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Movies that made me gay
In this exclusive extract from his new memoir, Movies That Made Me Gay, out on October 2, landmark American writer and queer black icon Larry Duplechan celebrates the power of cinema in shaping queer identity.My very first published piece was a little memoir about the handsome young actors I watched on TV (and vaguely crushed on) as a child – Tony Dow, Billy Gray and Johnny Crawford, among them – entitled “Good Night, Rick Nelson, Wherever You Are”. It was published in 1983, in the beefcake magazine In Touch For Men, between an interview with John James (the handsome young actor then playing “Jeff Colby” on the ABC nighttime soap opera, Dynasty), and four pages of candid photos of surfers flashing bare booty as they changed into and out of their wetsuits.