The indexes are updated

 I've been running this website (under several names) since August 15, 2012, when I posted my first review: about the gay subtext between Arlo and Chad in Orange County (2002). 15 years later, I have over 2,700 posts and 23 million page views.  But I haven't revised the indexes for a long time, and they were a mess.  

So I have spent the last two days going through every index, fixing the layout and fonts, fixing broken links, removing outdated posts, and removing words that get censored under the new "don't say d*ck" policy.  I still need to add or delete a lot of posts from 2021-2025, but otherwise they are pristine.  I invite you to check them out:

Kids/Teen TV: Reviews of tv shows for children and teenagers with gay, gay-subtext, or homophobic content, from Aaron Stone to Zoey 101.

TV: Reviews of all other tv shows with gay, gay-subtext, or homophobic content, from Absolutely Fabulous to The Young Rebels.

Movies: Reviews of movies with gay, gay-subtext, or homophobic content, from African Journey to Zachariah.

Books/Comics: Authors, books, comic strips, and comic books with gay, gay-subtext, or homophobic content

Music/Dance: Bands, performers, individual songs, and a few ballets and operas with gay, gay subtext, or homophobic content.  

Art: Gay and beefcake art, artists who captured same-sex intimacy or the male form, and a few museums and festivals of gay interest.

Toys/Ghosts/Ads: Childhood toys, games, tv commercials, and magazine ads with gay and gay-subtext content. I'm also putting some paranormal and historical posts here, because where else would they go?

Actors A-L

Actors M-Z

"In the Hand of Dante": Film noir about an original Dante manuscript, set in a 1950s-era 2001. And it gets more confusing. And homophobic.

 Link to the n*de dudes

I love the Divine Comedy, at least the Inferno, where Virgil guides Dante through the stages of hell.  He puts the sodomites in the Seventh Circle, where fire rains down on those who "do violence against nature," but at least it permitted me to mention LGBT people in an Italian class in the 1980s, when otherwise the rule was "Don't mention them, they don't exist."  

So I'm going to watch the new movie In the Hands of Dante, about the discovery of an original Divine Comedy manuscript.  Maybe there will be gay characters, probably not, but I'll still get to hear that beginning phrase again: Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, mi ritrovai per una selva oscura (at the midpoint of life's journey, I found myself lost in a dark forest).

We've all been there.

Scene 1: Dante climbs a rocky cliff.  Meanwhile, sometime in the 1940s or 1950s, an obnoxious novelist (Oscar Isaacs) complains to his friend that his books are too brilliant to be edited. "I'd rather the stableboy f*ck my wife than see my work edited." Heterosexual identity established immediately after his obnoxiousness.

Oscar Isaacs' backside is on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

"So, what's your book about?"

"It's a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. I've been working on it for ten years." 

Friend squeezes his shoulder.  "You're still hot after ten years."  Wait -- are you flirting with him?

" By the way, who is Dante?"  Say what?  Who doesn't know Dante?

"An old dead guy.  But he got trapped in the cage of rhyme and meter.  I'm breaking out, so my translation will be far superior to the original."  The greatest work in Italian literature?  You planning to improve on "Hamlet" next?

Scene 2:  Newark, 1969.  A young boy enters a middle-class house and tells his Uncle, "I just killed some kid."  He explains that the boy (Gavin Weingarten) had a big knife, and asked if he wanted to die.  He tried to defend himself, they struggled, and he managed to stab Knife Boy.  

Since he doesn't know who the boy was, and no one saw them, Uncle says that he should forget about it.  But don't make "malarkey" a habit in the future.  Are you going to grow up to be Our Hero? But you're way too young. That would make the "I'm a better writer than Dante" conversation sometime in the 2000s, and it was obviously in the 1950s.  Maybe Uncle is Our Hero?

Scene 3: Bora Bora, seaside, 2001. Our Hero on a hammock, writing in his notebook about "creamy white gardenia blossoms" and "faded petroglyphs."  So you must be the Boy who killed someone, now middle aged, but it's a parallel world with the look and feel of the 1950s: no computers or cell phones, men wear hats and smoke constantly, writers use pencils. 

