Camden Garcia: The swishy straight kid on "Raising Hope" grows up to play femme gay guys. With bonus Ben and Boris

Link to the n*de dudes

Raising Hope (2010-14) starred Lucas Neff as a teenager who accidentally becomes a father.  He has biceps, and a chest which he displays on occasion; his dad (Garrett Dillahunt, left) is on display quite often; and there's even a gay character, his boss Barney (Greg Binkley).  At least I think he was gay; he played a gay guy on the earlier My Name is Earl. 

Nope: his gayness was erased, like it was for this kid.

He's Camden Garcia playing Trevor, a young teenager who works at the grocery store, and gets a crush on Jimmy's girlfriend Sabrina.

A crush on a girl?  This kid?

In another episode, he's an actor starring in a show called Yo-Zappa-Do.  Still straight.

The grown-up Camden has a chest and biceps as impressive as Lucas Neff's.   His Instagram tagline is: little/rascal, kid comedian, child actor, bikini girl.

He has a personal website with headshots, publicity, and a resume: 

A BFA in Theater Performance from Boston University, plus training at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and Second City 

Skills include drag queen, balancing things on his nose and chin, baton twirling, and working with chimps.

Theater: Newsies, Morning in Freedonia, This Could Be on Broadway, and Stamptown

And a lot of standup comedy shows where he riffs on being gay and femme. 

Camden grew up in Calabasas California.  His dad Greg Garcia was the producer and head writer for several popular sitcoms of the 2000s ("Greg, move your head!"), so naturally his career began with guest or recurring spots on Daddy's shows.  In addition to Raising Hope:

More after the break

Two episodes of My Name is Earl (2007) as the Young Glen, who would grow up to be the ex-con associate of the reformed petty thief (Jason Lee).  Grown-up Glen was played by Ben Foster (left).

The Guest Book (2017-18) featured the stories of people who stay at an old-fashioned hotel. Mostly they are about love.  Camden's episode is entitled "Today You Become a Man," which means either a Bar Mitzvah or a first heterosexual experience, but he's not the one who becomes a man.  

It may be Steve Talley, who was tied up with Shaun Michael Lynch in Van Wilder Freshman Year.

Sprung (2022) was about convicts released early due to the COVID pandemic.  Camden plays Collin, a congressional aide who accidentally got himself and his boyfriend in trouble with his boss's inside trading scheme.

Cam has some non-Daddy shows, too:

In a 2020 episode of Station 19, the firefighters investigate a fire at an apartment building that is home for "some of Seattle's most prominent drag queens," including Izzy Packing, Ruby Red Slippers, and Elizabeth Gaylor (Camden). 

In Summoning Sylvia (2023), Larry (Travis Cole) is marrying his boyfriend, so his friends,all femme guys  (one reviewer says that Michael Urie is the most masculine of the bunch), throw him a bachelor party in a haunted house -- unfortunately, it's haunted by the ghost of a woman who killed her son because he was gay.  Plus a homophobic straight guy shows up! Camden plays one of the friends.

In a 2024 episode of the revamped Frasier,  Snarky Professor Alan insults his Swishy Teaching Assistant's crumpets and refuses to apologize, so he quits, and Alan hires Brian (Camden).  But Brian hates him, too, so he has no choice but to apologize and win his t.a. back. What the heck is a crumpet?

Looks like Cam avoided Hank Greenspan's fate of being a femme guy who plays only straight roles.

No n*de photos, but you'd probably rather see the bear he's with anyway.

See also:

Hank Greenspan: Femme boy plays only straight characters, but is he gay in real life? With bonus Brandon and Carlos

Workaholics Episode 7.3: Blake sucks a...Adam sucks...well, there's lots of s*x jokes, and everybody loses their pants

Jonathan Bennett: From Mean Girl to the King of Gay Christmas. Plus his d*ck, his husband, and a bonus Buddy butt

"American Princess": My New Favorite TV Show. With Lucas Neff