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Friday, September 25, 2026

Waitin' for the Weekend

"Just Passing Through #1" by Clint Collide:

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Friday, September 18, 2026

Waitin' for the Weekend

"Knowns + Unknowns #2" by Clint Collide:

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Friday, September 4, 2026

Waitin' for the Weekend: World's Best Nude Gay Beaches

Your Head Trucker shows off his treasure trail on a Florida beach, 35 years ago.
My summer lover and I spent nearly every weekend at one beach or another.
We got quite brown and had a lot of fun while it lasted. A happy memory.

Something different for this Labor Day weekend: Experienced travelers Andy and Trai take us on a tour of their favorite nude gay beaches here, there, and yonder. I hope all my truckbuddies have fun in the sun with the one they love, wherever you are.

And if you can't be with the one you love -- love the one you're with. There are only so many summers, babe.

Update 9/5/26: Wow, this post has gotten a shipload of views. Overnight, the count went from 725 to ~~9530~~ 14,828, and more all the time. At first I thought - Damn, I was hotter than I thought. Aw, but then I remembered the f*kn video.

Oh well. If it's the vid you like, Andy and Trai have lots more to see on YT. On the other hand, if it's the pic of me in my glory days (?) you like, just stuff a bill or two in my Speedo. *Grin*

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Friday, August 28, 2026

Waitin' for the Weekend

"Hims + Thems #4" by Clint Collide:

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Friday, August 21, 2026

Waitin' for the Weekend: Friends of Walter F.

Beach forecast: sunny, warm, and studly.
Kenneth Carson, Galveston, May 14, 1938 --
one of Walter's many friends.

Something different this week: a poignant series of photographs of handsome young men at the beach and elsewhere, taken between 1937 and 1941. The photographer, who appears in some of the photos, was one Walter R. Ferguson, who apparently had a job that enabled him to roam the South as "your TAFT representative," whatever that means. He stayed in very nice hotels, too.

The photos record his travels, first to seaside towns, starting with Jacksonville, Fla., and westward along the Gulf Coast to Beaumont, Texas. Next he shows up in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Miami, then travels up the East Coast all the way to Norfolk, Virginia. The following year, he visits Charlotte, Birmingham, Jackson, and Dallas, then goes up to Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville in Tennessee. And meets studly guys everywhere. And they gladly let him take their pictures!

It's obvious that Walter was good at striking up friendships wherever he went; he must have had a charming personality. The smiling young men he photographed seem to be enjoying his company, too. Apparently, nothing more is known of Walter and his friends, but the photos seem to tell a story. What do you think that story was?

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These vids were posted on the YouTube channel homosexualhistory.

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Friday, August 14, 2026

Waitin' for the Weekend

"Just Passing Through #3" by Clint Collide:

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Friday, August 7, 2026

Waitin' for the Weekend

"No Shirts + No Shoes #1" by Clint Collide:

Okay, fellas, hot weather will be here soon, and you know you need to buff up to look your best at the beach. Just follow this easy buddy routine, and you'll both be pumped up before you know it.

Presented as a public service by the Blue Truck. Watch out for those rug burns, though.

Many and many a year ago, I remember a summer when a buddy and I would drive down to the coast every weekend to lie out on the sand, drink beer, and broil ourselves brown. We also had a workout routine we often practiced in the living room of his pad . . . but, um, not quite like this one.

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Friday, May 8, 2026

Waitin' for the Weekend

"Shape of My Heart" by Osvaldo:

Music by Sting.

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Friday, May 1, 2026

Waitin' for the Weekend

It's May Day! "Oh Happy Day . . . To Be Gay" by Clint Collide:

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Friday, April 24, 2026

Waitin' for the Weekend: Gay Swim Party, 1946

From the collection of Harold T. O'Neal, a gay home movie buff who made many films of gay life in California from 1939 to 1989. This one begins with a well-dressed but rather dull garden party, followed by scenes of several beautiful young men splashing about in various states of undress somewhere along the American River. A lovely glimpse of what seems a much more innocent time.

Double-click the screen to go full size; hit escape to exit.

Once again, I state what M.P. says, and he ought to know: if they're only swimming, it's not porn.

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Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.