Male nudity, gay romance, and queer codes in movies and television, especially "The Righteous Gemstones"
Big Boys: A gay university freshman tries to make friends, get laid, and find his tribe. With a lot of Dylan d*cks
Caleb Ruminer: From fundamentalist Arkansas to angst drama, softcore straight porn, j/o videos, and gay teases
In the teen drama Finding Carter (2014-2015), 16-year old Carter (Kathryn Prescott) discovers that the woman she thinks of as her mother actually kidnapped her when she was three. She is reunited with her birth family, and must juggle the standard high school "boyfriends! fashion! mean girls!" drama with soap opera angst: kidnapping, insanity, sexual assault, cancer, drug abuse, murder, "shocking revelations," and "dark secrets."
There are two lesbian characters, Madison and Bird, who face extensive homophobia, go through extensive angst, and date Max before figuring "it" out.
I've already done a profile of Alex Saxon, so this is about Caleb Ruminer, which is hard to type without it sounding dirty. It means "someone who ruminates," fixates on negative thoughts.
Caleb was born in Cabot, Arkansas, about 25 miles north of Little Rock. Ulp.
He found his passion for acting while singing in church, appearing in church plays, and so on. Ulp.
After graduating from high school, he attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, AMDA, in Los Angeles, for two years. Then dropped out because they were too liberal?
His first acting gig was an 2013 episode of Castle, as the brother of a teenager who would grow up to be on death row.
Then came the unyielding angst of Finding Carter
In a 2014 interview in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (wait -- there are Democrats in Arkansas?), Caleb talks about a struggle with being a Christian and playing a bad dude. But, he figures, the bad dude is never praised for committing sins, so it's ok. He found a church in Los Angeles where they talk about how you can be Christian and an actor.
Ulp. Doubtless there's some (a lot) of homophobia in Caleb's background.
But some penises, too (after the break)
After Carter, Caleb starred in Lethal Seduction (2015), which is what it sounds like: teenager Caleb is seduced by his cougar neighbor, who influences him to do a lot of deviant stuff. His mother is also in love with him, so the two psychos have an increasingly violent tug-of-war with Caleb in the middle. Plus he has a teen girlfriend and a best buddy (Sam Lerner, right)
Sam Lerner is best known as Geoff Schwartz on The Goldbergs (2014-23). Here he chills with some very gifted homies.
Next Caleb had guest spots on:
Episode 1.5 of The World According to Billy Potwin (2018), about a far-right anti-vax 13-year old in a family of liberals. Like Family Ties?
Episode 1.1 of Strange Ones (2018): "Two enigmatic travelers make their way across a remote landscape," facing paranormal peril. First up: an abused high school girl conjures a demon. Wait, a movie entitled The Strange Ones and a tv series called Strange Ones both premiered in 2018. I may be mixing them up.
Episode 2.3 of Dirty John: Betty Broderick (2020), a true-crime show about the woman who murdered her ex-husband (Christian Slater) and his new wife in 1989. "Betty takes a desperate step to save her marriage."
Episode 1.1 of The Irrational (2023): A professor (Jesse L. Martin, left) uses his knowledge of human nature to solve murders. His roommate and best friend is a queer woman.
Caleb's character is a former Marine suffering from PTSD and alcohol abuse. Figures.
Dude, try a comedy. They aren't that bad.
More after the break. Caution: Explicit
"The Fosters": Twelve hunks and hunkoids, all grown up. With a few grown-up dicks
The Fosters (2013-2018) was a groundbreaking drama on ABC Family, now on Netflix, about a lesbian couple (Stef and Lena) with five children, biological, adopted, and foster (Brandon, Jesus, Jude, Callie, Mariana). The Fosters have foster children, har har
Besides, there are endless teenage boys with their shirts off to draw in the gay boys and straight girls. I'm checking to see if there were any adult hunks in the crowd, or if any of Fosters Fave Raves have grown up.
1. David Lambert: Brandon, the oldest son in the family. an aspiring pianist whose dreams are dashed when an injury paralyzes his hand. He also becomes the victim of statutory rape by hooking up with his father's girlfriend.
2. Danny Nucci: Mike, Brandon's biological father, a cop who has a drinking problem, shot an unarmed suspect, and has a girlfriend who hooks up with Brandon.
5. Brandon Quinn: Gabe, Jesus' biological father, who didn't tell Jesus because he didn't want the boy to know he's a registered sex offender.
6. Hadyn Byerly: Jude, the youngest son, who becomes mute in angst over coming out as gay (with lesbian parents?), but eventually learns to accept himself and starts dating, with probably the youngest same-sex kiss on television.
More bulges and bods after the break. Warning: explicit.