshifting Beast Boy. But according to Wikipedia, he is portrayed as...
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