Daniel Quinn Toye: The Scottish Boy Toye queerbaits "Heated Rivalry," plays gay-adjacent roles, post photos while...you know

 Link to the n*de photos

 I started watching Sterling Point due to an interview where Daniel Quinn Toye said that his Rory and Elliot (Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie) have a Heated Rivalry-type relationship. Turns out that he was using the term as a cliché: the guys are both straight, competing for the affection of focus character Annie.  Was he deliberately queerbaiting, or so out of touch with queer culture that he had never heard of the gay hockey player show?  To find out, I checked the guy's social media, and found some interesting posts.

First his biography: The Boy Toye grew up near Glasgow, where he attended the Dance School of Scotland.  After graduation, he enrolled at LAMBDA (don't get excited -- it's not the gay symbol, it stands for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts).  

While at LAMBDA, he appeared in Alice (in Wonderland), The Angry Brigade, Measure for Measure, Three Sisters, A View from the Bridge, and The Trojan Women.

He received a B.A. (Honors) in 2024, and was immediately cast in a "minimalist, modern" version of Romeo and Juliet on the West End (May-August 2024), with Tom Holland as Romeo.  The Instagram page has a graphic with R&J superimposed on a Pride Flag, so there must be some queer content, maybe in the Romeo-Mercutio relationship.  But Daniel plays Paris, the wealthy nobleman betrothed to Juliet.  He and Romeo fight, and he is killed. Sounds like the straightest of the crew.

In 2026, Daniel got a photo shoot in the British Vogue, and three on-screen roles:

Sunny Dancer: Cancer survivor Ivy is sent to a chemo summer camp, with many of the actors cast because they have real-life experience with cancer. She falls in love with Jake (Daniel).

 James Norton (left, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) and Neil Patrick Harris play counselors, and Ivy is played by Bella Ramsey from The Last of Us, who is nonbinary and "not 100% straight.  So there's some LGBTQ representation in the cast, even though the story is heteronormative.

Pressure, about the preparation for D-Day, June 6, 1944, when the Allies invaded Normandy, marking the beginning of the end of Nazi control of Europe.  No gay content.  Daniel plays Private Michael Gregory.

And Sterling Point, which has a lot of lesbian characters.

Two upcoming projects:

Cry to Heaven, based on the novel by Anne Rice. At age 15, Venetian nobleman Tonio Treschi (Nicholas Hoult, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) is c*strated by his half-brother to ensure that he doesn't have any heirs.  He becomes a famous castrato, and seeks revenge.  In the original novel, he has romances with another boy, Domenico (not in the cast list), and his mentor, Guido (Aaron Taylor-Johnson).   So there's LGBT content in the original, even if they straighten him for the movie. 

Daniel's character is not mentioned in the cast list.

Voltron, about the robots who combine into a bigger robot.  Daniel plays Keith, who pilots the head and torso (voiced by Neill Ross in the 1980s and 1990s series and Giles Panton in 2011). He's got a crush on Princess Allura.  

So Daniel has only played straight guys, but four of his six projects have some sort of LGBTQ content, subtexts, cast, or source material. 

Better than most actors. 

The Heated Rivalry reference after the break.  

Back to the original interview in Young Gents Magazine, Daniel explains how he managed to give his Rory such a believable rivalry with Elliott: the guys played pickleball on their days off.  They're both very competitive, and used the anger and resentment for their character: "It's a real heated rivalry."  Nothing to do with the gay hockey players; I don' t think he's ever heard of them.  

The Boye Toye must be one of those elitists who would never watch the "mindless trash" of television, or straight.  But at least he's given us some evocative social media posts.

Too risque to post here.  See RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

1. "My first show."  I'm sure that has happened to you before, buddy.  Maybe this is the first time you've photographed yourself. 

2. A video of Daniel's shadow as he fondles himself.  

Enough teasing, Danny Boy.  You can make up for the queerbaiting by showing your fans the real deal. 

3. I said I wanted to see your d*ck, not your side as you're being topped.

4. No, friends don't count.

See also:Sterling Point: Queerbaiting guys, dark secrets, and a lot of lesbians in a resort town up north. With a "Heated Rivalry" and some Canadian c*cks.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day: Spidey bulges, visits a bathhouse, and brings a guy flowers. But it's not what you think.

Eight staunch Scotsmen with right proper stauners under their sporrans

Zak Ford Williams: Better Bridgerton Batteries and the British Stonewall: all gay roles all the time.