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Several years ago, I reviewed the Nickelodeon teencom Bella and the Bulldogs (2015-16), about a girl on the previously all-boy football team. The premise sounded like a critique of gender polarization, acknowledging that sometimes boys like to cook and date other boys, but, at least in the episode I watched, there were no queer codes at all. Even the obviously gay boy had a crush on a girl.
Now I'm profiling some former Nickelodeon/Disney teencom stars who informed our childhoods. Should I go with the Bella cast member who is gay but has only beefcake photos online, or the one who is straight but shows us his stuff?
Buddy Keaton (née Handleson), the gay guy, played Newt Van der Rohe, a geek with an unrequited crush on the geek-hating Sophie. Eventually she warms up to him.
I believe that the expression is "woof!," not "bark!"
Matt Cornett, the straight guy, played Zach Barnes, a player from a rival team who invited Bella to the homecoming dance, but uninvited her when his teammates disapproved (Two houses, both alike in dignity....). After a few more "are they or aren't they?" episodes, they kiss.
Ok, Buddy with just some beefcake, or Matt with the Full Monty?
That's what I thought.
After Bella, Matt Cornett did the guest-spot circuit, playing girls' crushes (in Speechless, Game Shakers, and The Goldbergs), a girl's boyfriend (in Life in Pieces), a girl's friend (in the Middle), and for a change of pace, a bully murdered by one of his victims in Criminal Minds
More after the break
Also A-Lan in Disney's Zombies 3, which adds aliens to the already crowded world of zombies and werewolves. He is dating the female alien A-Li.
But Matt is best known as jock-turned-thesbian E. J. Caswell in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019-23). The rationale for the clunky name: it's a tv series about high school students putting on the musical based on the movie High School Musical (which starred Zac Efron as the jock-turned-thesbian).
In later seasons, they put on musicals based on the Disney films Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, and High School Musical 3: Senior Year.
The original movie erased LGBT people because directer Chris Columbus thought that there was no such thing as a gay teenager. The musical hinted a bit. The tv series had four LGBT characters, Carlos/Seb (Frankie Rodriguez, Joe Serafina) in Seasons 1-2 and Maddox/Ashlyn in Seasons 3-4. E.J. dates several girls.
And coming up: Bad Counselors: "Two frat brothers. One Christian camp. Zero clue what they're doing." Ten to one they find God in the midst of the hijinks. I don't know who the fratboys are, but the cast includes:
Mark: "Isaiah 40:31"
Chris Klein : "A True Spiritual Warrior"
Joe Navarro : "Jesus is King")
Haley Dillon ("Host of Believe in God)
Nathan Gamble ("2 Kings 2: 23:24").
Wait -- the 2 Kings passage is the story where 40 boys make fun of the Prophet Elisha, so he calls bears out of the mountains to kill them. Matt's Bible verse is "Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength." Better than killing bullies.
Now that we know about Matt's favorite Bible verse, let's see his stuff, plus a gratuitous Buddy Keaton (on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).See also:
Zac Efron's Hot Photos, Part 1: Adam Devine's Bromantic Partner
Bella and the Bulldogs: Is Nickelodeon Still Stuck in Gay-Subtext Territory?
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