Tyler Alvarez: The "Witch Way" chuy and "American Vandal" p*nis investigator is wild about girls. And a homos*xual. His word, not mine.

  

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In Ghosts Episode 2.20 (2023), the attic ghost Stephanie, a teenager murdered on her prom night in 1987, learns that her crush Trevor (Asher Grodman) is dating someone else (he's not interested anyway, since she's 17, and he died at age 33).   The irate Stephanie schemes to break up all of the "happy couples" at Woodstone. This doesn't work, of course, and basement ghost Nancy saves the day by introducing her to teenage cholera victim Ralph (Tyler Alvarez).

Wow, cute face and an insouciant tease of a muscular chest. He's getting a closer look.

Tyler was born in 1997 in the Bronx.  His first major screen role was in the Nickelodeon telenovela Every Witch Way (2014-15).  Focus character Emma discovers that she is a witch (and the Chosen One, naturally).  She has various teen angst and Harry Potter-style adventures, and is torn between two boys: the rebellious, "arrogant" wizard Jax (Rahart Adams) and the responsible but human Daniel (Nick Merico)

Tyler plays Diego, a chuy (magical being who can control the Four Elements).  He has an on-off girlfriend, but he also has a gay-subtext buddy-bond with Mac (Mavrick Moreno), at least before the showrunners noticed and wrote him out of the story.

Not a bad start.

Next came The Fosters, about a family of foster and adopted children.  In Season 5 (2018), he played Declan Rivers, an online gamer who starts flirting with Jude (Hayden Byerly), causing tension with his boyfriend Noah (Kalama Epstein).  

American Vandal (2017-18) sounds like it's about the Vandals motorcycle gang, but actually some high school vandals painted p*nises on 27 teachers' cars.  Journalists Peter (Tyler) and Sam (Griffin Gluck) investigate the crime.

I figured that they must have a gay-subtext buddy bond, but according to Reddit, there is an animosity between them, and one turns out to be the culprit.

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Valin Shinyei: Billy Elliot's gay friend, a gay monster hunter, a straight ballet dancer, and a Lego boy who cooks. With Valin/Vladimir d*cks

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Billy Elliot (2000) encourages homophobic parents to relax: boys who like dance are absolutely, positively, 100% not-gay, although they might have gay friends.  I heard that the musical gave the gay character a less "endless angst and misery" plot arc, as demonstrated by a production by the Vancouver Arts Club in 2016, with Valin Shinyei as Billy's gay friend.  

Interesting name, even more interesting underwear photo (on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends), doubtless gay in real life, and there's something in his bio about the Paralympics -- I always like to promote disabled representation.  He's definitely getting a profile.  

Vallin Shinyei (the name is Sanskrit and Japanese) was born in Vancouver in 2001 to an artist dad, a choreographer mom, and an actress sister.  He was home schooled through eighth grade while studying dance at the Peggy Pearl School.  Then he enrolled at the Thomas Haney Secondary School, graduating in 2019.

Valin began doing commercials and modeling in 2006, and moved into television in 2009, playing a Little Boy in an episode of Smallville and one of the kids being nanny-ified by Mrs. Miracle. 

Plus he began dancing nightly s at the Pacific Exhibition ("British Columbia's choice for diverse events and experiences.". 

At the 2010 Paralympic Games, Valin passed the torch to the Russians at the closing ceremony.

He also hosted the ceremony commemorating Rick Hansen's 25th Anniversary Tour:  In 1987, Rick completed his Man in Motion Tour, traveling around the world in a wheelchair to raise awareness spinal cord injuries. In 1987, he repeated the tour, traveling across Canada.

Valin does not personally have a disability.  I don't know what his connection to the disabled community is.

He broke into film with A Christmas Miracle (2012), about eight strangers stranded  in an abandoned church, who...well you can figure it out.  Star Dan Payne played a gay guy (and showed off his backside) in Mulligans (2008).  Valin won a Young Artists Award for his role as a boy lost in the woods.

Continuing the Christmas theme, Valin starred in A Christmas Story 2 (2012), a straight-to-video sequel to the 1983 movie, with the 16 year old Ralphie (Braedon Lemasters) wanting a car and the Girl of His Dreams rather than a rifle. Valin plays his piggish younger brother.  It got horrible reviews, but three years later (2015), Valin was playing Ralphie in A Christmas Story at the Vancouver Arts Club.

In 2016, he began as the understudy for Billy (Nolan Fahey) in the musical Billy Elliot.  Then he took over as Billy's gay friend Michael, who has a crush on him.  Billy isn't into guys, but he does agree to a drag number, "Expressing Yourself," and he kisses Michael on the cheek. That's better than endless angst and misery, I guess.

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Craig Hundley: Angel-Headed Hipster plays with the Big Boys

In the Star Trek episode "And the Children Shall Lead" (1967), which Leonard Nimoy rates as the worst of the original series, an alien "angel"  brainwashes a group of children into taking control of the Enterprise.  

Craig  Hundley is the lanky redhead in the weird striped smock -- about a foot taller than the others, way too old to play their "chasing each other" game, looking heavily embarrassed.

No wonder -- the others were between 7 and 10 years old, and Craig was 13.

In case you were wondering, they were; Pamela Ferdin, the first voice of Lucy in Peanuts movies.

Cesar Belli, son of Melvin Belli (the alien)

Brian Tochi, who went on to Revenge of the Nerds and the Police Academy movies.

Mark Don Brown

Brian Tochi

Melvin Caesar Belli

Here he takes over the bridge.  I was sure that Chekhov and Sulu (Walter Koenig, George Takei) were boyfriends.

Craig recently reunited with George at the L.A. Opera, and thanked him for "being an advocate for so many important causes."  The word is "gay," buddy.

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Björn Mosten: His "Love and Anarchy" n*de hugeness made him a star, but he's also played a gay boarding school bully and Oddgeir's buddy.

  

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In the Swedish comedy Kärlek och anarki (Love and Anarchy, 2020-22), middle aged publishing house consultant Sofia (Ida Engvoll) and young IT guy Max (Björn Mosten) fight a "dare war,"  trying to one-up each other with increasingly drastic dares:

Dress like pop singer Cyndi Lauper.

Walk backwards for a day.

Get too drunk

Mimic people

Walk into a restaurant and pretend that you work there.

Dribble

Do everything as fast as you can

And:  Get n*de in front of your family.

Uncensored on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.  Hint: Our buy is huge.

Frontside and back.

This was the 23-year old actor's only n*de scene in the series (he takes off his shirt a few times), but it was enough to seal his popularity among gay men in Sweden and abroad.

His cuteness and his acting ability too, of course.

The cover story of Kupe tells us that he is "An Overnight Star."  

Björn wasn't planning to become a star.  He was a small town boy, from Dvärsätt in central Sweden (the nearest big city is Trondheim, Norway, three hours away).  In the summer of 2019, he was just finishing up his degree in engineering at Uppsala University, and enrolled in the master's program in Computer and Information Engineering.  Lisa Langseth was casting an IT guy for her new comedy drama.  He had done some modeling, so why not audition?

After Love and Anarchy, Bjorn starred in the theatrical play Jakten (2022), at the Stockholms Stadsteaterat.  

It means "The Hunt," as in "Witch Hunt": a grade school teacher (Henrik Norlén) is falsely accused of assaulting a child in his class.  Bjorn plays Marcus, his teenage son.

Next came the tv series Ondskan ("Evil," 2023): Erik (Isac Calmroth) is expelled from public school due to being a violent thug, enrolls in an exclusive private school, becomes a bullying victim, and commences an affair with the lunch lady. 

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