Tales of West Hollywood

Rock Island, August 1975 "All entering sophomores invited to try out for junior varsity football," Dad reads from a brochure t...

In my junior high, the worst possible fate was to be a "fairy."  Not a boy who was interested in boys -- we didn't have the...

Rock Island, October 1978 When I was growing up in the Church of the Nazarene, most of the high school boys and a few girls competed in t...

Rock Island, January 1971 Denkmann Elementary School didn't have any sports teams, so I was spared the "play a sport...play a s...

Wilton Manors, August 2003 I hate sports!  Especially playing them:  I could never understand the allure of waiting for a hard round pro...

I'm definitely a frontside fan.  When I see a backside, I always want to tell the guy, "Turn around!" 90% of the attr...

In 2006, fourteen men and women got naked and rode their bicycles through the streets of Melbourne, Australia, in order to demonstrate tha...

While researching my article on old swim team photos, I discovered an unusual sidebar of beefcake history: up until the 1960s, men and boy...

Wilton Manors, January 2005 I was always mature for my age, so I attracted guys a few years older than me.  So it came as quite a shoc...

Wilton Manors, December 2004 When the three guys sharing a house are all actively dating and hooking up, you never know who is going to ...

Upstate, March 2009 When I moved to Upstate New York in the fall of 2008, my social calendar was soon crowded with invitations from m...