Derek Chatwick: Jonah Beckett's twunk dorm mate sells cosmetics, plays only gay characters. With photos of other "S*x Lives" guys

  

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I didn't watch The S*x Lives of College Girls (2021-25), for obvious reasons, but while researching Jonah Beckett, I found a scene in Episode 3.10 where Jonah's character complains that the guy in the next dorm room plays music too loud.   The R.A. investigates, and finds him in his underwear.  Very muscular. 

He isn't named, but he takes off his mask, giving us a face shot, so I compared it to the photos on the IMDB cast list.  The photos are very small, and S*x Lives cast a lot of muscular guy with that square=jawed "matinee idol" look. but I managed to narrow the list of potential musclemen down to: 

Noah (Trevor Tordjman, left, n*de in my profile of Justin Beckett)

Parker (Derek Chadwick)

Eli (Michael Provost, left, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends)

 Justin (Austin Phillips)

Cooper (Roby Attal,  after the break)

I searched LPSG and the actors' Instagram for more photos to compare, and found:

It's Derek Chatwick: he posts the scene on his Instagram, and states that Parker is now a regular on the show.  But he only appears in that one episode. Maybe it was cancelled. 

He has 1.7 million followers!  That's quite an accomplishment for someone with only 16 posts.  He must be doing something besides flexing.  

Then I found interviews in Attitude, Them, and Gay Times that reveal a lot of biographical information.

Originally Derek Binsack, he was born on Long Island in 1995.  He graduated from Sachem High School in Lake Ronkonkoma in 2013.  I couldn't find any college information; maybe he moved directly into a  career as a fitness model and influencer.

He was named Twunk of the Year by  Just Us Boys in 2016.

Plus he founded the Chaddy cosmetics line: lip plumpers (coconut and vanilla), silky eye serum, tanning water, all for men.

Men need plump lips and silky eyes, when they're  not in drag?

And he had a few acting gigs:

The short Cowboy Baby (2012), about a teenager exploring his "nascent physical curiosity.."

Experimenter (2015) is about the famous Milgram Experiment, where most test subjects were willing to deliver electric shocks to strangers when an authority figure told them to.  Peter Sarsgaard, the Queerbaiting Detective in The Bride, played Stanley Milgram.  Derek played one of the test subjects.

He changed his name to Derek Chatwick for uncredited roles in Scream Queens (2016), Blue Bloods (2016), and Wonderstruck (2017).  

But two things pushed him into considering acting as a serious career.

More after the break.  

The Face of Pure Evil at Denkmann Elementary School

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This is the Face of Pure Evil
 

And the House Where Evil Dwells.

When I was a kid, it was painted grey, and that attic window had bars on it.

I lived on 41st Street, the the north side of Denkmann Elementary School  My boyfriend Bill lived two blocks north, by 18th Avenue -- a busy street that I was not allowed to cross.

To the east was Darry's house (we hadn't met yet), and eventually  Country Style Ice Cream.

To the south was Dewey's Candy Store, Gary's house, and  eventually the Nazarene Church.

To the west was Schneider's Drug Store, where you could buy comic books. 

But we never took the direct route to Schneider's.  We walked all the way up to 18th Avenue and around to the back, to avoid The Maniac and his house.

There were lots of Mean Boys at Denkmann who would steal your lunch money, call you names, or pound you for infractions of the rules of grade school behavior. Like Dick, who hung out by Dewey's Candy Store and pounded you for being a "girl."  Or Mark, who hung out by the south door, and challenged smaller boys to fight him.  But The Maniac was by far the worst.

Most bullies choose one or two victims to torment; everyone else is safe.  But the Maniac was indiscriminate, targeting everyone except girls and bigger boys.  He interpreted the most innocent statement or gesture, even standing too close to him, even looking at him, as an insult that must be redressed: "Now we have to fight!"

If you refused, he attacked on the spot, or if you were inside the school, ambushed you on the way home.

If you agreed to fight, you met your doom later, on the west side of the school yard, a desolate space of dead trees and yellow grass across the street from his house.

Snarling like a rabid dog, The Maniac punched and kicked you everywhere, in the face, the chest, the belly, the balls.  When you collapsed, bloody and sobbing, he poured dirt on you, spat in your face, and moved on.

When you tried to tell teachers, they simply said "No one likes a tattle-tale."

When you tried to tell parents, they  simply said "You have to learn to fight your own battles."

The only escape was to avoid the Maniac: don't sit near him in the cafeteria, don't stand near him at recess, run home as fast as you could after school, and at all costs stay away from the House of Evil.  Don't go anywhere near 40th Street.

But one day during the summer after third grade,  I was stupid.  Mom asked me to return a cake-decorating kit that she borrowed from the Old Lady Schoolteachers for some PTA event.  They lived on 40th Street, two houses south of the House of Evil.

 I should have walked all the way around Denkmann School, but it was hot, Cartoon Showboat was coming on soon, and besides, the Maniac might not even be home.  So I cut diagonally across the parking lot and the schoolyard and came to 40th Street exactly parallel to the Old Lady Schoolteachers' house.

I peered at the House of Evil -- it looked deserted -- took a deep breath, and crossed the street.  I was in the yard -- almost up to the screen porch.  Almost safe.

"Hey, Fairy!"

The Maniac!  He must have been lurking in the shadows, waiting for a victim to appear!  And now he was standing right next to me, fists clenched, a snake ready to strike....

The full story, including what happened to the Maniac, is on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends 

See also:  Oliver!, the Boy with Soft Hands

The Boy on the Prospect List

How to Eat Fried Worms: They Tease You Because They Like You. With gay subtexts and Luke Benward grown up

Finn Kaifur: Icelandic college student studies ballet, takes a polar plunge, shows his stuff. With bonus Pete White and n*de model Shaun Ross  Mentions bullying

Björn Mosten: His "Love and Anarchy" n*de hugeness made him a star, but he's also played a gay boarding school bully and Oddgeir's buddy.

