Joe Davidson: The gladiator, surfer, soap star, and gator poacher doesn't mind if you check out his d*ck. With bonus Thomas Jane and Takaya

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In Spartacus: House of Ashur Episode 1.1, Gladiator Logus (Joe Davidson) insults the dwarf trio Brothers Ferox: "My d*ck stands larger threats!" They promptly eviscerate him.

During the filming, Joe hooked up with (or buddied up with) the probably gay Mikey Thompson (Music).  Plus a brief internet search revealed this photo from the soap Neighbours: Joe's character apparently has a boyfriend.

Plus there are no girls and a lot of guys on his social media posts.  That's enough for more extensive research to determine if Joe is gay in real life, has played gay characters, or both.  Hopefully both.  

Born around 1992 or 1993, Joe grew up on Australia's ritzy Gold Coast, around Brisbane, and began on-screen acting in some teen series:

A diver in an episode of H2O: Just Add Water (2010), about three teenager girls who turn into mermaids (with Luke Mitchell as their human ally).

A swimmer in SLIDE (2011): A Melbourne girl moves to Brisbane and finds the requisite allies, crushes, and enemies, including a gay-ish boyfriend.

A surfer boy in Mako Mermaids (2013), with those three teenage mermaids up to new antics.  A merman (Chai Hanson) is added to the cast.

Joe also meets a mermaid while grieving over his dead father in Glass Tunnel (2013).  

Plus he worked at Warner Brothers Movie World, a theme park in Queensland, playing characters like Edward Scissorhands and Fred from Scooby Doo.

After graduating from the "prestigious three-year program" at Actors Central Australia in Sydney, Joe was cast in his first major role, playing Cassius Grady in the soap opera Neighbours (2017-2018).   He appears as a muscular mystery man at a Guy Fawkes Day party on the same night that the evil Hamish Roche is murdered.  Hamish's son Tyler is the chief suspect.

Cassius goes on to save Tyler's girlfriend from a capsized boat, start dating her, rescue a kidnapped baby, get a job as a gardener, and finally admit that he was the one who murdered Hamish (gasp) because he is the evil guy's long-estranged son (double gasp). 

Um...Cassius was straight, buddy. 

Maybe there are some gay roles in his later work?

Stranded (2018): A British soldier is stranded with a lady.  They smooch in the water. 

Abandoned (2018).  What do you think?

Sons of Summer (2023):  A surfer brings his buds on a trip to the Gold Coast town where his dad was murdered, and runs afoul of murderous drug dealers.  He's got a girlfriend.

Anyone But You (2023); Ben (Glen Powell) and Bea don't like each other, but Bea's sister is marrying Ben's friend Pete's sister, and for some reason they have to pretend to be a couple at the wedding.  Joe plays the current boyfriend of Ben's ex girlfriend, who dumps him for Bea's ex-boyfriend. It's based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, so you've got to expect some partner switching. 

Joe shows his backside to demonstrate that he's much hotter than Ben.

He shows his d*ck too (after the break).

Mustafa Alabbsi: Syrian-Canadian deaf advocate, zombie, hairdresser, Faust, and clown. Is he gay? Can we see his d*ck? And who is his cute bff?

 

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You may recall Mustafa Alabbsi from the tv series Black Summer (2019).  He plays Ryan, a deaf teenage who survives the first few days of a zombie apocalypse and has a brief but obvious gay-subtext buddy-bond with Lance (Kelsey Flower).  It may even have been intentional: Kelsey Flower is "gay af" in real life.  

Mustafa was born in Madaya, Syria, about 40 km from Damascus, in 2000.  When he was 12 years old, he and his family fled the war, and lived as refugees in Jordan.  He was not able to attend school, so he never learned to read and write Arabic (or English).  When he was 17, the family received asylum in Regina, Saskatchewan.  He tried to make up for the gaps in his education by enrolling in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program at Thom Collegiate. 

There are about 100,000 Canadians of Syrian ancestry.  30% arrived as refugees after 2015.  About 2/3rds are Christian, primarily Roman Catholic.  Many are LGBTQ, sponsored by the Toronto-based Rainbow Road.  Prominent queer Syrian-Canadians include Danny Ramadan, author of The Clothesline Swing (A gay Syrian love story) and The Foghorn Echoes (queer love in war-torn Syria); and Bassel Mcleash, who had been in Canada for only a month when he was invited to walk beside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade.

