Beef, Season 2: Reggie Mantle and his lady fight Poe Dameron and his wife. With Reggie's d*ck, Poe n*de, and heteronormative erasure

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Beef Season 1 (2023), on Netflix, featured a road rage incident that spins out of control, plus the cute Steven Yeun in a gay subtext romance with Young Manzino. Hopefully Season 2 (2026) has more beefcake and buddy-bonding, or maybe even a canonical gay guy. 

Scene 1: A Male Caterer hands a tray of drinks to a Female Caterer, and kisses her.  Ugh!  That's inappropriate in the workplace. Strike 1. 

She serves a bottle of beer to an older man, who hugs a woman and kisses the top of her head.  Strike 2. 

 They walk toward the outdoor gathering, where an Old Guy thanks his Beautiful, Talented Wife for organizing everything.  They smooch -- for a long, long, long time.  Everyone applauds.  Strike 3.

How annoyingly heteronormative!  I'm only going to continue because of the Male Caterer -- not listed on the IMDB, but Wikipedia calls him Austin, played by Charles Melton, Reggie on Riverdale. (c*ck on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends). 

After the presentation, the Old Guy and his Beautiful, Talented Wife walk through the crowd, being congratulated by everyone.  

A guy in a limousine, who may be William Fitchner (backside on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends), invites Old Guy to Vegas with The Boys.  A boys only weekend? Tell me more.

Then the two get into their car,  growl at each other, and drive away. 

Beautiful, Talented Wife is upset because the Old Guy, Josh, accepted a date with Troy on her birthday.  He promises to cancel, but the forgetting is the main problem.  

Scene 2: The Male Caterer demonstrates his bicep to the Female Caterer before they're called away to clean up. The new owner of the country club is coming tomorrow, all the way from Korea, so everything has to be spotless. I think they're employes of the country club, but I'm still going to call them the Caterer and her Boyfriend.

They ignore their chores to sit in the tennis court and smooch for a long, long, long time.  Suddenly they're interrupted by yelling.  They look up to see Old Guy Josh and his Beautiful, Talented Wife, now at home, with some new topics of argument: why does he never install the herb garden she wants, and why isn't he as unhappy as she is?  Wait -- is Old Guy/Beautiful Wife's apartment directly above the tennis courts?  But they were driving away!  

In other news, Old Guy Josh promised to build them a bed-and-breakfast, but after six years it's only halfway done.  So he goes outside to scatter the mulch right now!  She follows to continue the argument.  He squandered her inheritance, she's a drunk, they haven't done bedroom stuff in a year, and so on...

Scene 3: Discussing how much they love each other, the Caterer Couple drive to Old Guy/Beautiful Wife's house.  But if they live far away from the country club, how was the Caterer Couple interrupted by their argument? 

They almost run into an additional Old Guy as he pulls out of his driveway.  

Is there going to be a second road rage incident? 

Nope, it was just a tease.  The Caterer Couple arrive at the house, discuss how much they love each other again, kiss extensively (fast forward time...)

Inside, Old Guy Josh (Oscar Isaac, Poe on Star Wars) asks his Beautiful Wife if she would prefer him to go back to the way he was before they married. "S*xual deviant or celibate?  Not much of a choice." So, what was his deviance?  Was he gay?  They discuss how much they hate each other.

It seems that Caterer and Boyfriend have come to return Old Guy's wallet, which he lost on the tennis court.  How did a wallet interrupt them?

They hear screaming and approach the house, camera on.  Old Guy Josh and his Beautiful Wife are now throwing things  and wrecking each others' prized possessions.  He is about to attack her with a golf club, when they see the Caterer Couple watching -- and filming -- them.  Old Guy: "Sh*t!"

Scene 4: On the way home, the Caterer Couple discuss how much they love each other, and then what they should do about the domestic abuse incident. Caterer: " I love you so much...they come to the country club every day.! We shouldn't get involved."  

Boyfriend: "I love you so much...whatever you want is fine with me, as I have no agency of my own.   Want to kiss for five minutes at this stop sign?" 

