Austin Lindsay: The casually naked roommate on "Overcompensating" has a BFA and a lot of depressing shorts. With bonus nude fratboys
Benjamin Ainsworth is possessed, kidnaps Dream, dances with a drag queen, rides a dragon. Plus his nose grows. With Champion and Elf cocks.
Benjamin Ainsworth (the one with the handbag) was born in Nottingham in 2008, and later moved to Lund, near Hull in Yorkshire. He scored his first professional acting job in 2016, in the musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert on the Norwegian Epic Cruise Line, six weeks in the Mediterranean and then six more in the Caribbean. He played Benjy, son of the drag queen Tick. who sings "Say a Little Prayer/Always on My Mind."
The same year he was cast as "a cheeky schoolboy" in an episode of the soap Emmerdale.
His next major role was the troubled boy Miles in The Haunting of Bly Manor, loosely based on Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, with the two troubled children and ghosts bedeviling the nanny. I stopped watching in the first episode after a particularly nasty trigger (hint: "does the dog die?"), but according to a review there's a lesbian romance "drowned in sad and tired tropes" like Bury Your Gays. Yuck.
Left: Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Peter Quint, who is possessing Miles and forcing him to do bad things.
In the first season of The Sandman (2022), Roderick Burgess captures the Dream of the Endless and imprisons him naked in a glass jar. His son Alex (Ben as a boy, Laurie Kyaston as a young adult) has many opportunities to free him, but refuses, worrying that Dream will harm him or his boyfreind (Christopher Colquehon).
So far one gay and two gay-adjacent roles. Good job, buddy.
There have been dozens of movies based on Pinocchio, the 1883 novel by Carlo Colladi. The 2022 version, with Ben as the puppet boy, Tom Hanks as Gepetto, and Joseph Gordon Levitt (left) as Jiminy Crickett, is supposedly a live-action remake of the classic 1940 animated movie, with a lot of queer codes. But in some versions Pinoke gets a girlfriend, so I wouldn't be surprised if he is changed into a real boy through a glimpse of the Girl of His Dreams.
The IMDB description of Son of a Critch (2022-26) tells us that "Mark is 11 going on 70," and "tries to make connections with the small group of people in his limited world." Sounds like he's got that syndrome where you grow old as a child, or maybe he's aging backward, but it's a misdirection: Mark (Benji Boy) is just smart, and his "limited world" is Newfoundland in the 1980s. He's heterosexual; no gay people are mentioned in the series.
Ben is posing here with the real-life Mark Critch, who plays his dad, and Colto Gobbo, who plays his older brother.
Everything is Going to Be Great (2025) covers a year in the life of the Smart Family, as they negotiate "over-sized dreams, identity, ghosts, and regional theater." Trigger alert: this is advertised as a comedy, but Dad (Bryan Cranston of Malcolm in the Middle) dies halfway through.
Travis Turner: Short Guy Brigade, gay subtexts, cutesy cartoons, Christmas romcoms, and hip-hop. With n*de photos and Drake Bell
In Final Destination: Blood Legacy (2025), a 1960s Elevator Operator encourages the soon-to-be-skewered couple to squeeze into his already overcrowded elevator, in a scene reminiscent of the "Room for one more, honey" episode of The Twilight Zone. Then, when things start crashing, he tries to take everyone down the elevator again -- and ends up splattered.
Look at this guy! He's shorter than Noah Bromley, who plays the evil Penny-Throwing Kid. Of course I've got to research him.
He's Travis Turner, born in Oliver, British Columbia, in 1987, raised in nearby Penticton in the Sylix Okangan Nation, although he doesn't mention being First Nation. Cody Kearsley, Moose in the Riverdale series, is from Oliver also. Maybe they knew each other.
After high school Travis painted oil rigs and sold vacuum cleaners, then moved to Vancouver to study film at Langara College. He received his diploma in 2009. .
He appeared in a lot of shorts in 2009-2010, such as "Henchin'," "Scars," "Snow Tramp," and "Dream a Little Dream," plus the Vancouver-based Easter Bunny Bloodbath (2010), as one of the victims of a psycho-killer dressed as the Easter Bunny. Here he appears in an illustration in the novelization. There was a novelization?
Travis' first high-profile role was in a 2010 episode of Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica spin-off. He played Ashok, a resident of a virtual world who briefly interacts with Tamara and Heracles ( Richard Harmon).
