Aramis Gomez: Teenage model/actor with six acting credits, some swimsuit photos, and lots of gay friends. With Zac Efron's stuff

  

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I was interested in Aramis Gomez because he has over 1,000 photos on the teen idol site, so he must be famous for something, and because I always liked the name Aramis: one of the Three Musketeers, originally "someone from Aramits," a village in the  Basque region of the Pyrenees.  My friend Yuri and I went to Basque country several years ago in search of "the world's biggest p*nis."

Our Aramis seems to be primarily known for modeling.  He has only six acting credits listed on the IMDB, five of them shorts:

Bricks (2016), not to be confused with the other Bricks (2016), an adaption of Poe's "Cask of Amontillado," Bricks (2015), about two crooks arguing after a robbery, or Brick (2025), about an apartment house that's bricked in.  Our Bricks is only seven minutes long; it took me longer to look for a plot synopsis. I couldn't find one.

Why is Santa Asian? (2016).  No plot description, but no Santa Claus appears in the cast list, but Randall Park stars as Lily's Dad.

Left: Aramis Buddy, you're holding that graphic novel upside down.

Foster Home (2017). No plot description, but directed by Sean Peavy.

Clark (2018): William McNamara (n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) kidnaps a boy (Aramis) who is "much more than he seems to be."  So, a demon, a brat, or someone who teaches him the joie de vivre.

Ghost Squad (2018): Paranormal investigators camp out in their school.  

Plus a two-episode guest spot on Animal Kingdom (2021): Liam (Taylor Handley, left), the abusive ex-husband of desert guru Cassandra, kidnaps their son (Aramis), so Andrew (Shaun Hatosy, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) leaves him tied up in the desert and suggests that Cassandra run away with the boy.

Aramis is a preteen or tween in all of his appearancces,  so I doubt that there is any gay content.

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Boxers and Boyfriends: Joe Palooka

The most famous fictional boxer of the 20th century was probably Joe Palooka in the long-running comic strip (1930-1984).   Tall and immensely strong but gentle, Joe Palooka was the creation of Ham Fisher, who observed lots of young Polish immigrant boys hanging around boxing arenas, hoping that their muscles would bring them fame and fortune.

In slang of the era, a "palooka" was an incompetent boxer, but Joe Palooka was a star.

In his heyday, Joe was appearing on the radio, in movies, in big-little books, and in comic books.

Left: Tab Hunter lookalike Joe Kirkwood played Palooka.

You could buy Joe Palooka toys, gum, lunch boxes, board games, and a cut-out mask on Wheaties cereal.  

Pop quiz: Joe or Tab?

 In 1948, the town of Bedford, Indiana  (near Bloomington) erected a statue in his honor.  It was moved to nearby Oolitic in 1984.

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It's a "Different World" than where you come from. There are gay guys at Hillman College now, with muscular physiques and stuff

 

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In 1987, daughter Denice (Lisa Bonet) of The Cosby Show spun off into college, "A Different World than where you come from."  It aired between Cosby and Cheers, so we had no choice but to watch.  But no problem: there was a lot of beefcake -- I especially liked Short Guy Ron (Darryl M. Bell) -- and some gay-subtext buddy bonding; the snobbish aristocrat Whitley stole the show; and the historically black Hillman College was interesting, "a different world" to many viewers.

It wasn't actually a comedy, at least not after the first season, when Denice left and Whitley was promoted to the focus character. The world became a cold, dark place, with episodes about s*xual assault, abusive relationships, AIDS, and a lot of racism. I especially disliked the constant victimization of math major Dwayne Wayne (Kadeem Hardison), who for some inexplicable reason starts dating Whitley, his polar opposite. Eventually we stopped watching. No point in getting depressed every Thursday night.

Nearly 30 years later, a new generation of first-years has arrived at Hillman for a rebooted Different World on Netflix. The focus character is Deborah Wayne, the daughter of now-divorced Dwayne and Whitley.  Hillman is her safety school, even though her dad is provost or something --- all of the old gang have stuck around, and now have important jobs at the college.

A homophobic Redditer complained, "Why do they have to make 99% of the characters on every tv show gay? It's like straight people don't even exist anymore."  So let's look for the gay characters.  The character and episode descriptions on Netflix and Wikipedia offer some clues.

There are seven main male characters.  Five are identified as heteros*xual:

Superstar basketball player Shaquille Johnson (Cornel Young IV, left), son of Short Guy Ron, chose Hillman against his dad's advice that he go to a Big 10 School and then turn pro. He starts dating Deborah.

Jalen (Elijah J. Roberts, left) is a "s*xy point guard" on the basketball team, who starts dating Deborah's friend Hazel.

Ghanian-Nigerian fashion design major
Koji (Chbuikem Ujike, left, underwear on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) is in college only to please his parents. He actualy wants to drop out and start his own fashion company.  Sounds promising, but Netflix says that his main pastime is "charming girls."

On RG Beefcake and Boyfriends: I went through the cast list, looking for n*de ptos of the male stars, and found Michael Vargas in an adult video.

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Jake Silbermann: Coming out on a soap, crushing on a dude off-Broadway, with some film roles and a beautiful, humongous...

  

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Two Jakes with familiar-sounding names had impressive photos on the celebrity d*ck  subreddit.  Yesterday I profiled the first Jake, McDornan, from Quints, Greek, What We Do in the Shadows, and Mrs. Davis. The second Jake, Silbermann, is not instantly familiar, but I know him from somewhere.

Researching him proves problematic: a comedian/ musician named Jake Silbermann is much more famous, and gets 99% of the internet search hits.  I'll have to go with the IMDB biography for our Jake:

Born in New York City in 1983, and received a B.A. in Theater Arts from Syracuse University in 2004.  After some commercials and guest spots, he landed his most significant role to date, Noah Meyer on 222 episodes of As the World Turns (2007-10).  

Noah and Luke were praised as soap opera's first gay power couple, Nuke.  But it doesn't seem like they were together very often, or for very long.  I'll try to piece together their convoluted storyline.

1.Noah is a student at Oakdale University and intern at WOAK television, dating fellow intern Maddie.  he thinks that Luke (Van Hansis) is after his girlfriend, until the dude reveals that he is gay.

2. Noah and Luke start dating on the downlow.  Maddie finds out and dumps Noah.

3. Noah's Dad (Daniel Hugh Kelly) finds out and disowns him , tries to "cure" him, and finally tries to end Luke.  He ends up paralyzed, but eventually recovers.

4. Noah marries a young Iraqi woman so she won't be sent back to her country, but she falls in love with him and wants to make the relationship physical.  Then she disappears, but it turns out that she has been kidnapped by Noah's Dad.  In the ensuing confrontation, Dad is killed.  Or is he?

5. After some skulduggery, Luke realizes that he still has feelings for his ex, Kevin (Karl Girolamo), and breaks up with Noah.

6. Later Luke starts dating Reid, but when Noah is in critical condition in the hospital, he rushes to his ex-boyfriend's side.

7. Luke gets back together with Reid, who then has a car accident and expires. Meanwhile, Noah gets back with his ex-girlfriend, Maddie.

8. Noah is blinded in an accident. Luke starts dating Brian (Lawrence Lau), the doctor in charge of restoring his sight.  

Or is Brian his grandmother's new husband?  Wikipedia and the fan wiki give different stories.  I guess it doesn't matter: everybody that Luke dates is a goner. 

So naturally Noah calls off the latest attempt to start a relationship and leaves town. Just before the soap opera ends, cancelled after 54 seasons.  But at least they got to kiss twice.

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