Jake Satow: Saving Christmas, a Christian horse, a nonbinary internet celebrity, and the guy from "Baywatch"

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I was looking for actors who played nonbinary characters, and the name "Jake Satow" popped up.  Never heard of him, but he's attractive, so I checked the listing on IMDB.

He has 18 acting credits.  The most recent is Saving Christmas Spirit, 2022.  

How many times does that holiday need saving?

Spoiler alert: Christmas Spirit is a store that needs saving.  Jake plays a teenager who gets a girlfriend.

Adeline, 2022, is about a horse that heals people in a small town.  I swear, I'm not making this up.  Presumably a Christian movie, since one of the IMDB reviews says something like "Stop the insanity. The Bible isn't real." 

It stars 1980s hunks John Schneider from The Dukes of Hazzard, bottom photo, and David Chokachi from Baywatch.

Jake had a busy 2022.  Other roles include Howard Hunt's son in Gaslit,  which has a maddenly misleading title.  You expect the gaslit Victorian era, with hanson cabs clattering down cobblestone streets.  It's about Watergate.

Hockey Trophy Jake in Breathing Happy, about a recovering drug addict celebrating his first year of sobriety on Christmas Day, naturally. Other characters are named the Mysterious Door, the Golden Door, and Salvation Elf.  Another Christian movie, I imagine. 

Christian Holmes at age 14 in The Dropout, about a woman dropping out of college to start a tech company that revolutionalizes the health care industry.  Christian Holmes at age adult is her husband.

This is all terribly heteronormative. 

Before 2022, Jake was starring in a lot of shorts: a clown with marital problems, the morning announcements at a middle school, an alarm clock going off an hour early, dad dying, and Christmas.  They all have about the same cast, so I'm guessing local productions.

His website lists a theatrical production, The Honorary Counsel, performed with the actors in Zoom rooms, plus modeling on runways for Columbus Fashion Week and for Macy's and Homage.  

No indication of nonbinary, trans, or otherwise LGBTQ roles.  Maybe in real life?

Jake has 17,000 followers on Instagram.  His profile says says "Christian"...uh-oh, probably homophobic... SAG/AFTRA....The Dropout, and Saving Christmas Spirit.

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He's into rock jumping, horse riding, aviation, and axe throwing. Yow.

His "happy place" is southwestern Utah. Yow.

About 10,000 pictures of him and a girl, and only one with other guys  Yow.

Looks like cisgender heterosexual, rather on the macho side, and not necessarily an LGBTQ ally. 

So where did the "nonbinary" come from?

Apparently my google search yielded an article in Jejune Magazine, with Jake volunteering at Ronald McDonald House. 

 

The article also profiles the McLeod family, a single Mom who has adopted three special needs kids.  One has cerebral palsy, and the other two are on the autism spectrum. Evan, on the far right, "is already so self-aware that he knows he is nonbinary and likes to wear dresses."  

The family has 2.5 million followers on Tiktok and 295,000 on Instagram,  making Evan an internet celebrity.  He appeared with JoJo Siwa and the tiktok celebrities the Old Gays.

Since the article was published in 2022, Evan has come out as trans, and adopted the name Diana.   Although Mom is asexual and bi-romantic, part of the LGBTQ community, she didn't know much about trans people, so helping Diana find her true self has been a learnng experinece.

Back to Jake.  One more beefcake photo for the road.  Beefcake is beefcake, no matter how straight.

And John Schneider and Tom Wopat, Bo and Luke Duke on the Dukes of Hazzard . 

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