At home, Old Guy Josh and Wife discuss what they should do about the situation.

Old Guy: "I hate you so much...We don't need to do anything. It was just an employee dropping off my lost wallet."

Wife: "I hate you so much.  I think you should threaten to fire them if they talk. Want to fight some more?  There's some stuff in the other room that we haven't thrown at each other yet."

Phone call!  It's the new owner of the country club, speaking through a translator, asking if everything is ready for her arival tomorrow.

More after the break

Arturo Castro: The gay Guatemalan roommate and gay-subtext gangster, with the c*ck that got censored.

  

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When I posted a d*ck pic of gay-subtext gangster Arturo Castro on my review of Mike + Nick, it got a "sensitive warning" exclamation point that wouldn't go away.  Wait -- isn't every post on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends sensitive? .  

So I'm going to try again, and put the post so far down that I won't see the exclamation point.

Guatemalan actor Arturo Castro is best known for Broad City (2014-19), the New York gal-pal sitcom.  He plays Jaime Castro, Ilana's pocket-gay roommate, in 25 episodes.  Most of his centrics involve being fashion conscious and shy, but eventually he begins dating Johnny (Guillermo Diaz, right).

There's a c*ck pic of Guillermo Diaz on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

Arturo has 95 other acting credits listed on the IMDB, but I don't recognize any except Narcos (2015-17), a biography of drug lord Pablo Escobar, and The Menu (2022), about a chef whose posh creations involve the deaths of his dinner guests. As far as I can tell, none of his other characters are gay

Although he does show his physique in a 2019 episode of Room 104, the anthology series featuring paranormal problems bedeviling guests who stay in that room.  Craig (Arturo) suffers from a debilitating skin condition that gets worse and worse, no matter what he tries.

Shaving his stuff doesn't help.

But he never gives up hope, which is why he continues smiling even as his body falls apart.

We see his backside, too.

Nice.  Too bad you're not into bottom stuff.  With guys, anyhow.

More after the break, including the c*ck that got me censored.  

Top 16 Disabled and Visually Different Men

  

I am a strong supporter of the representation of disabled persons in mass media, and dedicated to presenting the aesthetic beauty of visually different faces and physiques.  So I've compiled quite a collection of profiles of disabled and visually different guys.  Some are gay, some are big down there, but all are beautiful. Here are my 16 favorites.  

1. Knox Gibson: Australian swimmer, model, "Hunger Games" baddie, disability advocate. With some n*de co-stars and random twinks

2. Ruben Reuter (left): the wacky drug dealer of "Pushers," "Lord of the Flies" Percy, Channel Four journalist, Short Guy with a d*ck

3.Noah Matthews Matofsky: Head Lost Boy, model, disability advocate, Oscar Wilde fan, boyfriend. With bonus n*de Matthews and Captain Hook's hook

4. Jeremy T. Thomas: Baby Billy's son, Dolly Parton's classmate, the creepy kid from "Antlers", is now 18 and ready to show us his stuff

5. Gavin McHugh (left): The gay-vague kid from 9-1-1 is now a teenager, with male friends and risque comments. Bonus Tyler cock and costar butts

6. Kobey Pinnell: Bondi Beach bodybuilder is into shoes, but is he also into dudes?

7. Daniel Bos: "The Brothers Ferox": a bodybuilder, a swimmer, and the Joker's nemesis walk into a gladiator arena. With bonus n*de short guys.  

8. Finn Kaifur: Icelandic college student studies ballet, takes a polar plunge, shows his stuff. With bonus Pete White and n*de model Shaun Ross.

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More after the break.  

The gay couple of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."

I never watched The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-68).  First it was on past my bedtime, and then there were too many competing choices (The Time Tunnel, Hogan's Heroes).  But I had more than one friend who thought it was "good beyond hope."

What are you measuring, Mr. Mad Scientist?

