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Andrew Keegan Breaks Boys' Hearts
Andrew Keegan was one of the more popular teen stars of the 1990s. He played mostly operators, rebels, and scallawags, Zack Dell in Camp Nowhere (1994), and "bad boy" guest roles on TGIF sitcoms like...
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The Great Redneck Roundup: 20 Days, 20 Hookups
Summer 1995, the Wild WestWhen Dad turned 62, he and Mom retired, sold their house in Rock Island, and moved back to their home state of Indiana. They told me that I had to come out by August to pick...
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Little Max: A Gay Father in 1950s Comic Books
When I was a kid, whenever we visited my relatives in Indiana, I spent the night with my Cousin Buster in the trailer in the dark woods, and we would squeeze into his narrow twin bed, our bodies...
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Which Incident Happened without Exaggeration?
These stories are all based on real events, but I always take some artistic license, combine two events into one, make up conversations, change details.Some changes are to protect people's identities....
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Summer 2005: Searching for Beefcake at a Slovak Waterpark
One day in Levoča, Doc and some of the other faculty got saddled with the job of chaperoning 20 students on a day trip to Tatralandia, a water park about an hour's drive west of Levoča.and he invited...
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Country Boy Hookup #1: The Nebraska Football Player
Summer 1995, OmahaThe Great Redneck Roundup of 1995 yielded 20 hookups in 20 days, but, surprisingly, few actual "rednecks."We were looking for country boys:1. Heavy-set, not fat but thick around the...
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From Muscle Beach to the Cimarron Strip: TV Westerns
By the time I started watching TV in the 1960s, the Western was stale, outdated, staggeringly unhip; my friends and I could stomach only those few that involved a flashy new gimmick, like Wild Wild...
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100 Things To Do Before High School: New Nickelodeon Teencom with Major Hunkage
Have you watched Nickelodeon lately?Me, neither.In the 1990s and early 2000s, it produced high quality, creative teencoms, with interesting premises and witty dialogue. Things you could actually sit...
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The Chronicles of Narnia
When I was in high school, the neopagans, anarchists, stoners, and dungeons-and-dragons players all read The Lord of the Rings. The fundamentalists, Young Republicans, cheerleaders, and Junior...
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Spring 1989: Alan Cruises a Cop
Paris, Spring 1989During my terrible semester teaching in Ankara, Turkey, my friend Alan the Pentecostal Porn Star sent me a airplane ticket to visit him in Paris.Alan was my best friend in West...
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The Top 20 Scenes of Alan the Pentecostal Porn Star
I hope Alan isn't reading these stories in the afterlife, or I'm in for a major haunting. He would hate being called a Pentecostal Porn Star. He didn't like talking about his porn career.Actually, he...
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The Hillside Penis of Cerne Abbas
Who isn't fascinated by lost civilizations and ancient mysteries? Stonehenge, the Palace at Knossos, Mayan temples, Easter Island, the serpent mounds of Ohio. But the museums usually hide the gay...
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Shaun Cassidy: Not Just David Cassidy's Little Brother
Growing up in the shadow of his brother David, Shaun Cassidy began singing at the age of fourteen, but no one took him seriously until, at eighteen, he landed a role as cleancut teen sleuth Joe Hardy...
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Kaliman and Solin: Magician and Boy Pal
Spanish class didn't offer a huge selection of teenage adventurers with boyfriends, or teen magazines featuring frontal nudity, but it did give gay students some spectacular beefcake and a Batman and...
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Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Goal of Every Journey
You know my history with graphic novels -- growing up with comic books, I keep wanting to like them, but they always turn out to be the depressing angst-ridden memoirs of Millennials, and immensely...
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Summer 1993: I visit Alan, his Partner, and his Boy Toy
Norfolk, Virginia, Summer 1993After our horrible trip to London for a gay Jewish conference on the Isle of Dogs, Lane flies back to West Hollywood. I stop in Norfolk, Virginia, to spend a few days...
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How to Survive a Football Game
No matter how you guard against it, if you live in the United States, sooner or later you will be forced to watch a football game.It's a national obsession, especially among heterosexual men. It's all...
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Twenty Years, 10,000 Naked Men, Part 1: Asian to Hung
When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, you never saw a penis except in the locker room after gym class. No pictures. There were plenty of pictures of naked women, but male dangly bits were deemed...
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13 Country Boys, Cowboys, Farmboys, Truckers, and Rednecks
Both of my parents grew up on farms, and everybody who finds out that I'm from Illinois makes a crack about farming, so I've never found country boys particularly exciting. I was always into short,...
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Alan Picks Up a Father and Son
Norfolk, Virginia, Summer 1993"Ok, time for my most memorable Hong Kong pickup," Alan says.I'm visiting Alan and his partner and their friend Tarik in Norfolk. Today we drove out to Colonial...
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