After completing the profile of Francois Göske I realized that, although I read German (it was one of the languages in my Modern Languages major) and know about Germany's strong tradition of gay-themed novels and movies, there aren't other profiles of German actors here. So I checked the teen idol website, and found Griffin Heckel. This striking photo shows him in a park, presumably in Berlin. I'm reminded of Rilke's "Pathways":
Wege will ich erkiesen, die selten wer betritt
Wait -- he's America, from New York City, and the photo was taken outside the Dia Beacon Art Museum, on the Hudson, about an hour north of Penn Station.
And probably gay: he posts a photo hugging gay actor Ethan Slater, Boq in Wicked (who, incidentally, is 5'7" and built, sigh).
in blassen Abendwiesen?
und keinen Traum, als diesen:
Du gehst mit.
I’ll pursue solitary pathways
through the pale twilit meadows,
with only this one dream:
You come too.
Wait -- he's America, from New York City, and the photo was taken outside the Dia Beacon Art Museum, on the Hudson, about an hour north of Penn Station.
How embarrassing!
But I'm still doing a profile because Griffin is highly cultured. Here he's waiting to see Beckett's Waiting for Godot, with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter playing Vladimir and Estragon. (Bill and Ted? Excellent!)
And probably gay: he posts a photo hugging gay actor Ethan Slater, Boq in Wicked (who, incidentally, is 5'7" and built, sigh).
Wait -- it turns out that Ethan is straight. Darn it! And Griffin took a girl to the homecoming dance. He must be straight, too.
So not German, not gay. Does he at least have an impressive physique?
Um...let's just check his roles on the IMDB for gay characters or subtexts.
Griffin is best known for the Netflix "hit" that I never heard of, Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024): a boy (Luke David Blum) is separated from his parents during a storm, and "lost on a mountain in Maine." Beats those annoying one word titles that don't tell you anything about the movie.
Paul Sparks plays the boy's dad, and Griffin plays his brother.
Um...let's just check his roles on the IMDB for gay characters or subtexts.
Griffin is best known for the Netflix "hit" that I never heard of, Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024): a boy (Luke David Blum) is separated from his parents during a storm, and "lost on a mountain in Maine." Beats those annoying one word titles that don't tell you anything about the movie.
It's based on a 1978 autobiography by Donn Fendler, who was separated from his boy scount troop and lost near Mount Katahdin for nine days in 1939.
Paul Sparks plays the boy's dad, and Griffin plays his brother.
I'm guessing that there is no gay content, but there are no girls Griffin's age in the cast list, so no heterosexism, either.
Griffin has 12 other acting roles listed on the IMDB, beginning in 2019 with the short Remind Me (father-son squabbles), and episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Deuce, FBI, and Evil Lives Here.
More after the break