Magic Thomas: Special needs teen hugs Disney hunks, celebrates Pride. With Pratt, Pascal, Peter Pan, and some dudes with autism.

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I was interested in the Instagram recommendation Magic with Thomas because of the film of a very flamboyant Peter Pan hugging a fan.  A gay actor would work for a profile...

Turns out that Thomas is not Peter Pan, but the guy he's hugging: a 19 year old special needs teen with autism, whose Dad curates his Instagram page with 500,000 followers, Tiktok with 1.2 million, and Facebook with 325,000.  

In 2026, he was named #6 in the Top 100 Autistic Influencers.

As a "Disney superfan," he gets hugs and plushies from every Disneyland character you can imagine, from Shaggy (Scooby-Doo) to Alberto (Luca). And they know his name!

The Evil Queen is a favorite. A video of the two strolling through the park, while she yells "Make way for royalty," got 2.2 million views.

Notice the pride t-shirt.  Thomas also wears a "Love is Love."

Hanging with Guardians of the Galaxy Star-Lord Peter Quill.  

To get my beefcake quota, here's Chris Pratt, who plays the Star-Lord in the Guardian of the Galaxy movies (n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

With Mr. Fantastic from The Fantastic Four.  Dad says that Thomas doesn't care about the characters, just the actors.  He likes those who provide a positive interaction, talk to him and treat him as an equal.

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Isla Monstro: Paper-doll cutout monsters, one gay, one gay-subtext, on an island in the Bermuda Triangle. With Buffy's Spike and a p*nis

  

I'm not sure what to think about Isla Monstro, completed in 2024 but streaming on Amazon Prime in 2026.  Other than the bad grammar: it should be Isla de los Monstruos.

It has a weird animations style. The people are cut-outs drawn in different styles, in a two-dimensional space. It's like playing with paper dolls from different collections. The buffed guy is "walking past" protagonist Duke (creator and writer James Schrader).

The story: After trying and failing at every job, Duke ends up an island in the Bermuda Triangle where the U.S. government was conducting genetic experiments, trying to create super-soldiers. Instead, they created monsters, so the government pulled out, abandoning over 100 test subjects (who haven't aged).

The main group, from left to right:

Reggie, who is gay.  

Dyanna, who didn't transmutate.

Duke

Sam (Harland Williams), Duke's rescuer and best friend.

Left: Harland Williams.

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Joey Pollari: American Horror Story's Ben has flirted with Nick Robinson and kissed Tab Hunter, but is he gay in real life? With Nick and Joey d*cks

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 Last night we watched the premiere of American Horror Story, Season 13, entitled "13."  It was about what you would expect from AHS: an opening where "Are you scared?" sounds like "Great skin," heavy-handed symbolism,  people introduced with their back turned so we'll be surprised when they turn around, gore, homophobia, and a lot of cute guys.  In this case, just one cute guy, Ben (Joe Pollari), who has triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13).  

Unfortunately, he is dating a girl with triskaidekaphilia (love of the number 13). For her birthday (on the 13th), she wants to visit the 13 Cayman Islands with her 12 closest friends (making 13).  Ben doesn't want to go, for obvious reasons, but at the last moment, he decides to make a mad dash to the airport, and board Flight 1313, where he is in seat 13d. The plane crashes, and everyone is killed -- except Ben.

Next he gets a job as a hospice aid to an infinitely wealthy vampire-like being whose apartment is full of Satanic imagery, plus the real Last Supper (with Jesus and 12 disciples making 13).   Meanwhile,  a coven of witches gets upset because "something wicked this way comes," a serial killer clown murders 12 students and the teacher at a clown college (making 13), and Jessica Lange resurrects a lot of characters who died in previous seasons (including two Evan Peters). 

Heck with a review. Let's just profile the hunky Joey Pollari.  

Joey was born in 1994, grew up in Minneapolis, and broke into acting after attending a scouting event -- the next day agents started calling.  After taking acting lessons and doing a guest spot on Cold Case, he landed his first starring role in Disney's Skyrunners (2009). Tyler (Joey) stumbles upon a spaceship, which gives him magical powers.  He uses them to help his older brother Nick (Kelly Blatz) win The Girl of His Dreams.  

Well, at least Tyler isn't winning a girl.

Next he starred in The In-Betweeners (2012), about four high schoolers who are inexperienced in the bedroom and want to meet girls. And more girls. It was on MTV, what do you expect?  

Eden (2014) is Lost without the paranormal: A soccer team (plus The Girl) is stranded on a desert island.  As far as I can tell, there's no gay content, but Michael Cardelle (left) shows his stuff.

The gay roles begin with the anthology series American Crime, Season 2 (2014).  A high school student is  outed when "incriminating" photos are published online.  He accuses three jocks, including Erik (Joey), of drugging and doing nonconsensual stuff with him.  Then Erik is forcibly outed, and claims that it was consensual.  Then Taylor murders one of them.  It's all very sordid, and I thought we had moved beyond "being gay is a horrible secret that can never be revealed." 

Love, Simon (2018), a movie about a closeted high schooler (Nick Robinson) who has to wrangle finding the identity of his crush and dealing with a blackmailer who threatens to reveal his secret.  Another terrible secret that must never be revealed?  I'm seeing some internalized homophobia in these portrayals

On RG Beefcake and Boyfriends: Nick's d*ck and backside.

