Zakary Risinger: Family Equality, the Gay Men's Chorus, a Pride cake, a drag housewife, Ryan's backside, twink d*cks, and I'm still not sure

  

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What does this photo mean?  Is one of the guys giving the flowers to the other, or are they both presenting them to a girl?  Or are they eating them?

I'm getting some strong gay vibes from this person, but I've been fooled before by straight guys pretending to be gay for a lark, so I'll be careful when conducting the research.

His name is Zakary Risinger (with a k).  He has 28 on-screen acting credits, beginning when he was a baby in 2009.  His most significant roles are:

Young George Michael on an episode of the homophobic comedy Arrested Development (2018).  Not the gay singer, George Michael Bluth (Michael Cera), a "timid" young adult with a crush on his female cousin.

Four episodes of General Hospital (2021-22) as Danny Morgan, son of mob enforcer Jason Morgan (Steve Burton, who appeared in Playgirl in 1995).  

Danny visits his Dad (in prison for a murder he didn't commit), vows to find the real murderer, watches the Thanksgiving Day Parade with his friend Rocco (Finn Carr), and learns that Jason has died for the second time (he has actually disappeared while escaping from kidnappers again).  

Two episodes of Them (2022), a tv series about an African-American family that moves to an all-white neighborhood during the 1960s, and faces racial prejudice and paranormal evil. Ryan Kwanten (left) plays "the neighborhood milkman couched in a Southern California dreamboat."  Zak's character is not mentioned in the plot synopses, but presumably is a racist student at the youngest child's school.

An episode of Young Sheldon (2022): In Sunday school at the First Baptist Church of Medford (East Texas, Hell-fe-Sartain, 1990s). his character calls Sheldon's sister "white trash," so she punches him in the nose. His parents complain to the pastor.

Not much gay content there, but I'll check Zak's social media to see if he is gay in real life.  His Instagram is curated by his mother because he is just 17 (I happen to be writing this on his 17th birthday).  So I don't thinkk there will be anything particularly revealing. 

His film, Darren Dalton, Superspy/Screenwriter, won the 2025 LACHSA Film Festival.  I don't know what that is.

Turns out it is the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts,  Way to self-aggrandize, buddy!

At LACHSA, he performed in Once on This Island, a one-act about a peasant girl who falls in love with a rich boy in the Antilles, while the French Caribbean gods look on.  Sounds heteronormative.

He also appeared in Boxing the Sun, a full-length play about New Yorkers trying to survive during "a heat wave in the urban jungle."  In a shot posted to his Instagram, he and another guy look like they're about to fight, but one of the comments says "Just kiss, already."

Zakary with his brothers on  July 4th, 2024: "today is a day of reflection in our family."  Really?  You're trying to reflect with all those booms?

Sounds rather family-friendly, aka heteronormative.  The top photo must be about two guys competing for a girl's affection.

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Blair Jackson's Hot/Humorous Photos, Part 1: Wicked Lips, Fierce Friday, and what happened in Australia in the summer of 2016

This is a collection of hot or humorous photos of actor/model Blair Jackson, who becomes Kelvin's nemesis in Righteous Gemstones Episode 1.4, "Wicked Lips." I'm only sure about one of the n*de photos.

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1. "Do my pits look too big?"

2. "Do my abs look too big?"

3. "What do you mean, I have to wear a shirt to be serviced?  I usually take off my shirt when I want to be...oh, you said 'served.'"

4. What happened in the summer of 2016, stays in the summer of 2016.

5. What happens in the library, stays in library.

6. Thai dreams of thighs.  And shoulders.  And....

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Little Max: A Gay Father in 1950s Comic Books

Whenever we visited my relatives in Indiana, I spent the night with my Cousin Buster in the trailer in the dark woods, and we would squeeze into his narrow twin bed, our bodies pressed together, reading Harvey Comics.  I read until long after he fell asleep, associating the tales of friendly ghosts and little devils with that warmth and affection.

Two boys together clinging, one the other never leaving....

In high school, I looked back on those moments of perfect happiness, and tried to get my hands on the Harvey Comics I read all those years ago (actually less than 10 years ago, but when you're 16, it seems like an eternity).

So I put an ad in the Rock Island Argus, and a very cute Augustana student named Clay answered with an offer of five Little Max comics from 1958-1959 for a dollar each.

I never heard of Little Max, they were from before I was born, and a dollar was four times what a hew comic cost at the Comics Cave.  But some of them had the familiar jack-in-the-box logo and tv set icons displaying the stars, so I bought them anyway.

It was a weird type of deja vu, like looking at a photo of your parents before you were born: familiar, yet bizarre, with a story going on that you are not a part of and can't possibly understand.  

What are you covering up, Max buddy?

The star, Little Max, looks like Little Audrey in drag: he is drawn in the familiar Harvey style, cherubic-cute, with a big head and gigantic eyes. He doesn't speak, and his thought balloons are full of malapropisms that suggest a learning disorder: "They're both so kindly and generosity!"

 

His mentor, chum, adopted father, or something is Joe Palooka, a tall, very muscular guy with a weird toothless grin. Max calls him "Dear Joe."

Later research revealed that Joe Palooka was a boxer in a comic strip drawn by Ham Fisher from 1930 through the 1980s.  He was so popular that he appeared in twelve movies (played by Stuart Erwin and Joe Kirkwood), a radio series, a tv series, and a lot of merchandise, including lunch boxes,  a board game, and a mountain.  "Palooka" became slang for a big, dumb guy.

Little Max was a supporting character in the Palooka comic strip, a mute shoe-shine boy who Joe befriended.  His comic book series ran for 73 issues, from 1949 to 1961.

Joe has also adopted or is mentoring an unnamed girl.  Max calls her "Dear Her."  

She may have a speech disorder, saying "Maxth" and "Mith-ter Palooka," but I think girls in the 1940s affected a lisp to appear more childlike.  

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