Dane and Tony take the plunge. With Tony Cavalero, Scott Gaffney, and some Danish d*cks
Gavin MacIntosh, Part 2: From gay middle schooler to car salesman to OnlyFans j/o hunk
This was a big deal in 2013: On the first season of The Fosters, a soap opera about the "gloom, despair, and agony" befalling a family of fostered and adopted kids, Jude (Hayden Byerly) starts a romantic relationship with his classmate Connor (Gavin MacIntosh). They were both thirteen, making them the youngest out gay kids on television at the time.
Turns out that lots of horrible things happened to them, but nothing worse that the horrible things happening to the other characters -- this was a show about agony, after all.
About halfway through Season 3 in 2016, Connor announced that he was moving to California to live with his mother, and Gavin MacIntosh left the series. The bio of Jude on the fan wiki ends abruptly, but according to Wikipedia, he eventually gets another boyfriend and breaks up with him, reuniting with Connor in a 2021 episode of the spin-off Good Trouble.
Fans spent a lot of time on social media speculating about why Gavin left. Was tired of the constant agony his character was going through? Squabbling over his contract? Planning to go to college? He did attend Long Beach City College in 2016-17.
Whatever the reason, Gavin finished up guest spots on Bosch (2014-2016) and Bones (2016-17), and then retired from acting.
Today he is a car salesman at a dealership in Chandler, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, where he grew up.
And he has an OnlyFans page where subscribers can see him doing stuff (by himself, not with his lady friend) for $33 per month. Here are some free samples:
The Arizona Cardinals are a professional football team based in Phoenix, where they play at the State Farm Stadium.
Gemstones Episode 4.3, Continued: Vance is homophobic, Jesse is sad, and Kelvin is doomed. With Ryan, Vance, and Hamlet dicks
Previous: Gemstones Episode 4.3: Keefe does stuff with the Devil. So does Eli. With a pole dancer's dick and the Groundskeeper's butt
In the first part of Episode 4.3, Kelvin has night terrors and a feeling of impending doom as his last safe place is destroyed, the siblings worry that Eli is schtupping Aimee-Leigh's best friend, and BJ (Tim Baltz) falls on his head during a pole dancing contest
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Tim Baltz with stunt double Ryan Moody
Is BJ Dead?: The family gathers at the hospital. Everyone wonders why Eli and Lori arrived at the same time, suspecting that the two are having s*x. Maybe focus on the crisis?
A doctor appears and tells Judy "I'm very sorry." Ulp.
No, BJ isn't dead, but he's paralyzed, and will have to use a wheelchair. Judy cries. "What are we going to do?"
Left: Maybe Ryan's little friend will cheer you up.
The Quail Hunt: Eli, Jesse, and some members of the Cape and Pistol Society in ridiculous floppy-hat uniforms shooting quail, I think. I don't see the significance of this scene, except to contrast with the Civil War scenes in the trailer.
How Many Gay Gemstones? Cut to the Cape and Pistol headquarters, where a minister congratulates Jesse on his brother being nominated for Top Christ Following Man of the Year. Rival megachurch pastor Vance Simkins (Stephen Dorff, top photo), one of the Season 3 antagonists, has also been nominated, and complains: "I guess your homosexual brother is the one with the juice nowadays."
"Two," Jesse answers. "The same number of dead parents in your family."
Wait -- he can't be agreeing that BJ is gay, so who is the second "homosexual"? Keefe? But he and Kelvin aren't married.
Gideon? Remember, Aimee-Leigh admitted Scotty to the family after his death, and Gideon hasn't expressed any interest in anyone since. Maybe he's still in mourning.
Vance tries again: "You're losing in our rivalry due to your poor character." You're not exactly a saint yourself, Vance Baby. His churches have turned into bathrooms, "with that filth your brother's been preaching. It's what your church is becoming known for. Does that bother you?"
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"The Waterfront": "Succession" in North Carolina, with fishing, drug deals, casual homophobia, Weary butt, and Daedalus dick
I thought The Waterfront, on Netflix, would be a film noir homage, like On the Waterfront, but it's actually about about a family that runs a North Carolina fishing empire. But it stars Jake Weary, who played a gay guy on Animal Kingdom, so I'll give it a try, starting with Episode 1.1, "Almost Ok."