Gemstones Episode 4.1: Elijah scoundrels, Winston dies, and Kelvin screams. With Bradley's bottom and Jackson's junk

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The Righteous Gemstones Season 3 finale was a perfect ending to an imperfect series.  But fans wanted more, so:

Title: "Prelude."  This is not really an episode of The Righteous Gemstones at all.  It's a full theatrical movie starring Bradley Cooper, who you know as Ben in Wet Hot American Summer and Rocket  Raccoon in Guardians of the Galaxy.  So I'll do a scene-by-scene.

Scene 1: A small country church in Virginia, 1862.  Pastor Adam Grieves (Josh McDermitt) preaches and takes an offering.  After the service, rogue Elijah Gemstone (Bradley Cooper) shoots him and steals the offering money and his gold-plated Bible (this will be important later).

Uh-oh, before he can escape, Confederate troops arrive at the church and, mistaking him for the pastor, announce that he's been drafted to be chaplain for their division, heading to Fredericksburg.  It pays $50 per month ($2000 in today's dollars), plus room and board.

Overjoyed, Elijah asks for a moment to gather his things.  He changes clothes with Pastor Grieves, bashes his face in so no one will recognize him, and writes a note: "This is the body of a crook who tried to rob me.  He was handsome.  His name was Elijah Gemstone."   He was handsome?  Got yourself some same-sex desire going on, buddy?

Scene 2: A battle, with lots of Confederate soldiers being killed. Their grim faces flash by.  A boy gets his leg blown off.  600,000 soldiers died, plus about 1,000,000 civilians. 6% of the young adult men from the North, and 18% from the South

Captain Cane (Jim Cummings) approaches Elijah with the rumor that he was gambling and drinking with the guys last night, inappropriate behavior for a Man of God.  He denies it, and further threatens the Captain with hellfire for spreading rumors. Does this remind you of Jesse's s*x-and-drugs party from Season 1?

Scene 3: Elijah is called to pray with the boy who got his leg blown off (Alex Saxon).  He is dying and afraid, but Elijah just pretends to pray.  

Cut to night, with Elijah is drinking and gambling with the guys.

Scene 4: Time to preach the Sunday sermon.  Elijah can't do it, so he just says "God doesn't expect us to be perfect.  We make mistakes, but we're trying to be good, and that's good enough."  In Baptist theology, you don't need to try: once you are saved, you are incapable of committing new sins. But Elijah doesn't know that.

Cut to more drinking and gambling, followed by trying to avoid praying with another dying soldier, Winston (Jackson Kelly).  This one is worried that he won't go to heaven, because he's killed people, but Elijah assures him that God has made an exception on his "Thou shalt not kill" policy for soldiers who are forced to fight. 

Left: More Jackson

Scene 5: Elijah and the soldiers bathing in the river (blurry d*ck shot).  Afterwards Ned Rollins (Kimball Farley) announces that he recognizes Elijah from before the War. "It took me awhile, but I saw the way you shuffle the deck of cards, with your pinkie out like a woman."  So Elijah has some femme/gay characteristics? Does he remind you of Kelvin?

His cover blown, Elijah attacks, but Ned just wants to partner with him: Major McFall (James Landry Hebert) is coming to camp tomorrow.  He's starting a card game, and he is loaded.  They could take him.

Left: I couldn't find any shirtless photos of James Landry Hebert, but he plays a lot of cowboys, so...

Cut to the card game.  They take him.  Then, worried that he will say something, Elijah kills Ned and stuffs his body in one of the coffins. And now he's Judy

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How to Eat Fried Worms: They Tease You Because They Like You. With gay subtexts and Luke Benward grown up

When I was bullied as a kid, my parents said "They tease you because they like you."  No, they assault you because they hate you.

Before about 1980, bullying -- physical or verbal assault -- was considered an inescapable part of life. Parents and teachers thought that intervention would turn the victim into a "sissy," so they did nothing, except maybe punish you for "tattling." 

Bullying still appears in tv shows and movies aimed at children, who are told, over and over, that you can end it by "standing up for yourself."   In Dear Santa (2024), a kid with dyslexia stands up to bully Gavin Munn (and wins the Girl of His Dreams) with a little help from Satan.

Thomas Rockwell's 1973 novel How to Eat Fried Worms does not involve bullying.  Billy bets his friend Adam that he can eat 15 worms, one a day for 15 days. If he wins, Adam will give him $50 for a new minibike.  Everyone is perfectly friendly throughout.  

And, coincidently, there is no Girl for Billy to win.

But the 2006 movie version is all about bullying.  New kid in school Billy (Luke Benward) becomes the target of raging bully Joe (Adam Hicks) and his cronies.   They prank him with a thermos full of worms, and then force him into a bet: eat 15 worms on Saturday (all at once?).  The loser has to come to school with the remaining worms in his pants.

Billy succeeds in eating most of the worms, causing Joe's cronies to defect to his side, leaving Joe humiliated and alone.  Then we discover that Joe himself is a victim, savagely bullied by his older brother Nigel.  Billy and his new gang defend Joe from Nigel.

One of the worms didn't get eaten -- it was accidentally put into an omelet that another character ate.  So they both technically lost the contest.  The last scene shows Billy and Joe both entering the school with worms in their pants, their arms around each other, now friends.

Plus Billy impresses the Girl of His Dreams.  Of course they had to throw that in as a final heterosexist dig.

But at least there are three gay -subtext moments.

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