Even Stevens (2000-2003) was one of the first, and best, of the Disney Channel teencoms, featuring middle-school boyfriends Louis and Twitty (Shia LaBeouf, A.J. Trauth). Episode plots emphasize their romance:
Add Nick Spano as a hunky older brother and Fred Meyers as older sister's swishy bff, and you have a gay-subtext classic.
Seasons change, teencoms are cancelled, and the actors move on. Nick Spano, top photo, majored in English literature at UCLA and now runs the Re/Creation Cafe.
AJ Trauth, left, lives in Ohio.
Fred Meyers is a paramedic.
As far as I can tell, they're all heterosexual in real life.
And what about Louis Stevens, Shia LaBeouf?
He moved into dark, depressing indies about lost, dying, grieving, and enraged youth:
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints: as his friends are killed or kill themselves, Shia believes that he is protected by the saints.
Bobby: The night of Robert Kennedy's assassination
Disturbia. A teen under house arrest "rear-windows" a serial killer.
When he veered into science fiction, as in Transformers, it was always a boy and a girl gazing into each other's eyes forever.
He shows his penis on screen for the first time in the 2012 music video Sigur Rós: Fjögur píanó, which looks Icelandic but is actually in English. It's about a boy and a girl gazing into each other's eyes forever.
More dick and a Catholic priest after the break