Link to the n*de photos
1. "Want to play with my balls?"
2. "So, Eddie, are you big all over?"
Beefcake, gay subtexts, and queer representation in mass media from the 1950s to the present
1. "Want to play with my balls?"
2. "So, Eddie, are you big all over?"
During the late 1970s, there was a trucker fad. The truck driver (or sometimes any driver, as in Dukes of Hazzard) became the new cowboy, a loner who followed his own rules and thumbed his nose at the establishment. People started throwing around terms like "smokey" for cop and phrases like "10-4, Good Buddy" for "Goodbye."
Greg Evigan previously starred in A Year at the Top (1977-78), a sitcom about two musicians who sell their soul to the devil in exchange for a year of fame. It offered lots of buddy-bonding.Max played Fenmore Baldwin, son of Michael Baldwin and Lauren Fenmore, born in 2006, but turned into a teenager when he took over the role (2012-15).
Wait, back up a crush on Summer? What happened? Where is the gay plotline?
American Princess (2019-20): a mis-titled comedy featuring a girl who abandons her wealthy lifestyle to work at a Renaissance faire. Max plays her boyfriend.
Southern Gospel (2023): A "rock n roll star" realizes his childhood dream of becoming a preacher. Ugh.
It's based on the real-life Dr. Gary Smith, who founded the City of Life Church in Kissimmee, Florida. Ugh.
Max plays her brother. The plot synopses on Wikipedia and Decider don't state whether he is gay or not, but presumably not, or there would be massive headlines eveywhere.
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This is a collection of cute/cool photos of Alfie Williams, star of the zombie apocalypse movies 28 Years Later (2025) and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026), and the upcoming thriller Banquet, with Corey Mylchreest. Plus a few photos of some adult co-stars.
1. Corey tied up.
Across from Alfie is Maura Bird (Jimmy Jones), a nonbinary, genderfluid actor who uses she/they pronouns.
Next to them is Robert Rhodes (Jimmy Jimmy), who is gay in real life.
Alfie is always drawn to LGBTQ people and guys who have played gay characters. I can't imagine why.
6. Sorry, I couldn't find any n*de photos of Robert, so what about Sebastian Rhodes?
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Danny's d*ck and four others are posted to RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.
Intellectual Paper (Thomas Lennon), trying to invent something, is annoyed by the loud ninja practice of his roommates, athletic Rock (Ron Funches) and hipster Scissors (Carlos Alarazqui). There's a knock on the door: it's their new neighbor, a female Pencil.
Cliche shot of Pencil walking in slow motion, her long hair blowing in the wind, while Paper gushes in "girl of my dreams" ecstasy.
She works for a high-tech company, so he pretends that he has a high-tech job, too. His brain objects: "You work at a crappy store that sells technology." But his nether parts outrank his brain.
Even when Pencil asks for a tour: Paper puts up a poorly drawn sign and claims that she can't go inside because they're working on a top-secret device that will produce unlimited food out of nothing.
The human boss yells: "I don't pay you to talk to girls, I pay you to unravel the pile of wires in the back room."
Left: Threads says that this is Carlos Alarazqui, best known for "Rocko's Modern Life" and "Reno 911." I don't think so.
This makes Pencil a bit suspicious, but not the President of the United States: she saw the sign and figured that Paper must be super-smart. The world needs his help. Lady is not too bright, is she?
Problem: The Hipponoids, "the most dangerous species in the galaxy," have the Earth surrounded. The Commander (Darin de Paul) explains that their planet is low on food, so Earth must hand over its supply.
Perfect! Pencil announces that Paper can make a device that will produce unlimited food, with no raw materials needed.
Paper's brain begs him to admit that he knows nothing about technology, but no, he thinks he can still find a way to fix this and Win the Girl.
In the workshop, Pencil praises Paper's tech expertise while building the device herself. She seems to be just as invested as Paper in keeping up the Big Lie. There must be some "Boy of My Dreams" going on.
When they show the device to the Hipponoid Comander, Paper tries to take credit, but accidentally breaks it. He lies about that, too.
New plan: he'll bring his ninja roommates Rock and Scissors to the ship, and they'll knock out the aliens before they can invade the planet.
That doesn't work. Finally Paper decides to come clean: "I was just trying to impress someone that I like, and the lie got out of control."
"There he is -- handsome, huh?" He looks rather goofy, but Paper agrees.
"I've had to keep up this lie for 50 years!" You'd better seal the deal soon, buddy. "And I can't invade Earth because then he'll find out that I lied, and never speak to me again."
Paper and the Commander find a solution that permits them to retain both lies: they pretend to use hand-to-hand combat to decide the fate of the Earth. Paper wins, but "Your Commander is so tough that he 'accidentally' destroyed the device."
Whoops, Rock just fixed it.
Gay Representation: The Commander as a muscular being fights stereotypes, and Paper responds nonchalantly to his crush on a male. The writers could easily given him a crush on a female warrior, so this is a positive step. But how about a scene where the Commander actually interacts with the crush? B
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So at first I wasn't interested in The Chair Company on HBO MAX, starring Tim Robinson as Ron Trosper, a "job, house, wife, and kids" guy whose chair collapses during a Very Important Presentation, leading to more mishaps that threaten to destroy his Very Important Career.
He doesn't. He tracks down his assailant, Mike (Joseph Tudisco), a security guard at a local cafe. But Mike says "I was hired by a guy I'd never met. He didn't show his face."
Maybe they could work together to find him?
