Ryan Buggle stars in a gay play on Broadway at age nine, comes out as bi on tv at age twelve. With Drayer and Meloni d*ck

  

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I've never seen any of the 586 episodes of Law and Order: SVU (1999-) , because who cares about the Crime of the Week?  So I had no idea that it was so soap-opera like. It took a lot of plot arcs to for Noah Porter-Benson (Ryan Buggle) to get around to coming out as the youngest LGBTQ character on tv. And a lot of trauma:

Bon in 2013, after Mom Elle is assaulted by trafficker Johnny Drake.

She keeps the baby while working for Little Tino, but when she overdoses, he sells little Noah to a p*rnographer couple

After detective Olivia (Mariska Hartigay) rescues Noah, he is placed in several abusive foster homes.

Mom Elle turns up and tries to get custody, but she is murdered.

Olivia decides to foster Noah, but when she pulls him out of the way of a speeding car, he is bruised, and CPS thinks that she is abusive.

He is kidnapped, nearly kidnapped, and hospitalized with life threatening diseases (twice).

His biological father shows up for a custody battle. 

In 2019, Noah gets a queer code when ADA Stone (Philip Winchester, left, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) decides that he needs a "father figure,' and teaches him to play baseball.  

After a few episodes, he gets tired of baseball and says that he would rather take ballet lessons.  This was Ryan's idea.  He tells Dance Magazine: "Dancing is my favorite thing, so I wrote a script over the summer and gave it to the writers, and they were happy to do it."

Although Noah mentions his ballet lessons and competitive dance team occasion, and has a plotline where Olivia hangs up on him when he announces that he got the lead in The Nutcracker (not because she disapproves), it's mostly back to trauma, diseases, an unspecified "family emergency," vaping, and getting to know Olivia's estranged brother Simon (Michael Weston), who dies of an overdose. How many parental figures have died on you, buddy?

On January 11, 2022, Olivia finds Noah in his friend Hudson's house, wearing a dog collar, eating dog food, and barking on command.  At first he claims that it was just kids being kids, but then he admits that Hudson was making fun of a nonbinary kid and using homophobic slurs.  So he defended them, and told Hudson that he was bi: "There's no shame in being true to yourself."  The bully didn't respond well.

Olivia praises him for standing up to Hudson.  

He explains: "Well, it's my truth.  I just haven't told anybody before."

Olivia: "Well, thank you for telling me." And they go on with their day. (Yes, she comes down on the homophobic/biphobic bully.)

The episode received nearly universal praise (excluding the usual homophobes), and got Ryan a dozen interviews in everything from Cliche Magazine to The Today Show.  He was twelve years old, but Noah was nine, thus becoming the youngest self-identified LGBTQ character on televsion..  The runner up is Jude on The Fosters, who says that he is "not into labels" at age twelve, and "gay" at age thirteen.

As far as I can tell, Noah's bi identity never comes up again.  He  bonds with his half-brother Connor (real-life buddy Tre Ryder), gets a potential father figure in Olivia's ex Stabler (Christopher Meloni, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends), and continues to suffer from soap opera traumas.  But there's always the future; Ryan hints that there are some "exciting plotlines ahead" for his character.

Ryan Buggle is now sixteen years old.  I'm going to check the usual: any (other) LGBT roles?  Gay or bi in real life?    

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Ryan was born in January 2010 in Matawan, central New Jersey, and began dancing lessons at age five.  He joined a boys' hip-hop class, but thought that the ballet next door looked more fun, and switched. He began competing in regional dance events almost immediately, and in 2017 starred in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, alongside the famous Rockettes.

He regularly competes in duets with his dance partner Sadie.  In 2020 they won third place at the 24Seven Meadowlands competittion for  "Beautiful Thing," set to the song by Grace VanderWaal.   Lyrics include:

You're my other half.  You're what makes me me.

We're a beautiful thing together.

You and together, we will take on the whole world.

They also go on dates to Disneyland and to see the Trolls movie.  Certainly sounds like his girlfriend.  

So, Ryan, when you chose ballet over hip-hop, was it because of the favorable boy/girl ratio?

I'm still checking for gay/bi roles, or gay/bi co-stars.  No n*de photos, of course.

Ryan has 18 on-screen credits, including episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live, and Last Week with John Oliver.

Other than Law and Order: SVU, his "best known for" list includes:

A 2015 episode of Sneaky Pete, with Giovanni Ribisi as an ex-con who adopts the identity of his cell mate, Pete, to hide from vicious ganglord with a hit out on him.  Ryan plays a young version of his brother Eddie (Michael Drayer, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).  

Lazy Susan (2020), written and starring gay actor Sean Hayes as a "frumpy woman" in order to make misogynistic jokes.  Seattle Gay News calls it "the most tone-deaf movie of the year."  Ryan's character is not listed in the plot synopsis. 

Ryan made his Broadway debut in 2019 in The Inheritance, "a lovingly wry portrait of New York's gay community" by Matthew Lopez.  Kyler Soller and Andrew Burnap (left) starred.  Ryan shared the role of "Boy" with his friend Tre.

Wait -- his first theatrical role is gay-themed, his soap opera character is bi, and he has a female soul mate.  I'm thinking that our boy is bi.

See also:Pablo the Penguin's p*nis: Jake Goldberg from "Backyardigans" and "Grown Ups" grows up to corporate, cooking, and some c*ck shots.  Mentions Law and Order.

Giovanni Ribisi: Cute on "Friends," then all dreary, depressing, homophobic art-house movies. At least he shows his d*ck

Jonah Beckett: Sean Hayes' godson does bottom stuff, faints, gets nekkid. And that's just on tv. With Trevor and Milo

Cory Chapman: Lots of man friends, some gay roles, a queer buddy, n*de costars. So where's the beef?