Link to Shane showing his stuff
I wanted to research Shane Harper, the extremely attractive drug dealer Junior on Hightown (2020-21). He's distraught over his girlfriend's death, so he makes some homophobic comments to two leather daddies, hoping that they will kill him. They just beat him up; he dies of a drug overdose later.
Shane only has six photos on his Instagram, and two on his X, including this one. He is getting a spray-on tan, with the caption:: "this is probably the only n*de photo I'll ever post."
Don't believe him. He posts a lot.
So who is this guy?
According to the IMDB, he was born in San Diego, and began dancing, singing, and acting in community productions at the age of nine. He played dancers in Re-Animated, High School Musical 2, Dance Revolution, and Dancing on Sunset.
Then he bounced arund the Disney Channel for a few years, guest starring in Zoey 101 and Wizards of Waverly Place, and starring in Good Luck, Charlie as Teddy's boyfriend (Teddy is a girl; so is Charlie)
He released an album in 2011, so I check out the heterosexism: the number of songs that shout "girl! girl! girl!," thus proclaiming that every relationship is heterosexual and invalidating the desires and relationships of LGBT fans.
Not much heterosexism. But then look what happens:
God's Not Dead, 2014, starrs right-wing nutjob Kevin Sorbo as an evil college professor who forces his students to submit signed statements affirming that "God is dead." This is utterly ridiculous. College professors don't force students to accept any point of view. They aren't allowed to.
Besides, The Death of God (1961) was a book complaining that modern society had lost its sense of transcendence, the magical in everyday life. The author didn't mean that the actual Supreme Being was dead. And it was 50 years ago. Why are fundamentalists still upset about it?
Shane plays the student who bravely challenges the evil prof and ends up proving that God is, in fact, still alive.
He returns in God's Not Dead: A Light in the Darkness (2018), in which a Christian pastor is tormented, and his church burned down, by an army of atheists and liberals. No philosophy professors?
OMG, that is jaw-droppingly idiotic.
More after the break
In a 2011 interview, Shane states that he only takes "wholesome" and "uplifting" roles. For instance, he would be ok with playing a gay guy, as long as the movie establishes that being gay is wrong, and has him give up the lifestyle.
That was over a decade ago. Let's see what Shane has been up to lately.
Besides showing his stuff, I mean.
A starring role in the eight-episode Happyland (2014), about a teenage girl whose mother works as a princess at a theme park. He plays Prince Valor at the park, and takes his shirt off a lot, "attracting a lot of girls."
The Passion (2016) puts the Passion of Christ in modern New Orleans, with a jazz score. Prince Royce plays St. Peter, but "not the usual Prince Royce who takes his shirt off and gets the girls screaming." Way to be heteronormative, Prince baby.
Dirty Dancing (2017), a remake of the original. Hey, that's not uplifting.
Six episodes of A Teacher (2020), about a female high school teacher who falls for one of her male students (played by Nick Robinson). Hey, that's sexual assault! Shane plays his friend Eric, "a classic dudebro" into babes and partying. Not uplifting, dude.
Then came 9 episodes of Hightown (2020-21). Shane, baby, the focus character is a lesbian.
And 20 episodes of Power Book IV. (2022-23). It sounds like a Christian drama, but it's actually a crime drama about a drug dealer who wants to leave the criminal underworld and open a nightclub.
Maybe his attitude toward LGBT people has mellowed a bit.
See also: Hank Strong: Bodybuilder, enforcer, leatherman, gay daddy With the Hightower scene
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