Lord of the Flies (2026) channels "Lost" and "Hanging Rock," with gay-subtext Jack and Ralph, gay Simon, and nude Samoan dudes
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The top 18 gay-positive tv comedies: aliens, vampires, a Christian pastor, a ghost, a teenager named after meat, and a hung Phung
When I was a kid, my parents permitted only comedy television, and it is still my preferred genre. Who wants to watch a detective who doesn't play by the rules solve yet another murder, or some doctors trying to cure the disease of the week? Give me classic sitcoms, adult animation, parodies, satires, and contemporary dramedies with season-long plot arcs.
These are my 18 favorite television series with gay characters or subtexts, at least those that I've reviewed here or on the G-rated site.
Only from 2016-2026. If I went earlier, the list would include: Absolutely Fabulous, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Modern Family, The Real O'Neals, Red Dwarf, Roseanne, Schitt's Creek, Ugly Betty, The War at Home...
Kim's Convenience (2016). Korean-Canadian family in Toronto, with no gay characters until the daughter finally comes out as bi, but there's a lot of buddy-bonding and beefcake. Simu Liu (left) takes off his shirt a lot, and buddy Andrew Phung goes on to play a chunk in the gay-friendly Running the Burbs
Big Mouth (2017). Animated middle schoolers negotiate puberty, with the help of individually-assigned hormone monsters and other supernatural beings. The gay guy, Matthew (Andrew Rannells), eventually gets his own plotlines, coming out to his parents, dating the bi guy, and learning about sexting.
The Other Two (2019). A young teen achieves sudden fame, which disconcerts the Other Two, his sister and brother (who is gay). By the third season, they've all become successful, but there are still a lot of gay-romance plotlines and bare butts.
What We Do in the Shadows (2019). Vampire roommates on Staten Island have more and more overtly gay plotlines as the series progresses. With out actor Harvey Guillén as their increasingly out assistant.
The Righteous Gemstones (2019) An absurdly wealthy family of Southern preachers negotiate threats. I'm not sure I should include this one since, in retrospect, it was a little annoying. Endless queer codes involving Gideon, Eli, and Pontius, with no resolution, just "crumbs." And it took forever for Kelvin and Keefe to become canon. They should have kissed at the end of Season 1.
Solar Opposites (2020). Aliens crash-land on Earth, try to adjust to human life, become boyfriends and finally marry. Plus a spin-off episode with Kieran Culkin and Skyler Gisondo in a strong gay subtext human-alien romance.
Ghosts (American Version). (2021). A houseful of wacky ghosts, including a hunky stock broker who died without his pants, and a Revolutionary War soldier who comes out and nearly marries the guy he accidentally killed. Other gay characters appear on occasion.
The Great North (2021). A quirky family in a small town in Alaska, with a gay son who gets a boyfriend, and eventually a horny lesbian aunt.
Run the Burbs (2022): A queer daughter, a gay jerk, and a hung Phung. What else do you need?
Jackson Robert Scott: It prey, Locke boy, gay superhero, muscleman...and a fundamentalist hippie? With some backsides and dicks
Jackson Robert Scott appeared on the teen idol site with the notice that he played Georgie in It (2017), a movie based on the 1986 Stephen King novel about an transdimensional being who usually manifests as Pennywise the Clown. I never read the novel or saw any of the movies, but I heard that one of the "losers" who combat "It" has been subjected to homophobic fanboy howls of "he can't be gay! He's just a teenager!" Presumably Jackson played the gay one.
Nope, that's Richie Tozer (Finn Wolfhard). Georgie is the younger brother of focus "loser" Bill Denbrough, who gets sucked down into a storm sewer in It's first appearance.
Left: Bill is played by Jaeden Martel as a teenager, James McAvoy as an adult.
Finn Wolfhard is too famous for a profile, and it looks like Jackson is working his way to becoming a bonafide muscleman, so I'll continue.
Jackson was born in 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona, and in 2014 started training at at CGTV , a young actors' "incubator" featuring acting lessons with celebrity coaches and connections to media professionals. He started doing commercials almost immediately, and broke into on-screen acting in 2015, playing a boy kidnapped by a psycho on an episode of Criminal Minds.
2017 was Jackson's annus miribilis. He played Georgie in It.
Bodie, the son in the family investigating paranormal gateways, in the pilot of Locke & Key.
The young Troy Otto, who will grow up to run a ranch with his brothers in the zombie Apocalypse series Fear the Walking Dead.
The grown-up Troy (Daniel Sharman) is queer-coded, and has a nearly-canonical romance with probably-bi Nick (Frank Dillane, left) .
The short Skin (2018) won an Oscar: In a working-class town, a black man smiles at a white boy (Jackson), and his father objects to the interracial fraternization, resulting in a race war.
But The Prodigy (2019) was rated "one of the worst horror movies of the year": is the cute kid/killer (Jackson) possessed by a supernatural entity, or just bad?
Timothy Richardson (left) played Handsome Man. Don't be shy, spoon with him.
Next Jackson returned to Bodie (actually spelled Bode) in the supernatural horror/fantasy Locke and Key (2020). He's got a gay uncle (Aaron Ashmore), and his hetero-horny older brother is played by gay actor Connor Jessup.
And four episodes of Wandavision (2021), as the body reference for Billy Maximoff (Julian Hilliard), son of the witch-turned-1950s housewife Wanda Maximoff.
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Evan Jachelski: Rooster Spooner, angel, pizza boy, jock with a cock. Plus Andrew Santino and some Polish bulges
In the season finale of Rooster, acerbic college writer-in-residence Greg (Steve Carell) tells his students about the movie It's a Wonderful Life (1946), where Clarence the Angel convinces a down-and-out dude not to off himself. They're confused by the line: "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings." What if you're in an arcade, with bells ringing all the time? You'd have a surplus of angels.
The guys decide to make some wings to wear at Greg's end-of-semester party. Spooner shows off his while shirtless. Hot twink physique with some delt and bicep development.
Spooner has been basically a background player, a member of gay-subtext Tommy's friend group with a salacious name. His scenes consist mostly of buddy-bonding with George or J.D. But that unexpected shirtless shot was stunning, in a series that has been skimpy with beefcake, so I wanted to do a profile of actor Evan Jachelski.
Evan was born in September 2003, and grew up in Hanover, Pennsylvania, a rural community about an hour north of Baltimore. He is close enough to his Polish heritage to know some slang terms: badooshk, asshole; kutas, cock; chuj, cock; palka, big cock.
Apparently he needs to describe his cock quite often.
He attended South West High School, where he played football, and trained with the Baltimore Improv Group.
He graduated in 2022, and moved to Los Angeles to become an actor, starting with commercials for Peloton exercise equipment (playing a buffed sufer) and Reebok shoes.
In a 2023 episode of Dave: the mild-mannered wannabe rapper (Dave Burd) returns to Philadelphia to look up the childhood Girl of His Dreams, who stuck him in the friend zone. He's homophobic, referring to the jock who won her as a c*cksucker, but also into guys, at least according to some photos that show him rimming.
Evan played "Matt's Replacement," presumably someone who took over for Dave's roommate / manager, Matt (Andrew Santino, left). But I couldn't find him in the episode. Maybe he wasn't blond.
For a more serious artistic turn, Evan starred in The Red Market (2024), a short that made the film festival circuit and won some awards. Drowning in debt, Zephyr (Evan) contacts a secret organization to sell his body parts.
Gay actor Ramiro Leal plays the mad doctor, and Maddox Anaya (gay) and Ryan Rathburn (unknown, left) play shirtless hunks. Actually, from what I can tell from the teaser, it's all shirtless hunks.
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