 It was a buddy spy series, like I Spy and Wild Wild West, but with an interesting twist.  In the heart of the Cold War, we heard over and over that "Russkies" were all evil monsters plotting our destruction.   But one of the secret agents was Russian.

The premise: The USSR, the United States, and other countries have set aside their differences and formed U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) to fight the evil THRUSH (acronym unknown), which wants to "subjugate the human race."

The plots were much more extravagant than anything seen on Mission: Impossible, rivaling Batman in campiness:
THRUSH tries to bring Hitler back to life.

Invents a deadly hiccup-inducing gas.

Invents an exploding hula-dancing doll.

Pat Harrington, Jr. (later on One Day at a Time) steals a rare book containing THRUSH code.

Sonny and Cher play clothes designers with THRUSH codes hidden in one of their dresses.

But the main draw was the "The Man" of the title,  American agnet Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn, previously seen shirtless in Teenage Caveman), and his partner, the Russian Illya Kuryakin (Scottish actor David McCallum).

  They were not only spy partners: they seemed to live together (and when traveling always took hotel rooms with just one bed).

More after the break

Kobey Pinnell: Bondi Beach bodybuilder is into shoes, but is he also into dudes?

 I'm following Daniel Bos, the probably gay Aussie bodybuilder who appeared as one of the Brothers Ferox on Spartacus: House of Asher.  He hooked me up with Aussie muscleman Kobey Pinnell.

I don't usually give the full names of non-actors, but  Kobey has 34,000 followers on Instagram and 18,000 on TikTok, so he'll probably be ok with the 1,000 or so pageviews that this profile will get.

Not much biographical information. Kobey grew up in Blacktown, a suburb of Sydney, where he was on the Skid Scooter Team and competed in the Paralympics.

He attended Patrician Brothers College, a Catholic boys' high school, graduating in 2022.

 His social media doesn't reveal a lot about what he's been doing since high school.  He displays his physique and shows off his clothes. 

Especially his shoes.  Dud has a separate shoe room in his house. 

Other than clothes and his physique, Kobey posts photos of Sydney sights, meals, and male friends.  No women, except when an older couple, maybe his parents, take him to Egypt.

We all know what happens at Bondi Beach. 

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Gemstones Episode 4.9: Do Gideon and Pontius reconcile? Do the siblings die? Does Corey moonwalk? With some c*ks to get you through it

 Link to the NSFW version

Title: "That the Man of God May Be Complete."  

1 Timothy 3:17,  ESV: All Scripture is inspired by God, so "that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work."   Sounds like the Golden Bible will play a role.

Left: Pontius spends nearly the entire episode hugging Gideon.  It looks like Abraham squeezed between them.  I can't tell which leg belongs to who.

The Duel:  The Cape and Pistol Society.  Vance Simkins bursts in, drinking, and everyone laughs at him.  He points out that Kelvin has defeated him, but not Jesse, and throws down the yellow handkerchief, challenging him to a duel.  Vance will have Pastor Brad as his second, and Jesse will get Eli. Duelling and challenging someone to a duel has been illegal in South Carollina since 1880.

They immediately adjourn to the front lawn.  Jesse is nervous, since he's a terrible shot. Eli suggests that he back out, but nope: "He insulted Kelvin and built mini-malls in our territory."  

Vance's shot goes way over the trees.  Jesse aims at him, but he runs zigzag.  Then he stops and begs for his life.  Jesse deliberately aims away from him, but accidentally hits someone else. 

He tells the group:  "You don't need a secret society to be an impressive man.  It's what you do that makes you impressive.  So I quit."  Thus ends Jesse's plot arc: he's going to stop being jealous of others' success.

The Proposal: Kelvin examines the newly-completed treehouse.   "Great job, Keefey."  You've never once called him that, Bro. 

Keefe points out that a storm is brewing, and "the devil's urine causes you terror."  Nope, not anymore.  In fact, a lot of things don't scare him anymore: spiders in toilets, the old lady puppet from Mr. Rogers (well, she was scary).... and marriage. 

