This photo on the teen idol site drew my interest. Dude is either gay or pretending.
There are lots more of the two guys kissing, plus standard buddies hugging, and no icky girls. Here he poses with "I keep my private life a secret, but I'm dating a dude" Pedro Pascal.
He's Callan Farris, best known for the Disney Channel teencom Gabby Duran and the Unsittables (2019-21). 13 year old Gabby soon learns that they are "unsittable" because they are alien children hiding out as humans.
Callan plays Jeremy, a shapeless blob who is next in line for the throne of Gor-Monia, on Earth to hide from would-be assassins. Most of his plots involve misunderstanding human customs, or having his alien powers accidentally cause disasters.
The episode synopses and fan wikis don't mention any heterosexual interests. But Jeremy considers Gabby's friend Wesley (Maxwell Acee Donovan, "The Human Erection" on That 90s Show), his "sister" (he doesn't quite understand gendered nouns). And he is "fond of" Julius (Kheon Clarke), a waiter at the teen hangout. Sounds like a lot of gay subtext going on.
Callan was born in Los Angeles in 2007. No other information about his childhood is available, but from his last name ("warrior" in Arabic) and some of his early roles -- Syrian Boy, Kadir Siddiqui, Rafi Elshami -- I'm guessing that he's Arab-American. He started his career in commercials, and moved into television playing "Very Sweet Kid" on a 2016 episode of Dr. Ken.
On the IMDB, Callan lists his "most famous" works as Gabby; Kings (2017), about a family in South Central during the 1990s L.A. riots; a 2018 episode of Grey's Anatomy where Jackson (Jesse Williams, left) treats a boy with cancerous tumors on his scapulae (shoulder blades); and the preschooler series Rocketeer (2019-20)
In a 2018 episode of The Conners, gay kid Mark goes to the school Halloween party as iconic painter Frida Kahlo, and is turned away for anti-drag reasons. Callan plays the neighbor boy Kazim.
In a 2019 episode of Fuller House: Spencer (Kallan) appears in a segment of Wake Up, San Francisco, showing viewers how to up-cycle objects that they would ordinarily throw away, like turning wine bottles into flower vases. He has a love-hate relationship with Max Fuller (Elias Harger, left).
More after the break. Caution: Explicit
And he buddied with the multi-tattooed Isaak Presley, left, who played singer Bobby Popco.
After Gabby, Callan starred in Grimcutty (2022): a monster emerges from the internet and forces teenagers to hurt themselves -- but the parents think they're doing an internet challenge! Kayden Koshelev plays one of the victims. Callan plays Kamran, a budding saxophonist whom the monster forces to strangle himself. His Dad (Usman Ally) is horrified by his search history -- Satanism, necrophilia, bat sex, the Columbine shooters -- and tries to kill him. "Bat sex" involves oral, with gigantic penises, which may be the source of his interest. Is that too obscure for a queer code?
In a 2022 episode of the science fiction anthology Circuit Breakers, a teenager (Callan) is too short to make the track team, so he signs up for a shady medical experiment involving nanobots -- with Twilight Zone-ish consequences. He's got a male friend but no female crush.
Callan graduated from the L.A. County High School for the Performing Arts in 2025. In 2026 he co-wrote (with Eve Mori) and performed in Himeyuri at UCLA's Freud Playhouse: the story of the mass suicides during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 through the eyes of five teenagers. There's some guy-on-guy hugging, so maybe some gay content.
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He also starred in a short film, 1 a.m.: On the night before graduation, three friends (Callan, Henry Kaufman, Charlie Shotwell) follow their doppelgangers to a mysterious mansion, where they are forced to confess the darkness of their past. Callan's: he started a rumor that a classmate had a tiny penis and "pepperoni nips." It spun out of control. It turns out that the guy was intersex.
Only one of the three boys exhibits heterosexual interest, and the intersex dude adds queer interest.
Callan is only 18 as of this writing, so I'm not searching for nude photos. Here's a Maronite Catholic from Jerusalem instead.
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