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School Spirits features a high school girl named Maddie Near, who becomes a "ghost" when her spirit is dislocated from her body. In Episode 2.3 (2025), we meet Diego (Zack Calderon), the older brother of Maddie's friend, n the best possible way -- wearing just a towel.

Well, maybe not the absolute best possible way...

And we learn that Maddie's body is now occupied by Janet, the ghost of a high school girl who died in 1958. She goes on the run, bringing a satchel-full of stolen cash. When she stops for supplies, we met Carl (Harrison Houde), a clerk at the superstore. He has long hair and femme multicolored bracelets, pinging my gaydar. And he's 5'5".

Which should I profile?

Sorry, Zack.

You may remember Harrison Houde from Some Assembly Required (2014-16), the Canadian teencom about a boy (Kolton Stewart) who sues his way into owning a toy company, Harrison plays Bowie, his cute, quirky best bud, who is put in charge of the Jokes and Pranks Division. (He's pictured with Dylan Playfair as the dimwitted hunk.)

Although the gay-vague fashion plate of the series is Aster (Travis Turner), until he gets a queerbait girlfriend, Bowie only expresses heterosexual interest in one or two episodes.

Harrison began his on-screen career as Darren Walsh, who becomes an outcast for touching cheese, in Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010).

Next came three episodes of Spooksville (2013-14), about teenage ghost-hunters.

42 episodes of the "how it works" series Finding Stuff Out (2012-14)

And the movie Pants on Fire (2014), with Bradley Steven Perry as a chronic liar who wins The Girl of His Dreams (not by lying).

More after the break.

Harrison has 27 acting credits listed on the IMDB, including a lot of gay-inclusive projects.

The Hollow (2018): Three kids, one gay, are trapped in a video game world, He voices Kai, the straight boy.

The Dead Boy Detectives (2024), one gay, one bi, solve afterlife crimes. He plays a homophobic high school student.

The Girl Gone Bad (2022) is a high school student whose romantic evening with her girlfriend is threatened by a home invader (Nemo Cartwright) Harrison plays "a persistent pizza delivery boy."

Left: This might not be the same Nemo.

And School Spirits, with gay romances in Seasons 1 and 2, plus a nonbinary ghost.

But as far as I can tell, Harrison has never played an actual gay character. And he has starred in at least one short about a guy winning the Girl of His Dreams, and directed a few more. I'm getting a straight vibe.

In addition to his acting, Harrison plays baseball on a local team, and he is a synth-wave music producer under the name Tokyo Rat.

Synth-wave is about remixing old sci-fi music scores, and Tokyo Rat: the first 3,000 hits are about the vermin infestation in the city of Tokyo.

There are a lot of personal photos on Harrison's social media, but none, or almost none, show him with another person. This would be a sign of gay identity, but I'm still not sure. If he's gay, why doesn't he write and direct shorts about the gay experience instead of straight guys finding True Love?