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1950s ‘instructional’ workout video is absurdly hot

Poor Hal Thomas. The twinky stud was a full-time student and worked at night filing papers — leaving him tense and irritable. His life was stressful, boring, and sedentary. Hal needed a release! Thankfully, he met with a physical education instructor…

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Putting gay men back into the history books

In many times and places, people who would fall under today’s LGBTQ+ umbrella have grown up with no framework to understand their identities. As historian Emily Rutherford writes, that was true for Victorian scholar John Addington. But, thanks to…

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Telling the forgotten story of gays and the Holocaust

Often overlooked in the history of the Holocaust is the incarceration of the LGBTQ+ community, primarily gay men. In the early part of the 1900s, gay life in Germany was thriving. Liberal cities like Berlin had nightclubs and bars that…

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Uncovering the truth: Homosexuality among Roman gladiators

There were the arena fights where enslaved men fought – sometimes to the death – for Rome’s entertainment. And then there were the sexual – sometimes romantic – relationships between gladiators. The ancient Romans were a society that valued strength, power, and masculinity. However…