Remember, in Episode 4.2, Keefe suggests getting married, and Kelvin completely tears down the idea?  Now he proposes: "Keefe Chambers, will you marry me?", with a box with an engagement ring.  They hug and kiss.  

This is the end of Kelvin's plot arc: he is no longer paralyzed by fear.  We still need a wedding -- hopefully.

BJ Greases His ___: At home, BJ is unscrewing the pole he used for dancing: "I thought  I needed this to prove how manly I was, riding this long, sleek pole up, only to drop down, my thighs squeezing it."  Um...BJ, it's getting hot in here.  

He tells Judy, "It's about to pop off.  Put your hands in position, right at the base...squeeze it tight....  Dude, I might join you.

Now that the pole has come...apart, they discuss the Monkey.  BJ misses him, and wants him back.

Cut to Judy taking him to visit the Monkey.  They end up reconciling.  I fast forwarded past that part: boy-and-dog, or in this case boy-and-monkey stories make me uncomfortable.  But I wanted to profile Jonathan M. Jones, who plays the Monkey's new owner: he was planning on a career in sports management before an accident left him an amputee. So he took acting lessons, and  now has nine credits listed on the IMDB, notably the voice of Scar in several crime shorts.

Presumably this is the end of Judy's plot arc, but I'm not sure what it was.

Aimee-Leigh's Letter:  Visiting Eli, Lori notes that the kids like her again, now that they aren't dating.  In other news, Corey is taking the death of his father  "real rough." He hardly leaves the house, and his wife Jana has moved in with her sister. Well, he killed Cobb to save Eli and Baby Billy.  You might expect some trauma.

Lori found some mementos that Eli might enjoy: A flier from one of her shows, a letter that Aimee-Leigh wrote her soon after the divorce. Hey, the Gold Bible isn't there.  They say goodbye and hug.  Doesn't she live nearby?  Can't they continue to be friends?

Later, Eli retrieves the letter from the box, but can't bring himself to open it.

Hunkoids on Crosses: Baby Billy goes back to work after his ordeal at the Gator Park Massacre. Everyone applauds.  He notes that he is happy to be alive, and God gave him the physical prowess of a teen boy to help vanquish Cobb.

Left: Ash (Michael Sayfou) tied to a cross.  

"Ok, back to work. Work, work, work."  He doesn't seem happy as they set up the crucifixion scene.  He recalls his argument with Tiffany: "Is that all that matters to you?", and flashes back to spending  time with his family. 

Left: Another hunkoid, maybe Edge (Alex Matoussian, c*ock on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

Baby Billy stops the filming and announces "I quit.  Even though it may cost my nephews and niece millions of dollars.  Shows over.  Fuck tv."

This ends Baby Billy's plot arc: he has chosen family over fame.  

Eli's D*ck Still Works: Eli is on the darkened stage where Lori sang at the telethon. He bows to an imaginary audience, sits morosely at the piano, and starts to play. 

Suddenly the siblings appear for a heart-to-heart: They're impressed that he can still do things, so they're fine with him doing things with Miss Lori or whoever.  They all hug.

When this scene appeared in the trailers, fans speculated that Eli was mourning the death of Baby Billy or Lori, or that he himself and all of the siblings were dead.

"By the way, has anyone heard from Corey?"

No, he doesn't answer their calls and texts.  They decide to invite him up to the Lake House.

Pontius Pats: At Galilee Gulch, Corey stares morosely out into the lake, then goes inside, where the talent show is going on:

Lori and Judy sing "Little Angel, Big Heart," which she mentioned writing with Aimee-Leigh.  

In the audience, Keefe is feeding Kelvin Hershey's Kisses. This will become important later.

Pontius has his arm around Gideon -- and leaves it there -- and keeps hugging and patting his shoulder.   This is a parallel to the Kelvin-Keefe displays of affection. After Season 1 dropped strong hints that Gideon was gay, he never expressed an interest in men or women after.  Pontius had a girlfriend in Season 3, but this season he is shown only with men, and the t-shirt he wears has only c*ocks on it.