Scene 1: A boat at night in dark, choppy water. The Captain tells his crew, Troy and Curtis (Matt Davis, left), to open the hatch and prepare to transfer the shipment.
Uh-oh, men with guns approach, knock them out, wrap them in fishing nets, and dump them into the ocean. I'm guessing that these guys are not focus characters.
Scene 2: Establishing shot of an elegant North Carolina coastal community. Cane Buckley (Jake Weary), son of fishing magnate Harlan Buckley, is in the bathroom keeps texting Troy and Curtis, the guys who were murdered last night, but they don't answer. He becomes more and more upset.
He goes downstairs to kiss his bikini-clad wife, greet his preteen daughter, grab coffee, and leave. Heterosexual identity established at Minute 4.
He drives to the beach and stares in shock at his boat, floundered, with the sheriff and DEA officers investigating.
DEA Agent Sanchez (Gerardo Celasco) tells a Background Player Cop that the boat has been cleared out -- no contraband. The crew is missing, presumed drowned.
Scene 3: The Big City. Cane's Dad Harlan (Holt McCallaney, left) grunts, climbs out of bed, groans, and falls to the floor. He calls to his Side Piece that he's having heart attack: "Call an ambulance and my wife."
Side Piece meets the Wife and the hospital and apologizes for almost killing him. "It's ok, I got this. You go home and put on a bra."
Turns out that it was a malfunction in his electronic defibrillator; he'll be fine. They discuss the floundered boat, and wonder where their son Cane is.
Scene 4: He's at the Carter County Courthouse (no such place, but there's a Carteret County on the coast, near Wilmington), asking the clerk to make Curtis, the drowned guy, the owner of the boat -- "And predate it!" She agrees to help because they're cousins, and family help each other. Also he promises to fix her $12,000 in credit card debt.
Next stop: The restaurant where Mom works. Wait -- Dad is a seafood magnate, and she works in a restaurant? They discuss Dad's emergency and the cargo that was stolen from the boat.
Cane: "This is the end of our seafood empire!"
Mom: "Don't be so dramatic! And don't tell your sister. She can't know!"
Cane: "No problem. I hate her anyway."
Scene 5: Cane's Sister, cheering on the Havenport High School 2023 Swim Team championships, swimming in the ocean, not a pool. Her Ex-Husband (Joshua Mikel, Daedalus on The Righteous Gemstones) appears and yells that she can't visit her son without court permission. She grumbles but leaves.
The son, Diller (Diller?) is played by Brady Hepner, who may be gay in real life: he says that the universe is conspiring to make him happy -- while hugging a guy.
Scene 6: On the docks, Cane and his Sister are interviewed by DEA Agent Sanchez. "Not my boat, I sold it to Drowned Guy Curtis three months ago."
"Ok, then. Bye." That was easy.
Sister wants to know he didn't tell her about Drowned Guy Curtis buying his boat.
"Because I hate you. I don't tell you anything. Bye."
At the fish factory, the foreman wants to discuss the drop in orders, but Kane ignores him and rushes into his office -- where Dad decks him! "What the hell have you done? Don't get up -- I'll just hit you again."
"It was just one drug run, Dad. No big deal. t $10 million in cocaine and opiates. We had to pay off our debts! We're a second away from losing this place!"
Dad orders him to go to Hoyt, the Bad Dude he hired to handle the drug run, and tell him it's over.
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Blake McIver: The "musical" kid from "Full House" grows up, sings, snoots, and shows us what Superman is packing
Full House (1987-95) was a TGIF sitcom set in an annoyingly gay-free San Francisco. The premise: sportscaster Danny (Bob Saget) loses his wife (don't worry, it's a 1980s death, with no grief). He can't take care of his three daughters on his own, so his friends Joey and Jesse (Dave Coulier, John Stamos) move in to help.
I didn't watch -- in West Hollywood in the 1980s and 1990s, who was home on a Friday night? But I recognize the iconic Full House house, 1709 Broderick Street, about two miles from the Castro, and I know that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson, who played Danny's infant daughter Michelle, became pop culture icons, starring in a string of movies before starting their own fashion company.
If you watched, you may have noticed Blake McIver Ewing, who played Derek, Michelle's "musical" friend and fellow thespian, during Seasons 6-8. From the clips I watched while researching this profile, I gather that he is quite femme. A contemporary blogger references "the blinding supernova of Derek's undeniable gayness," but on the show itself no one ever suspects. Michelle's friend Lisa even asks him to the Big Valentine's Day Dance.