According to the IMDB, Travis is best known for Final Destination: Blood Lines (2025).
A 2024 episode of Wild Cards, a Canadian police procedural featuring a "will they or won't they" couple, Max (a lady) and Cole (Giacomo Gianniotti, left). They investigate a missing butcher in a small town, and find a murderous cult. Travis plays Daryl, who doesn't appear in the plot synopsis.
A 2023 episode of Upload, where you can be uploaded to a virtual afterlife when you die (if they get to your body right away). Focus couple Nora and Nathan (Robbie Ammel) have returned to the real world, look for jobs, and discover that Nathan has a duplicate (apparently you can return to the real world multiple times). Travis plays Tom, who does not appear in the episode synopsis.
The anime Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction (2024): Two high schoolers (a boy and a girl, of course) face an alien invasion. He voices the English dub of Makato Tainuma, a boy who dresses in girls' clothes. According to TV Tropes, he denies being gay or trans; he just wants to look cute.
Some Assembly Required (2014-16), a Nickelodeon teencom starring Kolton Stewart as a teenager who becomes CEO of a toy company, and hires all of his friends. Travis played Aster Vanderburg, the snobbish, snarky, fashion-obsessed head of the Design Department (named after the Gilded Age Mrs. Aster). He's gay-coded for 45 episodes before queerbaiting viewers with The Girl of His Dreams.
The others have even more embarrassing titles.
Travis has also appeared in some Christmas romcoms, like A Princess for Christmas (2011): he plays Milo, the troublemaking, holiday-hating teenage nephew that focus character Jules is saddled with as she visits the family's palace and falls in love with Sam Heighan.
A Fairly Odd Christmas (2012) is a live-action installment in the Fairly Oddparents franchise: the adult Timmy Turner (Drake Bell, right) screws up Santa Claus's Naughty/Nice list, so he has to go on a perilous journey with his friends and two elves (Travis Turner and a girl). There's a fade-out boy-girl kiss, but not between the elves.
I may have a n*de photo of Drake Bell after the break. Caution: Explicit.
Chance Orion Wood: Is there a chance that Azriel Dalman's buddy is gay? He has red shoes and stars in horror movies with hunks. With MacPherson and Couture d*cks.
When I was researching Azriel Dalman, I found a photo of him having a fun day on English Bay Beach in Vancouver with some of his classmates at the LeBlanc Acting School. The tall guy is Logan Sexsmith, who brought his sister Quinn (not shown).
Azi doesn't mention Chance on his social media, but Chance mentions Azi all the time. Best buddies, closer than brothers, can't wait to see him again.
I like his red shoes. Very colorful, adds to the femme affect. Reminds me of Gertrude Stein:
I caught sight of a splendid Misses. She had handkerchiefs and kisses. She had eyes and yellow shoes and she had everything to choose and she chose me.
Ok Alice B. Toklas wore yellow shoes, but the sentiment is the same.
Maybe if Azi is gay, good buddy Chance is, too. I'll check.
According to his parent-curated Facebook page, Chance was born in September 2014, and is already a competitive dancer, with awards for breakdancing and hiphop; a martial artist with six world championships; a gymnast, swimmer (lots of swimming pool pics), cook, singer, and actor. And a cystic fibrosis warrior. (The birthmark is unrelated)
And an episode of Haunted Hospitals, where doctors and nurses recount real paranormal experiences. In "The Haunting," Chance plays Shadow Ghost Child opposite Spencer MacPherson of School Spirits (cock after the break) as a dubious priest.
Dan Cudmore: Colossus, Felix, fitness model, and the God of War. Plus his colossal Colossus cock
He specializes in superheroes and supervillains like Colossus, but he's done other projects. I first saw him in Magicians, as the God of War. Apprised that a gay-stereotype god called the Nameless is looking for something the other gods stole from him, he responds "I don't know what it is, but you have my permission to search my ball sack with your tongue." Sure, that sounds fun, I'd be happy to....oh, wait, you're being homophobic.
His other projects include comedies like Fresh Off the Boat, romcoms like All of My Heart (as the romantic lead's friend who devotes his life to getting him laid), and horror like Rites of Passage, which appears to have a gay subtext -- not his.
Also 14 stunt credits including Psych, The Predator, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
He played a stunt cock at least once.
