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Dispatches From One of the Last Wet T-Shirt Contests in America
The classic softcore competitions are dwindling in the #MeToo era. Case in point: This is the only wet T-shirt contest I could find in the entire continent I’ve been named runner-up in a hula hoop...
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What Happens to Spelling Bee Champions When They Grow Old?
Spelling contests have remained a feature in American life since the Puritans landed on Plymouth Rock — but is peaking at 12 years old all it’s cracked up to be? Sixty-two-year-old Brad Williams...
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The Male Dating Coaches Who Cater to Women
Their work is rooted in the notion that the key to finding Mr. Right is demystifying the way he thinks. But are they full of shit? “Men look for sex and find love; women look for love and in the...
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The Perilous Trip of Iboga, Africa’s Premier Psychedelic
These men want to bring the ‘Mount Everest of psychedelics’ — one of the most powerful mind benders on the planet — to the West. But at what cost? In 1999, New Yorker Daniel Pinchbeck dropped $7,000 on...
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The High Price of Being the First Male Scream Queen
The hotly anticipated sequel to ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ was poised to launch Mark Patton’s career. But because of the movie’s homosexual overtones, it ended up destroying it. Horror is a genre that...
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The Sons Who Were Raised by a Closeted Gay Father
No matter how much the world changes, these aging Gen-Xers and Boomers hide their sexuality from their families at all costs “My father is gay and in the closet,” Roland confides in a recent...
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Inside the New Movement of Support Groups for Retired Men
How ‘Previously Important Persons’ are fighting back against the high depression and suicide rates that plague them once they leave their careers behind They call themselves “PIPs,” or “Previously...
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My Weekend at ‘Nice Guy’ Bootcamp
All over the world, self-proclaimed ‘nice guys’ are attending meetings and workshops in hopes of becoming far less nice At an abandoned golf course near London’s Heathrow Airport, a short,...
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The Alien True Believers Who Were Searching for Answers Long Before It Was...
Earl Grey Anderson and his fellow MUFON field investigators have been looking for extraterrestrial life for half a century now In a low-lit condo in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, flanked by a stack of...
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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: My Weekend at Adult Summer Camp
Because while they may have grown up with social media, they’ve never felt more alone I’m attempting to shotgun milk from a pink baby bottle in the third stage of a 20-leg relay race at Camp No...
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What It’s Like to Be the Father of a Child With Autism
The dearth of support, resources and networking for dads is just the tip of the iceberg Joey was a self-described “typical slacker Gen X-er” when his wife got pregnant with their first child, Ben, in...
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What Do We Call Boomers Who Are Just as Screwed as Millennials?
The rise of hustle culture is often attributed to millennials, but when it comes to grinding in the gig economy these days, Boomers are leading the way When 65-year-old British Uber driver Malcolm...
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The Drugstore Cowboy in the Opioid Crisis
‘In Indiana, criminals can rob a pharmacy faster than you can take money out of an ATM’ The 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy follows a gang of small-time junkie thieves helmed by Bob, played by a 25-year-old...
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The Homo Rodeo Rides Off Into the Sunset
Gay rodeo events used to be a transgressive, trailblazing way for queer men outside of urban areas to celebrate their sexuality. But it’s become a victim of its own success — and our changing times I’m...
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Solitude Is the Singing Cowboy’s Oldest Tune
‘Cowboy life can be very dreary. We’ve made it look like a fantasy.’ I’m among a group of 100 or so attendees at the inaugural Rough Rider Roundup, an “adaptive rodeo” for the special-needs community...
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The Unsung Heroes Making It Snow in Sunny California
Winter is coming — but not without brilliant engineers, state-of-the-art tech and even a little magic Shortly before 3 a.m. in an industrial park in South L.A., a motley crew of seven seasonal...
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How TV Comedy’s Funniest Characters Got Their Names
Screenwriters on ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Arrested Development’ and many other comedies share the stories behind instant classics like Frink, Smithers and Bob Loblaw Is there a better way to change everything...
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The Guy Who Whispers to Poseidon and Saves the 1 Percent’s Yachts
Renaming your boat is the epitome of bad luck — unless you’ve got Christian Due Hammershøy on your side Is there a better way to change everything about your life than by changing your name? Because...
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An Entire Industry Is Cropping Up to Deal With Millennial Burnout
Across the country, more and more people are succumbing to emotional collapse at work. But how did we get here, and what are we going to do about it? It was a typical Monday morning at a mid-sized...
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Stalking Killer Pythons With Florida’s Bounty Snake Hunters
In the 1980s, pythons were luxury pets — but after Hurricane Andrew, nearly a thousand escaped. They’re still out there, decimating wildlife populations and even posing a threat to humans. Can...
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