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  1. Fortune and Men's Eyes: a very young Don Johnson and a very young Sal Mineo.
  2. Sex between men, not skin contact, may be source of transmission: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/sex-men-not-skin-contact-fueling-monkeypox-new-research-suggests-rcna43484
  3. During the 70's, 80's, and 90's (before Lupron was commonly used), I saw many men (patients) who had had their balls cut off in treating prostate cancer. They generally didn't like it. Interestingly, hot flashes was often their presenting complaint. I retired from the practice of Internal Medicine in 2006 so I admittedly am not up to date. Perhaps I should have written "but chemical castration is now generally preferred." When I went to get the results of my prostate biopsy in 2008, my urologist informed me of my Gleason score 9 results on all biopsies and gave me my first Lupron injection before I left the room. We didn't spend a lot of time discussing the pros and cons of having my balls cut off instead. Ironically, I retired in 2006 and was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008. Such is life.
  4. Men generally don't like to have their balls cut off. A simple Google search: Androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) with surgical or pharmacological castration has long been a mainstay of treatment for metastatic prostate cancer. However, due to concerns about cosmetic and psychological effects of surgical castration, that practice has been nearly eliminated in favor of medical castration.Jan 21, 2016
  5. The worst aspect is that prostate cancer feeds on testosterone. Treatment therefore often includes medication to (1) block endogenous production of testosterone (chemical castration) and (2) block the effect of testosterone. Not too long ago, treatment of prostate cancer included surgical castration (orchiectomy) but chemical castration is now preferred. Life without testosterone can be radically different. Reduced or absent libido, loss of muscle mass, increase in fat, depression, and hot flashes are but some of the unpleasant results. I experienced all of the above back in 2008-2009 when I turned up with a Gleason 9 (on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the most aggressive) prostate cancer on 8 out of 8 biopsies. Prognosis was bleak and surgery was out of the question. I fortunately became enrolled in an NIH clinical trial consisting of radiation followed by chemotherapy over the course of 9 months. Lost all my hair but best thing I did was hire a trainer and go to the gym 3 times a week to minimize muscle loss. This also enhanced my sense of well being immensely. My cancer went into remission and remains in remission. But definite changes in my life remain. Think Alan Turing on a less extreme scale. Still I'm thankful to be alive.
  6. Canadian Border to Stay Closed to Nonessential Travel until at least early July..... https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/09/canada-border-travel-492914
  7. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain On the Road by Jack Kerouac Both are chock full of exciting adventures set against a backdrop of constantly changing locations and environments. Rereading enables me to meet again with old friends and vicariously relive our adventures.
  8. I'm scheduled to get my first vaccination for COVID 19 next week and my second shot on Feb 2. Although I'd like to believe I can resume travel, etc., immediately thereafter, I'm told I should not. The main concern, as near as I can tell, is that I can still be a vector of disease and carry COVID 19 to others. How long after vaccination does one have to remain chaste and avoid travel?
  9. Slightly off topic, but I remember Marlin Perkins with fondness:
  10. This year, the charity I contribute most to is the local food bank. More people need--and use--this service than ever before.
  11. Be careful. Be very careful. https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_64cab68a-342d-11eb-a5ef-e79a469aae62.html
  12. An escort I hired many years ago while visiting Colorado Springs later appeared on TV as the escort who outed Ted Haggard in 2006. Ted Haggard, the pastor of a large church in Colorado Springs and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, had hired the escort over three years and once even asked him to procure some crystal meth to use. When the escort was in the gym one day, he happened to see Ted Haggard on TV excoriating gays and decided to publicly out him. All of this was reported by Jon Stewart who used interviews by Richard Dawkins to expose Ted Haggard's hypocrisy. The escort is incidentally pictured in the last half of the segment:
  13. At the height of his career, he had a remarkable political conscience. Although this interview is over fifty years old, it is heartbreakingly relevant today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNWxtr3is6k:316
  14. Montreal heads into partial lockdown: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/montreal-heads-partial-lockdown-after-coronavirus-surge-n1241402
  15. During my life, I have had passionate affairs, albeit one sided, with William Hurt, Terence Stamp, and Paul Newman. Movies at one time had the magical ability to produce characters we could fall in love with--when real life provided no alternative--and actors to whom we could, at least in our imagination, transfer this infatuation. Three older movies well worth seeing and scarcely mentioned in this thread: 1. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) 2. Billy Budd (1962) 3. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) William Hurt won an Academy Award for best actor in playing a gay Latin American political prisoner in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Although marginalized by straight society, his character was admirably honest, seduced his straight cellmate, and demonstrated his heroism in the end. Terence Stamp was a handsome and innocent Billy Budd in this adaptation of the Herman Melville seagoing novella. Hard to believe this young stud is the same actor who later played one of the three major characters. the older woman, in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. I fell head over heels for the young Billy Budd/Terence Stamp and readily perceived his treatment at the hands of the evil Claggart was based on the fact that he, too, had fallen in love with Billy Budd. Although there is nothing overtly gay about Billy Budd, the tension of its understated homoeroticism makes it one of my all time favorite gay movies. Paul Newman (Brick) wouldn't make love to his wife Elizabeth Taylor (Maggie), which, of course, made Maggie like a cat on a hot tin roof. In this movie adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, which is about way more than their marriage, the reason remains somewhat murky but the play makes it clear he is still carrying a torch for the quarterback he played high school football with who committed suicide by jumping out of a hotel window. Maggie the cat understands what's going on and her jealousy knows no bounds. Although Maggie triumphs in the end, the thought of Paul Newman getting it on with his quarterback--and later brooding about it--was delicious to contemplate.
  16. That was Denise and she ran a tight ship.... probably played a major role in the success of the Gaiety. She was indeed a tough cookie and didn't tolerate any BS from anyone.
  17. Getting AIDS Showed Me the Stupidity of Not Wearing Masks https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/masks-stop-coronavirus-getting-aids-showed-me-stupidity-not-wearing-ncna1234878
  18. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/t-magazine/tom-of-finland.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage
  19. He also looked pretty good when he was 19: And here's a longer excerpt...around 15 min. He was Sal Mineo's roomate when Sal was killed.
  20. Only picture in which the fish is more impressive than the guy....that's one huge bass!!
  21. Axiom2001 said: There is one porn star of years past who lived in San Francisco and moved to Australia with his partner/lover and whose name has definitely escaped me gave me a solid time. He was wonderful and truly enjoyed the nip play that I provided. The words that he left, still at times, resonate with me. Could this have been Lance Gear? If so, he was indeed a quality guy.
  22. In terms of "songs that inspire existential tears" (as called for in the original post to this thread), here's one that may qualify:
  23. If this can happen to a healthy 43 year old nurse:
  24. My canary has circles under his eyes 1931
  25. Back in the 90's, while visiting L.A., I contacted an escort advertising in Frontiers. He had an interesting proposition: for an extra hundred bucks, he said, he would bring along a porn star but couldn't say who he was. After reflecting, I agreed. And that's how I met Jon Vincent. Surprisingly short, he was a real sweetheart in an almost innocent way--at least he was for the hour I knew him. We discovered a shared geographic origin, exchanged phone numbers, and I called him a few months later but couldn't work out a convenient meeting. A few years later, he died of an overdose in NYC. I remember reading somewhere that he had a longstanding problem with drugs and that some client had spent a small fortune trying to get him clean...to no avail. I never saw any indication of this.
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