This simple creation started out as ideas taken from Korean and Indian street vendors, with a nod to the classic French sandwiches, Monte Cristo, and Croque Monsieur. It is to honor a gay icon of film Casey Donovan. Read about him after the recipe and use as a topic for brunch conversation.
Ingredients:
2 slices bread, crusts removed
3 eggs
1 Tbs mayonnaise
pinch of baking soda
2 slices of American cheese
2 Tbs butter + oil for frying
1 tsp sugar
Directions:
Cut the crusts off of 2 pieces of bread with a sharp knife.
Whip the eggs in a small bowl with the mayonnaise and a pinch of baking soda.
Pour into the hot skillet.
Lay each piece of bread into the egg mixture and flip each over. This distributes the egg into the bread well.
Lay a piece of cheese on each slice of bread. Let cook until the edges start to bubble on the eggs.
Using the spatula, turn up the overflow of egg onto each piece of bread.
Then fold one piece over the other. Cover until the egg start to show traces of brown.
Slide off onto a plate and lightly sprinkle with the sugar.
Another time, try adding a slice of dell ham to the cheese before you fold for a version of a Monte Cristo. Sprinkle with powdered mustard or use Gruyere cheese if you like. Develop this into your own special easy presentation.
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Casey Donovan
Born November 2, 1943, Casey Donovan was an iconic gay male pornographic actor from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s during the Golden Age of Porn.
Casey was born John Calvin Culver in East Bloomfield, New York. He attended State University of New York and graduated in 1965.
He went on to take a job at a private school but was fired during his second year following an altercation where he physically disciplined a female student (reportedly the daughter of actor Eli Wallach).
At this point Culver started working as an paid escort. Through one of his clients, Culver landed a spot with the Wilhelmina Models modeling agency, commanding an hourly rate of $60 ($400 in today's terms).
He continued to pursue stage work, landing an understudy job in 1969 in the Off-Broadway gay-themed play And Puppy Dog Tails, making his Broadway debut in 1970 in the Native American-themed production Brave and a co-starring role in the off-Broadway play Circle in the Water (also in 1970).
In 1971, he was offered to appear in Casey, a gay pornographic film in which Culver played the title role. The film was about a gay man who is visited by his fairy godmother Wanda (Culver playing a dual role in drag), and is granted a series of wishes which make him sexually irresistible to other men. Culver later took the title character's name, Casey, and that of the popular singer-songwriter Donovan to create the stage name he would use in all his other erotic roles.
His world changed when he appeared in the film that would cement his status as a gay icon, Boys in the Sand, in 1971.
The film was an instant success and is considered one of the great classics of male erotic cinema.
Boys in the Sand led by example in almost every area. It was the first hardcore gay film to include credits for cast and crew, although many used noms de porn. It was the first to be advertised in The New York Times and the first to be reviewed by Variety; it appeared on the magazine’s list of the fifty top-grossing movies for almost three months. Many considered it “an artistically serious hardcore film” and it helped to define “porn chic,” which became popular in the early seventies.
In an era when it was illegal in almost every state and many considered it to be shameful, dishonorable, and malignant, Boys in the Sand presented same-sex intimacy between consenting adults as completely normal and deeply satisfying. Donovan was uninhibited, even exuberant, about his sexual self, which he continued to validate and celebrate across his career both on screen and off.
With the success and celebrity he garnered from the film, he tried to cross over into mainstream movies. Attempts to build on his notoriety failed, but Donovan stayed being a bankable star in the adult industry for the next 15 years.
Outside his adult film career, Donovan continued to pursue stage work. In 1972, he was cast in a short-lived Broadway revival of Captain Brassbound's Conversion. Star Ingrid Bergman described him as "having the same kind and as much charisma as Robert Redford." He then landed a small role in the 1973 Lincoln Center production of The Merchant of Venice, which was praised as having "vivid appeal."
In 1974, Donovan starred as Brian, a gay bathhouse attendant, in the play Tubstrip. While the play was critically deemed entertaining enough to its target gay audience (having earned, in the words of one critic, a "nationwide gay housekeeping seal of approval") Donovan himself was judged as simply "no better nor worse [an] actor than most of the others [in the cast]."
Donovan's iconic status allowed him to build a lucrative career as a high-priced escort, though it would cost him his legitimate modeling career as more and more clients made the connection between the model Culver and the porn star Donovan.
Tom Tryon
In 1973, at the height of his popularity, Donovan met actor-turned-writer Tom Tryon, and the two entered into a long-term relationship that lasted 4 years. Tryon was deeply closeted and grew increasingly disturbed by Donovan's notoriety.
In 1978, Donovan purchased a house in Key West, Florida, to run as a bed and breakfast dubbed "Casa Donovan." He struggled to keep it, but it failed. More successful was his time as a celebrity tour guide, conducting all-gay trips in partnership with an outfit called Star Tours to Italy, China, Peru and other places.
In 1983, he turned his hand to producing, with an unsuccessful Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's play The Ritz in which he also appeared.
By 1985, Donovan's health had begun to deteriorate, as he had contracted HIV. He had counseled his fans through his "Ask Casey" column as early as 1982 to reduce their number of sex partners and take steps to preserve their health, and urged them to be tested for HIV once the test was developed.
Donovan died in 1987 of an AIDS-related pulmonary infection in Inverness, Florida, aged 43. We lost a pioneer in the crusade for sexual freedom.
Casey Donovan did not organize rallies or picket businesses or lobby for political change. In an era when so many of us were deeply closeted and cowered by the cultural and legal stigmata placed upon gay men, he embodied the reality that “Gay is Good,” that our sexual desires are true and valid, that gay intimacy is normal and natural, and that gay life can be open, joyous, and without guilt.
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