Carson Gay: Lavender-coded actor/model looks pretty, works leather, posts guy-hugging photos. Then it's time for the senior prom...

 

I was drawn to this guy on the teen idols website mostly because his name is Carson Gay.  Really.  It's the last name of his dad and mom.   Imagine the homophobic harassment he has faced since kindergarten, and the guts it took to not change it for the stage!  It will be very difficult to research whether he is gay in real life, but I'm up to the challenge.

Ulp -- there are several Carson Gays with Instagram, Twitter/X, and TikTok accounts, but he's not among them.  I'll have to make do with his acting resume and Facebook page:

2003

Carson is born in May 2003, of Moroccan-Hawaiian heritage, and adopted by the Gay family, a police officer and a professional mahjong instructor.

2012

The family moves temporarily to Marbella, Spain.  Carson goes to a fashion show, and decides that he would like to become a model. 

2013

The family moved back to Savannah.  Carson takes acting classes at First City Films, models for LL Bean, and appears in local commercials.

Left: Carson and his Dad in the pool.

His film debut comes in Valentine's Day, aka February: a four-minute video about three friends searching for Valentine's Day dates.  Carson has an uncredited role as a student. 

2014

To promote his modeling career, Carson's parents take him on a designer shopping trip to Alexander McQueen, the luxury fashion house in London.  Your parents are loaded, buddy.  Policing and mahjong instruction must pay well.

He stars in Towel Man, a Savannah 48 Hour Film: a boy recovering from an injury (Carson) meets a real-life superhero (Joseph Lavender).

Gay...McQueen...Lavender.  The kid is really pushing up the queer-coded names.

2015

Carson continues modeling.  He walks at the Charleston Kids' Fashion Show.

He stars in the short Sea Odyssey, about a dying boy, appears in an episode of local tv series Catawampus, and has an uncredited role as a gym student in Killing Winston Jones:  A junior high teacher (John Heder) wants the new gym named after his father, who is unfortunately still alive.  

In the summer, Carson announces that he has a higher rating on Teen Idols 4 You than Daniel Radcliffe.  Must be from his modeling.

2016

Carson has a busy year:

An episode of the sketch comedy show Pypo (Put Your Pretty On).

So the guy likes to look pretty?

A walk-on role in Vanished, a Christian movie about the Rapture

The short Zaw, about kids summoning a monster during a truth-or-dare game

The short Tybee (not released until 2018), about a boy (Noah Lomax) searching for the ghost of his father.  Carson plays his buddy.  The two become friends off-camera.

Mom announces that Carson won the starring role of "Jimmy Stevenson" in Ortega River Rats, a Goonies knock-off, but that part went to Cooper Chapman. 

2017

Carson goes to Disney World and the Florida Yacht Club with this long-haired dude.  A boyfriend, maybe?

He announces that he won the role of Xavier in Passageway to Hell, but that role went to John Charles Dickson. 

Apparently his acting career is not going well; he will have only one more role listed on the IMDB.  But not to worry, he has other talents, like football.  He plays in the Diamond Youth All American Bowl Game in Virginia Beach, and attends  a football summer camp.  

2018

More modeling.  Carson posts this photo wearing Doug Ordway leather pants.  He writes: "Working the leather."  Aren't you a little young for leather bars?

For his 15th birthday, Carson has lunch (with pie) and his first massage, and hangs out with a dude.  So, did you request a male or female masseur?

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Lincoln Younes: The "Caught" big guy plays troubled teens, a boxer, a surfer, and a sleuth, but are any of them gay? Or gay-positive?

  

Link to the d*cks

Everybody's seen that scene from Caught, the Australian comedy where four guys are captured by the baddies and tied up en evocative poses. 

It's obviously homophobic, meant to humiliate them by emulating gay stuff ("I'd rather die than touch his junk!")  

 I wanted to see if the owner of the enormous d*ck, Lincoln Younes, has redeemed himself by starring in anything gay positive.

