Link to Michael and the Ethiopian d*cks
Michael Sayfou played Ash, one of Pontius' skateboarding friends, on two episodes of The Righteous Gemstones. I don't think he had any lines, but Gideon Gemstone called him by name and hugged him, and he was standing directly behind Gideon's brother Abraham at the opening of the new Christian skate park. That was enough for me to write an Ash-Abraham romance, "My Dad Can't Know That I'm Gay"
According to his IMDB page, Michael is straight, but I'm not so sure. He's wearing a lot of jewelry for a straight guy. Maybe he closeted the listing because:
He is of mixed race, with one side of his family from Ethiopia.
Wow, Ethiopia! The ancient city of Axum! 
The Amharic language! The second most widely spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic, with its own distinctive alphabet.
The rock churches of Lalibella!
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, one of the oldest in Christianity!
The Amharic language! The second most widely spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic, with its own distinctive alphabet.
Those dinners where you tear off a chunky of spongy injera bread and use it to scoop up the various dishes.
And the men! In West Hollywood, I met an Ethiopian guy from the Tigrinya ethnic minority group. One of the biggest ever.
But Ethiopia is extremely homophobic. I can understand why Michael, immersed the Ethiopian immigrant subculture, might want to put "straight" on his IMDB profile, where everybody from his priest to his Uncle Orono can read it.
Michael was born in New Jersey in 2002, but went to high school in Mint Hill, a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was on the swim team.
Michael was born in New Jersey in 2002, but went to high school in Mint Hill, a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was on the swim team.
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