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Interesting and provocative thoughts on gay history, gay sexual history, gay porn, and gay popular culture.

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The Huffington Post some time ago published a story on how a majority of LGBT youth are harassed or feel unsafe in in gym class. Whether the harassment is tied into actual athletic ability or physical coordination was not clear (discrimination by morally conservative coaches based on their views on being gay, regardless if the students plays well or not, seems to be more the focus there). 

 

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I Love You, Joan Crawford: Gay Men and Their Big Ladies

For brain candy, I often turn to TLC and its exploitative “reality shows” which seems in some ways to replace the live “freak shows” located outside of circus tents. One of my current favorites is “Extreme Cheapskates.” 

 

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What's in a Street Name? Plenty!

Daddy the Magazine

Daddy the magazine, with its clever subtitle "Prime Beef, Aged to Perfection," appeared in late 1989 as a quarterly, digest-sized publication.

 

The magazine has consistently focused on the erotic appeal of the older man/father-figure and his relationship with a younger man through fiction, artwork, and photographs of models. 

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Retrostuds of the Past: Focus on Pierce Daniels

Retrostuds of the Past: Focus on Pierce Daniels

I'll start with a cliché: a picture is worth a thousand words. 

 

Wrong Side of History

 

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Famous Porn Stars of the Past: Focus on Jon King

Famous Porn Stars of the Past:  Focus on Jon King

DSI acquitted on obscenity charges! 


Who? What? Where? 

Why would this story make the front cover of the then fledgling gay newspaper, The Advocate, in September 1967? 

 

The Advocate, September 1967

 

 

The 1960s may have been swinging and sexually liberating for some heterosexual segments of the population (were there any openly gay hippies?), but a gay person could still get arrested for kissing a member of the same sex in public, could not join the military (which could be a way to avoid the draft, then going on because of the Vietnam War), and could be fired from a job because of his/her orientation. 

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