The grown-up Blake's primary interest is music -- his IMDB biography effuses over its "wonderful power to be cohesive, moving, influential, emotive, subdued, deferential, caustic, achingly beautiful, full of character, simplistic, complex and/or virtually any other adjective one can think of." Like overwritten? He has 44 music credits and 15 composing credits on the IMDB, and nine songs available on Apple Music, including the gay anthems "It Gets Better" and "This is Who We Are."
He was recently cast in The Boy from Oz, a musical about the life of bisexual singer/songwriter Peter Allen.
But Blake also has 31 acting credits, beginning with the six-year old Ned, played as a grownup by Gabriel Olds, in Calendar Girl (1993) -- which everybody in West Hollywood went to because of the opportunity to gawk at the backsides of Gabriel and Jason Priestley, but not Jerry O'Connell, darn it.
Other than Derek, Blake is best known for playing Waldo Aloysius Johnston II in the Little Rascals movie (1994). He sabotages the Big Go-Kart Race and steals the girlfriend of preteen Lothario Alfalfa (future homophobe Bug Hall). Don't worry, she dumps him and returns to Alfalfa after discovering that he is a jerk.
Ted Prior: Man-mountain hero of the macho 1980s, Chippendale dancer, Playgirl model. Any gay content?
N*de photos of this guy have been sitting in my "to profile" file since March, and since I have some free time today (and my pageviews are down by about 70%)," I'll give him a try.
His name is Ted Prior. He was active primarily during the 1980s Reagan-Bush era man-mountain craze, when Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and a dozen lesser lights -- Chuck Norris, Reb Brown, Steven Seagal, Michael Pare -- stormed into POW camps and drug lord lairs, got tortured while shirtless, single-handedly defeated entire armies, and won The Girl, thus demonstrating the "supremacy" of white heterosexual America.
Born in New Jersey in 1959 and raised in Baltimore, Ted originally planned to become a professional bodybuilder -- he states that he won Teenage Mr. Maryland and "ten other awards" before he turned 19. He moved to Los Angeles, in fact, so he could train at Gold's Gym.
But he worked in theater, too, and once he hit L.A., a walk-on as a bodybuilder in an episode of The Incredible Hulk (1981) convinced him to try his hand at acting. His first starring roles were in Sledgehammer (1983) and Killzone (1985), written and directed by his older brother David.
Most of Ted's work for the next twenty years would come from David's production company, Action International Pictures: Operation Warzone (1988), Jungle Assault (1989), The Final Sanction (1990), Raw Justice (1994).
Ted's most famous film, Deadly Prey (1987) is a sort of The Most Dangerous Game. People are being kidnapped and taken to a secret jungle enclave, where the evil Colonel Hogan (David Campbell) has his mercenaries hunt them down. Vietnam Vet Mike (Ted) is grabbed while taking out the garbage, brought to the enclave, stripped, greased, gawked at, and forced to run naked through the jungle. Uh-oh, they kidnapped the wrong guy.
He is shirtless throughout: a major draw of the film, as you can see from the VHS tape cover.
In November 2024, the Lyric Hyperion Theater in Silverlake, the second gay neighborhood in Los Angeles, held a "Deadly Prey" day, and promised Ted Prior "in the flesh," har har.
The only other Ted Prior movie that I reviewed was Lost at War (2007): five soldiers are trapped in a foxhole while mysterious creatures force them to re-live painful moments of their past. It is heavy with gay subtexts.
During the 1980s, Ted worked as a Chippendale dancer. This led to modeling gigs in the October 1983 and March 1984 issues of Playgirl.
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Luke Benward: Fried worms, Disney movies, Christian music, gay friends, a j/o video, and a n*de Cameron Monaghan
How to Eat Fried Worms (Thomas Rockwell, 1973) is one of the classic novels of my childhood: Billy brags that he can eat anything, so when his friend Alan offers him $50 to eat a worm a day for 15 days... He can prepare them any way he wants, but Alan will provide the worms. The parents are in on the scheme, there is no bullying involved, each of the boys has a buddy-bonding best friend, and the only girl is Billy's sister. No one wins the Girl of His Dreams.
