Jake Rory: The Shropshire Lad plays gay-vague on EastEnders, falls in love with Mercutio, gets n*ked in third of his on-screen roles.

  

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The media calls Jake Rory  a Shropshire Lad, reflecting the book of poetry by A.E. Housman, who was terrified of acknowledging his love for men:

Look not in my eyes, for fear
  They mirror true the sight I see,
And there you find your face too clear
  And love it and be lost like me.

He grew up in Maesbury, Shropshire, near the Welsh border; his Mum ran the Talbot Pub across the border in Welshpool.  After secondary school at The Hammond, he attended ArtsEd, a "world-renowned" drama school in London:

There he Jake appeared in:

The Cherry Orchard (who hasn't?)

 Orpheus Descending, by Tennessee Williams.  Bi actor Marlon Brando starred in the movie version.

Macbeth

And The Voysey Inheritance: Desire and social obligation, by the heavily closeted Harley Granville-Barker.

He also had a minor role in the short Renters (2024): a lesbian couple in Auckland are looking for a flat.  One seems too good to be true, until... 

Jake graduated with a B.A. in Acting in 2024, and was immediately cast in a modernized version of Oedipus on the West End (October 2024-January 2025).  Mark Strong played Oedipus. Jake was in the ensemble, and understudied the roles of Eteocles, Polyneices, and Lichas (Oedipus' son, brother, and assistant).

In 2025, Jake and Connor Monroe wrote and performed in Mercutio,  a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, at the Camden Fringe Festival.  A review mentions an "unexpected romantic subtext," but of course the gay-subtext romance betwween Mercutio and Romeo is well known.  

Connor Monroe is apparently gay.  A woman posts on "Love Is All That Matters" about her "gay brother Connor Monroe," and someone by that name mentions having a husband. 

Jake also began television work in 2025.  In Episode 1.8 of The Agency, Martian (Michael Fassbinder), a CIA agent working undercover, walks in on his daughter  Poppy and her boyfriend Daniel (Jake), both unclothed.  Danny Boy strikes a pose, planning to fight the "intruder"; but upon realizing that it's just Dad, he settles for covering up.

Martian is nonchalant about his daughter getting busy.  Later he praises her for growing into a "cool person."

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Rage Boy Mitch: Disabled teen probably gay gamer from Brisbane shows his muscles early in his training. With Mitch d*ck and a Jakarta chunk

 

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Most amateur bodybuilders don't start posting until they have a ripped physique, but not Rage Boy Mitch: he wants us to see his development from Day #1.  He has 35 posts on Instagram, all from May-June 2026.  

He looks scared.  I imagine that it takes a lot of courage to post at this stage of your training.  Most comments tell Mitch that he's ripped or hot, or encourage him to keep going, but there are a few haters.

Come on, you can't look like this when you're just starting out.  Or ever. (N*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

At least no one was hating the video where his pajama bottoms slide off during a pose. 

I'm not sure of Mitchell's age, so you don't get to see the result, but the backside on  RG Beefcake and Boyfriends will give you an idea.

  

Mitch also reviews food, like Gym Bod Ice Cream.

Dude, staging counts.  Don't review a product in your pajamas, with an unmade bed in the background.

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OMG, some jaw-dropping queer codes on "Chad Powers." Russ and Danny are in love! With Zahn backside, Clayne d*ck, and some random Tennessee dudes

  

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This is huge.  This is Glenn and Zy holding hands on Solar Opposites,  Finn on a date with a boy in Unprisoned, Scotty telling Gideon "You knock me out" on The Righteous Gemstones. 

This is Kurt Russell smiling at Patrick Dawson on a dreary November night many years ago, the smile that gave me the first clue that two boys can fall in love. 

 A few weeks ago, I reviewed Episode 1.2 of the Hulu sports series Chad Powers: several years after he was cancelled for being an a-hole, footballer Russ (Glen Powell) tries to get into the game by pretending to be high school superstar Chad Powers and playing for  he South Georgia State College Catfish.  

He is assisted by Danny (Frankie Rodriguez), the team mascot, who gives him a place to stay, provides his prosthetic cheeks, and makes sure that the back story details he ad-libs are consistent.

They aren't at all consistent,  but Coach Hudson (Steve Zahn) is desperate for a winning season, so he doesn't dig too deeply.

Danny displays a few queer codes, but doesn't express any same-sex interest.  Frankie Rodriguez stated in an interview that it's nice to play a gay character where being gay is not the main thing about him, but I wasn't happy.  Most viewers won't notice, or will dismiss the queer codes with "Straight guys do that.  It doesn't make him gay."

Then came Episode 1.4.  I'll do a brief synopsis to get to the jaw-dropping part.

Scene 1: On the bus en route to an away game in Knoxville, the Coach presumes that Chad/Russ and Danny are boyfriends, even though they aren't sitting together.  He personally doesn't care, but they will in Tennessee, so keep it closeted.  

Chad/Russ claims that they're not boyfriends, they're brothers: Danny's family fostered him for a few years, and then Chad/Russ's family fostered Danny.  This makes no sense, and doesn't fit the established back story at all, but the Coach just shrugs.  Whatever, he's a good player.

Scene 2: At the hotel, Assistant Coach Dobbs (Clayne Crawford, right) cautions the players to not "spread any cheeks" tonight, so they'll be rested for the big game (while looking directly at Chad/Russ, also assuming that he and Danny are boyfriends). 

Bedtime is 11:00 pm.  If you're not in your room by bed check, you don't play tomorrow. 

Scene 3: Problem: someone left the cap off the glue, so there's no way to affix Russ's prosthetic cheeks.  The ones he is wearing will fall apart by morning.  What to do?

"There must be prosthetic glue somewhere in Knoxville," Russ suggests. 

