Link to the n*de dudes.
After completing the profile of Francois Göske I realized that, although I read German (it was one of the languages in my Modern Languages major) and know about Germany's strong tradition of gay-themed novels and movies, there aren't other profiles of German actors here. So I checked the teen idol website, and found Griffin Heckel. This striking photo shows him in a park, presumably in Berlin. I'm reminded of Rilke's "Pathways":
Wege will ich erkiesen, die selten wer betritt
Wait -- he's America, from New York City, and the photo was taken outside the Dia Beacon Art Museum, on the Hudson, about an hour north of Penn Station.
And probably gay: he posts a photo hugging gay actor Ethan Slater, Boq in Wicked (who, incidentally, is 5'7" and built, sigh).
Armageddon Time (2022) is not about the Biblical Armageddon, or an apocalypse of any sort. In 1980, a Jewish boy (Banks Repta) and an African-American boy (Jaylin Webb) becomes friends. When they are caught smoking pot, one is sent to a private school run by Fred Tr*** (the Orange Goblin's father), while the other moves into his friend's treehouse. Sounds like a gay subtext buddy-bond, but Griffin doesn't play either of the boys.
In fact, Griffin's only role with gay subtext potential is a 2022 short, The Nexus, with three kids searching for their missing friend, and encountering a paranormal presence. There's a girl with the two boys (Griffin, Caleb Reese Paul), so they might have a queer-coded buddy bond. But the trailer is too dark to see anything but amorphous shadows.
To recap: Griffin Heckel is American, straight, not very muscular, with no gay or gay-subtext roles. Sometimes researching on an unknown actor yields nice surprises. This one didn't.
Except for learning that the guys from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure are starring in Waiting for Godot).
in blassen Abendwiesen?
und keinen Traum, als diesen:
Du gehst mit.
I’ll pursue solitary pathways
through the pale twilit meadows,
with only this one dream:
You come too.
Wait -- he's America, from New York City, and the photo was taken outside the Dia Beacon Art Museum, on the Hudson, about an hour north of Penn Station.
How embarrassing!
But I'm still doing a profile because Griffin is highly cultured. Here he's waiting to see Beckett's Waiting for Godot, with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter playing Vladimir and Estragon. (Bill and Ted? Excellent!)
And probably gay: he posts a photo hugging gay actor Ethan Slater, Boq in Wicked (who, incidentally, is 5'7" and built, sigh).
Wait -- it turns out that Ethan is straight. Darn it! And Griffin took a girl to the homecoming dance. He must be straight, too.
So not German, not gay. Does he at least have an impressive physique?
Um...let's just check his roles on the IMDB for gay characters or subtexts.
Griffin is best known for the Netflix "hit" that I never heard of, Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024): a boy (Luke David Blum) is separated from his parents during a storm, and "lost on a mountain in Maine." Beats those annoying one word titles that don't tell you anything about the movie.
Paul Sparks (n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) plays the boy's dad, and Griffin plays his brother.
Um...let's just check his roles on the IMDB for gay characters or subtexts.
Griffin is best known for the Netflix "hit" that I never heard of, Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024): a boy (Luke David Blum) is separated from his parents during a storm, and "lost on a mountain in Maine." Beats those annoying one word titles that don't tell you anything about the movie.
It's based on a 1978 autobiography by Donn Fendler, who was separated from his boy scount troop and lost near Mount Katahdin for nine days in 1939.
Paul Sparks (n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) plays the boy's dad, and Griffin plays his brother.
I'm guessing that there is no gay content, but there are no girls Griffin's age in the cast list, so no heterosexism, either.
Griffin has 12 other acting roles listed on the IMDB, beginning in 2019 with the short Remind Me (father-son squabbles), and episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Deuce, FBI, and Evil Lives Here.
More after the break
In 2020, he returned to Evil Lives Here, the anthology series about real-life murderers, for the episode "I Raised a Sociopath": Aaron Foult (Griffin as a child, Alex Theis as a teen) is so evil that his father (Michael Carr) contemplates killing him. He decides not to, and the adult Aaron kills his girlfriend and holds his parents captive.
No gay content, but it gives me an excuse to post Michael Carr's d*ck.
No gay content, but it gives me an excuse to post Michael Carr's d*ck.
Plus Lazy Susan, with Sean Hayes in drag but not playing a drag queen. He's playing a cisgender hetero woman who is the butt of misogynistic jokes in "the most tone-deaf movie of the year."
Still no gay content.
Armageddon Time (2022) is not about the Biblical Armageddon, or an apocalypse of any sort. In 1980, a Jewish boy (Banks Repta) and an African-American boy (Jaylin Webb) becomes friends. When they are caught smoking pot, one is sent to a private school run by Fred Tr*** (the Orange Goblin's father), while the other moves into his friend's treehouse. Sounds like a gay subtext buddy-bond, but Griffin doesn't play either of the boys.
Bonus Jewish guy from Jaffa on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.
In fact, Griffin's only role with gay subtext potential is a 2022 short, The Nexus, with three kids searching for their missing friend, and encountering a paranormal presence. There's a girl with the two boys (Griffin, Caleb Reese Paul), so they might have a queer-coded buddy bond. But the trailer is too dark to see anything but amorphous shadows.
To recap: Griffin Heckel is American, straight, not very muscular, with no gay or gay-subtext roles. Sometimes researching on an unknown actor yields nice surprises. This one didn't.
Except for learning that the guys from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure are starring in Waiting for Godot).
But the fun is in the research.
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