Apr 10, 2026

"Big Mistakes": Dan Levy as a gay Christian pastor who makes big mistakes. The first was leaving "Schitt's Creek." With Patrick and Pacheco n*deacheco

**Link to the n*de dudes**

We all remember Dan Levy as the befuddled fashion plate David Rose on Schitt's Creek (2015-20), whose sweet, cozy romance with newly out Patrick (Noah Reed) culminated with their wedding. (I put Noah up after the break to refresh your memory.)

Next up: Big Mistakes (2026), with Dan the creator, writer, and star. Of course I'm going to watch.

Scene 1: Nicky (Dan) and his sister Morgan (Taylor Ortega) at the nursing home, sitting there looking foolish while Mom (Laurie Metcalf) rushes around, arranging a birthday party for dying Grandma and managing her mayoral campaign. Their Competent Sister is helping.

Grandma wants a diamond necklace for her dying birthday present, but Mom knows that they're losers, so just bring something cheap and nostalgic to brighten her last moments.

Scene 2: Nicky is preaching in a large church that's mostly empty. The end of his sermon: don't be overcome by the smoke from the bridges you burned. That makes no sense. There are crucifixes in the nursing home but not here, so I'm guessing that Nicky is Protestant while the rest of the family is Catholic.

Update: It's the Glenview Community Church, nondenominational Protestant, probably in the congregational tradition.

The service ends, and he returns to the parsonage and kisses his boyfriend.

In a later episode, Nicky has a boyfriend named Tareq (Jacob Gutierrez, left), but I'm not sure if this is Tareq, or he appears later.

Uh-oh, a parshioner walks in -- hide! Are you closeted, Mr. Minister?

As he gets dressed and prepares to leave, Boyfriend rubs it in: "I'm being honored by Out and Loud next week for the work that I do." Being Out -- every heard of it?

Nicky explains that the church is ok with gay clergy, but frowns on them doing gay stuff. Why would you even accept a job at a church that doesn't accept LGBTQ people? What about the LGBTQ youth in your congregation? You're promoting the belief that God hates them.

He promises that as soon as Mom's mayoral campaign is done, he'll find a new congregation where gay relationships are ok.

Scene 3: Sister Morgan has relationship problems, too. As he drops her off at the elementary school, Boyfriend Max (Jack Innanen, b*lge on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) wants a long, mouth-swallowing kiss, but she breaks away -- kids are watching. "Why do you always back away from my touch?" Because kids are watching?

They argue, and he throws an engagement ring at her. She is ok with it, but she wants a proper proposal.

Scene 4: The siblings head into the QuickPost to find a cheap present for Grandma. The clerk, Yusuf (Boran Kuzum, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends), keeps staring at Morgan. Is he into her, or planning something nefarious?

Sister Morgan has her eye on a faux-pearl necklce in a case, but he won't sell it to her: "It's for display only."

When she pushes, he becomes aggressive: "Just leave it alone." Must be real and stolen, or maybe full of heroin.

While they are arguing, Mom calls. Grandma died.

Scene 5: At the nursing home, Mom lambasts them for delaying with the gift, so they missed Grandma's last words: "My gloves are new."

Competent Daughter: "I think it was 'I love you.'"

Mom scoffs. "No, it couldn't have been that."

Morgan wants to know what they're supposed to do with the gifts now. That's your reaction to your grandmother's death? She pulls out the faux-pearl necklace! "I took care of it," she tells Nicky.

You stole it? Why didn't you just choose something else?

Mom insists that Nicky put the necklace around Grandma's neck, and take some photos to post on social media. Uh-oh, the bad guys will see it.

More after the break.

Link to the not fully clothed photos

In House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones prequel, the crowning of King Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) has led to civil war in the Medieval fantasy world of Westeros, and several dragons left without masters. In Episode 2.7 (2024), a group of Dragonseeds is ordered to try to claim them.

Silver Denys (Robert Rhodes) volunteers to go first, but as he reaches out to touch Vermithor the Bronze Fury, it breathes fire on him. Most of the other dragonseeds are likewise demolished. Finally a blacksmith named Hugh managed to trick the dragon into obedience.

Silver Denys was on screen for only about a minute, and had no lines, but he became the subject of extensive fan debate. Was he brave or foolhardy? Some fans also criticized his appearance: the stage makeup was amateurish, not realistic, grotesque, an obvious symbol of his parentage, and so on. Others stepped up to "defend" him: it's his real appearance, he's "d*formed."