Remembering the buddy-bonds and the absence of the heterosexist trajectory, I eagerly tuned in to the Disney Channel version (2006). But now Billy (Luke Benward) is confronted by a gang of bullies led by Joe (Adam Hicks), he fors a group of friend instead of a special buddy, and there is a Girl of His Dreams.
A rather disappointing start to Luke Benward's career. Let's see if he has redeemed himself since with some gay roles.
According to the IMDB, Luke was born in 1995 in Franklin, Tennesse.
He first appeared on screen playing Mel Gibson's son in We Were Soldiers (2002).
The infamous homophobe Mel Gibson? That's even worse.
After roles in the revamped Family Affair (2002) and Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), Luke hit Disney gold with Fried Worms (2006).
His Disney stardom assured, he continued with Mostly Ghostly (2007): A shy boy (Sterling Beaumon) encounters a a ghost boy (Luke) and his sister, who has a crush on him. He must figure out how they died before it's too late, and win the Girl of His Dreams.
Left: Luke and Sterling Beamon strangling Miles Heizer. Neither has actually worked with Miles Heizer. Maybe they're friends?
Minutemen (2008): A teen nerd (Luke), his buddy, and the Girl Next Door become time travelers, allowing him to best the obnoxious jock who is dating the Girl of His Dreams. Guess who he ends up with.
Dog Gone (2008): A boy (Luke) rescues a dog from bumbling thieves, bests the school bully (Cameron Monaghan, left), and wins the Girl of His Dreams.
Things are not looking good for you, Luke Baby.
Let's skip past Girl v Monster and Zombies and Cheerleaders to Luke's first major tv role in Good Luck Charlie (2013). Charlie is a girl, not a boy, and she doesn't bring good luck; she's the subject of a video diary filmed by her father. Luke plays Beau Landry, an employee at Bob's Bugs Be Gone who meets, falls in love with, and eventually becomes the boyfriend of Teddy (another girl. What's with this show?).
Ok, what about Ravenswood (2013-14), a teen mystery series featuring dark secrets in a small town? Luke plays Dillon Sanders, who is dating focus character Olivia but is secretly plotting to prevent her from discovering the dark secrets. Oh, and he kills her father. That sort of ends the relationship.
Cloud 9 (2014): A snowboarder and her obnoxious boyfriend are trained by snowboarding great Will Cloud (Luke). The boyfriend gets dumped, and...well you know the rest.
Measure of a Man (2018): Dude gets a girlfriend.
Life of the Party (2018): Middle-aged Deanna, newly dumped by her husband, returns to college, and has s*x with a fratboy (Luke), who becomes obsessed with her. Guess what? He's the son of the woman Deanna was dumped for.
I'm tired of this. Let's see what else Luke has been up to.
He's done some music, such as the theme song for Cloud 9, and he has appeared in the music videos of several other artists, including Martina McBride and Jason Aldean.
Wait -- he's the son of Christian country-western singer Aaron Benward, shown here with his boyfriend...um, I mean singing partner Scott Reeves -- and the grandson of Christian music producer Jeoffrey Benward. They have won Dove Awards, and Jeoffrey was inducted into Christian Music Hall of Fame. Why didn't anyone tell me this before? Luke Baby is too fundamentalist to play a gay character, and if he's gay in real life, he's got to be extremely closeted.
According to the Who's Dated Who website, Luke has been in several relationships with women, and is currently dating Ariel Winter (Alex Dumphy on Modern Family). You know there were gay characters on that show, right?
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My Date with Michael J. Fox. Plus Marcus and the Scary Bulgarian Bodybuilder.
Friday, July 5th: Two days after I arrive in West Hollywood, after my terrible year in Hell-fer-Sartain, Texas, I am sitting in the human resources department at Paramount Studios, waiting to interview for a job as an administrative assistant, when Marcus comes in to drop something off. He's my age, African-American, with very light skin, freckles, and a hairy chest. I get his phone number.
Saturday, July 6th: Our date, an inside tour of Paramount Studios (yes, we saw more stuff), followed by cruising at the Gold Coast and dinner at the French Quarter in West Hollywood. He came to Los Angeles to become an actor five years ago, and has had some guest spots in tv shows and movies.
"Do you know anyone famous?" I ask with tourist zeal.
"Nobody really famous. I mean, some guys on tv. Robin Williams. Tom Hulce. I know Michael J. Fox from acting class."