Some fitness modeling from early in his career
Daniel Quinn Toye: The Scottish Boy Toye queerbaits "Heated Rivalry," plays gay-adjacent roles, posts photos while...you know
I started watching Sterling Point due to an interview where Daniel Quinn Toye said that his Rory and Ellis (Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie) have a Heated Rivalry-type relationship. Turns out that he was using the term as a cliché: the guys are both straight, competing for the affection of focus character Annie. Was he deliberately queerbaiting, or so out of touch with queer culture that he had never heard of the gay hockey player show? To find out, I checked the guy's social media, and found some interesting posts.
First his biography: The Boy Toye grew up near Glasgow, where he attended the Dance School of Scotland. After graduation, he enrolled at LAMBDA (don't get excited -- it's not the gay symbol, it stands for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts).
While at LAMBDA, he appeared in Alice (in Wonderland), The Angry Brigade, Measure for Measure, Three Sisters, A View from the Bridge, and The Trojan Women.
He received a B.A. (Honors) in 2024, and was immediately cast in a "minimalist, modern" version of Romeo and Juliet on the West End (May-August 2024), with Tom Holland as Romeo. The Instagram page has a graphic with R&J superimposed on a Pride Flag, so there must be some queer content, maybe in the Romeo-Mercutio relationship. But Daniel plays Paris, the wealthy nobleman betrothed to Juliet. He and Romeo fight, and he is killed. Sounds like the straightest of the crew.
In 2026, Daniel got a photo shoot in the British Vogue, and three on-screen roles:
Sunny Dancer: Cancer survivor Ivy is sent to a chemo summer camp, with many of the actors cast because they have real-life experience with cancer. She falls in love with Jake (Daniel).
James Norton (left) and Neil Patrick Harris play counselors, and Ivy is played by Bella Ramsey from The Last of Us, who is nonbinary and "not 100% straight. So there's some LGBTQ representation in the cast, even though the story is heteronormative.
Pressure, about the preparation for D-Day, June 6, 1944, when the Allies invaded Normandy, marking the beginning of the end of Nazi control of Europe. No gay content. Daniel plays Private Michael Gregory.
And Sterling Point, which has a lot of lesbian characters.
Two upcoming projects:
Cry to Heaven, based on the novel by Anne Rice. At age 15, Venetian nobleman Tonio Treschi (Nicholas Hoult, left) is castrated by his half-brother to ensure that he doesn't have any heirs. He becomes a famous castrato (castrated opera singer), and seeks revenge. In the original novel, he has romances with another castrato boy, Domenico (not in the cast list), and his mentor, Guido (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). So there's LGBT content in the original, even if they straighten him for the movie.
Daniel's character is not mentioned in the cast list.
Voltron, about the robots who combine into a bigger robot. Daniel plays Keith, who pilots the head and torso (voiced by Neill Ross in the 1980s and 1990s series and Giles Panton in 2011). He's got a crush on Princess Allura.
The Heated Rivalry reference after the break. Caution: Explicit.
Sterling Point: Queerbaiting, dark secrets, a guy with changing ages, a lot of lesbians, "Heated Rivalry," and some Canadian cocks.
When Amazon Prime recommended the 2026 tv series Sterling Point, I searched on its name and "gay," and got an interview where the two male stars, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie and Daniel Quinn Toye, said that they were having a Heated Rivalry-type romance. That's enough for me: I'm in.
She's stressed out because she's waiting to see if she got into the summer program at Wharton, the most prestigious business school in the world. So you're a high schooler, and the dude is your brother? I had you figured as a grown up.
"Forget college. It's the summer before your senior year. Spend it going buck wild."
Dad Steven pops in with bagels, and asks about Wharton. She gets word: "No. My dreams are shattered. It's the end of the life I've been imagining for myself." Couldn't you, like, get into a good college even without the program? On TV they're always getting into Harvard.
We finally get the girl's name: Annie.
"Now you can have fun this summer," Brother Connor says. "Why don't you go to Thailand with your 100% straight heterosexual boyfriend?"
"I can't break up with him until he's ready to come out." It's 2026. Nobody comes out. Parents just say "Someday you'll meet the man or woman of your dreams."
Scene 2: Establishing shots of New York, and then Annie's Glee-era gay-stereotype boyfriend Oliver (Luke Avoleda) asks if she wants to watch Cynthia Erivo sing "Edelweiss" at the Kennedy Center. You're super-femme, you live in New York, and you're not out? Girl, everyone has known since you were in kindergarten.
