Young Mazino: The straight guy in "Beef" and "The End of Us," with nine queer hints, some n*de photos, and Missoula, Montana

  

You have probably seen Young Mazino as Paul Cho, intensely hetero-horny younger brother of focus character Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) in the road rage-escalation drama Beef (2023). 

Or as Jesse, one of the leaders of the community of Jackson, Wyoming in the zombie Apocalypse The Last of Us (2024-5), whose ex-girlfriend starts dating focus character Ellie.

Two intensely heterosexual characters, but at least they gave us a butt shot and a bit of his penis.  And maybe there's some gay potential in his other work or his biography.

Young is a first generation Korean-American, born in Silver Spring, Maryland in 1991.  

His family is very conservative. Dad works as a computer engineer, but has a Ph.D. in Theology, and promoted the hegemonic masculinity "boys don't cry," "be tough" stuff.  He disapproved of Young's artistic interest and  pushed him into martial arts, where he received a black belt in Taekwondo.

Queer hint #1: Dad doesn't think he's masculine enough.

His mother offered quiet, behind-the-scenes support, but otherwise his interest in the arts resulted in hostility, rejection, and hatred. 

Queer hint #2: The artistic, musical outcast kid is usually gay

 He was active in the church (he doesn't say which, but there are eight Korean churches near Silver Spring, including Presbyterian, Wesleyan, and Baptist).  At age 17, he visited Korea as part of a church-based symphony. He played the violin.

After watching Daniel Dae Kim on Lost and Steven Yeun on The Walking Dead, he dreamed of becoming an actor, but the parents, the community, and the church disapproved. So he tried the heterosexist trajectory, college-business major-money-making job, and enrolled at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Queer Hint #3: That same trajectory was pushed at me, but it was "job-house-wife-kids."

 

Young wanted to be true to himself, so in 2014 he dropped out of college and moved to New York. While studying at the Stella Adler School of Acting, he worked in corporate finance, as Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, a French company specializing in luxury goods.  How did he get such a prestigious job with no college degree?

Queer Hint #4: He was working in beauty products.

He also did some modeling and appeared in some short films, mostly playing guys who get girls. 

In 2018, the grind of corporate job, acting classes, and auditions became too much, so Young dropped it all and moved to California.

Queer hint #5: This is the standard trajectory for the Great Gay Migration.          

There were too many actors with his birth name. Christopher Kim, so he chose Young (his Korean given name) and Mazino, after a character in the Korean webtoon and comic book Tower of God.  Mazino is a "tall and muscular warrior" who is "respected by every man" and "hated by every woman," although he has an unrequited crush on one. 

Queer hint #6: Attracted to muscular guys.

In California, Young got guest spots on New Amsterdam, Blue Bloods, Tommy, Prodigal Son, and Drama High.

More after the break. Caution: Explicit

Peder Lindell: Gay skater from Montana, gay Catholic guy, magician, zombie, and pilot, with possible Peder penis

Ok, this time I checked in advance, so I don't get tricked by another interloper on the red carpet. 

The Disney wiki lists Peder Lindell in the cast of  The Rise of the Red as Morgie, the teenage son of Morgan Le Fay from the Arthurian mythos.

The character does not appear in earlier "Descendants" movies or tv shows, but he looks like he might be gay.

Peder grew up in Northfield, Minnesota, and began acting at age 11. with a role in a stage version of On Golden Pond at the Minnesota Jungle Theater.  He went on to star in Gypsy, and then as Jason, a closeted gay student at a homophobic Catholic school, in Bare: A Pop Opera. 

Jordan Luke Gage played Jason in the West End revival.  Spoiler alert: the gay dude dies.

Peder is currently a theater arts major at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.  

He has his pilot's license and certification as an Advanced Rescue Diver and Emergency First Responder.

 And he has a boyfriend and a little dog.

Of his six acting credits on the IMDB, three are shorts: 

Out of My Hands, about a guy with a gun, aired at the Catalina Film Festival.

Leak seems to be about a guy in a jar.

Scraps depicts a gay romance between skateboarders in Montana in the homophobic early 2000s.  It's the "first Montana LGBTQ skate film."

Peder penis after the break

"They're combing Wyoming": Eight guys flexing in Idaho, hiking in Wyoming, and hooking up after the opera

 

The title of "Eight Hot/Hung Arnkansans" comes from the musical Annie Get Your Gun, as Frank Reynolds explains that he's extremely good in bed, but a player, so you shouldn't get involved.  He continues:

There's a guy in Wyoming -- they're combing Wyoming/ To find the man in white who was with him that night. 

Gulp, that sounds sinister, but he just means that he ghosted the guy after the hookup.  

Here are eight hot/hung/naked guys from Wyoming and nearby mountain states.  First up: a wrestler from the University of Idaho, Moscow.

Denver, Colorado selfie.

The Denver Art Museum. Generic name, Gaudi style.

Dick with dumbbell in Fort Collins.

On to Sheridan, Wyoming

College student selfie.

More mountain state dick after the break. Warning -- arousal.