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Ricky with a Y
Whenever I go on Grindr, I get these pickup lines or variants a dozen times an hour:1. "Nice pic" (everybody gets that)2. I love older guys"3. "I've been a naughty boy, Daddy. "I hate being called...
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The Kid from "A Christmas Story"
Even though 30 years have passed, Peter Billingsley is still know as the kid from A Christmas Story (1983). You know -- the bespectacled 9-year old whose only Christmas wish is "a Red Ryder BB gun...
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Gay Neighbors in Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
The toddler tv show Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (1966-2001) arrived in Rock Island when we got PBS in 1971 or 1972. I was too old for it, but my sister Tammy watched, and sometimes I caught a glimpse...
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My Date with Santa Claus
It was Christmastime, one of the years when I couldn't make it back to the Midwest, so I was even more depressed than usual. To cheer me up, my friend David dragged me to the Bear Party (for husky...
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The First Bad Kid: Barry Gordon
In 1954, the six-year old Barry Gordon made the scene with a hit single, "I'm Getting Nuttin' for Christmas (because I've been nuttin' but bad)":I broke my bat on Johnny's head;I hid a frog in sister's...
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Smallest Guys on My Sausage List
The Smallest Guys on My Sausage ListAbout 25% of the men in the U.S. are small, with 5" or less, but you rarely see them.They hide behind a towel at the gym.They don't go to bath houses or M4M Parties,...
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Drake and Josh and Craig and Eric
Drake and Josh (2004-2007) was a Nickelodeon teencom about two high school stepbrothers.The scheming underachiever, Drake (Drake Bell).And the shy intellectual, Josh (Josh Peck). He only started...
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10 Gay Things You Didn't Know about "White Christmas"
1. White Christmas is not about Christmas. It's a backstage musical that just happens to end at Christmastime. Backstage movies were well-known for gay subtexts.2. The songs are by Irving Berlin, who...
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16 Buckeye Bratwursts, Bondage Boys, and Sausage Sightings
In 2005 after 20 years in gay neighborhoods, I moved to Fairborn, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. The Straight World took a LOT of getting used to. Everyone was closeted, so there wasn't a lot of dating...
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The Naked Ape: Johnny Crawford's First Nude Scene
Other than Burt Reynolds posing on a bear skin rug for Cosmo, this is probably the most famous nude photo ever: a frontal of Johnny Crawford, a Boomer icon for his teen idol songs and his role as the...
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Bobby and Johnny Crawford
Many Boomer kids aren't aware that Johnny Crawford, the 1950s teen idol, star of The Mickey Mouse Cluband The Rifleman, the bodybuilder with full nude scenes in The Naked Ape, had a older and even more...
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The Huber Heights Horror: The Worst Date in West Hollywood History
I still cringe just thinking about it.Everybody was closeted in Dayton, so you spent a lot of time in online chatrooms, cruising for hookups, arrangements, friends with benefits, bondage boys, and...
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Jason Gedrick
Born in 1965, Jason Gedrick broke into show business with The Heavenly Kid (1985), a comedy in which the nerd (Jason) wins The Girl with a little help from a dead teenager from the 1950s (Lewis Smith)....
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Get Your Beefcake on Route 66
Speaking of buddy-bonding tv, Route 66 (1960-64) was before my time and never rerun, so I've only seen a few clips on youtube, but older Boomers tell me that it was one of the gay-friendly lights of...
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My Platonic Friends and Their Boy Toy
In West Hollywood, New York, and Florida, sharing was commonplace. You rarely if ever made friends without seeing the inside of his bedroom.But when I moved to the Plains, I encountered guys who...
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Lesbian Subtexts in the Harvey Girls: Little Audrey, Little Lotta, and Little...
When I was a kid in the 1960s, I loved Harvey supernatural comics: Casper the Friendly Ghost, with his brave nonconformity to ghost society; Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, who had a homoromantic back...
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The Culkin Brothers: Always Mistaken for Gay
Quick -- which of the Culkin brothers is this?Hard to tell, isn't it?The Culkin Dynasty began with Home Alone (1990), a Christmas movie about a young boy (10-year old Macaulay Culkin) accidentally left...
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16 Florida Beach Boys
16 Florida Beach BoysWilton Manors, Florida was a lot like West Hollywood.1. A small, constrained, concentrated gay neighborhood where you could walk anywhere.2. Surrounded by homophobia3. Ungodly...
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The Surprising Gay Origin of Pogo's "Deck Us All"
Every Christmas from 1949 to 1975, and then again in the 1980s and 1990s, the comic strip Pogo had the hayseed denizens of Okefenokee Swamp singing a mangled version of "Deck the Halls":Deck us all...
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Florida Beach Boy #2: Jack the Grocery Store Clerk
When I was living in Florida, I got cruised by a guy in the Publix Supermarket. He said he was a friend of my ex, Wade the Beach Boy. So naturally I called Wade to "get the dirt."Wade said that he...
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