Our Hero tells us that the Nine Heavens of the Paradiso is a bad translation; It's really Nine Skies.  The last and rarest of them is the Sky of Illimitibleness.  Or you could say "Endless," if you weren't a pretentious jerk.

Cut to the Young Dante sitting under a tree, looking at the Illimitible Sky.  

Scene 4:  New York, 2001, "That time when the daylight sky was an oppressive, low-lying glare of white, and the dark of night was..."  So, summer.  Is this one of your stories, or really happening in-universe?    A greasy-haired guy named Louie (Gerard Butler, but blond and greasy) saunters into a closed bar and orders a Dewars and water.  He criticizes the bartender's moustache: "You see a guy with a moustache, he's either a cop or a (homophobic slur)."

I expected L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle, the love that moves the sun and the stars, and I'm getting Charles Bukowski, homophobia, and a parallel world where the 1950s never ended. 

"By the way, you ever take it up the *ss?" Louie asks.  "Might make a man out of you."  But then he calls him a c*cksucker.  Twice.  Are you homophobic or not, buddy?  

He criticizes the Bartender and his wife for being excessively ugly, and threatens his nine-year old daughter.

Next topic of conversation: the Bartender's Uncle, "a real fuckup," who opened the bar, but pissed his money away gambling.  Wait, is that the Uncle from 1969?  So the Bartender is Our Hero?  But he's supposed to be in Bora Bora, writing pretentious crap.  And the Uncle was elderly in 1969. No way he's alive in 2001.  

Unc owes the gang a lot of money, so his nephew the Bartender is going to provide it.  Louie takes tonight's proceeds, $1,200, then orders the Bartender to go downtown.  But he shoots him as soon as he gets on his knees.

What does this have to do with Dante?

Scene 4: Our Hero crying as he looks at the picture of a little girl.  Is this the Bartender's daughter, who was just threatened?

 He tells us that a young adult lady called him Nick, and then "Daddy."  So you were dating the Bartender's daughter -- but she was nine years old in 2001.  Have we jumped ahead to 2026?  Or is she a different person, and you were looking at a photo of the bartender's daughter to confuse viewers?  He kisses her goodbye as she is crying.  I'm crying, too, in  frustration over this nonsensical plot.

 Cut to the EMTs taking her body away. 

Cut to Our Hero, drunk and injured (a bloody bandage on his leg), climbing the rocks of Bora Bora.  He falls into the water, delighted: "I feel nothing of these open rocks."

More after the break.  Caution: It gets even more confusing, but there are d*cks

Paxton Booth: The "Coop and Cam" brother likes girls' clothes, unicorns, and c*ck sparring, but does he like guys? With Galvin d*ck

 Link to the n*de photos

Earlier I profiled Dakota Lotus. Coop of the Disney Channel teencom Coop and Cam Ask the World.  Now it's time for 16-year old Paxton Booth, who played little brother Ollie.  He has a femme presentation and a quirky fashion sense, and check out his photos of theater marquees:

"C*ck Sparrer Sold Out."

If that means what I think it means, get me a ticket, too.

"Circle J*rks Live on Stage."

 Looks like Paxton and I share several interests.

Actually, those are both hardcore streetpunk bands from the 1970s.  I don't know if Pax is a fan or just expressing an interest in the names, but it's worth a closer look.

Ok biceps for a beginner, and the duck lips are rather femme.

Paxton Booth was born in Pomona, California in 2010, and started acting at age three, in a series of national commercials.  His on-screen work began with the short Greener Grass in 2015, and continued with guest shots on Hack My Life, Teachers, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Adam Ruins Everything.

He played the Young Kenny on a 2016 episode of The Real O'Neals.  Kenny is the gay son in a conservative Irish-Catholic family, played as a teen by gay actor Noah Galvin (backside and d*ck on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

A promising start, buddy.

Paxton's most significant role to date was on Coop and Cam Ask the World (2018-20).  The titular siblings (Dakota Lotus, Ruby Rose Turner) host an internet show, Would You Wrather, in which fans vote on which prank they should do, or later which solution to a problem they should choose. 