I'm not impressed. I've barely heard of Michael J. Fox -- he plays Alex P. Keaton, Reagan-loving son of liberal hippie parents on the sitcom Family Ties (1982-1989), But I've only seen the show a few times.
Marcus is a good kisser, with a nice physique and a respectable size. But he likes nude wrestling: I have to pin him before I can go down on him. Then he doesn't reciprocate, he just grabs me, puts me in sort of a headlock, and falls asleep. Not my idea of a romantic evening!
Saturday, July 20th: My first date with Ivo. I'm curious about Back to the Future, the new time travel comedy starring Michael J. Fox.
"No way, man!" Ivo exclaims. "That Mike Fox thinks he's a big deal, but he's terrible in bed. They should call him Princess Teeny-Tiny!"
Weird coincidence! I think. I've been in town less than a month, and already I've met two people who know Michael J. Fox, and one of them is his ex-lover!
Sunday, July 21st: I have brunch at the French Quarter with Marcus, and tell him about my date with Ivo.
"Strange," he says. "I'm completely out to Mike, and he's never said anything about being gay. Sounds like Ivo is one of these celebrity name-droppers who claims to have been with everyone from Harrison Ford to Arnold Schwarzeneggar."
"But he wasn't bragging. He got upset. He said Michael was bad in bed and should be called Princess Teeny-Tiny."

Ask Michael J. Fox about his size? I don't think so! But it would be fun to meet him.
I date Ivo three or four more times, but his stories become more and more bizarre.
Saturday, August 10th: The promised lunch with Marcus and Michael.
Marcus picks me up and drives me to a small, bare-brick cafe on Melrose. We are just ordering drinks when Michael comes in, wearing a white shirt, buttoned down to reveal a soft smooth chest, tight bulging jeans, and sunglasses.
He's my age, short, slim, androgynous The feminine teen idol type.

I feel a definite bulge pressing against me.
"So, are you guys together?" Michael asks as he scans the menu.
"No," Marcus says. "We dated once, but you know some guys can't handle ten inches."
"They just need a little practice, like that one night after acting class." He nudges Marcus affectionately.
"So..I was dating another guy who claimed to know you," I say. "Ivo the Bulgarian bodybuilder."
Michael frowns. "Doesn't ring a bell. But you know how it is, you get a tv show, and suddenly every guy you have ever said hello to claims to be your bosom buddy."
Riley Polanski: From Xanadu to Silverlake, with n*de photos and bonus Michael J. Fox
Instagram recommended another guy I never heard of: Riley Polanski. Be sure to include the -n, or you'll get a lot of ladies. I checked the IMDB to make sure he's an actor. But before looking at his work, let's check his Instagram to see if he is gay.
Over 150 posts, a lot of muscle-shots (nice swimmer's build), architecture, design, music. No girl-hugging in the first 100 or so, unless you look very carefully: notice the girl in the top photo on the far left, and just behind him next to the handbags in this photo.
Nicely decorated apartment, but if you look carefully, you'll see a framed 1960 ad from Christian Dior, with a swimsuit lady in the forground.
I pieced together a biography from the IMDB, Backstage, Facebook, and Linkedin. Riley was born in Pomona, California in 2000, and started acting when he was 10 years old: the Western 6- Guns (2010), starring 1980s staples Barry Van Dyke and Greg Evigan; Airline Disaster (2011), starring former Family Ties cast members Meredith Baxter-Birney and Scott Valentine; Baseball, Dennis, & the French (2011).
Left: In case you are interested, the first celebrity I met when I moved to Los Angeles was Michael J. Fox, who played Alex on "Family Ties."
We just had lunch, but I told my friends that it was an energetic hookup.
When he was a teenager, Riley had to put his career on hold due to "family illness." He still performed, in Mulan at the Claremont United Methodist Church (2015) and Xanadu at Claremont High School (2017), and he won second place at the California State Thesbian Festival.
He graduated from Claremont High in 2018 and enrolled in Pasadena City College. During the next two years, Riley worked as a production assistant on You're the Worst, with Stephen Schneider, and did a lot of acting, primarily in student films:
Worthless Words (USC): "A world where your words are controlled."
The Cup (St. Mary's University MFA): Two aspiring actors encounter a 1920s flapper.
Paz (Chapman University MFA): An abused girl finds strength in a spiritual connection.
Alice In/Somnia (2020): a girl in the Sleep waiting room has to deal with bureacracy.
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