Mickey and Goofy, the Gay Couple of "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories." With Christopher Knight bonus

Way to feel old.  I just bought the 75th Anniversary Edition of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, the flagship of the Disney comics empire.

Back in 1991, I bought the 50th Anniversary Edition

And Christopher Knight (Peter Brady) is 67.

When I was a kid, I loved the Disney Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge titles, with the ducks adventuring in exotic locales, in search of the Mines of King Solomon or the lost crown of Genghis Khan.

But I had no use for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.

There was always a Duck cover, and the first story starred Donald Duck, but it was a slapstick comedy, not an adventure.

Then several stories involving minor Disney characters adapted from movies that came out before I was born:

1. The Little Bad Wolf, a "Casper the Friendly Ghost" who butted heads with his single father, Zeke, aka the Big Bad Wolf from The Three Little Pigs (1933).  Neither father nor son expressed any interest in girls, so that was a glimmer of gay subtext, anyway.  But also:

2. The patois-speaking Indian Little Hiawatha,who apparently starred in some cartoons in the 1930s.  f Offensive even for a 10 year old in 1971

3. Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio (1940).  Who?

4. Scamp, the son of the two dogs who got together in Lady and the Tramp (1955).  He was rascally, adventurous, a gender-stereotyped "boy," with sisters who were gender-stereotyped sissy "girls."  Offensive even for a 10-year old in 1971.

5/ Then a text story, unreadable, just so they could ship the comic books at book rates.

6. But the worst was the last feature, a serial by artist Paul Murray (1911-1989) that paired Mickey Mouse and Goofy.  

They were usually detectives trying to solve a crime with science fiction elements, though there were also outer-space and historical stories.

The problem was, I never could read a serial straight through.  Buying comic books was always a gamble, based on what Schneider's Drug Store stocked, what was left by the time I got there, and how much money I had.  There was never an opportunity to buy the same title several months in a row, so instead I always arrived in media res, or in time for "the ghost was really your disgruntled assistant" Scooby wrap-up.

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Rob Gronkowski: Football legend eats pizza, gets to know a beer can, shows us his hands and other stuff

 

Link to the n*de photos

This guy is named The Gronk.  I have no idea what, if anything, he's famous for, but he's breath-taking.

Perfect face.  Perfect physique.

And apparently gay.   

Time for some research:

He's a football player named Rob Gronkowski.

 6'6",  265-pounds, hands 10 inches

You got anything else that's 10 inches, buddy?

A tight end: he blocks the running back and protects the quarterback durng passes.  

And fields a lot of jokes.

His stats, in case you're interested:

9 seasons with the New England Patriots (2010-2018)

2 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2020-21)

4-time Superbowl champ

4-time First Team All-Pro Selection

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Alex Saxon: From fundamentalist college to ace and trans roles to teen angst hunk. With n*de older brother.

 

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A new Righteous Gemstones character has appeared in the Episode 4.1 cast list, Alex Saxon as "Thaddeus," no doubt a Civil War guy.

According to Alex Saxon's biography on the IMDB, he was born in  1987 in Liberty, Missouri, 15 miles north of Kansas City, began acting in the theater at age 8.

A femme appearance, in the theater, and living in Liberty, Missouri.  I can imagine how terrible the bullying was.

He sang, danced, and sometimes acted in Bye Bye Birdie, Jekyll& Hyde: The Musical, Grease, A Charlie Brown Christmas, and The Breakfast Club Live

After high school, he enrolled at William Jewell College as a pre-med major, but then changed to Psychology and Applied Critical Thought, with a minor in Chemistry.  He graduated magna cum laude in 2009.

The William Jewell College in Liberty is affiliated with the Baptist Church, so I imagine that it's not at all gay friendly. 

Alex hit Los Angeles in 2011, and began acting for the screen:

A vampire guy at the Big Dance in an episode of Awkward (2011).

The Olivia Experiment (2012): A woman suspects that she is asexual, so she accepts a friend's offer of a night with her own boyfriend to find out.  That is wrong on so many levels.  You know whether you're into someone or not without actually having it.  That's like the people who ask "How do you know you don't like going with women unless you've tried it?"  Easy...look at a woman, and ask yourself "Do you want to go with her?"

