"I Love L.A.": A review of a television series about ladies in L.A. It keeps getting censored, so I'm afraid to describe it further.

 

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The 11 years I lived in Los Angeles were the best of my life.  Imagine  having a job interview at Paramount Studios.  Driving down Sunset Boulevard, past Chateau Marmont and the Comedy Store, on the way to work.  Running into John Amos at the gym and Richard Dreyfuss at the Bodhi Tree.  Living two blocks from Mickey's and the Different Light.  Buying groceries at the West Hollywood Safeway, where everyone is g*y.  So of course I'm going to watch a tv show called I Love LA., even though it's about  ladies with influencer problems.

Plus, it stars Josh Hutcherson (left) and Jordan Firstman (who showed his stuff in Rotting in the Sun) as a g*y friend. In an era where g*y starring characters on tv suddenly turn straight (Dr. Who, Klaus in The Umbrella Academy, Will Byers on Stranger Things) or their shows are cancelled after one season, maybe secondary character will have staying power.

This review has been censored twice.  I can't figure out why.   I put asterisks in everything referring to the human physical form, bedroom things, orientations, un-aliving people, and the words your Mom didn't like for you to say, until the thing was more sanitized than Mother Goose and you couldn't even tell what it was about, but it was still censored.   So just follow the link to the NSFW version.

Taylor Gregory: The fierce, fabulous Barbie kid grows up to ballet, bodybuilding, and kissing boys. With bonus Czerwonko going downtown

  

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When I was doing a profile of Iain Armitage, who played Young Sheldon, the preteen and teenage version of the Big Bang Theory's neurotic physicist , I thought Wyatt McClure should come next.  He played next door neighbor Billy, who started with a gay-subtext interest in Iain before the writers decided to give him a crush on his sister Missy instead.

Wyatt McClure turned out to be unsuitable; no beefcake, and straight.  But he did draw my attention to his best friend, Taylor Gregory: 17 years old as of this writing, and extremely muscular.

Taylor has done some acting, but he is primarily a dancer, interested in a career in ballet. Here he plays the Prince in Nutcracker at Christmastime 2023.  

Auditioning for the Houston Ballet Academy's intensive summer session in 2025.  Did they require you to dance shirtless on your audition video, or did you think your physique would give you an edge?

Gay in real life:

Taylor: "We weren't celebrating Valentine's Day, but we were."  His date, a guy named Carson, is getting friendly under the table. We don't see Wyatt's date; maybe they're taking the photo.

Taylor tries to kiss Wyatt, who isn't into it.  

Any questions?

Any gay roles:

In 2015, when he was six years old, Biloxi, Mississippi native starred in a commercial for Mochino's high-end Barbie doll collection.  He was  the first boy ever to be shown playing with Barbies on tv.  With his femme hair and his "fierce and fabulous" snap, he became a media sensation and "a voice of the LGBTQ community."  

In one of the news stories I watched, Taylor's Mom seemed uncomfortable with the idea of her son being a gay icon.  It was just an acting role; in real life, he plays with Matchbook cars (translation: "My son is straight")

Gay boys are allowed to play with cars, Mom, just as straight boys are allowed to play with dolls. You can't tell by the toys they like.

But she did allow him to perform at the  Gulf Coast Equality Fest, an annual LGBTQ+ event "aimed at inspiring, educating, honoring, and celebrating our community and our allies."  

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Jonny Quest: Gay in the 1960s, hetero in the 1990s, gay again (sort of) in the 2010s

An adventure series with distinctively realistic animation,Jonny Quest first appeared on prime time in 1965-65, and then on Saturday morning through the 1970s. Renowned scientist Dr. Benton Quest (Don Messick), with a reddish-brown beard and a white lab coat, and his white-haired, hard-muscled boyfriend Race Bannon, investigate weird mysteries in the Andes, the Artic, the Sargasso Sea, or most commonly in steamy jungles full of dragon-like lizards and headhunters.

 Tagging along, either to figure out the mystery or get abducted by bad guys, are Dr. Quest’s 11-year old son, Jonny (Tim Matheson) and his companion Hadji (Danny Bravo), who met them in Calcutta and then tagged along for no logical reason except that he rather liked Jonny.

Dr. Quest and Race Bannon were quite obviously gay partners. Neither displayed the slightest interest in women.

 Race was often drawn in a swimsuit so his massive muscles were visible.  Here he stains himself with purple berry juice to convince the savage Po-Po Indians that he is a god.

But I was more interested in Jonny and Hadji. Jonny, blond in a tough guy’s black turtleneck, rushes double-fisted into danger, while Hadji, slim and brown with petite hands, wearing a turban with a ruby in it all the time (even when swimming), is skittish and emotional, shouting “Be careful!” from the sidelines as he waits for an opportunity to assist with his mystical arts.

Hadji is presumably Hindu, although the turban suggests Sikh (in the 1990s series, his full name is Hadji Singh).  So why is his name an honorary title given to Muslims who have completed the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca?

He was one in  long line of South Asian boy-adventurers such as Sabu (left), Kim in the Corentin series, Gunga Andy's Gang, and Raji on  Maya (below) .

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Ten n*de and nearly n*de photos of Bernard the "Santa Clause" Elf, David Krumholtz. With bonus Jason Biggs and Rob Morrow.

  I had a full, complete profile of David Krumholtz, who played Bernard the Elf in the iconic Santa Clause (1993), but when I tried to post it, it vanished, replaced by the last of the "see also" links: Jamie Mayers: Absurdly hot Short Guy

It's Christmas Eve; I have things to do.  I don't have time to recreate the whole profile, but I don't want the photos to go to waste, so I'm posting them instead.  

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1. Bernard the Elf.

2. David singing in his under*wear

Bonus: Jason Biggs trying to hide his d*ck behind a glass pan lid.

3. Shirtless.

4. With Wednesday Addams

5. His backside

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