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Bart, Paul and I just saw Bros, which was in turns witty and hilarious and finally touching, just the way a romantic comedy is supposed to ...

Just back from Love, Simon, a gay  Little Shop Around the Corner that couldn’t be more Capra. The film was touching a...

Eckhart Tolle has put his finger on something here that I’ve wondered about for a long time. “As you approach adulthood, uncertainty a...

Seventeen-year-old Allen Ginsberg had fallen for an 18-year-old cerebral charmer, his fellow Columbia University student Lucien Carr, at o...

Audrey Hepburn as the Truman Capote character whose cards read "Holiday Golightly, Traveling." When I first watched Blake Ed...

'The Swimming Hole' by Thomas Eakins (1884-85) Poet Walt Whitman loved swimming with other young men, nude in the fashion of t...

At right is movie star Ramon Novarro in 1925. At left are his murderers. At 69, the former silent film star Ramon Novarro was murdered...

Fin de siècle French supermen like Fantomas were all rampaging Id, glorying in their elaborately planned terrorist attacks and, without ...

The bored Marines stood at attention, listening to Buck Rogers describe homosexual sex acts. In his WWII Pacific combat memoi...

The Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four. Art by Stuart Immonen The relations between the sexes still leave something to be d...

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton had no particular complaints about literary pornography or sex, and was sus...

The Burtons, Richard and Philip The actor Richard Burton was neither the first nor the last young man to benefit from the presumably c...

Called out on the pandering “religious freedom” law he proudly signed, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's instinctive strategy was simpl...

Jake Cole and Blake Morris in a Daily Eastern News photo. By Dan Hagen Eastern Illinois University’s “Lonely Planet”  i...

The raised-eyebrow reticence of some older biographies can strike 21 st century readers as amusing. In his 819-page biography o...

The collected series was released in hardcover in 2010. Jack Kirby's Rawhide Kid, back in the day. In 2003’s “Rawhide...

"After living a lifetime in the rainstorm of hate and lies and ugly dangerous words, we have chosen to stand tall in the sun and cele...

By Dan Hagen The men who loudly advertise their loathing of gay people are generally ashamed of their own secret homosexual desire...