Alex plays a member of the Asexual Support Group, where Olivia is informed that she's not really asexual, she's just afraid to open up to intimacy.  

Young Paul Holt in Chapman (2013), which seems to be a Western.

Young Henry Bird in The Advocates (2013), which seems to be about lawyers

Chloe in two episodes of Ray Donovan (2013-2015): a "transvestite" hooker who is blackmailing movie star Tommy (Austin Nichols) to get money for "a s*x change."  What is this, 1975?  The vocabulary is all wrong.  Transgender people don't get "s*x changes," they transition.

Coin Heist (2017), about four teens -- "the hacker, the slacker, the athlete, and the perfect student," who scheme to steal from the U.S. Mint.  Alex, with relatively short hair, plays the Slacker, who is the ex-boyfriend of the Perfect Student (a girl, of course) and falls in love with the Hacker (a girl, of course).  Not to worry, the Perfect Student hooks up with the Athlete (a boy, of course), so everything is all tied up into a nice little heteronormative package.

Then it's back to long hair for 28 episodes of the teen angst series The Fosters (2013-18), as Callie's on-off boyfriend

36 episodes of the teen angst series Finding Carter (2014-15) as the on-off boyfriend of Carter's sister.

10 episodes of The Fix (2019) as the stepson of Sevvy Johnson (Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje), an actor accused of murdering two of his girlfriends.  He assaults his father, gets into fights, and does other deviant stuff while dating girls.

62 episodes of Nancy Drew(2019-23), as a drug-addled outsider who becomes one of the teen sleuth's scoobies and dates girls.

An episode of Criminal Minds as Pete Bailey, younger brother of the murdered Deputy Director Doug Bailey (Nicholas D'Agosto).

Noticing a pattern in Alex's screen presence? Long hair, soft, feminine, gay-coded in spite of his characters' endless series of girlfriends.

He doesn't have Instagram, and his X just promotes his tv series, so his personal life is up for speculation.  LezWatch calls him cisgender heterosexual, but that may just be default.

Could he be gay in real life?

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13 Reasons Why We Love "13 Reasons Why" star Dylan Minnette. Hint: Reason #4 involves his bromance with Braedon LeMasters

#1. Dude has a physique

#2. He played a shy, sensitive "good boy."

Dylan was born on December 29, 1996 in Evansville, Indiana, and worked as a child model before moving to Los Angeles to concentrate on his acting. He had guest roles in Two and a Half Men, Drake & Josh, Prison Break, Grey's Anatomy, The Mentalist, and Supernatural.  

Saving Grace (2007-2010) starred Holly Hunter as a hard-drinking, one-night-stand pursuing police detective who is advised by God in the form of the tobacco-chawing Earl (plus she solves murders).  as the nephew of the police detective who finds God). Dylan appeared in 40 episodes as her nephew Clay, who received a number of shy, sensitive, "good boy" plotlines:

He has a Catholic confirmation.

He confronts Grace over her sinful conduct.

He joins the Police Explorers

He makes friends with the son of a death-row inmate (Malcolm David Kelley, recent photo on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends, doing exactly what it looks like).

He worries that his father will accept an out-of-town job and move them away from Grace's paranormal shenanigans.

No indication of whether he's gay, but given that religious shows are usually homophobic, I'm going to guess no.

#3. He bullied a gay-coded heterosexual boy.

Let Me In (2010) about a 12-year old boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who falls in love with a vampire (a girl, but a boy in the original Swedish Let the Right One In).  

Dylan plays the leader of a group of bullies that terrorize the boy, pushing him into the vampire romance.  I thought his bullying had a gay subtext.

Kodi's buns of steel are on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

#4. He's got a gay-subtext bromance with buddy Braedon LeMasters.

 They're in a band called The Wallows, which performs in top-drawer venues like Whiskey A Go Go.  Their song "Pictures of Girls" tells us:

I find it hard to remember all the times I've tried to forget her

I am hangin' on to somethin' real, 'Cause pictures of girls are not for me, you see

Pictures of girls are not for me either, buddy.  

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