They are in a masculine embrace, only the fact that they are brothers pushing away from identifying them as gay -- and only just barely.   

It's Corey's turn to perform.  He comes down in his Michael Jackson outfit -- the one Eli paid $22,000 for.  He moonwalks and grabs his crotch, but doesn't sing a Michael Jackson song.  Maybe they couldn't get the rights.

Uh-oh, Corey has a problem: the bank is going to foreclose on the Gator Farm, and he needs $7 million to buy it back.   They're all shocked -- you don't just ask for money, you approach with a business plan and a powerpoint presentation -- but Corey says "I killed my Daddy to save Dr. Gemstone.  He has millions of dollars, but he can't help me?" 

Jana tries to spin it as a loan, not a handout.  Corey tells her to shut up, and she finally grows a pair: "I'm tired of you talking to me like that!" 

"Then get the f*ck out!" Corey yells.

Jana wants a divorce. "This is over!" 

The siblings push Corey into playing cornhole to calm him down.  Eli pushes everyone else onto the boat.   Cool somersault, Abraham.

More after the break

"Men": N*ked men and paranormal peril in a quaint English village. What could go wrong? You'd be surprised.

  

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Browsing for a movie to watch this week, we came across  Men  (2022) on HBO MAX.  Imagining musclemen lounging by the pool, and maybe the old magazine Advocate Men, we eagerly clicked "play." Without any prior research...

The Landlord:  Young, extremely successful business person Harper Marlowe drives 4 1/2 hours from London to a village in Herefordshire, where she will be renting a huge mansion from landlord Geoffrey, who has bad teeth (an important character trait).  He is shocked that Harper can't play the piano, and upset that she reserved the mansion as "Mrs.," but there's no husband with her.

The Screaming Being:  Harper takes a walk through the woods, and finds a huge tunnel going nowhere.  Suddenly a being appears at the other end, and runs toward her, screaming in anger or terror.  She runs.

The N*ked Man: On the way back, she walks through an abandoned village.  There's a n*ked man following her: a mid-40s bear type with a hairy chest, a little belly, and a nice c*ck.

She runs back to her mansion, but the N*ked Man follows.  He peers in the windows, pulls apples from the tree, and shoves his hand through the mail slot, trying to get in.  He appears unable to speak.  He is not threatening, just curious, as if he's never seen a house -- or a human being -- before.

Harper calls the police.  They arrive, handcuff the guy, and lead him off. 

The Green Man:  Harper takes another walk, and stumbles across an old church.  Strangely, the altar contains a stone carving of the Green Man on one side, and on the other a man giving birth. 

The Green Man, a face covered with leaves, is often found carved into the stones of old English churches.  He is thought to be a pagan fertility symbol.

The man giving birth turns out to be Sheela na Gig, a woman with masculine features but an exceptionally large birthing part, a common "grotesque" in English churches. 

The Back Story:  Harper kneels, starts sobbing, and flashes to her back story.

In an elegant apartment near the Tower Bridge in London, Harper tells her husband (Paapa Essideu) that she wants a divorce.  He begs, pleads, yells, and threatens self-harm.  Finally he punches her, and she kicks him out.  A few moments later, he comes plummeting past the window.  Apparently he broke into the apartment upstairs, and either jumped or tried to climb down to her balcony, and slipped.  Either way, he glares at her accusingly as he falls.

The Mentally Disabled Boy:  Outside the church, Harper encounters a person wearing a creepy Marilyn Monroe mask.  The mask comes off -- it's a mentally disabled boy, asking her to play hide and seek. She refuses, so he calls her nasty names.

 More after the break

Elias Harger: the "Fuller House" femme boy, victim of ghosts and maniacal mothers, grows up to date a Jewish champion. With Hagenbuch and twink d*cks

 

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I never watched Full House (1987-95), the TGIF warmedy about three dads raising three girls in a gay-free San Francisco: it was on Friday nights, when I had other things to do, and besides, it sounded awful.  Although John Stamos as Uncle Jesse was quite a hunk.

