**Link to the n*de photos**

In the short Breaking Fast (2015), it's Eid-al-Fitr, the last night of Ramadan, and Mo (Ryan Shrime) runs into Cal (probably gay bodybuilder Tom Berklund). They discuss the suicide of Cal's boyfriend.

That's all I can gather from Tom Berklund's demo reel: the movie is not available to stream, and the trailer is stick behind paywalls and Trojan-infested websites. But a review says that Mo is a gorgeous Superman-obsessed doctor dealing with tragedy (because all short films are about dealing with tragedy, right?), and the guys fall in love.

We don't have a lot of actors who are gay, out, and Muslim, so I thought I would check Ryan Shrime out.

Ryan's Instagram starts off with three photo dumps of Christmas decorations. Dude is Christian

Then he visits Portugal and Israel with his travel buddy, a miniature Jesus. Dude is Christian and wacko.

Next there are about 3,000 photos hugging and kissing ladies and playing with kids. Dude is straight.

Why are you playing a gay Muslim, buddy? Are you the only Arab-American actor willing to do it?

Sigh. Let's check for gay roles and nude photos anyway.

Ryan got his degree from Harvard, then studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Theatrical credits: Macbeth, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, The Engine of Our Ruin, The Ants

Nothing overtly gay themed there.

He founded the Middle Eastern Comedy Festival and the New York Arab American Comedy Festival

61 acting credits on the IMDB: The Mindy Project, Sam & Kat, Revenge, Grey's Anatomy, Madame Secretary, On My Block, and a lot that I don't recognize. He complains on Threads that casting agents constantly tell him, "You're so great! I'm just looking for the right role for you," only to be offered yet another terrorist role.

He is known for playing:

Lance Chambers on a 2015 episode of Gray's Anatomy: Meredith returns to Seattle to announce Derek's death (Patrick Dempsey) and gives birth; Amelia deals with her grief; April decides to stay in a war-torn country, upsetting Jackson (Jesse Williams); Ben and Bailey argue over an end-of-life decision. Richard proposes to Catherine. Lance is not mentioned in the plot synopses.

Ramjin Azizi on a 2017 episode of Madame Secretary, starring Tea Leoni as the Secretary of State: Blake comes out as bisexual, and Stevie (a boy) misses a meeting with the Harvard Dean of Admissions when Jason gets sick, and Henry goes to Israel to retrieve the bio weapon, but ISIS agents steal it. Ramjin isn't mentioned in any of the plot synopses, but I'm guessing that he's not a terrorist.

Ryan is also known as the producer of Woe (2020): A brother and sister stumble upon their father's secret after his death. A review says that it's impenetrably art-noveau. Well, the guy graduated from Harvard. What do you expect?

At least he shows his d*ck (on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends). Or is that misleading, too?

In 2020, writer/director Mike Mosallam released a feature-length Breaking Fast, with the parts recast. It's not available to stream, either, but a review gives us a few more details: Mo (Haaz Sleiman) got dumped by his boyfriend (Patrick Sabongui) on the first night of Ramadan, and is now emotionally closed off. Until he meets Cal (Michael Cassidy), who is grieving over his dead boyfriend. The two bond during the three nights of Eid al-Fitr.

Any actual gay Muslim guys here?

More after the break

Egyptian-Canadian actor Patrick Sabongui is straight in real life.

So is Michael Cassidy

Haaz Sleiman, you're my last hope.

Haaz was born in Lebanon in 1976, and moved to the U.S. in 1997. His first gay character was the ER nurse Mo-Mo on 12 episodes of Nurse Jackie (2009). He and his boyfriend Fitch had the first gay kiss on Showtime.

In an Advocate interview about this milestone, he said that he was actually straight, and had a girlfriend.

In 2017, in response to an increase in homophobic hate crimes, he came out on Facebook, saying that he was not only gay, but a "total bottom." (Which riles the homophobes more than being a top).

Since 2017, he has played a few more gay characters:

A Syrian guy who tries to flee Syria to escape the homophobia in an episode of Little America (2020).

The husbands of superhero Phastos (Bryan Tyree Henry) in The Eternals (2021). The two were the first admittedly gay characters in a Marvel movie.

Wait -- is Haaz Muslim? About 30% of the population of Lebanon is Christian.

When he starred in the 2015 film Killing Jesus (with Abhin Galeya as John the Baptist) the fundamentalist uproar caused Haaz to agree to an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network (whoa, good thing he was still closeted), where he said "I'm Muslim, and Christian, and Jewish. Jesus belongs to all of us."

Close enough