Robert called them out: "Call it a scar or a difference. The word d*formed isn't very pleasant and insinuates I am half formed/incorrectly formed. I'm not incorrect, just a bit different."

For a long time, Robert responded to the stares with anger, but now, if he's not tired from telling the story 1,000 times a day, he'll say "Is there anything you want to ask about?"

The story: he was born with a congenital melanocytic nevis -- a birthmark that covered half his face. Doctors worried that it would become cancerous, so he spent his childhood in and out of hospitals, undergoing tissue expansions and skin grafts. He had his last surgery at age 17.

When he was in high school, Robert realized that he was gay, and worried that he'd be doubly stigmatized when he tried to make connections. Would he ever be able to find a partner? Was he going to live as an perpetual outsider among his own people?

Then he auditioned for Hairspray -- and won the part of Link Larkin, the hunky heartthrob (played by Zac Efron in 2007 and Garrett Clayton in 2016). That's when he decided to become an actor, to have people look at him for his hotness and acting talent, not for his scar.

After high school Robert attended the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in South London, where he received a B.A. in Performance in 2018. He started filling up a resume with acting roles:

Commercials for Enterprise and Kandar

The lead in the music videos Heroist (left) and God for a Day

Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Bill Sykes in The Invitation

It was a little harder to break into on-screen acting. Robert is an ambassador for Changing Faces UK, which combats the stigma around people with visible difference. Especially in mass media, where they are portrayed as "shy, broken, desperate" outcasts, or more commonly as villains:

Kylo Ren in the Star Wars universe

Tony Montana in Scarface

Scar in The Lion King

The Joker.

So he tries to find roles where his visual difference is irrelevant to the character.

His first professional acting role was in a tv adaption of the Agatha Christie novel Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022). Will Poulter plays as a golfer who stumbles upon an injured man. His last words are "Why didn't they ask Evans?" I don't know what Robert's character does.

More after the break

Caspian Diament: With a name like Caspian, can we expect Narnia? Or at least some gay roles? With n*de Dylan and Danish dudes

**Link to the n*de photos**

I wanted to profile Caspian Diament (not Diamant) because of his unusual, rather scary eyes, and his odd name -- was he named after the Caspian Sea, which would make him Russian, or maybe Persian?

No, he's American, born in Los Angeles, son of Debra Diament, former lead singer for The Januaries. She is of Danish ancestry.

Ok, then, Prince Caspian in the Chronicles of Narnia?

Caspian was born in 2006, and began acting in 2012, with roles in Faerie Tales and Dragons, Toy Shop, and Peter Pan, a lot of print ads (for "straight" jeans, har har), and some tv commercials.

He begins his on-screen career in 2013, playing a variety of kids. According to the demo reels on his resume:

Scared of a monster in the closet

An obnoxious gamer kid

Responding to a friend who has killed someone.

A supportive friend offering comfort

A touching father-son moment

Angrily confronting his parents

And a confident young prince in a school play.

He doesn't mention which of his 13 IMDB credits correspond to each performance, but I surmise that the Confident Young Prince is from an episode This is Us (2016-22), about the problems of three adult siblings. Tess, the daughter of Randall (Sterling J. Brown, left), is cast a Snow White in the school play. She is black. The white parents laugh, leading to a discussion of racism.

Later the teenage Tess comes out as gay, and starts dating the nonbinary Alex.

A lesbian co-star? Caspian is gay-adjacent, anyway.

As far as I can tell, Caspian's movie and tv characters have all been hetero or hetero-by-default. Plus I found an annoying heterosexist reference: "Chicks dig me." His Mom responds "That's what I've been saying since you were born." When he was born, how did you even know that he liked chicks, lady?

But there are also gay references. In 2018, Caspian posts a video of his hip-hop class, with the taglines "Cute Boy. Gay. Artist."

Gay hiphop artist Milan Christopher, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

More after the break

The Top 16 Short Guys from My Collection, from Ryan Pinkston to Gerran Howell, with d*cks, backsides, and exceptional gorgeousness

I like them short, the shorter the better. My boyfriend in West Hollywood was 5'4", and my current partner is 5'3". If you're pushing toward 6'0", I'm not really interested. So I've compiled quite a collection of short guy profiles. Here are the top 16, some old favorites, some new discoveries.