Link to the n*de dudes
Instagram recommended another guy I never heard of: Riley Polanski. Be sure to include the -n, or you'll get a lot of ladies. I checked the IMDB to make sure he's an actor. But before looking at his work, let's check his Instagram to see if he is gay.
Over 150 posts, a lot of muscle-shots (nice swimmer's build), architecture, design, music. No girl-hugging in the first 100 or so, unless you look very carefully: notice the girl in the top photo on the far left.
Nicely decorated apartment, but if you look carefully, you'll see a framed 1960 ad from Christian Dior, with a swimsuit lady in the forground.
And no guy-huggin. This looks promising, but Riley states that this is his best friend, not a boyfriend, and they're at the Hotel Cafe on Cahuenga, just south of Hollywood Boulevard, near the famous corner of Hollywood and Vine: one of the more heterosexual parts of Los Angeles, a good three miles from the border of West Hollywood. Dudes are straight.
I pieced together a biography from the IMDB, Backstage, Facebook, and Linkedin. Riley was born in Pomona, California in 2000, and started acting when he was 10 years old: the Western 6- Guns (2010), starring 1980s staples Barry Van Dyke and Greg Evigan; Airline Disaster (2011), starring former Family Ties cast members Meredith Baxter-Birney and Scott Valentine; Baseball, Dennis, & the French (2011).
On RG Beefcake and Boyfriends: In case you are interested, the first celebrity I met when I moved to Los Angeles was Michael J. Fox, who played Alex on "Family Ties," We just had lunch, but I told my friends that it was an energetic hookup.
When he was a teenager, Riley had to put his career on hold due to "family illness." Turns out to be cancer.
He still performed, in Mulan at the Claremont United Methodist Church (2015) and Xanadu at Claremont High School (2017), and he won second place at the California State Thesbian Festival.
He graduated from Claremont High in 2018 and enrolled in Pasadena City College. During the next two years, Riley worked as a production assistant on You're the Worst, with Stephen Schneider, and did a lot of acting, primarily in student films:
Worthless Words (USC): "A world where your words are controlled."
The Cup (St. Mary's University MFA): Two aspiring actors encounter a 1920s flapper.
Paz (Chapman University MFA): An abused girl finds strength in a spiritual connection.
Alice In/Somnia (2020): a girl in the Sleep waiting room has to deal with bureacracy.
We also see a n*de selfie, taken with a camera rather than a cell phone.
After receiving his A.A. from Pasadena City College in 2020, Riley enrolled in Arizona State University, but after a year he dropped out and returned to Los Angeles.
He moved to the Silverlake, a gay neighborhood for older guys (as opposed to the twinks of West Hollywood), edited a magazine about the neighborhood, and worked at the Little Pine Restaurant and Starbucks.
His only recent film role is in the short Ashes (2022): "an unlikely human connection complicates a soldier's understanding of freedom." Riley offers Levi Bernhart (left) a cigarette. How is that unlikely? Because they're both dudes?
In 2024 Riley starts a musical group, Insane Girls, which specializes in Shadow Pop. According to Facebook, his songs are about his "struggle with addiction." His personal website goes into more detail: his music "emerges from personal struggles with addiction and abuse, crafting a sonic experience of cinematic nostalgia inside the discomfort of our minds."
The trauma of addiction and abuse may explain the gaps in Riley's biography.
He has nine songs available on Spotify, some with 22,000 streams. I watched two of his music videos.
Benched (2024); Riley is in a roach-infested hotel room, waiting for someone who is so hot, they have "lines of boys" waiting at their doorstep. Should he continue waiting or go? There are flashes of the person in question, but I can't tell their gender.
In Part 1 of the five-part Insane (2025), Riley is outside a dark, rundown hotel. He kisses a guy (Daniel Ferrell?) while singing: "I surrendered to my darkest demons just to be with you. You introduced me to the mind-bending circumstances of inner chaos and complete insanity." Darkest demons? Inner chaos? Dude, it's just a gay kiss.
Part 2: They go into the hotel room, take off their clothes, and make out while a third person films them. "Maybe I'm crazy thinking this far."
Part 3: Riley picks up a girl named Eloise, and films her making out with his Boyfriend: "To have my heart broken by you would be worth it, a sign from God saying I'm human. It's perfect beauty." So the guy is "darkest demons" and the girl is "perfect beauty." This symbolism is getting a tad homophobic.
Part 4: Boyfriend kills the girl. They dispose of the body and make out.Part 5: It all turns out to be a fantasy Riley has as he is dying of a drug overdose.
I know we can't look at creative work as an indication of the artist's mental state, but still, it sounds like Riley has a rather negative view of same-sex desire.
See also: Alfie Williams: A missing p* enis, a youthful scoundrel, a zombie fighter. Is he or his character gay? Or both?
David Naughton: The cutest guy of the Disco Era, telling us to "Be a Pepper" and showing us his d*ck
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