(In those days, you knew about all of the popular tv shows, even if you had never seen them).

And I never watched the sequel Fuller House (2016-2020), about the grown-up girls sharing a house: it sounded awful, and besides, Candace Cameron Bure (focus character DJ Tanner) made it very clear that she didn't like gay people and would not permit them on her show.  Presumably she meant gay characters, or did she check all 100-plus members of the cast and crew for rainbow flags?

Apparently the homophobia didn't stop with Candace.  According to a review, Fuller House was a "thoroughly offensive mess," with "gays are hilarious" jokes every episode: "we're expected to laugh at the mere suggestion that a character might be experiencing same-s*x attraction." 

Then why, according to the fan wiki, was DJ's son Max Fuller a "closeted gay boy?"

Max was played by Elias Harger, shown here with  his tv brother Michael Campion.

 Surely Candace would never permit a gay boy on the show, especially as DJ's son.

Time to check Max's character arc. 

In Seasons 1-2,  he is a femme boy with a gay-subtext relationship with his friend Taylor (Lucas Jaye) and occasional references to same-s*x interest, such as a crush on Blake Sheldon.  

Then in the Season 2 Christmas episode, he meets the Girl of His Dreams, Rose.  Taylor becomes his competitor for her attention.  

Max and Rose pursue an on-off romance through Season 6.

So, did the writers actually plan for Max to be gay, then change their minds when Candace yelled at them, or was it just a matter of "isn't same-sex desire hilarious?"

We can get a clue by checking to see if Elias Harger is gay in real life.  

According to his IMDB biography, Elias grew up in Denver and Atlanta, where he participated in community theater from the age of five, starring in Shrek: the Musical and A Christmas Carol (no, he didn't play Scrooge).

He moved on screen in 2014, playing Peter Pan, a boy who remembers his past lives (The Ghost Inside My Child), and a mysterious boy kidnapped by a serial killer (Popsy)

In 2015, a boy haunted by the ghost of his evil grandmother (Granny).

In 2016, he was cast as Max in Fuller House, but he also found time for more dark, disturbing movies to counteract the homophobic family-friendly smarm.

In 2017, Elias played a boy who disapproves of the new baby in the family.  If they're going to bring in new kids, he'll bring in a new mother (The Arrival).  

In 2018, the son of a female funeral director with a dark secret -- she likes her men like she likes her popsicles -- cold and hard (Dead Love).

His only post-Fuller role is in the animated Felix and the Hidden Treasure (2021).  Felix (Elias, Daniel Brochu) and his talking cat go off in search of his missing father, and run afoul of baddies dressed as superheroes. 

As of this writing, Elias is attending Georgia State University in Atlanta, majoring in music, hoping to become a concert pianist, or else a pianist on a cruise ship.

So no specifically gay roles, but there aren't a lot of gay roles for kids.  What about gay in real life?  First, check out Adam Hagenbuch, who played Uncle Jimmy (d*ck on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

"Big Mistakes": Dan Levy as a gay Christian pastor who makes big mistakes. The first was leaving "Schitt's Creek." With Patrick and Pacheco n*deacheco

We all remember Dan Levy as the befuddled fashion plate David Rose on Schitt's Creek (2015-20), whose sweet, cozy romance with newly out Patrick (Noah Reed) culminated with their wedding.  (I put Noah up after the break to refresh your memory.)

Next up: Big Mistakes (2026), with Dan the creator, writer, and star.  Of course I'm going to watch.

Scene 1: Nicky (Dan) and his sister Morgan (Taylor Ortega) at the nursing home, sitting there looking foolish while Mom (Laurie Metcalf) rushes around,  arranging a birthday party for dying Grandma and managing her mayoral campaign.  Their Competent Sister is helping. 

Grandma wants a diamond necklace for her dying birthday present, but Mom knows that they're losers, so just bring something cheap and nostalgic to brighten her last moments.

