In his autobiography, Green Light, Matthew McConaughey tells us that he's "tired of being talked about like that guy with a n*de torso." So here's his n*de torso.
Monsters, Inc. (2001) suggested that monsters have an economic motive for crawling out from under your bed: the psychic energy of children's screams is the main source of power for their society. But scream-harvesters Mike and Sully (John Goodman, Billy Crystal) discover that children's laughter is more powerful, so the monsters change their tactics. The two monsters are presented as a classic straight man-buffoon comedy team, like Abbott and Costello, and one of them has a girlfriend, but they still have a strong gay subtext.
Tylor is voiced by Ben Feldman, the Scott Baio lookalike best known for Superstore, who did a PSA in favor of marriage equality in 2012. Could there be more open LGBTQ representation in the sequel?
I watched Episode 2, "Meet MIFT," in which Tylor goes to work for the Monsters Inc. Facilities Team.
Scene 1: Tylor's first day on the job (last episode) was a disaster, so today Mom insists on driving him to work. He doesn't care: the MIFT job is just a "temporary nightmare" while he is awaiting his move to the Laugh Floor (I knew lots of people like that in West Hollywood).
Scene 2: Tylor arrives at the Maintenance Department in the basement, where the team is waiting for an initiation ceremony: "When a part breaks down, we fix it. If a machine needs maintenance, we maintain it. We're the monsters behind the monsters!" He protests that this job is just temporary. "That's what we all thought. "
His first ceremonial task: "Wrench that nut!" It sounds dirty, especially when he protests: "I don't want to wrench any nuts I want nothing to do with nuts." Speak for yourself, guy.
Next he has to pass through the Doorway of No Return to the land of Infinite Commitment. "But...this job is just temporary?" "That's what we all thought."
Scene 3: Mike from the original movie returns from an 18-hour shift of refilling laugh canisters. His boyfriend Sully, now the CEO, tells him to take a break, but there's no time: somebody has to keep the kids laughing. Plus he has a comedy class to teach at lunch. Sully: "You can't keep going like this."
Troublemaker Duncan (Lucas Neff) gives him an assignment: a cannister that needs refurbishment, or it will explode in 20 seconds. It explodes. Duncan laughs evilly.
Lunch time: Tylor goes off to his comedy class. The others are upset: what does he need to learn comedy for? It's almost as if he doesn't plan to stay here forever.
Left: Lucas Neff
Scene 6: Mike leaves the rest of the lecture to the stern HR director, Ms. Flint, and runs to a door portal. His girlfriend warns him that it's not safe, but he goes through anyway, and is trapped! His girlfriend? Mike is more obvertly heterosexual than he was 20 years ago. That's not progress!
The MIFT team rushes into action. They restore power to the portal and get Mike back, but now he's trapped on a conveyor belt. The "reverse" lever is rusted shut; no one has the strength to turn it -- except -- Tylor! The newbie saves the day!
Scene 7: While they are celebrating, Ms. Flint arrives to pick up coworker Banana Bread's things. She was so impressed by his "nuanced insight into comic theory" during the comedy class that she is promoting him to the Laugh Floor.
Ouch! But at least now there's a vacant desk, so Tylor gets one of his own. And a wrench with his name on it. The end.
There's also a segment called Mike's Comedy Class, where Mike sings about the dangers of comedy: the kid could "bust a gut," shatter into little pieces, fall out of bed and hit their head, or have their butts fall off.
Tylor and ?: Tylor doesn't display any heterosexual interest, but I didn't see anyone for him to have a gay subtext with. Maybe Fritz, who is very, very interested in welcoming him to the team? But Tylor finds his attention annoying
LGBTQ Representation: Still no open representation, just some tentative subtexts.
This guy is named The Gronk. I have no idea what, if anything, he's famous for, but he's breath-taking.
The William Jewell College in Liberty is affiliated with the Baptist Church, so I imagine that it's not at all gay friendly.
The Olivia Experiment (2012): A woman suspects that she is asexual, so she accepts a friend's offer of a night with her own boyfriend to find out. That is wrong on so many levels. You know whether you're into someone or not without actually having it. That's like the people who ask "How do you know you don't like going with women unless you've tried it?" Easy...look at a woman, and ask yourself "Do you want to go with her?"
Alex plays a member of the Asexual Support Group, where Olivia is informed that she's not really asexual, she's just afraid to open up to intimacy.
Young Paul Holt in Chapman (2013), which seems to be a Western.
Young Henry Bird in The Advocates (2013), which seems to be about lawyers
Chloe in two episodes of Ray Donovan (2013-2015): a "transvestite" hooker who is blackmailing movie star Tommy (Austin Nichols) to get money for "a s*x change." What is this, 1975? The vocabulary is all wrong. Transgender people don't get "s*x changes," they transition.
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10 episodes of The Fix (2019) as the stepson of Sevvy Johnson (Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje), an actor accused of murdering two of his girlfriends. He assaults his father, gets into fights, and does other deviant stuff while dating girls.
62 episodes of Nancy Drew(2019-23), as a drug-addled outsider who becomes one of the teen sleuth's scoobies and dates girls.
Noticing a pattern in Alex's screen presence? Long hair, soft, feminine, gay-coded in spite of his characters' endless series of girlfriends.
He doesn't have Instagram, and his X just promotes his tv series, so his personal life is up for speculation. LezWatch calls him cisgender heterosexual, but that may just be default.
Could he be gay in real life?
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Dylan was born on December 29, 1996 in Evansville, Indiana, and worked as a child model before moving to Los Angeles to concentrate on his acting. He had guest roles in Two and a Half Men, Drake & Josh, Prison Break, Grey's Anatomy, The Mentalist, and Supernatural.
Saving Grace (2007-2010) starred Holly Hunter as a hard-drinking, one-night-stand pursuing police detective who is advised by God in the form of the tobacco-chawing Earl (plus she solves murders). as the nephew of the police detective who finds God). Dylan appeared in 40 episodes as her nephew Clay, who received a number of shy, sensitive, "good boy" plotlines:
He has a Catholic confirmation.
He confronts Grace over her sinful conduct.
He joins the Police Explorers
He makes friends with the son of a death-row inmate (Malcolm David Kelley, recent photo on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends, doing exactly what it looks like).
He worries that his father will accept an out-of-town job and move them away from Grace's paranormal shenanigans.
No indication of whether he's gay, but given that religious shows are usually homophobic, I'm going to guess no.
Let Me In (2010) about a 12-year old boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who falls in love with a vampire (a girl, but a boy in the original Swedish Let the Right One In).
Dylan plays the leader of a group of bullies that terrorize the boy, pushing him into the vampire romance. I thought his bullying had a gay subtext.
Kodi's buns of steel are on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends
They're in a band called The Wallows, which performs in top-drawer venues like Whiskey A Go Go. Their song "Pictures of Girls" tells us:
I find it hard to remember all the times I've tried to forget her
I am hangin' on to somethin' real, 'Cause pictures of girls are not for me, you see
Pictures of girls are not for me either, buddy.
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