NySocBoy's Beefcake and Buddy-Bonding: Azriel Dalman: Young Percy Jackson, Mr. Martin, and Garrett Graham celebrates Pride, tells gay kids "It gets better." With n*de costars

Jun 5, 2026

Azriel Dalman: Young Percy Jackson, Mr. Martin, and Garrett Graham celebrates Pride, tells gay kids "It gets better." With n*de costars

**Link to the n*de costars**

In August 2024, 10 year old actor/model Azriel Dalman posted a photo wearing a Pride shirt on his social media. A fan wrote that he shouldn't post anything "political" or "controversial," or people wouldn't want him in their projects. He responded with a photo standing beneath a giant Pride flag, and wrote that if you think supporting LGBTQ people is political or controversial, he doesn't want to be in your project.

He (or his Mom) continued, thanking Disney and Hallmark for producing inclusive shows, and telling queer kids "You matter!" and "Things will get better!"

Being pro-gay hasn't hurt the career of the Vancouver boy. Born in December 2013, he already has 57 on-screen acting credits, plus modeling and theater. I'm not going to go through all of them looking for gay content, just the ones that stand out.

2021:

Foragers, the pilot for a post-Apocalyptic tv series. Azi plays the child version of Malakai (gay actor Kaden Connors, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends). No information on whether his character is gay.

2022:

Moonfall: Aliens knock the moon out of orbit! Azi plays the child version of Sonny (Charlie Plummer), the gay-coded teenage son of the focus astronaut.

2023:

In Percy Jackson and the Olympians, on the Disney Channel (2023-24), demigod Percy (Walker Scobell, left), modern-day son of the God Poseidon, fights monsters and tries to prevent a war among the gods, with the help of his Camp Halfblood buddies. He's straight, but there are LGBT characters throughout, including Nico, son of Hades, who has a crush on Percy, and the god Ganymede.

I have an idea that Walker Scobell is gay, but a brief internet search doesn't reveal anything.

Azi plays Young Percy. Fun fact: he has brown eyes, but when he auditioned, he wore blue contact lenses to look more like Scobell. His resume now states that he can put the lenses in and take them out "all by himself."

2024:

Azi stars in Miracle on 34th Street at the Arts Club.

And appears in an episode of Shogun, starring Cosmo Jarvis (n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) as a British sailor shipwrecked in Tokugawa Japan. He plays the grandson in a fantasy sequence.

He models an androgynous outfit at the International Kids Runway. A fan writes: "things got better." Did he lose a job because of his commitment to LGBTQ rights?.

He appears in three episodes of Holidazed, about families interacting on a cul-de-sac at Christmastime. In one family, Ted (Osric Chau, left) just got engaged to his boyfriend Marcus (Shawn Ahmad). Then his old-fashioned, traditional Grandma comes for a visit, and he isn't out to her!

2025:

Azi has a recurring role in Good American Family, about the life of Natalie Grace, a woman with dwarfism who was adopted by "a good American" family but abandoned three years later, when they suspected that she was really an adult. He and Saul Thomson play her adopted brother Ethan, whom she tries to kill. No indication of gay content.

In the short Our Monsters, two boys (Azi, Xander Wilson) team up to fight the monster in the closet. I couldn't find a clip to see if there is gay content, but Azi tells us that Xander is "so cute we could just die."

Is that "we" Azi using they/them pronouns, or Mom and Azi together? Either way, the boy is definitely demonstrating an interest in boys

More after the break

He marches in the Vancouver Pride Parade with a banner for UBCP, the Union of British Columbia Performers.

Plus he is back on the runway, modeling an androgynous cowboy outfit from Cheerfulmama, a Japanese' children fashion brand designed for the runway, not the clothing rack.

September 2025: "Welcome to Newfoundland." A fan asks if he's going to check it out.

The Dild* Brewing Company is one of the main tourist draws of the town of Dild*, Newfoundland, population 200. No one knows how it got its name, but when it was founded in the 18th century, the term could refer to a test tube, an oar pivot, a jerky man, or the thing you're thinking of (and the thing that Azi is apparently thinking of).

2026:

Azi appears in two episodes of School Spirits, as Young Everett, who feels guilty over leaving his friend Ralph (Roman Kinsella) to seek help when he is hit by lightning. Later, when he is the ghost of 38 year old science teacher Mr. Martin (Josh Zuckerman, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends), he reunites with the ghost of Ralph, who forgives him. The adult Mr. Martin is straight, but you can still find a gay-subtext relationship between the two boys. Plus a romance between two ghosts, Charley and Yuri.

Left: Roman with Lou Taylor Pucci on the set of Winthrop (2026). He's bloody because they are fighting an evil demonic entity.

Azi appears in four episodes of Off Campus, with Belmont Cameli (n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) as Garett, a college lacrosse star who agrees to pretend to be Hannah's boyfriend so she can make her crush jealous. They fall in love, of course, but Hannah has a gay bestie.

The Young Garrett has to deal with an abusive father and a dying mother.

Azi's Instagram and Facebook pages reveal a little more: he lifts weights and does archery (dance for strong legs, archery for strong arms). He likes chess, ballet, Spiderman, and boys.

Next question: Is Azi gay in real life?

Since his mom curates his social media, it's hard to tell which voice is his and which is hers. But I'll say probably. Dude owns a lot of Pride merch.