I was promised hand-holding: A review of "Drunken History," Episode 3.13, "Space"

 

Drunk History (2013-2019) is a comedy series in which drunken comedians describe historical events to a narrator, who responds approvingly with smiles and laughter. Meanwhile they are acted out by guest stars (with the comedian providing the voices).  

Episode 3.15 has three segments: Carl Sagan falling in love with Ann Druyan, Wernher von Braun inventing rockets, and two Russian cosmonauts becoming the first humans in space. Jeffrey James Lippold (left) plays a Nazi soldier (bulge pics on the NSFW Site).

Plus the IMDB photos for the episode show  these guys hugging and holding hands. The one in front is Mark Gagliardi, who is listed only once, playing John F. Kennedy in Episode 3.13, "Space."  The other guy must be Nathan Fillion, playing Wernher von Braun.  So the two hooked up?

  I'll skip over the Carl Sagan hetero-romance and go straight to Werner. He grows up in Prussia and becomes a mild-mannered rocket scientist, looking at "heavenly bodies" and hoping to one day get there with his buds.

The juxtaposition of "heavenly bodies" and same-sex pals counts as a subtle queer code.

After the War, the Americans grab him, forgive his war crimes, and tell him to invent some more rockets.  But he takes time off to promote the space race, culminating in putting a man on the moon in 1969

Nice phallic rocket, but John F. Kennedy does not appear in the episode.

Further research reveals that the photo is from another episode.  Mark Gagliardi, uncredited, is holding hands with Derek Waters.  That's homoerotic, but I was promised Kennedy and Von Braun as Cold War boyfriends.

The third segment, about Russian cosmonauts going into space, had better deliver some gay subtexts.  Since it stars Adam Devine, I put the review on Righteous Gemstones Beefcake and Boyfriends

(I also threw in some nude photos of Nathan Fillion, so I don't confuse him with Derek Walters again)