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Good Grief

May 6, 2013 By Kile Ozier 8 Comments

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A generation later, Kile Ozier believes the gay community has still not healed from the ravaging shame and grief that accompanied the AIDS crisis.

Filed Under: Editors' Picks, Featured Content, First Responders, Gay Pride, Health, Psych, & Addiction, The Good Life Tagged With: 80's, AIDS, AIDS crisis, AIDS Memorial Quilt, barebacking, being prepared in an emergency, collective grief, community healing, death, disease, drug addiction in gay community, gay community, gay culture, gay men support, Gay Men's Health Crisis, grid, grief, guilt, healing, HIV, homelessness, homophobia, illness, martyrdom, mass deaths, meth addiction, NAMES Project, rejection, relationships, remembrance, responding to crisis, shame, support, trauma, War

Joshua and the VCR

April 22, 2013 By Townes Coates Leave a Comment

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Townes Coates reminds us of the days before the internet provided more straightforward ways for gay boys to connect.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Gay Pride, Teenage Kicks, The Good Life Tagged With: #itgetsbetter, 1980s home theater, 80's, adult videos, before internet, Betamax, body image, boys kissing, electronics, first mustache, gay 80s, gay boys, gay connections, gay culture, gay life before the internet, gay male body image, Gay Porn, gay pride, gay sex, Gay teens, high school, high school life, home video, homoeroticism, John Holmes, Lee Art Theatre, life before the internet, male body image, physical culture, pornography, puberty, Richmond, romantic stories, rotary phones, seduction, Seka, teens drinking, teens flirting, The Good Life, Townes Coates, turntables, VCR, VHS

Hair and Identity

August 6, 2012 By Christopher Banks 2 Comments

In his search for an image, Christopher Banks found himself.

Filed Under: Body Image, The Good Life Tagged With: 80's, androgyny, beard, bears, body image, boy's hair, confidence, David Bowie, Deep Obsession, experimentation, facial hair, fashion, finding yourself, flourish, gay, geek, Gender Identity, hair styles, haircuts, identity, Lady GaGa, masculinity, men's hair, mental health, music, New Zealand, OutlineNZ, personality, Pet Shop Boys, pop, Sex and Relationships, strength, style, The Cure, The Good Life

Great Moments in Greatness: The Sylvers Take To The Skies

June 1, 2012 By Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

You wish your favorite musicians had swagger like this …

Filed Under: komplicated, Music Tagged With: 80's, great moments in greatness, music, soul, sylvers

In My Room

May 14, 2012 By William Lucas Walker Leave a Comment

William revisits his old room and remembers his childhood, brothers, and discovering his sexual identity.

Filed Under: Families, Featured Content Tagged With: 80's, batman, childhood, family, Full House, Gilligan's Island, Hardy Boy Mysteries, home, In My Room, memories, parents, The Beach Boys, The Hardy Boys, The Monkees

Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young

February 13, 2012 By J.R. Reed Leave a Comment

Forget the fact that Al Gore hadn’t yet invented the Internet… Everyone has a song (or songs) that instantly trigger memories. You hear it and your past comes rushing to the front of your mind. For me, this is one of those songs. It was August 1984 and I was a freshman at a [...]

Filed Under: General Nonsense, Music Monday, Reed My Writing Tagged With: 80's

I See My Teenage Self in My Daughter, and That Scares the Crap Out of Me

January 25, 2012 By J.R. Reed 22 Comments

J.R Reed discusses his less than fond memories of High School and how that affects his anxiety over raising a teenage daughter.

Filed Under: dadsgood, DadsGood Featured Content, Featured Content Tagged With: 80's, anxiety, dads, Disneyland, high school, parenting, Stress, teenagers

Great Moments in Greatness: Remember Pre-Crack Whitney?

October 8, 2011 By Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

Babygirl had it going on, wow … cocaine is a hell of a drug!

Filed Under: komplicated, Music Tagged With: 80's, great moments in greatness, humor, i wanna dance with somebody, music, Nostalgia, remember, Whitney Houston

Comics: Voltron Returns in December [@darrylzero]

October 5, 2011 By Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

Voltron returns to the printed page!

Filed Under: Escapism, komplicated Tagged With: 80's, alex ross, brandon thomas, comics, dynamite, giant robots, Manga, Nostalgia, reboot, voltron

Culture: Ain’t A Damned Thing Changed

July 14, 2011 By Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

“… gonna go back, back … in time …”

Filed Under: Culture, komplicated Tagged With: 80's, Adidas, boom box, Eighties, grafitti, Hip-Hop, krylon, shell toe

The Pitch: Wheeled Warriors [#howtoreboot]

June 29, 2011 By Hannibal Tabu 2 Comments

In The Pitch, we tell Hollywood the right way to dig into the crates and bring back a winner.

Filed Under: Escapism, komplicated Tagged With: 80's, armed force, audric, beast walker, clancy brown, daniella baltodano, drill sergeant, Eighties, flora, gary oldman, gillian, gun grinner, helena bonham carter, herc stormsailor, howtoreboot, jayce, Jeff Bridges, john cleese, kelly hu, kevin grevioux, ko kruiser, mark salling, monster minds, nathan filion, Olivia Munn, oon, pitch, reboot, ronreaco lee, saw boss, spike trike, straczynski, terror tank, the pitch, toys, trail blazer, wheeled warriors, xzibit

Music: The Fat Boys Are Back? [@princemarkiedee]

May 30, 2011 By Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

A classic image from the origins of hip hop.

Filed Under: komplicated, Music Tagged With: 80's, fat boys, music, Nostalgia, Old School, Rap

Mullet Mania

July 19, 2010 By Nick Lehr 1 Comment

We love to laugh at mullets, but why stop there? Nick Lehr investigates.

Filed Under: A&E, Newsroom Tagged With: 80's, 90's, Boston Globe, Iran, Mullet, Mullet Junky, Mushroom, Rat-tail

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All-Male Urban School, All College Bound

For an astounding fourth year in a row, all 167 seniors at Urban Prep Acadamies’ schools have been accepted at four-year colleges or universities this fall.

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Entire Town Gifts Triple Amputee Veteran with Dream Wedding

Residents of Temecula, CA, gifted Marine Corporal Juan Dominguez and his wife, Alexis, with everything they needed for a perfect wedding to show their gratitude for his service to the country.