Reid Miller: Femme boy plays mostly gay characters, closets his partner's gender. With Marky Mark's underwear and Tyler Gray's abs

 

Have you noticed that muscular actors rarely have hairy chests?  I guess they shave so you can see their muscles better.   So seeing Reid Miller with a bare hairy chest was something of a treat.

He sort of has to, since without a bare chest he looks like a girl.  Especially when he wears dresses. 

There are many photos of Reid with his partner on his social media.  He is shown doing the usual couples things with them: they hug, kiss, duck lips, stick out tongues, tell viewers to "stick it", pretend to strangle each other.  But I can't tell the partner's gender.  They have a boy's haircut and usually wear masculine clothes, with makeup and girls' dangling earrings.

Reid describes them extensively as "the most wonderful person in the universe, the love of my life, my reason for living, the person who gives my life meaning, the person who makes me ecstatically happy every moment of every day."

You'd think that somewhere in all of that gushing, he'd give a name or a pronoun.  Maybe they're nonbinary.

Wait -- in one of the posts, he gushes about "my incredibly amazing, wonderful, beautiful, incredibly gorgeous wife!!!!!!!!!"  So she must identify as female.  

He genders her once, at the end of 16,000 superlatives. Why so circumspect?  Does he not want his followers to know that he's involved in a boy-girl romance?

 

Pop quiz: Is this Reid or his partner?  Feminine face, girl's haircut, masculine physique. 

Gender is a continuum, anyway.  Let's go on to see if Reid has any gay roles.

He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and grew up in small town-Texas, where he appeared in local theater.  A femme drama kid in small town Texas?  It must have been hell.

He was homeschooled from 4th grade on (no wonder), and then moved to L.A. to pursue his acting career.  The IMDB list begins with shorts, around 2014-15, and episodes of two tv shows with gay content, The Fosters and Mr. Student Body President (2016).  

Wait -- that's the one about the gay teen who wants to become student body president as a stepping stone to a career in politics, so he pretends to be straight, right?

Update: No, I was thinking of The Politician, starring Ben Platt and Russell Posner.

Next Reid got a starring role in A Girl Named Jo (2018-2019), one of those interconnected Brat Network shows.  Dad (John Charles Meyer) goes to prison (for a crime he didn't commit), which results in his son Allen (Reid) being verbally abused and beat up, and his house set on fire.  The family moves away to avoid the harassment, but ten years later, when Mom can no longer take care of him, Allen is sent to live with his recently-released Dad.  Then Dad shoots himself.  Dang I thought this was a teencom

Another starring role in Play By Play (2017-2019), with adult sportscaster Peter Hickey (Reid) giving us a play-by-play of his adolescence. Here he snoops with Max Amor, whose Instagram shows a girl with purple hair giving her followers the finger.

He wrote, directed, and stars in Flikker (2018),  a 9-minute short about a teenage boy being overcome by a malevolent force.  While n*ked.  (Don't worry, in 2018 Reid was 18 or 19).

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But Reid's breakout role came in Joe Bell (2020):  Joe (Mark Wahlberg) and his gay son Jaden (Reid) are walking across America to spread bullying awareness.  Eventually we discover that Jaden is actually dead: his bullying victimization pushed him to suicide.  I'm not sure if he is a ghost, a hallucination, or a memory.

Later Joe is killed in a traffic accident.  

So, people see this movie for...entertainment? I'm depressed just reading about it.  Maybe a look at Marky Mark from the good old days will help.

Maxwell Jenkins plays the dead gay guy's brother.

 

Next came more shorts,  a recurring role in the tv series Boo, Bitch (2022), and some movies, notably Almost Popular (2024):  High schoolers Susie and Bobbie (Reid) strive to be popular,  Bobbie's interest in drag puts a damper on his popularity, until he owns it, and at least in one review, "meets his Prince Charming."  An an interview with The Philadelphia Gay News, Reid thinks it's nice that Bobbie hasn't figured out where he fits in the LGBTQ spectrum yet.  He just likes to be fabulous. 

Reid's most recent movie is Feeling Randy (2024).  "Randy" is British slang for "horny," so there's a double-entendre there.  In the 1970s, Randy (Reid) and his buds "goes on a road trip to discover his s*xuality."  The trailer shows him kissing a teenage girl, a lady in a brothel, and a boy (Blaine Kern), and putting on makeup, so he's got a lot of s*xuality to discover.  Spoiler alert: he ends up concluding that he's gay.  

Tyler Lawrence Gray plays a hetero hunk (notice the Farrah Fawcett poster behind him).

All of his recent movie roles have been gay, so Reid has become something of a role model to LGBTQ youth.  Is that why he closets the gender of his partner, so followers will think that he's gay?  Dude, it's ok to be bi; that's what the B in LGBTQ is for.  And even if you're straight, a femme boy into butch ladies subverts gender polarization, putting you in with the Qs.  

See also:  Maxwell Jenkins: The "Lost in Space" guy and his boyfriend visit Paris, with travel tips and n*de Parisian dudes

Marcel Ruiz: "One Day at a Time" boy grows up, plays gay guys, wears dresses, kisses girls. You figure him out. With Lucas butt and Jackson junk

Russell Posner: The incredibly cute gay teen of "The Mist" plays a politician, gets tied up, shows his dick, and vanishes. With bonus nude Morgan Spector and Jack Black

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch