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Back to Nature in the barest sense of the word
Today, like every first Saturday in May, is officially Naked Gardening Day. We have no idea quite who makes decisions like this, but we are guessing that they live in a warm climate somewhere. This idea, we are told, is to tend your portion of the world’s garden unclothed as nature intended. This may be just window…
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Otis and The Von Tramp Family are singing all the way to L.A. (and cycling too)
Otis Morgan a gay nurse from San Francisco is one of 3000 cyclists in taking part again in the AIDS/LifeCycle from his hometown to Los Angeles. The ride is 545 miles and takes seven days and a helluva lot of stamina. Over the past eight years, he has raised a total of over $150,000 for the cause benefits the…
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What happens when Broadway Boy meets another Broadway Boy on a First Date
The people at Theater Mania have produced this new series of videos that each feature a couple of ‘not unattractive’ gay Broadway performers who tell the stories of their first dates. If you have a thing for ‘happy-ever-after’ stories then you will LOVE these. And even if you are a tad cynical about romance, you will still find it hard not…
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Britain’s Most Gorgeous Man (circa 1950)
Way before there were any gay men in the UK (well, officially that is) in public at least it was only women that ogled after men’s near-naked bodies. Each year there was a competition to find Mr. Apollo from a bevy of masculine beauties dressed in skimpy Speedo swim trunks. The year was 1959 and the Judges were…
