Jordan Gavaris: Gay Degrassi teen, clone's brother, alien's boyfriend, Jerry O'Connell's date. With Jordan and Zach d*cks

   

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In Season 8 of Degrassi: The Next Generation (2009), Riley Stavros (Argiris Karras) is introduced: a new student, a football star who has  "all the girls" crushing on him due to his muscles and "incredible good looks."  He becomes friends with Peter, and in Episode 8.5, kisses him.  They both spring back and run away.  

 Later Peter apologizes, saying that they can still be friends "even though" Riley is gay.  Riley denies kissing him, claims to be straight, and attacks in homophobic rage. 

In Episode 8.10, Riley arranges a hookup with Nathan (Jordan Gavaris), whom he met online, but when the guy arrives, he realizes that they hooked up at summer camp three years ago.  He runs away to take steroids, find a girl to date, and beat up another guy who implies that he might be gay.

In Season 9, Riley continues denying that he is gay, in spite of everyone's suspicions, including his girlfriend's, and beating up guys who offer to talk to him about it.  Episode 9.3, he runs into Nathan again while on a date with his girl, pretends not to know who he is, and runs away.  

Riley concludes that he is "confused," tries to find a therapist for a "cure," tries to get a girl to turn him straight, beats up more guys, and in Episode 9.18 comes out to himself.  Fortunately, there is a hot guy available (Shannon Kook-Chun) to become his first boyfriend. But he stays closeted for two more seasons, and suffers from both internalized homophobia and  homophobic harassment through the end of his plotline.

I didn't realize that this story would be so friggin' painful.  Degrassi High is in Toronto!  Canada!  The most gay friendly country in the world.  What we down here in the U.S. call Heaven.   What's with the angst?  But I already started a profile of Argiris Karras...

Whoops, no beefcake photos online, and he's straight.  Shannon Kook-Chun has beefcake photos, but he's straight, too.   Did they have a policy about not hiring gay actors to play gay characters?

Turns out that this is a profile of Jordan Gavaris. 

Jordan was 1989 in Brampton, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto, graduated from Mayfield Secondary School, and then enrolled in an actor's workshop.  His first on-screen roles came in 2008, in the cartoon series Got to Go and the movie 45 RPM:  In 1960s Canada, Parry (Jordan) meets a girl from Calfornia, and discovers "love, loss, and rock n roll."  Starting out rather straight, aren't you, buddy?

Next came Degrassi (2009), and Unnatural History (2010): Henry (Kevin G. Schmidt, top photo) the globetrotting son of anthropologists, goes to live with his uncle in Washington DC.  His cousin Jasper (Jordan) and Maggie, the girl they are both crushing on, solve the mysteries surrounding weird artifacts like a pony express bag and...an atomic bomb built by Benjamin Franklin?  They also crush on other girls.  It's girl-craziness all the way down. 

Here Jasper is captured by thieves in a museum. 

Jordan is most famous for Orphan Black (2013-17), a science fiction thriller: con artist Sarah discovers that she is one of several clones produced by an evil biotech corporation -- and now someone is trying to eliminate all of them. She investigates with the help of some fellow clones, her hunky boyfriend (Dylan Bruce), and her foster brother Felix (Jordan, left), an artist and s*x worker.

He appears n*de several times on the show.

The episode synopses don't specify if Felix's clients are male or female, but the photos show a swishy gay stereotype, and according to the fan wiki, he starts dating morgue attendant Colin (Nicholas Rose) in Episode 1.5.  Colin appears in eight episodes. In the audio series, they are married, and in the spin-off Orphan Black: Echoes (2023), he has died.  

Jordan also appeared as Prince in The Coop (2019), a murder mystery where viewers get to decide whodunit.

 Love in the Time of Corona (2020), about finding love during the quarantine. His character doesn't appear in the episode synopses, but the four couples finding love are all straight.

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And The Lake (2022-23), as Justin, who tries to sneak his way into possession of the family lake house, reconnect with the daughter from his single heterosexual experience, and find love with a hunky handyman (Travis Nelson, shown here with Jerry O'Connell barging in on their date).

Jordan's most recent works are Wish You Were Here (2025): A woman falls in love with a terminally ill man. Chucky (Jordan) is her younger brother.  I can't tell from the reviews if he is gay or not.

And Touch Me (2025): "Two codependent best friends become addicted to the touch of an alien narcissist who may be trying to take over the world."   Say what?

The friends are Joey (a girl) and Craig (Jordan).  The alien, Brian (Lou Taylor Pucci), is his ex-boyfriend. 

His character is probably bi, but I'm not going to check.  The keywords on the IMDB say that there are a lot of lady parts on display, and look at the cast photo (with the gratuitous br*east shot censored).  Yuck.

According to wikipedia, Jordan is "openly" gay.  He began dating Devon Graye, who is just "gay," in 2013.  They married in 2022.

Devon, born in 1988, has appeared in Dexter, Merry Christmas Drake and Josh, Longmire, The Flash, and Lincoln Lawyer.  He was a staff writer for The Girlfriend Experience, about a heterosexual escort service.  And the straight-ish gay guy has some Instagram photos hugging a lady amid little hearts, while comments say "I hope you had fun."    If my husband was canoodling with ladies and then posting heart-photos, I'd have a few questions.

Left: Luke (Devon) hugs his boyfriend Will (Zach Villa), who is dealing with childhood trauma, in Hypochondriac (2022). 

It's hard to find beefcake photos of Jordan.  None on his Instagram or his Facebook page.  He takes off his shirt on occasion in The Lake, because it's a lake.  The scripts call for him to go swimming.

I found a potential d*ck pic, though (on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends)

See also:  Dylan Everett: The depressed Degrassi teen buddy-bonds with three gay guys, wears tight jeans, joins the army. With a lot of backsides and a Dylan d*ck.

The Lake Episode 1.4: Sleazy mayorJerry O'Connell wants a date with Justin and Travis What's a gay guy to do?

Schitt's Creek: Quirky small town (in Canada, but don't tell anyone) has gay/bi guys and a lot of beefcake