The Lebanese-Australian actor was born in Sydney in 1992, and grew up in Bendigo, Victoria, about two hours from Melbourne.  He was originally planning to become a professional soccer player, but after playing Peter Pan in the Global Rock Eisteddfod Challenge in Japan in 2006, he realized that he preferred acting, and enrolled in a weekend course, "A Young Actors Studio."  

While still in secondary school, he appeared in City Homicide, Locker, The Wedding Party, and 22 episodes of the soap Tangle as troubled teen Romeo Kovac (a role which got him an ASTRA Award)

Lincoln started college at the University of Melbourne, but dropped out after six months to join the soap Home and Away as Casey:  a member of the River Boys gang, along with his brothers Brax and Heath (Steve Peacock, Dan Ewing).  The epitome of teen angst" stayed for 578 episodes (2011-14) and five girlfriends.

Dan Ewing's bottom is on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

Home and Away has had very few queer characters during its 38 year run, and they are always very short lived, yanked due to  protests from homophobic Australians.  Funny, I always thought that Australia was more gay-friendly than the U.S.

Lincoln's next significant project was Grand Hotel (2020), a tv series set in a Miami Beach resort.He plays Danny Garibaldi, a "handsome and charming" young man who takes a job at the hotel to find out what happened to his missing sister. And gets a girlfriend.  And apparently takes up boxing.

Left: Lincoln with Shalim Ortiz, who plays the hotel manager.  He's gay, but I don't think he dates Danny.  

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Richie Rich joins a gym. With bonus Rory, Ansel, and Kieran c*cks and "Kelvin Gemstone, Boy Adventurer" comics

 

Link to the n*de photos

Richie Rich, an impossibly wealthy 12-year old boy in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit, was a mainstay of Harvey Comics from his first introduction in 1953 until the company folded in 1982.   

You may be familiar with the 1994 movie version, starring Macaulay Culkin and his brother Rory, above, as Richie Rich, and Michael Maccarone, aka Maccadeath, as his pal Omar (Freckles in the comics)

The reviews were awful.  But what about the comics?

Originally they were exclusively humorous -- Richie wants to jump rope, but can't find one, so he uses a huge pearl necklace. I never cared much for them, preferring the science-fiction and mystery-style stories of Casper's Ghostland

But by the 1970s, Richie was augmenting the humor with serious Hardy Boys-style mysteries, paranormal, espionage, and adventure stories.  They were more interesting, if you could overlook the Little Lord Fauntleroy suit that he continued to wear.

By the end of his run, Richie was starring in over fifty monthly or bimonthly titles, far more than all of the other Harvey characters put together.  

So many thousands of stories required a huge supporting cast, so Richie quickly received a girlfriend, , some boy pals from the wrong side of the tracks, a mischievous cousin, a gold-digger with a crush on him  -- or his money -- and crossovers from the other naturalistic Harvey comics, Little Dot, Little Lotta, and Little Audrey (I don't know why all the girls were "little").  He even paired with Casper the Friendly Ghost, although he always explained their adventures together as dreams. He even got a boyfriend.

 

48 issues of Richie Rich and Jackie Jokers appeared between 1973 and 1982, with humorous and adventure stories pairing Richie with a 12-year old stand-up comedian.  It soon became apparent that they liked each other.  A lot   Holding hands during the crisis, hugging when the crisis was averted, stammering "If anything were to happen to you....".  

Left: nuclear war in a kids' comic.

In one story, Jackie makes his romantic intentions very clear: "If you weren't always wearing that silly red bowtie, I'd marry you."  He'll take the tie off for the honeymoon, dude.

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"Big Mistakes," Episode 1.6: Nicky comes out, his mom punches a guy, and his sister hates her boyfriend. Confused? Will Armenian guys help?