"What am I going to do all summer, now that all of my dreams have been crushed?" Annie asks.
"I don't know. Go on Anti-depressants?"
She suggests going to Thailand with him, but he doesn't like that idea. No getting his gay on with a beard hanging around.
Annie tries to get him to come out, yet again, when Brother Connor bursts into the room: "Grandpa died -- but not the one we like. Gordon, Mom's Dad, the one who was shady as fuck, and everybody hated him, so Mom and Dad cut him out of their life, and we've never met."
Scene 3: Meeting with the lawyer. Grandpa Gordon left Dad nothing. The kids get a trust, which they can access when they turn 18, and property in Canada. He also left them letters, but Dad snatches them up and won't let the kids read them. Weird family history.
Left: a professor from Toronto and his hookup.
Cut to Annie trying to sleep. She looks at a photo of their Mom, who died when she was little (of course). Why did she hate Grandpa? Why is Dad so secretive?
In the morning, she breaks into Dad's safe (never make your birthday your password), and finds dozens of letters -- Grandpa was writing to them all along.
The one that came with his will: "I'm sorry I didn't fight harder to see you. I shouldn't have agreed to the plan. I hope Sterling Point will reveal the truth. Find her." Obfuscation for its own sake. Any normal person would reveal who she is.
Downstairs, Brother Connor is being fed and smooched by his girlfriend. Gross -- I hate adults feeding each other, like they were babies. She reveals the new intel. "We have to go to Canada and investigate!"
"What for? We're adopted, so he's not even our biological grandfather."
"Ok, I'll go by myself, but cover for me. Tell Dad I went to Thailand." So Connor and the gay boyfriend won't be back?
Scene 4: On the plane, Annie pops an Ambien and asks for a blanket and a pillow, not realizing that the flight to Toronto is only 45 minutes long. Didn't she look at a map?
At the airport, drowzy, she meets Ellis (Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie), who will be flying her to Muskoka, the island her grandpa owned. He's the one in the Heated Rivalry romance. She's afraid of the seaplane but the only other way to get there is by car, and it would take forever (the real Muskoka Lakes are just 2 1/2 hours from Toronto).
Scene 5: Establishing shots of Muskoka Island. Ellis notes that Grandpa Gordon, who owned the whole island, said that he would never rent this house, so it's weird to see Annie moving in. Isn't she the new owner?
Next question: Nope, no stores on the island, so you have to take a boat to the mainland to get groceries. You could have stocked up before leaving Toronto.
Inside, the place is a mess. Annie finds her mom's old room, and...a squatter! Nope, just squirrels bringing nuts in to store.
Next stop: The Marina, where she has to rent a boat to get to the mainland. She asks Joe the Boat Shop Guy (Negan from The Walking Dead) if he knew Gordon who owned the island. "Yes. He was great. Everybody loved him."
"Did he have...um...family around? A daughter maybe?" Terrible sleuthing, girl.
Problem: She doesn't have a driver's license (many New Yorkers don't bother, because why would you ever drive in the City? It takes five times as long as walking). Or a boater's license. So she can't rent a boat, but his son will give her a lesson. How will that help? She needs groceries now, and it will take a lot of lessons to get her license.
Wait -- the son isn't around, so the teenage Oona offers to teach her. "Oona -- beautiful name for a beautiful girl!" Sounds like we got some lesbian representation. But Annie is straight. Or was that why she was happy with a boyfriend who didn't want to do bedroom stuff -- she's not into guy parts.
"But you're a terrible boat driver!"
"No, I'm not. I can handle her," she counters, gazing at Annie. I'll bet you can...
The lesson begins. "You handle the tiller -- this thing that looks like a dick -- just like a hand job, except twist more." Are you sure you're a lesbian, Oona?
She tries it, but they start spinning in circles, and she doesn't know how to stop. Let go?
More after the break
Young Farts Trailer Parts: Hunky Ukrainian-Canadian brothers sell rv parts, with Jim the Stripper, a lot of gay hints, and the World's Biggest You-Know-What
When I saw Young Farts Trailer Parts on Amazon Prime, I figured it was a spin-off of the Canadian series Trailer Park boys, but it's actually a reality show starring Dawson (left) and Jagger (right) Glowatsky, brothers from Vegreville, Alberta,who run an rv salvage business. Why is rv salvage a tv series?
