Spanish actor Luca de Blas or Lucas Blas appeared on the teen idol website with the usual teenage beefcake and bicep photos.
Quite a lot of beefcake and bicep photos.
But when I started looking at his works, I found something else.
Everyone else in the village wears sacks over their heads, but Lucas is not afraid to show his true face to the world. Even when he is in prison, he weaves himself a crown of flowers.
The villagers grab him and take him to a church to be sacrificed. He begins to bleed. The singer, gay musician Dulzano, jumps in, but it is too late; Luca dies in his arms.
It is the music video Jota de la Luna (2025), with lyrics that recall gay poet Garcia Lorca, giving us a poignant view of homophobia and the need to be who you are.
We must bring flower to flower/ when summer dries the blood of the Reaper
When winter knocks trembling at the door
When night falls I will say it
When the clear night arrives
I found an episode of Bosé, a biography of the famous gay (or "trisexual" singer Miguel Bosé). Lucas plays the young gay singer Carlos Berlanga, whose "¿A quién le importa?", released in 1986, became a gay anthem during the AIDS pandemic.
I found Lucas wearing makeup, approaching his mother, arguing with her, trying to hug her. Later he grows his hair long and puts on a dress, suggesting trans identity, or maybe a femme gay boy. It was Ali (2021), a short film that won four prizes and seven nominations: "A desperate cry of child abandoned by his mother, who cannot give him love":
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