  

  Link to the not fully clothed dudes

I reviewed Big Mistakes Episode 1.1, with Dan Levy as closeted gay minister  Nicky, and gave it a B. Coming from an evangelical background, the idea of joining a homophobic church -- as a minister -- just didn't ring true, and Nicky was rather disagreeable.  To say nothing of his crazy sister.  

 But in Episode 1.6, Nicky  "comes clean about his relationship" with boyfriend Tareq.  Plus the cast list includes a guy wearing women's clothes and some Eastern European bodybuilders.  

The Premise: After a debacle involving a stolen necklace, closeted minister Nicky and his crazy sister are forced to work for drug trafficking kingpin Ivan (Mark Ivanir).

Scene 1:  As they are making breakfast, Sister Morgan breaks the news that Yusuf, Kingpin Ivan's right-hand man, has vanished.  He left the keys to the truck and the barn where they stash stuff, so it sounds like he's quitting.   She notes that he was upset over his girlfriend back in Istanbul, so maybe he left to visit her.

"But we're in the middle of a major drug deal!" Kingpin Ivan screams.  "Andrei, go find him!"  Andrei appears in his undershirt, as if he's just awakened.  He must be Ivan's boyfriend.

As Andrei leaves, Kingpin Ivan tells the siblings that they'll have to go to Miami in Yusuf's place, to meet with the Brazilian drug cartel.  Nicky tries to refuse, but you don't refuse Kingpins.

Well, maybe you do.  They walk out.  Kingpin Ivan pulls a gun, but can't bring himself to shoot them -- he thinks of them as his good friends.

In the car, Nicky yells at Sister Morgan for ruining everything, and tells her to stay away from him from now on.

Scene 2: Nicky awakens next to Boyfriend Tareq (Jacob Gutierrez).  Why is there a painting of a Catholic angel in a Protestant minister's bedroom?

 Nicky has made a decision: since Out and Loud  is recognizing Tareq for his contribution to the LGBTQ community, it's not fair to force him to be in a closeted relationship.  So Nicky will  come out to the congregation, and they can go to the gala together.

When Tareq heads out to the kitchen, Parishioner Rose is there for some reason.  She screams about an "intruder!" I guess you've been outed, buddy."  

Meanwhile, Sister Morgan listens to a podcast about positive affirmations.  Suddenly she hears gunfire, and drops to the floor.  It's just her boyfriend playing a video game!  She reflects on how much she hates him.

Scene 3:  The siblings' Mom and her assistant are working on her mayoral campaign, Nicky drops by to come out. "I met someone.  Rose caught us this morning, so I'm leaving the church.  Also, I'm going be his date for a gala today, so I'll be late to your fundraising barbecue."

Hey, he was already out to Mom. That's cheating!

She wants to know who the boyfriend is, and upon hearing his name, bursts into laughter. "Tareq?  My Tareq? You have got to be kidding me."  I don't know what that means.

She tells Nicky that Tareq wil get the family discount at the store, then dismisses him to work on her campaign.

Scene 4: Some drug dudes are playing poker and talking about how we should tip flight attendants. Kingpin Ivan and Andrei deliver their money.   They try to dismiss him, but he asks for permission to close the store for a few days, to drive Andrei to Florida to visit his mother. Actually, they need to finish the drug deal that Assistant Yusuf started.

"Are you boyfriends?"  I was thinking the same thing.

"No, we're cousins."  Darn.

"Our boss won't like it if you take off for a vacation in the middle of drug season."  I thought the Kingpin was in charge of the drug-trafficking organization, but he appears to be third in the hierarchy (the head of the operation will come as a big reveal in the last episode).  

Scene 5:  Sister Morgan and her Boyfriend (Jack Innanen, not fully clothed photo on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) appear at a baby shower, and complain about everything being pink.  Rather gender-polarized.  They play a game called Dirty Diapers, which is as disgusting as it sounds.  Next they discuss potty training, with pictures.    

All the discussion of babies and diapers upsets Morgan, so she insists that they leave.  Um...you didn't expect to hear about babies at a baby shower?

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