Maybe there's more to these guys than meets the eye.
Scene 1: They introduce themselves and their schtick, and then the town of Vegreville, where "there's not a lot goin' on" (to quote Corner Gas). It's flat.
Dawson has been gone for six days, having a baby (with his wife, I assume). He explains: "We is who we is. We smoke, we drink, we swear. We never had real jobs, and I dropped out of high school. That's what sets us apart. We don't know what the fuck we're doing."
Scene 2: A tour of the warehouse. They introduce Jim the Stripper, who asks "Where's my pole, boys?", although he's not that kind of stripper: he uses his impressive biceps to cut up rvs.
I got your pole right here, Stud.
Dory, the Inventory Manager, who posts the parts for sale online. She enjoys saying "Fuck you, Jim."
Shipping Manager Tressa. She enjoys weed.
Mom Teresa, "the glue that holds it all together."
Dad Cam, whose coffee mug caught my attention. There are three reasons why a guy might own a cup with a blond hunk in a speedo on it, but only one reason why he would be filmed for television holding it.
Scene 3: Time for a team meeting: They're down 30% in sales from last year, and since they are a seasonal business (people don't buy rvs or parts in the winter), they have to hustle and make this summer count.
Their yard is almost empty, because Dawson, who is in charge of getting rvs to strip (for parts) or flip (for resale), has been busy having a baby. So he'll have to step up to fill the yard.
Cut to Dawson making some phone calls.
More after the break
Jacob Tierney: Former teen idol produces homophobic and gay-positive work, has a husband and two wives, but is not a sea monster.
As the younger generation says, "I was today years old" when I discovered that Jacob Tierney, producer of Heated Rivalry (2025), about gay hockey players, did not voice the gay sea monster in the Disney-Pixar Luca ( 2021). That was Jacob Tremblay. They're both gay, their names are almost identical, and I thougt that Luca came out in the 2010s, so it's an understandable mistake.
Correction: Tremblay (potential dick left) has played only girl-crazy since Luca, and there's no significant boy hugging on his social media. He may be straight.
But I was sure that I remembered Jacob Tierney as a teen idol somewhere.
Turns out that I remember the other Jake from the creepy indie film Josh and S.A.M. (1993). 13-year old Josh (Jacob) is upset by "accusations" that he is gay, so he concocts a wild scheme to prove his straightness, including convincing his 7-year brother Sam (Noah Fleiss) that he is a cyborg. How does having a cyborg brother make you straight?
As a child star, Jacob appeared in many other Canadian movies and tv shows. He was best known for playing 10-year old vampire hunter Max in Dracula: The Series; Greg in the teen soap Watatow; and the sarcastic Eric, who was cut after the first season of Are You Afraid of the Dark?
As a teenager he was best know for The Neon Bible (1995), based on the book by Confederacy of Dunces author John Kennedy Toole. I thought that guy only wrote the one book, and his mom found it in his room after his death and had it published, to the protests of readers everywhere.
In adulthood Jacob began writing, directing, producing, and often starring in his own films. He came out at some point, so we should expect some LGBT representation:
Dad (2002): After a year in Africa, Mark comes home to find his Mom schtupping his best friend (Jacob). I guess we're not there yet.Twist (2003): A queer (more queer) Oliver Twist set in contemporary Toronto, with Nick Stahl as Dodge (The Artful Dodger). Here's the gay stuff, finally.
The Trotsky (2009): A Montreal high school student (Jay Baruchel) believes that he is the reincarnation of Trotsky. He starts a revolution and kisses The Girl. Wait, that's heterosexist...
Good Neighbors (2010): Three friends in Montreal, all straight, one a serial killer. Hey....
He Hated Pigeons (2015): A man (Pedro Fontaine, left) drives from the north to the south end of Chile to keep a promise to a dead boyfriend. Back to gay content.
Lovesick (2016): Dash (Jacob, left) is depressed over losing his ex-girlfriend, until he meets The New Girl. The gay representation didn't last long.
Another Kind of Wedding (2017). You think it's going to be about a gay wedding, but the title is just queerbaiting. A man (Jacob) is about to get married, when his brother (Kevin Zegers), who happens to be the bride's ex-boyfriend, shows up to try to win her back.
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