Younger brother Ollie (Paxton, left) has a gay-subtext buddy (Fred Tsai), and non-heterosexist plotlines: he pours garbage into a classmates desk in order to impress him (say what?); gets lost in the mall while his siblings are babysitting him; is bullied by a boy at the ice rink; is trapped by a rock slide on a camping trip...gets a crush on a girl...

Dang, I knew it couldn't last.  First rule of teencoms: every boy, regardless of his age, must demonstrate that he is heterosexual.

A 2020 article in Jejune Magazine tells us that Paxton is "seriously woke" for a nine-year old.   He notes that he buys from girls' and guys' sections of the clothing store,and prefers pink, which results in a lot of bullying.  He wants to start a gender-neutral clothing line that will fight bullying and "give other youngsters a chance to fully embrace who they are."

He uses "who they are" as a closeted term for "gay," but later he (along with other Disney kids) wears  purple to note that he opposes LGBTQ bullying.

 More after the break

The Amazing Digital Circus: Gay, trans, ace, and nonbinary humans trapped in a sinister video game. With some voice artist d*cks

 

Link to the n*de dudes

The Amazing Digital Circus is an adult animated series where humans are zapped into a virtual reality pocket universe that looks like a 1990s circus-themed video game.  They forget their names and their human lives, except for a few random details.  Every day a crazy AI named Caine sends them out on "adventures," some frightening (explore a haunted mansion), some just soul-destroying (work a shift in a fast-food restaurant).  

Showrunner Gooseworx notes a debt to the Harlan Ellison story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,"where a sentient computer kills almost all humans, leaving a few alive to torture forever.  But here Caine does not intend to torture the "players," unless he gets angry: most of the time he is honestly trying to provide them with fun and excitement, but he has no idea what humans like. 

The result is terror, pain, and a lot of existential angst.  What are we doing here?  How can you find meaning when you are "just a sort of thing in a dream," or in this case a video game?  

When the angst becomes too great for the characters to maintain consciousness, lucidity, or body shape, they are "abstracted," reduced to a monstrous formation of eyes and spikes, and sent to the Cellar. 

The main players are:

Focus character Pomni, a court jester, a supermarket accountant in her old life. She tries to keep the others coherent while searching for an escape.

Pomni is voiced by Lizzie Freeman (cishet).

Jax, a tall, purple anthropomorphic bunny.  As a human, he was 22 years old, living with his abusive mother.  One day she insulted him for 40 minutes, then tried to hug him; he pushed her away and ran, and ended up at the Circus.  He is condescending, sarcastic, sometimes cruel, and claims to not care about anyone or anything -- except for his abstracted chum that the others are not supposed to ever mention.  Their human form came out as transgender and began using she/her pronouns.

Jax is voiced by Michael Kovach, left (ace, heteroromantic).  In the live action shows, he is played by actor/model Izatillo Ishonov (gay), who also goes by Nizatillo and Izat (top photo).

Ragatha, a Raggedy Ann doll with a missing eye.  In her human life, she had a wealthy farming family and an abusive mother.  She tries to be optimistic and friendly to everyone.

Ratha is voiced by Amanda Huffman (nonbinary).

Kinger, a chess piece with a purple robe and wobbly eyes.  A computer programmer in his old life, he was the first to enter the Circus, and is now unstable and prone to amnesia.  He spends most of his time hiding in a pillow fort.

Kinger is voiced by Sean Chiplock (cishet).  In the live shows, he is voiced by Ben Bishop (gay, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

Gangle, four red ribbons arranged in a humanoid form, with a tragedy or comedy mask (but the comedy keeps breaking). As a human, she was shift supervisor at a fast-food restaurant.  One night she was hit by a truck, and awoke in the Circus. She is timid and self-conscious.

Gangle is voiced by Marisa Lenti (agender, ace).

Zooble, a constantly changing assemblage of random parts resembling a ZoLo toy. As a human, they were a nonbinary tattoo artist, and worked at a LGBTQ-friendly bar.  They often rebel against the AI Caine, and refuse to go on adventures, causing him to send them to therapy (with Caine playing the psychiatrist).

Zooble is voiced by Ashley Nichols (nonbinary).

More after the break.