Blake Bashoff: "Bushwacked," "Big Bully," and a goat ranch with his husband

 

Jeremy Lelliott is well-known for playing gay characters, but Blake Bashoff's record is almost as good. Even in his early roles, his characters engage in some buddy-bonding:

Gordon in Bushwacked (1995), one of the kids being mentored by a criminal disguised as a scout leader.

Ben in Big Bully (1996), who bullies and then makes up with Kirby (Cody McMains).

Or they display no heterosexual interest:
Todd in The New Swiss Family Robinson (1999), who lets his brother Shane (John Asher) romance the desert-island girl.  That is not his d*ck

He began playing gay characters in 2001, with Eric Brown, an abused gay teen taken in by the genial judge and her family on Judging Amy (2001-2003).

Blake's jumpy nervousness and wounded expression got him cast as some murderers or arsonists, usually gay-vague, but then he jumped back into gay characters with Duncan, the only gay student at a magic academy on a 2004 episode of the paranormal Charmed.

In 2006-2008, he played the gay-vague Karl, a teenager living among the evil Others, on Lost.  He gets a girlfriend, but he's still gay-vague.

He also played the gay Moritz on Broadway in Spring Awakening (with costar Kyle Rabko, left).

In 2013 he played the gay-guy-next-door who provides graphic novelist Michael O'Keefe with new inspiration in the movie Finding Neighbors.  I can't tell from the plot synopsis if they make ou tor not.

Blake retired from acting in 2015, and now lives on a farm in Three Rivers, California, near Sequoia National Park,  with his husband, Kenton Waltz, and their two children.  They raise goats.  It's three hours from Los Angeles and San Francisco!  Sounds awful to me, but he says it is "amazingly rewarding."

Not much of a physique -- the tattoos are downright ugly -- and no nude photos, but I'll take a gay actor when I can get one.