Avan Jogia: The Johnny Depp of "Victorious" grows up, dates Beau Mirchoff, but is he gay?

I only watched a few episodes of the Nickelodeon teencom Victorious (2010-2013).  It was about the same as a dozen other Nick/Disney Channel teencom, with:

1. A girl who wants to be a singer (does any girl ever have any other career goal?)

2. A best friend

3. A snobbish frenemy

4. A dork who is crushing on her (Matt Bennett).

5. A black guy (Leon Thomas III).

6. The hunk she is crushing on (Avan Jogia. above, who looks a lot like a young Johnny Depp). . 

 In my review, I called it "alnost gay" due to a buddy-bonding subtext and one line: a character says that she is going to visit "her uncle and uncle" in San Francisco.  Fans went to extraordinary lengths to argue that she could not possibly have meant a gay couple.

Looking for one of the Victorious stars to profile, I checked two things: Is he gay?  Does he have any n*de photos online?

1. Matt Bennett.  

Gay: No.

N*de: In The Virginity Hit (2010), he shaves his pubes, and you can kind of see an outline.

2. Leon Thomas III.

Gay: No

N*de: Rear shot as he is getting cozy with a woman in Insecure (2016-21).  There are like twelve rear shots of black guys, two of whom are gay, so I'll have to look it up later.

3. Avan Jongia

Gay: Probably.  He uses he/they pronouns, and he dates Beau Mirchoff in Now, Apocalypse (2019-20)

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Frederick Koehler: Chip from "Kate and Ally" grows up, shows his d*ck, plays some psychos, and vanishes. With bonus Beau Mirchoff

Link to the n*de Chip and Mirchoff

Viewers who saw this guy's d*ck in a 2004 episode of the prison drama Oz were shocked.  Not by the d*ck -- there were lots of them on Oz.

Not because he was Andrew Schillinger, 20-year old son of the white supremacist prisoner Vern Schillinger.

 

Not even because he was a heroin addict who would be given a batch by an unscrupulous guard and die of an overdose.

Because we were looking at a grown-up Chip.

Although he had appeared in Judging Amy, Ally McBeal, Profiler, Gideon's Crossing, Charmed, and A Kiss Before Dying,  Fred Koehler was famous for Kate and Allie (1984-89), a sitcom starring two recognizable 1970s tv stars, Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James, a free spirit-stick in the mud couple living together. Fred Koehler played their 10-15 year old son, Chip

No, they weren't lesbians, although they pretended to be in an early example of a "let's pretend to be gay to get some of their incredible privileges" episode. 

After Kate and Ally -- I have to keep checking, but I'm pretty sure it's "ally," not "allie" -- Fred attended Carnegie-Mellon University, got a degree in theater, changed his stage name to Frederick, and returned to Hollywood.

To quote Sally in Peanuts, isn't the grown-up Frederick "the cutest thing"?   Short, rather husky, with a round, handsome face and a befuddled expression that makes him perfect for roles as oddball outsiders with no heterosexual interests.  Instead, they are gay-vague, yearning for love, acceptance, and family.

Like Ben Sharpless, teenage son of the obsessive sheriff Nolan in Birdseye (2002).

Or the mentally handicapped Pemon in Little Chenier (2006).

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