Carter Ryan: Canadian soap boy likes farm equipment, works out, hugs Jaiven and other hot guys. WIth Carter and Kevin cocks.

The teen idol site has numerous photos of Carter Ryan, aka Carter Ryan Evancic and another guy, visible in the background of this photo, and elsewhere hugging, swimming, working out, hugging, and hugging.  Surely they're boyfriends.  But first, to make sure that Carter is actually an actor, I'm checking out his IMDB biography.

Whew, it's long and overblown with superlatives.  The greatest actor of our generation was born in 2006 to Dorlyn and Carol Evancic.  Don't get excited -- Dorlyn is just a guy with a girl's name.   His older sister inspired him to start acting at the age of eight months.  Really? 

At the age of eight, Carter booked the Lead in a Feature Film (Mom's capitalization, not mine), playing the son of "supermodel/actress Rachel Hunt" in Her Infidelity (2015).

Wait -- is Rachel the extremely famous actress, or the character?

She's the actress.  In Her Infidelity (2015), Rachel plays a bored housewife who has an affair with a hunky teacher (Grayson Chitty), but he turns out to be a psycho.  Presumably Carter plays her son.

 

Getting through the descriptions of Carter's wonderfulness is quite a slog. Here's another photo of Carter and his boyfriend to combat the boredom.  

After Her Infidelity, the great actor (according to his Mom) appeared in:

An episode of Impastor (2015) as Young Buddy.  The grown-up Buddy, on the run from a loan shark, steals a man's identity and takes over as the new gay pastor of a small-town church.  This may be a problem, since he's not really qualified to be a leader in the local gay community. Besides, he's got a tattoo of a naked lady on his hand. 

An episode of Travelers (2016), with Will and Grace star Eric McCormack playing a straight guy who sends his consciousness back in time.  Carter's character is not mentioned in the plot synopsis.

Two episodes of The Man in the High Castle (2015-16), a dystopian series where Germany won World War II. Carter plays the son of a lady dating American resistance fighter Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank).

Left: Rupert Everett as resistance fighter Frank Frink.

But Carter is best known as Cody Stanton in the Canadian soap When Calls the Heart (2015-19) and the spin-off When Hope Calls (2021).

The Hoping Heart or The Calling Hope or whatever is set in a small town in Alberta in the 1910s.  Cody is homeless and hungry until he is adopted by Abigal Stanton, who runs the local cafe. His plotlines involve dealing with his sister's illness, dealing with his own illness, having trouble at school, and gay-subtext buddy-bonding with Robert Wolfe (Jaiven Natt).

Hey, Jaiven is the boyfriend! 

Off-camera, Carter buddy-bonded with several male cast members.  Here he wishes happy birthday to Daniel Issing, whom I assumed was a father figure on the show. But the actor is Kevin McGarry, who plays town constable Nathan Grant, with no particular connection to Cody.  Apparently Carter just likes hunky guys.

And who the heck is Daniel Issing?    

More after the break

Google thinks that this is Kevin McGarry.  I doubt it.

It also thinks that this is Carter Ryan. Maybe it is -- there are a lot of Carter Ryans out there.

Carter hasn't been doing much acting since 2021, but he continues to work out with and hug Jaiven Natt.

Jaiven also played Kissing Party Boy in Good Boys (2019), Tyler in A Million Little Things (2020-21), and Dimitri in Under the Bridge (2024).

So, are they boyfriends or bromantic partners?

Here Carter visits the BC Farm Museum, and notes that he saw some "cool farm equipment." That eagle clawing the world is the logo of J.I. Case Company, where my Dad used to work.  And where he expected me to go to work after high school, to embrace the heterosexist job, house, wife, kids trajectory.

A gay guy would be trying to escape that life, not embrace it.

Plus Carter and Jaiven both took girls to their senior proms.  Straight friends always latch on to the slightest glance at a girl and yell "You noticed her!  You can't be gay!"

"But I've had sex with 3,204 guys, and I've never even hugged a lady except for relatives."

"It doesn't matter. You acknowledged that women exist!"

So, 157 photos hugging Jaiven, twelve hugging other guys, three hugging a girl. Dude must be straight.

See also: Leonard Berstein, Aaron the Rabbi's Son, and a poem about masks on the verge of coming out.  I used Carter's prom photos as illustrations.

"Big Mistakes," Episode 1.1: Dan Levy as a gay Christian pastor with a secret boyfriend and a crazy sister. With Patrick and Pacheco nude.

Six Linus Van Pelts, from Eric Shea to Alex Saxon. Mentions The Man in the High Castle

Dad Takes Me to See Naked Men.  To convince me to go to work in the factory.