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Luke David Blumm was born in New York in 2009, and raised in Atlanta in a family of actors. Dad Matthew Sean Blumm has 36 acting credits on the IMDB, including episodes of queer-friendly shows like Orange is the New Black and Peacemaker.
Sister Samantha Grace Blumm is best known for Pose, the drama about drag queen/transgender performers in New York during the AIDS crisis. She plays Amanda, daughter of Stan Bowes (Evan Peters, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends), who begins dating transwoman Angel Evangelista.
Not a bad queer genealogy.
Luke's on-screen acting begins in 2019, in an episode of The Walking Dead. He plays Linus, a kid growing up in brutal survivor colony in an abandoned factory.
His first starring role was in The King of Staten Island (2020): Aspiring tattoo artist Pete Davidson befriends long-haired femme boy Luke, and starts dating his firefighter father (Bill Burr). Actually, it's just queerbaiting: the guys both get girlfriends. But Luke is definitely being depicted as gay.
Hank Strong appears as a firefighter (n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).
Next came Son (2021), about a long-haired femme boy who escapes from a violent cult with his mom, only to contract a mysterious illness. Emile Hirsch (right) plays Paul, a sympathetic police officer with a secret agenda.
Left: Luke's plus-one at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival in 2024 was Emile's rather femme son Valor.
In 2023, Luke was in his first play, Avenue of the Giants. It was made into a movie, The Optimist, released in 2026: Holocaust survivor Herbert Heller befriends a young girl, with whom "he shares a 60-year old secret." The plot synopses don't say what the secret is, but I don't think it's being gay. The real Herbert Heller was married, with children. Luke plays the young Herbert.
Left: A random teen bodybuilder.
On Valentine's Day 2026, surrounded by floating hearts, Luke tells us to: "Check out Lola (2024). It's a movie about love."
Worried that I was going to see a heteronormative quest for the Eternal Feminine, I read two plot synopses.
Lola, an adult performer and cocaine addict, has a little brother (Luke) who wears dresses and makeup. She supports his interest, but Mom is abusive, throwing about homophobic slurs and s*xually assaulting him. Lola grabs the boy and moves out, but Mom lures him back home and cuts off his long hair to turn him straight. He is so upset that he runs out into traffic and is killed.
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