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Why Is Bomba the Jungle Boy Always Tied Up?
Johnny Sheffield (1931-2010) spent the first 24 years of his life being filmed in a loincloth cut to the thigh, first as "Boy," son of Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller in 8 movies (1939-1947), and then as the...
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12 Sausage Fondlings, Gropes, and Grabs
I always say that I had 1 1/2 sexual experiences before that December afternoon a couple of weeks after my 18th birthday, when I went home with Andy the Little Person Postal Worker. But I've been...
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The 9 Worst TV Series Finales in History
If you watch every episode of a 100-episode sitcom, you've spend 2300 minutes, not including reruns. That's the equivalent of 19 feature-length movies or 11 novels (at the average adult reading...
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The Bear with the Sweeney Todd Fetish
November 1987, SilverlakeI met Will at Sunset Junction, the gay street fair held every October in Silverlake, L.A.'s second gay neighborhood.He was about five years older than me, short, compact, with...
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Rudeness, Insensitivity, and Downright Craziness: 20 Things People Do That...
As you get older, you're supposed to get crankier, with petty annoyances building up over the years. But I've been annoyed by these examples of rudeness, insensitivity, or craziness my whole life.On...
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The Hookup Contest, Part 2: Gabe and the High School Boy
The Plains, January 2016Remember the hookup contest Gabe and I had before Christmas?We each chose someone for the other guy to try to hook up with on a dating app. I had to approach the 18-year old...
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The Iceland Fisherman: Gay Romance in Collier's Encyclopedia
When I was little, there weren't many books in the house except for the Bible and the thick, black, ponderous volumes of the 1955 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia. I used to leaf through it, looking...
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The Top 10 Bathhouses in the World
I love bathhouses. In the U.S. most gay guys shun them as sleazy relics of a closeted generation, but in Europe they're a mainstay of gay life.It's not just about hooking up. You can lift weights in...
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Sean Astin
Speaking of John Astin, his adopted son Sean, born in 1971, was a reliable teen idol through the 1980s, with iconic roles in The Goonies (1985), White Water Summer(1987), and The War of the Roses...
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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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Gidget and Her Boys
During the early 1960s, there was a surfing craze. The Beach Boys were singing "Surfing Sarfari" (1962) and "Surfing U.S.A." (1963). The documentary Endless Summer (1966) followed buff young men...
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Dylan and Cole Sprouse after The Suite Life
In 2004, child actors Dylan and Cole Sprouse became the teen stars of one of the biggest hits -- and biggest gay subtext series -- in the history of the Disney Channel, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody...
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The Shy Kentucky Boy at the Bathhouse
January 7th, 2011. Cleveland, Ohio.My boyfriend Troy and I are traveling crosscountry from Upstate New York to Indianapolis to visit my relatives. Cleveland is a convenient halfway point, so we get a...
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Contemporary Graphic Novels: Heterosexism, Homophobia, and Gore
I grew up on comic books -- all of the Gold Key jungle adventures, Uncle Scrooge, Little Lulu, the Harvey ghosts and witches, Archie, an occasional Batman or Superman. And comic strips -- Peanuts,...
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December 1979: Topped for the First Time
Davenport, Iowa, December 1979There are a practically infinite number of bedroom acts you might want to engage in during a date with this guy, but for most gay men, the Big Four are, in the terms we...
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Top 10 Beefcake Horror Movies: the 1950s
My brother and I spent many Saturday nights in the 1970s in our attic room, watching old horror and sci-fi movies on Chuck Acri's Creature Feature on our portable black & white tv set (it was past...
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My First Gay Ghetto: A Community Center, a Bathhouse, and Yosemite Sam
Rock Island, June 3, 1983I'm home from grad school in Bloomington , with my friend Viju. We've seen most of the sights in the Quad Cities, and I'm running out of ideas."We could go to the Amana...
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Francois Goeske: Searching for Gay Subtexts
Robert Louis Stevenson's books are sacred, memories of childhoods past where boys conjured up lavish adventures with each other. Especially Treasure Island,written specifically upon a request from his...
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August 1975: A Crush on the Girl Next Door's Boyfriend
Rock Island, August 1975During the summer after ninth grade, we moved to a new house, only a few blocks away from our old house on 41st Street, but bigger, with a double yard where my parents could do...
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The Judy Garland Mystery
I am asked, more frequently than you'd imagine, "Why are all gay men such big fans of Judy Garland?"Depending on my mood, I answer:1.I don't know, I haven't finished reading the Gay Handbook yet. 2....
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