Wait -- why is Mike interested in helping? There must be some gay-subtext buddy-bonding. I'm reviewing the next episode, 1.3: @BrownDerbyHistoricVids Little Bit of Hollywood? Okayyy.
Try putting that in the Works Cited section of your research paper.
Scene 1: Family Man Ron is at Game Night with his daughter, her fiancee, and her fiancee's parents. Hey, Daughter is gay. What a surprise -- I figured this show would be entirely heteronormative. Ulp, he gets a text: "No way out!", with a photo of him taken at that moment from the hall closet.
He pulls open the closet door, and a little person pushes him aside and runs out. But he wanted to be found out. Family Man Ron gives chase, but Partner Mike rushes up and explains "He's my guy, LT (Joe Apelian). I had him watching to make sure you weren't setting me up."
LT wanted to tell Mike that there was no way out of his hiding place, but he texted the wrong person.
LT interrupts, yelling that Partner Mike isn't his friend, he's no good. He begins kicking boxes.
Left: None of the three have beefcake photos online, so I'm posting 1990s heartthrob Lou Diamond Phillips, who plays the CEO of Family Man Ron's company.
Scene 3: That night, while asleep, Ron keeps imagining LT staring at him. He checks all the closets.
In the morning, he asks his wife if they can install a security system today. A reasonable plan, but he makes it sound crazy by imagining someone with a gun bursting in and forcing them to kill each other.
Scene 4: At work, Ron is discussing something about square footage with a client (Mike Britt). A literal bug crawls into Ron's phone. Now we're getting surreal.
When he has a spare moment, he tries to find out who owns the empty warehouse -- ulp, you have to make your request in person. But before he can duck out, he is dragged into the atrium to watch his tv interview about a shopping mall the company is building: "The way you think about Canton, Ohio is about to change: you're about to step into a bit of Hollywood." Thus the title.
The whispering is about a Mistakes Party -- where you admit your mistakes -- that Ron isn't invited to, because he's the boss.
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Fin attended Greenwood College High School in Toronto, where he took classes in acting and musical theater and starred in a lot of plays:
Troy Bolton in High School Musical
Wayne Hopkins in Puffs: an orphan boy who is invited to attend a certain school of magic (not that one).
Tyler in Public Enemy, about a family dinner "with a surreal twist." If I'm reading the French correctly, playwright Olivier Choinière is queer, so I imagine there is some gay content.
She texts back: "Leave me alone. I don't know you, and you're being weird." He doesn't leave her alone.
Two on-screen acting credits since:
The first episode of Welcome to Derry (2025): the snarly, critical older brother of "bury your gays" Teddy.
The short Grave in the Clouds (2025): a Jewish man (Steven Hobé) discovers that his teenage son (Fin) has written an essay denying the Holocaust, and introduces him to a survivor.
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Last night we watched the Doctor Who 2024 Christmas special, "Joy to the World."
It started out fine: In the 45th century Time Hotel (with portals leading to different historical periods), the time-and-space jumping Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) flirts with security guard Trev (Joel Fry). They notice a guest with a briefcase chained to his wrist.
While the Doctor is off somewhere, we learn that whoever has the briefcase is compelled to pass it on to someone closer to a mysterious goal. Then they disintegrate!
You guessed it -- Trev gets the briefcase, passes it on to Joy, and dies.
The Doctor spends the next year working at a 2024 London hotel (for reasons too complicated to explain) and falling in love with Anita, the manager. Then he returns to the Time Hotel (where only a few seconds have passed) to solve the mystery with Joy. Who lives.
Why on Earth couldn't he have had the adventure with Trev? Why does it always have to be a woman? Especially since this version of the Doctor is supposed to be gay -- a gay guy who flirts with someone for five seconds, then spends a year in a heterosexual romance?
Stylax nods, and tries to kiss Gaius. He's horrified! "I have a wife and kids!"
"I'm not gay!" Stylax clarifies. But Gaius is already running away.
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In honor of Kelton DuMont's 22nd birthday on October 24, 2025, his dad James posted some new, never-before-seen photos. I can never get enough photos of Kelton Dumont, who played surly delinquent Pontius Gemstone on The Righteous Gemstones -- and, in Season 4, displayed a huge number of queer codes, like a "c*ck and balls" t-shirt They inspired me to write my two of my most s*xual fan fictions about Pontius.
When Ayden Mekus popped up on the teen idol website, I wanted to do a profile because of his unusual name -- is he Croatian?
Mekus is the Anglicized version of the Southern Slavic Mikuš, "Nicholas." So maybe his ancestors came from Croatia (see my photo collection of Serbian and Croatian hunks).
Chocolate Chip Cookies: A boy puts laxatives in them to prank his cranky neighbor.
To Smell the Roses: A boy steals his father's cell phone so he will "stop and smell the roses."
Utensils: Everyone at the dinner table is eating soup with a fork.
The Lilac Thief: No plot synopsis available, the film itself is stuck behind a paywall, but the cast list includes SWAT team members and "warrior youth." So time travel?
Then came a lot of reality shows with internet celebrities: 14 episodes with Piper Rokelle, 16 with Friendzy Friday, 41 with ClaireRockSmith, 2 with Sawyer Sharbino, plus his own Ayden Mekus.
13 episodes of P.S. Positive Stories, about people making "positive change."
One episodes of Sister Rules, about sisters who "finally decide to put family first."
73 of Dhar Mann's "uplifting" clickbait videos:
"Dad rejects stepson, then learns shocking truth,"
"This poor kid can't buy school lunch, the end will shock you,"
"Kid gets humiliated playing ball, what happens next will shock you,"
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