Beefcake, gay subtexts, and queer representation in mass media from the 1950s to the present
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Jun 8, 2024
Gavin Munn's Cute/Cool Photos, Part 3: A boy and his monkeys, a boy and his fish, nude bikers, and bodybuilder buds
Jun 7, 2024
Hank Strong: Bodybuilder, firefighter, enforcer, leatherman, gay daddy. With some butts and dicks
The Brooklyn-born Hank Strong (Henry Akinsaya) graduated from Xaverian Brothers High School in Westfield, Massachustts in 1998, then studied pre-law at NYU.
He competed in some amateur bodybuilding competitions, worked as a bodyguard, and did some modeling where he had to show his abs.
As a firefighter in The King of Staten Island, he takes his clothes off, of course, to bond with Pete Davidson.
In 2020, Hank played Jericho, a member of Kelvin's God Squad in Righteous Gemstones Season 2. When they threaten Keefe, he defends himself by swatting Jericho's nipple. (Actually a courageous act, since Jericho is nearly a foot taller and 100 pounds heavier than Keefe).
More Hank after the break
Jun 5, 2024
Gavin Munn's Cute/Cool Photos, Part 2: Splashing in puddles, diving in Tulum, eating a banana. With some nude grown-ups
2. Interesting mural at the Charleston airport.
Jun 2, 2024
Warm Bodies: A zombified Nicholas Hoult meets a girl. With a nekkid Rob Conddrey
Link to the nekkid Rob, and maybe some Nicholas Hoult
Stand by Me: Same-sex love among homophobic kids vanishes when they grow up and get married. Geez.
Bad Hair: A horror movie about hair care products?
All of Us Strangers: Bereaved gay gay falls in love with a ghost? F*k the Sadness.
Warm Bodies. Nicholas Hoult, on the icon, was cute, and how could a movie about zombies go wrong?
A zombie (Nicholas) narrates. He can't remember his name, but later his human girlfriend names him R, as in Romeo or ARRR! His limited cognitive ability means that he doesn't remembr what happened, sparing us scenes about the origin of the zombie Apocalypse.
R spends most of his time plodding around the Montreal-Trudeau airport with the other zombies, hanging out with his friend MMM (Rob Conddry) -- all they do is grunt at each other, but isn't that what living guys do, har har -- and filling his airplane-lair with knicknacks that he scavenged.
Next door, behind a wall much too high to be even slightly believable, the humans live in a refugee camp and scrounge for food. Except for the evil President, who lives in a palace.
Some of the town teenagers, including the President's daughter Julie -- Juliet, get it? -- and her boyfried Perry -- go beyond the wall to scrounge for medical supplies, and the zombies attack. R sees Julie, and gets the most exaggeratedly corny "love at first sight" look that they ever taught you not to do in acting school. He notices Perry, and gets rid of the competition by eating him.
But in this world, when you eat someone, even a tiny piece, you absorb their memories. R absorbs Perry's memories, all of which involve Julie: falling in love when they are toddlers, their first kiss, their first sexual experience, their declaration of love, and so on ad infinitum.
Through the entire movie, I thought Perry was being played by Zac Efron. No, it's someone named Dave Franco, who could be Zac's identical twin. Seriously, they look exactly alike.
The other teens just hide until the zombies leave, but R tricks Julie into thinking that he has to save her. He takes her to his airplan, and they proceed to fall in love.
Eventually Julie wants to return to human society, mainly because there's almost nothing left to eat at the airport, so R tries to sneak her out. The other zombies want to attack,but he holds her hand and -- get this -- they instantly calm down. "Oh, you're in love. Why didn't you say so? Even brain-dead zombies understand that heterosexual romance is the most important thing in the universe. Go on through."
More heterosexism after the break