Zackary Arthur: The gay kid with a trans mom and a murderous doll bulks up. With a potential p*nis and a Man in Full

 

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Zackary Arthur is best known for Chucky (2021-24), where he plays the gay kid who inherits the murderous doll, but he has had a long career as a child and teen star, with many gay and gay-adjacent roles.

He was born in Los Angeles in 2006, the son of writer/casting agent Marci Richmond, who obligingly put him and his brother Aidan in her 2016 movie, Pals. 

He actually made his screen debut two years before, in Transparent (2014- 19).  Jeffrey Tambor, a cisgender straight guy, plays a college professor who, late in life, begins transitioning with the name Maura.  Her ex-wife,  grown children, and rabbi have mixed reactions. 

 

Zack plays Zack Pfifferman, son of Maura's daughter and her husband Len (Ron Huebel, showing his stuff on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends), whom she leaves for a lady.  Apparently there are trans, lesbian, bi, and nonbinary characters, but gay men are scarce.

While on Trans, Zack starred in:

Don't Come Back from the Moon (2017): Dads suddenly abandoning their kids

Mom and Dad (2017): A plague causes parents to attack their kids

These Things Take Time (2018), a short about a boy with a crush on his teacher.  A male teacher, for a change.  It was repeated in the anthology The American Boys (2020), with several guys experiencing "a s*xual awakening," saying "I think I'm gay," and doing gay bedroom stuff.  It's on Amazon Prime, but behind a paywall. 

In Mississippi Requiem (2018), an anthology of Faulkner stories, Zack plays Young Quentin. Ugh, is he the one who is in love with his sister, also named Quentin, and does things to himself at Harvard?  I hope I got that right; I couldn't understand a word of The Sound and the Fury:  

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence. Luster was hunting in the grass by the flower tree. They took the flag out, and they were hitting.

Hint: He's describing a golf game. 

But I do have a story about William Faulkner and his boyfriend (Sherwood Anderson's son) painting a guy's p*nis green. 

Next came Chucky (2021-24), with Zack as Jake Wheeler, Devon Sawa as his abusive dad, and  Bjorgvin Arnarson as a true crime podcaster and eventually Jake's boyfriend: they go on a date in Season 1, and get intimate in Season 3. They don't die, exactly, but their souls are transferred into puppets in the cliffhanger that turned out to be the series finale.

During Chucky, Zack starred in  Hero Dog (2021), Secret Agent Dingledorf (2021), and Jill (2022), "a modern fairy tale about how distrust in the collective society divides a family and how Jill many years later learns about what there is left to trust."

I don't know what that means, either, and there are no plot synopses online, but there are hippies, nekkid ladies,  Garrett Wareing, and Tom Pelphrey (n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

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Dashiell Messick: A homophobic tv mom, a gay brother, a pretty princess outfit, and a hunky male au pair, all before his 12th birthday

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I don't usually profile preteen actors, because they won't have played any gay characters yet, and it's impossible to tell whether the buddy-bonding in their private lives is romantic or platonic.  But Dasheill Messick, age 11, played the son of gay dads and has made some explicitly femme fashion choices.  That's enough for a profile of Dashiell and his twin brother Fox. 

 

Plus there are some cute adults in their lives, like their Argentine au pair  (top photo and right), and their hot dad (below).

Mom Kacy Andrews , the CEO of Bigfoot Entertainment, has documented the twins' career since their gestation.  She is infertile (and an advocate of infertility awareness), so a friend of 25 years, her soul mate and part of her chosen family, offered to become her surrogate.   They only implanted one frozen embryo, but on December 5, 2014, twins came out!  

The two began appearing in tv commercials at the age of two months, and in 2016 won the role of Tommy Fuller Jr. on the Full House sequel Fuller House (2016-20).  They appeared in 75 episodes, moving from baby to toddler.

Tommy Jr. is the son of focus character DJ and her deceased husband.  He has two brothers, Jackson (Michael Campion, left) and Max (Elias Harger, middle).

I profiled the grown-up Elias, and decided that he is probably gay, but there were no gay regular characters on the show.  Showrunner Candace Cameron Bure is vociferously homophobic, and insisted that her show be "family friendly", that is, heterosexual only.  hey did manage to cast trans actor Miss Benny (then presenting as male) as a gay high schooler in two episodes, but cautioned that Candace would try to fire her. So don't speak to any of the Fuller adults, don't look directly at Candace, and prepare for a firestorm of hate from her homophobic core fans. Gee, I think I'd give that role a miss.

Tommy's main plot arc involves getting therapy for being a "late talker,"  reflecting the twins' real-life speech delay.

While starring on Fuller House, the twins, alone or together, had other acting gigs:

The music video Sunrise Sunset (2018) with the song from Fiddler on the Roof covered by Juan Pablo di Pace.  He's straight but played a gay guy in The Mattachine Family.   Elias Harger, Adam Hagenbuch, and Michael Campion from Fuller House also appeared, presumably growing older to the lyrics.

Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears

An episode of Grey's Anatomy (2019) as a child whose mom overdoses and abandons him.  A bystander brings him to the hospital, where the doctors advise keeping him away from mom until she gets help.

Two episodes of the DIY show Home & Family (2019), with Mark Steins as the co-host.

An episode of  Danger Force (2020), starring Cooper Barnes as a wacky superhero.  His Danger Force of teen superheroes kidnap a toddler, thinking that he is a baby-faced supervillain.  Eventually they track down his dads and return him.

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"A hot groin and a tricep": N*de photos of Peter Hinwood, the original Rocky Horror. With Ian McShane, Staz Nair, and Chord Overstreet

  

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A deltoid and a bicep
A hot groin and a tricep 
Makes me --- shake.
Makes me want to take Charles Atlas by the...hand

Every gay man of a certain age had a coming out or "I'm not alone in the world" moment while watching  The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), a science fiction-horror pastiche with the "sweet transvestite" alien mad scientist Dr. Frank-n-Furter  unwrapping his creation, muscleman Rocky (technically named Rocky Horror).

Give yourself over to absolute pleasure

Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh

Gay men of a certain age have seen Peter Hinwood and his "hot groin" many, many times, in the midnight shows, on VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, and streaming on Netflix every Halloween.  But you may not know that there are n*de photos of the muscle god out there.

Born in Bromley, about 10 miles south of London, in 1946, Peter Hinwood began his career as a photographer's assistant, but soon began modeling for English Boy Ltd.  By 1970 he was at the top of the industry, driving fancy cars, going on expensive vacations to Tangier, and hanging out with celebrities like director Derek Jarman and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones.

Not just fashion -- he also appeared in the physique magazines of the closeted gay subculture of the era.  He made the cover of Man's World in March 1967.

Peter began his acting career as a muscleman, naturally, playing the God Hermes in an Italian adaption of The Odyssey (1968)

Next he played Guy in Tam Lin, an adaption of the old Scottish folksong (1970).  Also appearing were British stalwarts Ian McShane (Charlie in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium) and Joanna Lumley (Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous), and the director was Tab Hunter's boyfriend Roddy McDowall.

In the original Rocky Horror Show performed in London (1973) and Los Angeles (1974), Rocky was played by svelte, feminine, androgynous men, but for the 1975 movie director Jim Sharman wanted a muscle god, massive and inarticulate, speaking only in grunts (his singing voice provided by Trevor White).  Peter was cast after showing his...um...porfolio.

Patsy: He wanted to show me his portfolio.

Edina: How was it?

Patsy: Fantastic!

The result: 50 years of ab-so-lute pleasure.  And more to come.

I am just seven hours old

Truly beautiful to behold

But somebody should be told

My libido hasn't been controlled

Now the only thing I've come to trust

Is an orgasmic rush of l*st

Rose tints my world

Keeps me safe from my trouble and pain

After Rocky Horror, Peter had a small part in Sebastiane (1976), Derek Jarman's gay adaption of the St. Sebastian mythos, with Leonardo Treviglio as the Christian seduced by and then martyred by the Emperor Diocletian.

Then he left acting, and, valuing his privacy, refused to participate in Rocky Horror events.  Also, he admittedly can't act, and "cringes" whenever he sees himself on film. He became an antiques dealer, along with his "partner in life and business" Christopher Gibbs.  They divided their time between London and Tangier.

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18 gay and gay-friendly teen actors: a fierce, fabulous Barbie boy, Pugsley Addams, Harvey Milk, a Russian bodybuilder with a cat...

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I usually profile teen idols after they've graduated to adult hunkiness, but sometimes I can't wait: they're playing gay characters, going to Pride events, wearring  femme/fabulous outfits, or hugging their boyfriends while still teenagers.  Their openness to gay potential gives me hope for a less homophobic future.  I won't look for or post n*de photos, of course, but I usually include some adult co-stars to keep things interesting.

1. Taylor Gregory: At 17, the fierce, fabulous Barbie boy had grown up to become a bodybuilder and fundamentalist. 

2. Alfie Williams (left), star of 28 Years Later and 28 Years Later: Bone Temple, is 15 as of this writing, but hangs out with a surprising number of gay guys, who call him "one of the girls"

3. Gavin Munn, Abraham on The Righteous Gemstones, is gay in my fan fiction, but brought a girl to his real-life junior prom.

4. Isaac Ordonez. The sweet, sensitive, queer-coded Pugsley Addams on Wednesday dates dudes.

5. Alkaio Thiele (left). The wizard in training on Beyond Waverly Place and Kayden Koshelev (below) used to be an item.

6. Kayden Koshelev. Drag boy and nonbinary firetruck, Alkaio's Other Half before their breakup. Not to worry, he's moved on.

7. Recker Eans (left). The gaydar boy on Beyond Waverly Place drums in gay-friendly videos and sings in a boy band. 

8. Bentley Storteboom. His name and physique had me fooled.  I thought he was 25, and Dutch.

9. Benjamin Pajak (right) played six gay characters before age 15, and sang as Harvey Milk.

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