Avan Jogia: The Johnny Depp of "Victorious" grows up, dates Beau Mirchoff, shows his d*ck, but is he gay?

Link to the Jogia and Mirchoff d*cks

I only watched a few episodes of the Nickelodeon teencom Victorious (2010-2013).  It was about the same as a dozen other Nick/Disney Channel teencom, with:

1. A girl who wants to be a singer (does any girl ever have any other career goal?)

2. A best friend

3. A snobbish frenemy

4. A dork who is crushing on her (Matt Bennett).

5. A black guy (Leon Thomas III).

6. The hunk she is crushing on (Avan Jogia. above, who looks a lot like a young Johnny Depp). . 

 In my review, I called it "alnost gay" due to a buddy-bonding subtext and one line: a character says that she is going to visit "her uncle and uncle" in San Francisco.  Fans went to extraordinary lengths to argue that she could not possibly have meant a gay couple.

Looking for one of the Victorious stars to profile, I checked two things: Is he gay?  Does he have any n*de photos online?

1. Matt Bennett.  

Gay: No.

N*de: In The Virginity Hit (2010), he shaves his pubes, and you can kind of see an outline.

2. Leon Thomas III.

Gay: No

N*de: Rear shot as he is getting cozy with a woman in Insecure (2016-21).  There are like twelve rear shots of black guys, two of whom are gay, so I'll have to look it up later.

3. Avan Jongia

Gay: Probably.  He uses he/they pronouns, and he dates Beau Mirchoff in Now, Apocalypse (2019-20)

More after the break.  

N*de: We have a winner.  With Beau Mirchoff for comparison, on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

Avan began his acting career in 2006, and had recurring roles in Aliens in America (2007) and Caprica (2009-10) before Victorious.

He went on star in the teen mystery Twisted (2013-14) as Danny Desai, a boy who was convicted of murdering his aunt at age 11, spent five years in juvenile detention, and has returned to Green Grove, only to become the main suspect in a new murder.  He gets a girlfriend.

A lot of serious dramas followed: Streets of Hope (2014), about youth gangs.

Ten Thousand Saints (2015), about young punks in 1980s New York

I am Michael (2015), about a gay guy (James Franco) who gets "cured" and turns straight. Say what?

Avan plays Nico, who apparently stays gay.

The Drowning (2016): yet another boy convicted of murder when he was 11, who gets out and buddy-bonds with a psychiatrist.

Shangri-La Suite (2016): two "damaged" lovers (a man and a woman) try to kill Elvis in 1974.

I'm getting depressed just reading these "damaged" plot synopses.  Could we get a comedy in here somewhere?

Tut (2015-16), featuring the teenage Pharaoh Tuntakamen?  No, it's a drama.  He has sex with his sister, as was required of Egyptian royalty.

Ghost Wars (2017-18), with a remote Alaskan village overrun by the paranormal.  No, it's a drama with a silly name. Avan plays a "local outcast" who must "overcome the town's prejudices and his own personal demons." There's a Lambda institute that is not about gay people.  Weird: how does anyone in the 21st century not know that "lambda" is a gay symbol?

Avan shows his backside and plays a gay or bi characrter in Now, Apocalypse (2019): supposedly a comedy, but created by gloom-and-doom Greg Araki.

And in The Exchange (2021): the trailer shows bullied nerd Tim (Ed Oxenbould) staring longingly at French exchange student Stephane (Avan) as he hooks up with every girl at their high school, but I don't think he's canonically gay.

As far as I can tell, Ed Oxenbould (below) is gay in real life.  At least he fills his instagram with hundreds of pictures of him with guys and no girls.

But Avan's instagram has only 11 posts, all promoting his new book, Autopsy of an Ex-Teen Hearthrob: Poems of Rage, Love, Sex, and Sadness, written when he was a teenager, starring in Victorious. Previously he published Mixed Race (2019): "a raw and moving collection of poetry, stories, and art about living as a mixed-race person in a world increasingly fixated on racial identity.:

Most recently, Avan starred in Orphan Black Echoes (2023), which "follows a group of women as they weave their way into each other's lives and embark on a thrilling journey, unravelling the mystery of their identity."

So, is it a comedy, drama, science fiction?  What the heck is it about?   All the Fan Wiki says is that Avan's character, Jack, is married to Lucy and has a daughter.  

Update: as of September 2024, Avan and Halsey "are no longer hiding their love." 

Halsey is a female singer.  Why the heck would you have to hide being in a heterosexual relationship?

Dude is a heterosexual.

I should have profiled Matt Bennett instead.

See also:

Nathan Kress: Freddy from ICarly grows up.  Is he still homophobic? Is he still shy about showing his d*ck?

Drake Bell: A lot has happened since "Drake and Josh," including a gay video

Victorious: Almost a gay victory