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The Icelandic Museum of the Penis
After visiting the Penis Park of Oslo and the many public penises in Helsinki, why not visit a museum dedicated solely and exclusively to the wonders of the penis?Iceland may be off the beaten path...
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The Naked Man Festival of Japan
You can see lots of public penises in Prague, but if you want to see real, live naked men, head for Japan.When I was in Osaka in 1986, I noticed that there were many more opportunities to see the nude...
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16 Dates from Hell
Since I figured "it" out, during the summer after my senior year in high school, I've gone on a lot of dates (a social event followed by bedroom activity). Maybe 10% were spectacular, the stuff of...
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The Explosive Generation: Billy Gray in Love
In spite of the beefcake on the posters and lobby cards, The Explosive Generation (1961) doesn't offer many swimsuit, underwear, or locker room scenes, though there are lots of clean-cut 1950s teens in...
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Date From Hell #7: The Dungeon, the Freezing Swimming Pool, and the Pierced...
Rock Island, December 25th, 1990My boyfriend Lane and I have an open relationship: bedroom activity with other guys is fine, as long as we are both present, "sharing" or at least watching. In...
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Raviv Ullman
Speaking of Raviv Ullman, the Israeli-American actor got his start on Phil of the Future (2004-2006), one of the few Disney channel teencoms that offered little beefcake and virtually no homoromantic...
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Robert Clark: From Zack Files to Gay Teen
Robert Clark has been very busy since he buddy-bonded with Michael Seater on The Zack Files (2000-2002) and Strange Days at Blake Holsey High (2002-2006). For one thing, he bulked up, transforming from...
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Date from Hell #2: When Neither of You Have a Place to Go
Des Moines, June 27th, 1981The summer after my junior year at Augustana. I drive out to Des Moines, where Thomas, the gay Episcopal priest I met last year, is holding a strategy meeting for the Gay...
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13 Public Penises of Hungary
My dream trip to Eastern Europe starts in Krakow, the old university town in Poland; heads west to Prague and Brno, Czech Republic; soutn to Bratislava in Slovakia; Gyor in Hungary; and finishes up...
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The Hungarian Bear with the Mortadella+
Bloomington, May 1983At Indiana University, I was technically studying for a M.A. in English, but the variety of courses available at a gigantic university was overwhelming. What 22 year old from a...
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Hooking Up with My Host's Son
Plains, January 2016Out here on the Plains, there are very few gay guys my age: they all fled to Minneapolis, Chicago, or West Hollywood during the Great Gay Migration of the 1970s, leaving a few...
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On the Town: Three Sailors on Leave in a Gay City
Long before I ever visited New York City, I learned all about the Battery, the Bronx, the Empire State Building, Central Park, subways, seltzer, and delis. Like Los Angeles, it was a magical place,...
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Jamie Croft, the Australian Tom Sawyer
Speaking of Jeremy Lelliott, his costar in Disappearance, Jamie Croft, had several buddy-bonding projects as a child star in Australia. In That Eye, the Sky (1994), the oddball outsider Ort (13-year...
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16 Indiana University Boyfriends, Dates, Tricks, and Hookups
I figured "it" out during the summer after my senior year in high school, and spent the next four years at a small Lutheran college. I had a couple of boyfriends, went on a few dates, even marched in...
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The Unrequited Loves of Michael Welch
If you're fifteen years old, you're familiar with Michael Welch from the Twilight saga about a girl torn between vampire and werewolf boyfriends (Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner). He plays a human...
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Spring 2002: Yuri Lands the Coffee Drinker I was Cruising
Wilton Manors, February 8th, 2002The Filling Station was my favorite bar in Wilton Manors: three blocks from my house, good burgers and fries, a good mix of bears, regular guys, twinks, and drag...
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The Naked Gods of Southern India
When I was visiting my friend Viju in India, I saw an occasional guy walking around naked, and figured he was an ascetic of some sort. Turns out that most of the naked guys belong to Jainism, one of...
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Summer 1984: I Meet a Zoroastrian in a Public Cruising Area
During the summer of 1984, just after we got our M.A. degrees in English, my friend Viju invited me to visit his family in India for two weeks.Except for trips to Agra and Varanasi, we spent most of...
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The Gay Arab World
During the famous summer of 1981, when I was working in the college library, taking classes in Chaucer and Modern German Culture, going to see Clash of the Titans, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Wolfen,...
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Why You Should Visit South Dakota Next August
In the summer of 1995, shortly after Lee and I moved to San Francisco, my parents decided to sell their house in Rock Island and spend their retirement years in their old hometown in Indiana. That...
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