Scene 2:  Nicky is preaching in a large church that's mostly empty.  The end of his sermon: don't be overcome by the smoke from the bridges you burned.  That makes no sense.  There are crucifixes in the nursing home but not here, so I'm guessing that Nicky is Protestant while the rest of the family is Catholic.

Update: It's the Glenview Community Church, nondenominational Protestant, probably in the congregational tradition.

The service ends, and he returns to the parsonage and kisses his boyfriend.  

In a later episode, Nicky has a boyfriend named Tareq (Jacob Gutierrez, left), but I'm not sure if this is Tareq, or he appears later.  

Uh-oh, a parshioner walks in -- hide!  Are you closeted, Mr. Minister?  

As he gets dressed and prepares to leave, Boyfriend rubs it in: "I'm being honored by Out and Loud next week for the work that I do."  Being Out -- every heard of it?

Nicky explains that the church is ok with gay clergy, but frowns on them doing gay stuff.  Why would you even accept a job at a church that doesn't accept LGBTQ people?  What about the LGBTQ youth in your congregation?  You're promoting the belief that God hates them.

He promises that as soon as Mom's mayoral campaign is done, he'll find a new congregation where gay relationships are ok.

Scene 3:  Sister Morgan has relationship problems, too.  As he drops her off at the elementary school, Boyfriend Max (Jack Innanen, b*lge on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) wants a long, mouth-swallowing kiss, but she breaks away -- kids are watching.  "Why do you always back away from my touch?"  Because kids are watching?

They argue, and he throws an engagement ring at her.  She is ok with it, but she wants a proper proposal.

Scene 4: The siblings head into the QuickPost to find a cheap present for Grandma.  The clerk, Yusuf (Boran Kuzum, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends), keeps staring at Morgan.  Is he into her, or planning something nefarious?

Sister Morgan has her eye on a faux-pearl necklce in a case, but he won't sell it to her: "It's for display only." 

 When she pushes, he becomes aggressive: "Just leave it alone."   Must be real and stolen, or maybe full of heroin.

While they are arguing, Mom calls.  Grandma died.

Scene 5:  At the nursing home, Mom lambasts them for delaying with the gift, so they missed Grandma's last words: "My gloves are new."

Competent Daughter: "I think it was 'I love you.'"

Mom scoffs.  "No, it couldn't have been that."

Morgan wants to know what they're supposed to do with the gifts now.  That's your reaction to your grandmother's death?  She pulls out the faux-pearl necklace!  "I took care of it," she tells Nicky.

You stole it?  Why didn't you just choose something else?

Mom insists that Nicky put the necklace around Grandma's neck, and take some photos to post on social media.  Uh-oh, the bad guys will see it.

More after the break. 

I do not love thee, Justin Long. With an homage to "Green Eggs and Ham," and Justin's d*ck and backside and such

 

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I first saw Justin Long in the slasher movie Jeepers Creepers (2001): the teenager's sister states specifically that he is gay.  But he's straight.  Grr.

Then Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008): he plays gay porn star Brandon St. Randy, an interminably offensive stereotype sleaze.  Grr.

Then Strange Wilderness, F is for Family, Drag Me to Hell, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, It's a Wonderful Knife....almost every one of his characters grates on my nerves.

 In Latin class we learn the famous story of Oxford student Tom Brown, who was constantly getting in trouble.  The tyrannical dean Dr. Fell ordered him to translate the 32nd epigram of the Roman poet Martial.  So he said:

I do not love thee, Dr. Fell.  The reason why, I cannot tell.

But this I know, and know full well: I do not love thee, Dr. Fell.

That's where I got my title, "I do not love thee, Justin Long."  But for the poem, I think I'll use Green Eggs and Ham,

I do not love thee, Justin Long

I do not love thee as a tease

I do not love thee as a sleaze

I do not love thee carrying books.

I do not love your nasty looks.

I do not love thee climbing a rock;

Why would you need to hide your c*ck?

I do not love thee being hugged by a  dude.

You didn't hug back; it just looks rude.

I do not love thee you getting down.

Not with a girl's legs all around.