Back to Mustafa: He learned to read and write English and sign with American Sign Language, and to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming an actor, joined Regina's deaf theatrical community, The Deaf Crows Collective.  He has appeared in: 

Apple Time (2017) 

The Madcap Misadventures of Mustafa (2022), playing himself as a deaf Syrian clown who arrives in Canada with only a suitcase.

Firebird (2023)

Deaf Settlers (2024-25), about the Indigenous people's response to the first deaf European settlers in Canada.

100 Years of Darkness (2024), about brutal experimentation conducted on deaf people in the 19th century.

The Light of the Deep (2025): "A deaf-led theatrical discovery into darkness and discovery."

The last two were performed at the Inside Out Theatre, written by deaf queer artist Landon Krentz. In March 2025, got a grant to develop his short play, The Confidence of a Deaf Queer Male, into a "full 90-minute theatrical experience."  He explains: "This isn’t just about being visible. It’s about BELONGING. It’s about walking into rooms we weren’t invited into and refusing to shrink."

So, Mustafa is associated with the queer deaf community.  

And in his day job, he's a hairdresser, offering "Mane by Mustafa"

"Working out with Lawson.  Very help.  Hard."

I'm going to go with: gay in real life.

Cute bff and n*de photos after the break.

"Heated Rivalry": Heavily closeted hockey player hooks up with his rival in the homophobic 2010s. With a lot of backsides and some stuff

 

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Heated Rivalry  on MAX, features a clandestine romance between hockey players in the 2010s, when you had to be closeted or you'd be fired -- the first hockey player to come out was Brock McGillis -- in 2016, long after he retired.  It's getting good reviews, except among gay men who complain that there's no plot, and star Hudson Williams is not really gay (so what? he's not really a hockey player, either).   My main problem is, I know nothing about hockey except it's played on ice, and has the reputation for being violent.  Will I be able to understand what's going on without conducting research?    I'll review Episode 1.1

Scene 1: December 2008, Saskatechwan. The International Prospect Cup.  I don't know what that is.  Ilya (Connor Storie)  is smoking out back, when Shane (Hudson Williams) from the rival team approaches to tell him that it's not allowed.  They trash-talk each other's teams as the worst in hockey history, and establish their conflicting personalities: Shane is a by-the-books good boy, while Ilya is a rebellious, arrogant a*hole.  

Cut to a newscaster telling us that this is a Canadian-Russian prospect game.  I'm guessing that it's where prospective players show their skill?  

 The game begins: Ilya keeps looking up in the bleachers, which are empty except for a guy glaring at him.  I think he's glaring at himself.  This is never explained.

One week later: Crushing defeat for Canada, although Shane did a good job.  Wait -- were there several Canadian-Russian prospect games?

Scene 2: Six months later.  The Major League Drafts.  I'm guessing that this is where the major teams pick new players based on their performance at the prospect games.   Ilya got #1, and Shane #2. 

The Montreal Canadiens want Shane, because he's cute and Asian-Canadian, breaking down racial barriers:  "People are popping champaign all over Quebec."  As they discuss how important hockey is to Canadian culture,  Ilya glares at him from above. 

Ilya is drafted by the Boston Bruins. They don't give the names of the teams; I had to look them up. 

Scene 3: Shane in bed in his hotel room.  Nice chest, buddy.  He can't sleep, so he gets dressed, goes to the gym, and starts biking.  Suddenly Ilya is beside him.  They try to see who can bike the fastest.  It's a draw.  Then they sit across from each other and make boring small talk ("Montreal is nice." "Yes. People like it there") while sneaking peeks at each other and sharing water so they can touch hands.

Scene 4: Six months later, Ottawa.  International Prospects Cup.  Wait -- I thought they were already drafted into teams?  Brother Alexei (Slavic Rogozine) calls to ask for more money, but Ilya is tired of forking it over to support his drugs-and-girls lifestyle. Alexei calls him a "f*ggot" and hangs up.  Is that an all-purpose slur, or are you out to your brother?

Next Ilya calls his Dad, who asks him to "apologize to Russia" for losing his last hockey game.  

"Well, we lost to the Czechs, but we'll beat Sweden."

"You'd better!"

Cut to "An amazing comeback for Canada, who trounced the Russians!"  Wait  Ilya is playing for Boston, not Russia, and he said they were going up  against Sweden next.   

Scene 5:  Six months later, Toronto.  Time is passing so quickly that I'm getting dizzy.   Ilya and Shane pose for a commercial about the game.  The director complains: "Would you guys try to hit your marks at the same time?"

