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The Advocate in its March 29, 1972 issue publicizes a "gay wedding" in Canada, yes, in 1972. According to the feature story, Michael Girouard, a radio-television personality, and Rejean Tremblay were married, publicly, in Toronto on September 11 (?!) by a bishop of the "Order of Independent Old Catholics." (definitely not the ...
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Diverse perspectives on sexuality and sexual behavior.
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So what? What else is new? Many have heard about the lavender seminaries and the ephebophile (NOT pedophile; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephebophilia) priests, yes, all those scandals, scurrying out of a musty closet like a swarm of moths in the latter part of the last century (and still today).
But in the early 1960s, right before Vatic ...
Feb 21
Tags: Docetism, ephebophilia, gay Catholic priests, gay history, gay imagery, Grecian Guild Pictorial, homoerotic images, muscle magazines, New Thought, Oscar Lowry, positive thinking, Quaintance, religion and sex, St. Augustine, Vatican II, vintage erotic magazines, vintage gay magazines, vintage gay porn, vintage gay porn magazine, vintage physique magazines, William James
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I remember reading the book by David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, published in 1997. The closeted father of the gay main character has spent much of his adult life expressing his sexual desires in gay oorn movie theaters. In one strange scene, he evens runs into his wife on a Sunday while walking to one of the gay theaters in New York City ...
Feb 14
Tags: 1970s, 1970s New York, 42nd Street, A Night at the Adonis, bathroom sex, Big Bill Eld, Brad Gooch, classic gay bareback porn, David Leavitt, dual jerk off, gay history, Gay Orgy, gay popular culture, gay porn theaters, Golden Age of Promiscuity, Grinder, Jack Deveau, Jack Wrangler, Malo, Midnight Cowboy, Roger, The Lost Language of Cranes, vintage gay porn
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Slate Magazine recently published a six-part series of insightful and well-researched pieces by June Thomas, “The Gay Bar: Is It Dying?” (http://www.slate.com/id/2297608). The summation statement in part V, entitled “The New Competition,” intrigued me, “so maybe gay bars aren't doomed; instead they're moving into our phones.” I do wonder ho ...
Feb 08
Tags: BDSM, Cellblock, decline of the gay bar, fetish, gay bars, gay history, gay popular culture, gay sexual history, leather, leather bars, Mark Stoner, Old Guard Leather, Pony, Slate Magazine, Talk Sex with Sue, World Leathermen Recon
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"BROKEBACK BATHROOM"
In 2004, I found out via the gay press that one of the men's bathroom in a building where I teach at was one of those "T-rooms," complete with a glory hole. Apparently the cops raided the bathroom, which by then had developed a reputation for clandestine sexual activity. The gloryhole was sealed and a sign placed in ...
Jan 19
Tags: bathhouse, bathroom sex, Brokeback Bathroom, gay bathhouse, gay history, gay imagery, glory holes, Larry Craig, Laud Humphreys, Newton Arvin, public bathrooms, public sex, sex in public places, sexual history, sexual taboos, T-Rooms, tearoom sex, tearooms, toilet sex
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In 1985, readers of FirstHand Magazine began to request "harder, rougher, kinkier" stories and reader letters. In response, Jackie Lewis, the publisher, began Manscape. But according to Lewis, the readers wanted even more. Thus, Manscape 2 emerged, essentially, Manscape plus photos. The premiere issue, billed as a "Collector's Editi ...
Jan 06
Tags: 1985, AIDS crisis, bondage, cock and ball torture, daddy, fetish, FirstHand Magazine, Fred Bercovitz, gay erotic fiction, gay history, Jackie Lewis, kinky sex, leather, Manscape 2, master, phone sex, slave, vintage collectible gay magazines, vintage gay magazines, vintage gay porn magazine, watersports
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Analysis of past, present and future trends in popular culture.
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It's not porn (not really a strange addiction), and it's not my strange addiction. What is it? The series My Strange Addiction on the The Learning Channel. Everyone seems to be baring privates, or in this case, mostly eating publicly what they are doing privately, on TV these days, but what I find most fascinating is the eating. Yes, people ad ...
Mar 22
Tags: addictive behavior, Bernie Madoff, Diamond Bar PTA Mom, drinking piss, eating habits, gay popular culture, Larry Craig, My Strange Addiction, narcissism, Pica, post-traumatic stress disorder, reality TV, sexual addictions, The Learning Channel, TLC, toilet paper
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Great advancements in modernization came about because of beer. Just listen to this, some German immigrants (think they were Miller & Coors) brought a new type of beer to America, lager beer which is cold brewed. Well to keep it cold they needed some form of refrigeration. So the first refrigeration was developed not to keep your milk ...
Mar 01
Tags: ancient egypt, antibiotics, barley, Bijou Video, Coors, discovery channel, fermentation, gay popular culture, gay porn, Miller, mummies, Touche's, water distilling
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I recently saw a show on the Discovery channel the other night that informed me about one thing that we all should be thankful for, and that is Beer.
Beer truly makes the world go round. Yes I learned that beer is the basis for everything in this world (I shit you not). The show was simply amazing, so grab a bottle and learn a little something fro ...
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I remember some kind of rumor or urban legend circulating that Lady Gaga is/was really a man. No, she is a woman, not a drag queen, but her extravagant dress and overwhelming public persona (all in the interests of self-expression of course, the byword among her young fan base) can honestly lead one to come to that conclusion.
Drag queens of ...
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On the Television Without Pity online forum, comments about the A & E candid reality show Hoarders have reached page 941. Comic Kathy Lee Griffin was upset that someone tweeted, in her name, her love for Hoarders. She does like the show. But she also supposedly was accused of making fun of the hoarders and thus the mentally ill in one of he ...
Jan 02
Tags: clutter, digital hoarding, Elias Canetti, Hoarders, hoarding, invisible crowds, mental illness, microbes, popular culture, QVC, reality TV, rotting food, thrift stores
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