I do not love thee in Robin's tights.

After Burt's bulge, it doesn't look right.

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Angel Mock Curiel: LGBTQ and Latinx roles culminate in Lil Pappi on "Pose." Not much after except n*de modeling and Denver.

Link to the n*de photos

It's the late 1980s in Manhattan, the era of Reaganomics, Tough on Crime, and the AIDS crisis.  It's cold outside.  Especially if you're poor, a racial minority, and femme, trans, or gay: "the world hates you.  When you die, it breathes a sigh of relief."

All you have is a "house," a family of choice with a "mother" and her children.  And ballroom.

 Pose (2018-21) is set in the ballroom subculture, where African-American and Latinx trans women, drag queens, and occasionally gay men "posed,"modeled, house against house in the quest for realness.  Some brought home gigantic trophies, and became legends. 

Li'l Papi (Angel Bismark Curiel) was living on the streets, surving through drug sales and hustling  (he preferred women, but accepted male clients).  After stumbling upon the ballroom subculture, he was entranced, and petitioned Blanca of House Evangelista to "adopt" him, even though he wasn't gay or trans.  She agreed, with the rule that he stop dealing, and pose occasionally as a muscleman. 

In Season 2, Li'l Papi starts dating Angel (Indya Moore), a s*x worker whose previous plot arc involved an affair with a married man (Evan Peters).  After various arguments and breakup-reconciliations, they get married.  He opens a talent agency specializing in LGBTQ models, with Angel as his top client.  They have a happy ending (sort of), a welcome relief in a show that too often emphasized people being rejected by family, murdered, or dying of AIDS.

 This was Angel's first exposure to trans people.  In an interview with Attitude, he notes that he grew up in a "very cis, very heteronormative, very rough" Afro-Dominican community in Little Liberty, Miami.  He was bullied for being short and artistic, and for having asthma, and escaped into the world of the theater.  At the Miami Arts Charter School, he performed in The Rose Tattoo, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Jesus Hopping the A Train, and upon graduating in 2013, he enrolled at Pace University in New York as a drama major.

He dropped out in 2015 due to inancial problems, was homeless for awhile, survived anyway he could (he doesn't specify, but I imagine that hustling was one of his survival jobs), and finally found a job in a hotel.  But he still auditioned, and in 2016 landed his first on-screen role in America Adrift.  He played a middle-class teenager on Long Island who drifts into heroin addiction and drug dealing.

And loses his clothes.

Davi Santos, who is gay in real life, played his older brother, giving Angel his first close contact with LGBTQ people.  

Next came the short Louie's Brother Peter (2017).  Peter (Andrew McLarty) has Asperger's Syndrome, but that doesn't stop him from helping his brother with the drug deliveries.  Angel plays Zeke, one of their customers.

Andew McLarty is gay in real life.  .

Night Comes On (2018) is a "slow, painful, grim" indie drama about an African-American, lesbian girl nameed Angel, who is released from juvenile detention at age 18 with no money and no place to stay.  She gets a girlfriend, tries to find social connections, and seeks out her father to punish him murdering her mother.  Dad is played by John Earl Jelks, who often plays gay characters

You're pushing up the LGBTQ representation, Angel buddy

Our Angel played a store clerk. 

Monsters and Men (2018) is not about James Whale and the Frankenstein movie - that's Gods and Monsters.  It's about an incident where six police officers corner a black man and "accidentally" kill him during an arrest.

You're pushing up the Black/Latinx representation, too.

When Angel saw the casting call for L'il Pappi, he thought, "That's me!  Those are my experiences!"  He got the part, and since he had so little exposure to trans people, tried to educate himself, hang out with them, ask about their lives -- and he ended up in a relationship with producer/writer Janet Mock, an African-American transwoman -- while she was still married to her husband.  She is the one who suggested expanding Papi's role by giving him a romance with Angel Evangelista. 

Pose turned out to be the high point of Angel's acting career.  He was starring in a popular tv series, but more importantly, he  had found a community.  

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