RG Beefcake and Boyfriends: Hunk-watching in "Madam Beja" results in The Backdoor, a spiritualist comedy troupe, and a gay sketch comedian with a big d*ck

In the Brazilian telenovela Madam Beja (2026), now streaming on MAX, 19th century Brazilian girl Beja is kidnapped by an evil magistrate before she can marry her boyfriend Antonio. By the time she escapes, she has moved on and married someone else. What's a girl to do?

How about open a high-end brothel? That way she can continue seeing Antonio (David Junior, left) on the downlow, and start a new romance with his best bud, João (André Luiz Miranda, after the break). Plus get involved in the lives and loves of her workers.

The show is brimming with muscular men and bare backsides, and there are two LGBTQ regulars: Fortunato (João Villa, top photo), a young physician struggling to come out, and the trans sex worker Severina (played by the nonbinary actor Pedro Fasanaro), who starts a romance with the town priest (Arilson Lucas, left)

The evil magistrate with some soldiers to returns to try to get his hands on Beja, or her wealth. Colonel Madeira (Fabio de Luca) "betrays" him by becoming a Beja ally, so he storms into the brothel while the Colonel is busily schtupping, and orders him out. Later he is found floating in the river, dead.

I started searching for more n*de photos of the big guy, and found a very interesting portrait of Fabio de Luca, a gay chub/bear comedian.

Saved by Grace Kelly: Fabio was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1980, and began performing in children's theater. But it was his first visit to a gay bar -- Rosa Choque (Hot Pink) -- that drew him into acting. The police raided, checking ids and arresting underage youth, and he was only 16! He was terrified, but a drag queen dressed as Grace Kelly pulled him into her dressing room, and told him to be putting on makeup when the police entered. It worked -- they left him alone. Afterwards, he associated drag -- and by association, all acting -- with freedom. You can be truly yourself when you are playing a role.

He started in the theater, with roles in The Voyage of Peter the Fortunate (Strindberg), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Brecht) and many plays by Brazilian authors. Some guest spots on tv followed, often as the subject of fat jokes. It was necessary for survival, but he always tried to shift the humor to the situation, not his appearance.

And he sought out roles where his character could have been played by an actor of any size, such as Lazaro in The First Temptation of Christ (2019),.

Siquiera in the serial-killer drama Peçanha Contra o Animal (2021),

Bumbling detective Sabia in Êta Mundo Melhor ("What a Better World," 2025).

And many sketches on Porta dos Fundos ("The Back Door"), a Youtube channel with 19 million subscribers (2022-26), which made him a household name, and permitted him to move into writing and directing.

Fabio calls himself "a cross between Fabio Porchat and Bruno de Luca."

Fabio Porchat is the co-founder and head writer of Porta dos Fundos.

Bruno de Luca (left) is a fixture on Brazilian tv, best known for played Fabinho on the teen soap Malhação (1995-97) and Romeu on Os Parças (2024).

His d*ck after the break. Caution: Explicit.

Bruno's beneath the belt equipment. Let's see if our Fabio measures up

Not bad.

Interviewed on CNN Brazil, Fabio says that he fell into the trap of thinking that you have to be a certain body type to be desirable in gay communities. Gay bars and hookup sites are overrun with guys with "no fems or fats" profiles and, oftne worse, guys who fetishize chubby physiques. Neither can see the person behind the belly.

He has a boyfriend now (obviously), but he is still working on his body image: "There are days when I think I'm handsome, and there are days when I think I'm a troll."

I'm going to go with handsome.

Fabio follows Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion dedicated to the veneration of orixás, emanations of the creator god, like the orishas in the Afro-Cuban Santeria.

He also practices Kardecian Spiritism, a new religious movement that traces the spiritual growth of the soul through many lifetimes. He and members of the Amigos de Luz troupe, founded in 2015, use comedy to promote spiritism. They have a Youtube channel.

I'm running out of space. Do you want a picture of the Amigos de Luz, or Fabio's butt?