Baylen Bielitz: The kid version of the gay superhero Wiccan visits Oz and The Secret Garden, buddies with Jett Kyte, crushes on Spider-Man.

 

I've been researching the actors who played Billy and Tommy, sons of the Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff in Marvel comics and tv shows.   They grow up to be superheroes Wiccan (gay) and Speed (bi), so did the casting agents make sure that the actors playing them were gay/bi, too?  

Teenagers: Joe Locke and Ruaridh Mollica (below).  Both gay.

Tweens: Julian Hillard and Jett Kyte (left). Both probably gay.

Kids: Baylen Bielitz (right) and Gavin Borders. 

 

Left: Ruaridh in action. Don't worry, he's with a dude.

I doubt that the casting agents were specifically looking for gay actors to play the preteen Billy and Tommy. They might not even be aware that LGBT kids exist.  But they if they were looking for resemblance to the older actors, they might ping on a gay vibe, or ask if Mom and Dad would object to their kid playing gay.  We'll start with Baylen Bielitz, five-year old Billy (the future Wiccan) on Wandavision.

Baylen was born in Southington, about 20 miles from Hartford, Connecticut, in May 2014.  He expressed an interest in acting and dancing when he was five years old, so his parents entered him into a local acting competition.  He won and got an agent, who started sending out video audition tapes (this was during the pandemic).  

 On his sixth birthday in May 2020, Baylen posts "It's my b-day, dance with me," noting that he always was inspired by Derek Hough.

Actor/dancer/choreographer Derek Hough, is straight, but he has played gay characters and fought for LGBT representation on Dancing with the Stars. He performed in the first male-male duo on the show, in December 2024.

A few days later, Bay got word that he had been cast as Billy Maximoff.  Directly from kindergarten to the Marvel Cinematic Universe!  In the summer of 2020, he and his mom drove to Atlanta to film his scenes. 

I doubt that he knew the entire biography of Wiccan when he auditioned, but he does now.

Other on-screen roles came quickly.

2021:

He appears in The Gilmore Girls on stage and in several tv commercials.

Plus he gets to pose (or photoshop-pose) with Tom Holland's Spider-Man (n*de photo of Tom Holland after the break).

 2022:

He plays Younger Boy to Lucas Luchsinger's Older Boy in A Better Half (2022), a short about a man confronting his demons.

In an episode of Evil, about a team of Catholic exorcists, Bay and Robbie Crandall play brothers who are being bedeviled by a demon.  Or is it their mom, trying to push up the subscribers to her social media channel?  

The Noel Diary stars Justin Hartley as Jake Turner, a driven big city corporate type who returns to his small home town for Christmas and...well, it's the plot of every Christmas romcom ever.  Bay plays his younger brother in a flashback sequence.

More after the break. Caution: Explicit.

As promised, Tom Holland nude.  It's from AZ Men, so presumably it's "real," not an artist's interpretation.

2023:

Bay poses in this fierce/fabulous outfit.   He says it's Kenough, the outfit that Ryan Gosling's Ken wears in the Barbie movie, when he decides that he doesn't need a girlfriend to be happy.  He's "enough" on his own.  So you're not looking for a girlfriend, buddy?  Any chance you're into boys?

He plays Peter in Peter Pan Junior on stage, does a lot of modeling, and runs in the Southington 5K. 

2024:

Mother's Instinct stars Baylen and Eamon O'Connell as the sons of best friends Alice and Celine.  Best friends, that is, until Celine's son dies in a tragic accident, and she thinks it's only fair that Alice's son should die, too.

Bay notes that it's hard to say goodbye, but he and Eamon are "friends for life."

Here's Yianni is about an elderly Greek restaurant owner whose mind is failing, so he imagines himself a talk show host.  And people went to see it willingly?  Bay plays next door neighbor Jackson, who develops a special relationship with him.

Bay also appears in The Little Mermaid on stage, and as himself on Sesame Street.

2025:

He plays the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, and films the upcoming Blessed be the Evil: a male-female couple buys a farmhouse infested with a demonic presence taken from Indian folklore.  The plot synopsis says that they are "Christian," but the writers and producers are Indian, so they probably mean not Hindu rather than Evangelical/ homophobic. Bay plays the young version of husband Nick (Emile Hirsch).

2026:

Bay stars in The Secret Garden: The Musical as Colin, focus character Mary's cousin, who has been bedridden since birth.  He has a crush on Mary, who cures him through the power of love, but in the 1911 novel, he has a crush on his friend Dickon.  Bay notes that he has a crush on Colton Ryan, who played Dickon in a 2015 production.  Or maybe those hearts and balloons are from Colton, congratulating him on the role.

Left: Colton n*de.

Bay's Mom-curated social media is guy-infused, but the guys are all co-stars or older actors who he finds inspiring. No references to LGBTQ people.  No rainbow gear. No posts from Pride festivals.  A curious omission, especially since he mentions watching Agatha All Along and posts photos of Wiccan, so he certainly knows that Billy Maximoff is gay.  And he's been interviewed about Billy many times, so it must have come up.

On Valentine's Day, Bay tells us: "I don't break hearts.  I find them.  I gravitate toward them."  

Dude is straight.

See also:

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Jett Klyne: The future bisexual superhero spends his teen years bodybuilding and dating guys. With two twink dicks and an Ecuadorian bulge

Ben Pajak plays the gay kids of Wolverine and Paul Blart, Harvey Milk, Max von Essen's buddy, and a gay Corey Haim. But is he...

Azriel Dalman: Young Percy Jackson, Mr. Martin, and Garrett Graham celebrates Pride, tells gay kids "It gets better." With nude costars