In case you're new here, The Righteous Gemstones is a HBO Max sitcom about the famous, ultra-rich televangelist Eli Gemstone and his three children, who live in separate mansions on his compound and get into constant squabbles and scrapes. But of course they love each other deep-down. Kelvin (Adam Devine) is the youngest son, 29-34 years old during the four seasons, a muscle enthusiast who usually works in the low-prestige teen ministry, and has to constantly prove himself. Keefe (Tony Cavalero), a former Satanist whom he saved, is his boyfriend.
Kelvin has a standard fiction coming-out process, one that we've seen a hundred times in movies and tv-shows.
Season 1: Falling in love with his best friend, sexual experiences, feeling guilty, denial, then recognizing that he is gay.
Season 2: Becoming obsessed with the *rotic, refusisng to admit that he and Keefe are romantic partners, eventually coming around and coming out to the family.
Season 3: Trying hard to stay in the closet, refusing to call Keefe his boyfriend, leading to their breakup and reconciliation, and a kiss.
The problem is, up to the Season 3 kiss and even after, many viewers insisted that the two were straight buddies. The queer codes were all misdirections or misreadings.