Joey plays Lyle, a server at a restaurant who flirts with Simon, but is actually interested in his female friend. 

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The Fixers: A gay-vague Taiwanese hunk, a bi gambler, politicians, blackmail, mysterious monks, and n*de Chinese dudes

 

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The Fixers, on Netflix: "A mismatched pair...."  Good enough for me: let's find some gay subtexts.

Episode 1: "The Swamp Eel." 

Scene 1: A chubby eyeglassed guy awakens in the hull of a ship, chained to a bed.  A young guy (Jun Shuo-Lou) tells him that they've been kidnapped because "Your boss found out that you were sleeping with his wife."

"But I'm just his accountant.  I never even met his wife."

What other reason would he have to kill them?  

He has evidence of money laundering -- the Boss must think that he's going to leak it.  But it's hidden in his study.

"They're in the study," Driver says, tossing him the key to his chains as he walks out.  Huh?  

He wasn't in a ship after all; he was in a truck. We see the Driver changing clothes beside his ritzy car, while his partner is eating a sandwich.  "We just kidnapped you to get the location of the incriminating evidence.  You're free to go."

As they zoom off, the driver, who turns out to be a fixer named Gold, calls the Boss to say that they're on the way to get the ledgers.  His partner complains that they keep doing jobs for the police. 

Scene 2:  Establishing shot of a poor neighborhood.  A dice game. Uh-oh, Swamp Eel (Christopher Ming Shun Lee, right) uses a device to cheat, then gathers his money. "My beautiful wife has made me dinner, so I have to go."  Heterosexual identity established immediately.

Some gangsters led by Milky enter.  Swamp Eel asks "Coffee, tea, or me?" An old stewardess joke that implies gay/bi identity.

"Your debt's overdue. Time to pay."

"Um...er...uh...business is slow.  Let's play a dice game for it."

Milky (Sam Lin, left) bets a huge amount. Swamp Eel uses his device, but they catch him. 

"Now we're going to cut off your most valuable body part!"  No, not his p*enis, his finger.  

Swamp Eel runs away, across the housetops, and into a secret hole in a wall, across another rooftop, into an open-air market, where he swings a swamp eel like a lasso. They pellet him with cabbages. He jumps into a police car and blows them kisses.

Scene 3: He arrives at home to find "Scammers go away!" signs all over his house.  His son Howie reveals that his wife is live streaming about being scammed.  She used the house as collateral to take out a loan for five million Taiwan dollars ($16,000 USD) to invest in cryptocurrency, expecting to get rich.  Instead, she lost everything.

Left: the IMDB says that Howie is played by Chen-yu Sun, but he is voiced by Sebastian Sero.  Must be the English dub.

Swamp Eel yells at her for losing the money. "You're obsessed with getting rich!"

"Well, what do you do all day? Nothing!  I think you have a lover."

"Ok, ok, I'll take care of it.  I'll get the money back."

Scene 4: A girl enters Chiu Cha Temple, a second-story the Xinzhuang District of New Taipei City. She prays, then fills out a consultation card and selects a fortune stick.  In a hidden room, the monk looks up her information online, comes out, and tells her that Mr. Chao should go to a different temple, Ching He- by himself. 

Cut to the middle-aged Mr. Chao (Jui Hung Ma, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) with an unbrella walking up steps in the rain to reach the fictional Ching He Temple. A Monk leads him through several rooms to a meeting with the Head Monk, who asks "How can we help you?"

Scene 5:  This is confusing.  Mr. Chao is seeking re-election, but his son's drug arrest is ruining his chances.  But then another extremely important guy appears at a re-election fundraiser, and while he is being photographed by the press, his estranged son appears.  Everyone is shocked.  But it's not Mr. Chao and his drug-bust son.  It's someone else. Why confuse viewers like this?

Scene 6: The Eel gets a phone call from his Friend Jung: Gangster Milky is telling everyone that his games are rigged, and everyone knows that they're out 5,000,000 NTD, so he needs money, right?  Friend Jung has a debt collection job that pays 300,000 but he'll have to flash a gun around.  The Eel refuses: "I don't do that anymore," but changes his mind and retrieves the tin box with his gun.  

Cut to the fundraiser, where the New Guy is schmoozing.  His estranged son, whom everyone was surprised to see, turns out to be the Driver from Scene 1, actually Louis Hsieh or Fixer Gold, who works for the monks of the Ching He Temple (where Mr. Chao asked for assistance).  He approachesd a girl at the bar, flirts with her, talks her into drinking, then invites her up to his room:

For an interrogation: "I can't believe that a woman with a Ph.D. had to hook up with her boss's husband." Hey, that's the line he used in his first scam.  Turns out that she works for Mr. Chao's opponent, Lu Shu-Jung (not listed in the IMDB), who hired a tough named Noobs to frame Mr. Chao's son, thus ruining his campaign.

"Why did Tough Noobs agree to do it?"

Four random n*de dudes on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

"We promised to get his own drug charges dropped.  But we're going to frame him for kidnapping and human trafficking.  He's going to prison regardless, evil laugh."

"Ok, I recorded the conversation. You're free to go."  So Fixer Gold wasn't really into her.

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