The other players have invited some fans, including Mean Girl Sasha, to a pre-bedtime party in their room. Russ and Danny steal her car keys so they can drive to a Halloween store.

Noticing the messiness of Mean Girl Sasha's car, Russ exclaims "Girls are gross!" 

"But not Assistant Coach Ricky?  Don't you have a crush on her?"

"Heck, no.  She's just nice, that's all."  So you don't like girls, Russ?  I did notice that you brought a dude to the club in Episode 1.   "And she's being nice to Chad, not Russ."

"Yeah, she'd hate Russ.  She's not into f*kboys." A f*kboy is someone who treats his partners like objects.  So Danny doesn't think of Russ as a potential partner because he wants something more meaningful?

Scene 3: At the Halloween store, Russ notices his face on a Halloween costume: "A-Hole Quarterback."  He's depressed, but Danny tries to console him by suggesting that the model was another a-hole "with frosted tips and a cubic zirconia ear stud."  

A big guy bought the last bottle of glue, and is using it to apply a mask.  Russ wants Danny to ask him for the glue, but he refuses: "Bears are not my type."  What about A-hole quarterbacks?

So Russ approaches and starts a conversation.  It's a mask of the rival team; he's planning to wear it to the game tomorrow in honor of his dad.  

While they are talking, Danny steals the glue.  That's a lot of theft, buddy. Aren't you supposed to be encouraging Russ to become a better person?  

Scene 4: The Bear notices and chases them out of the store. 

Another problem: Someone broke into the car and stole their stuff, including Danny's $180 airpods and the prosthetic cheeks! 

They track down the guy,  but he starts shooting, so they run away.  And Russ cut his hand on the broken glass in the car! 

Scene 5: The wait at the ER is too long --bed check is in an hour -- so Russ orders Danny to find some bandages.  He'll take care of his injury himself.

Danny: "You can't order me around. Am I your employee?"

Russ: "I don't wanna litigate the nature of our...whatever this is...right now."  It's a friendship.  Why is it so hard to define?  Unless....

 Danny is incensed over his refusal to name their relationship "Our whatever? I save your *ss again and again and again..."

Russ:  "You're just hanging out with me because of Chad.  Chad makes you relevant." 

More arguing.  Each accuses the other of using him, not really loving...I mean caring about him, and finally Russ orders Danny to leave.  

"Ok, if you don't need anyone, get your own goddam glue."  He dumps the glue out onto the floor and storms out.

Russ sits there for awhile, upset over the breakup.  Back to his problem: they use medical adhesive in hospitals.  He steals some, bandages his hurt hand, and rushes back to the hotel.  

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The Witch: A family in Colonial New England is bedeviled, with beefcake and gay symbolism. Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

 

Around 1630, William (Ralph Ineson) and his family are exiled from Plimoth Plantation, the first Puritan colony in the New World, for espousing religious heresy.  We're not told what the heresy is, but it may have to do with the need to earn your salvation.  The Puritans were Calvinists: you are born saved or damned, and there is nothing you can do about it.  Your good or evil works are just evidence that you were "born that way."

But working for your salvation is even worse, because no matter how many good works you do, one sin will cast it all aside  When I was growing up, it was the same: the Nazarene Church taught Christian perfection.  You could be totally holy for every moment of your life, except for one moment of doubt that you forgot to repent for, and that was enough to spend eternity in the Lake of Fire.  

Back to my childhood...um. I mean the Puritans.  They try to start a farm, but William is no good at farming, or hunting, or building things, or...well, anything but chopping wood, which he does obsessively.  He's also not a great role model: he steals his wife's heirloom silver cup, then blames his teenage  daughter, Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy).  He decides to sell her to another family, to make ends meet.

He tells his son Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw) to lie about their failed hunting trip, and gets angry when he asks whether unbaptized babies go to heaven.  

When their infant son vanishes, we see that a witch has grabbed him to use his blood for a flying spell, but the family blames Thomasin for not keeping an eye on him.  

Meanwhile, the twins are tormenting their goat, named Black Phillip, and claim that he talks to them.  The family blames Thomasin for that, too. 

Then Caleb, who has been sneaking peeks at his sister's bosom, disappears.  We see that he has been lured to the witche's hut: she appeared as an attractive woman with a large bosom, and kissed him before reverting to her true form.   He returns to the farm the next daked and babbling.  The family thinks he is being bedeviled by the witch, and try to pray: but the twins have forgotten their prayer!  They claim that Thomasin used witchcraft to keep their mouths shut, and she claims that they are witches, so of course they cannot pray.  After a moment of ecstatic lucidity, where he claims that he sees Jesus, Caleb dies.

Thomasin angrily confronts William over his many misdeeds, but insists that she is not the witch.  He can't decide, so he locks her and the twins in the goat house. 

During the night, things go wrong.  Mom gets a vision of her two dead sons, and ends up nursing a crow.  Black Peter head-butts William, knocking him into his two-story tall pile of logs and killing him.  Then the ram kills the twins.

Mom concludes that Thomasin is responsible for the murders, and attacks; Thomasin must kill her in self-defense.  

Sh asks Black Peter to speak to her. He asks: "Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"

Yeah, that sounds cool.

Taking the form of a man (Daniel Malik), he asks her to write her name in a book, then leads her into the forest, where she joins a coven of witches in their ecstatic gyrating around a fire.  They all start to levitate.

Several reviews have found queer codes in the outsiders lurking in the woods, the Others who threaten the heterosexual nuclear family, when someone inside the family may be one of them as well.

The witches are evil, of course, murdering people either tu use in spells or to please Black Peter; but they also provide a queer space.  Black Phillip offers Thomasin the opportunity to "don't dream it, be it," to embrace her lesbian identity.

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