Cut to Shane gawking at Ilya as he practices, while his Mom talks to him about wearing sneakers.  "A lot of Asian kids will be looking up to you as a role model."  So he should wear sneakers?

Cut to the showers, with Shane and Ilya sneaking peeks at each other. Ilya wants to do stuff, but Shane says "Not here!"

As they're getting dressed, Ilya says, "If I come to your room tonight at 9:00 pm..."  "I'll answer."

Scene 6:  Shane puts on a suit, then isn't wearing it as he waits nervously in his hotel room.  Ilya tries to get off the elevator at Shane's floor, but a woman is there, so he keeps going up.  She'll just think you have a room on this floor, dude!  This reminds me of my nine horrible months in..ugh...Texas, the worst place on Earth.  Guys would not show up for hookups, then explain: "A car was parked in the driveway of a house three doors down, so I was afraid to stop."

He tries again, but now Shane has doubts: "This is such a bad idea."  They kiss anyway.  Har-har, Shane starts doing stuff before they even get their shirts off.  

He's never been with a guy before, so Ilya gives him some instructions.  Whoa, you thought Kelvin and Keefe were open about it.  These guys go as far as they can go without actually showing the act.

When Ilya finishes, he says "Ok, this was fun.  Thanks, bye!"  But he's just joking.  He does stuff with Shane, too. 

They agree to not tell anyone about their hookup, and since they both have early flights tomorrow, Ilya leaves.  Shane is upset.  Are you feeling guilty about the gay stuff, worried because Ilya belongs to a rival team, or hurt because he didn't spend the night?

More after the break

Gemstones Season 2 Finale: The Godfather, Butch and Sundance, random n*de dudes, and "My love for you will never die."

  

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The series finales on The Righteous Gemstones are meant to tie up any remaining loose ends and say goodbye to the characters, so we should expect little or no plot development, just a lot of hugging: everyone who has had lost, frayed, or troubled relationships during the season, lovers, friends, parents and children, siblings, will be reconciled.

Hold on tight to the one you love the most:  A blackened stage. Suddenly a spotlight on Jesse.  He begins the country-western song "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend," by Don Williams.  Then Kelvin, lying on a platform, raising a finger to Heaven.  Then Judy and the choir, as she walks up stage.  Then all three siblings together. 

 Coffee black, cigarettes. Start the day like all the rest. 

First thing every moning that I do, is start missing you.

Some broken hearts never mend.  Some memories never end.  

Some tears will never dry.  My love for you will never die. 

Except this song is not about lost love, it's about mended hearts.  You're supposed to look at or point to a loved one. Kelvin starts out by pointing at audience stage left, obviously at Keefe, who points to himself and then back. My love for you will never die,

BJ waves, presumably at Judy.  Cut to Amber and the kids; then Baby Billy, Tiffany, and the baby; he looks back at Harmon, his no-longer estranged son; and finally Eli looks out at the audience. 

In the middle of love's embrace: Flashback to the Alaska Commercial Company, a grocery store chain with 33 locations in Alaska, mostly in rural areas. The Lissons, in hiding after their murders and attempts, are buying -- coffee to go?  Martin has them under surveillance.

Back in church, Eli looks at the band as the siblings sing the second verse together.  Then Jesse and Kelvin, looking up to heaven.

 Rendezvous in the night.

In the middle of love's embrace, I see your face

Wait -- they see God while their partners Amber and Keefe are going downtown?  Makes sense.

Cut to the Lissons in their cabin, watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, where the gay-subtext bank robbers, played by Robert Redford, top photo, and Paul Newman, left, are trapped, with no escape, so they go out shooting. 

 Some broken hearts never mend.   Some memories never end.

Some tears will never dry.  My love for you will never die.

The Cycle Ninjas:  Cycle Ninjas on glittering metallic snowmobiles zoom through the woods.  

Lyle looks out the window and yells "Get the guns!"

Back at the church, the siblings point at each other. Eli smiles. 

The First Chorus: The congregation rises to sing the chorus.

We see Chad and his wife, who have been having marital problems since Season 1; Martin and his often seen, never-named wife; Judy and BJ;  Junior and Tan Man, Baby Billy and Tiffany, Amber and the kids.  Then the siblings again.  Wait, I thought the Tan Man was just Junior's assistant.  Is there a gay relationship going on back in Memphis? 

In the flashback, the Lissons get out their guns and tell each other that God believes in them: "God will see us through, for we are the Chosen."  Where on Earth did Lyle get that idea?  

More broken hearts after the break