Male nudity, gay romance, and queer codes in movies and television, especially "The Righteous Gemstones"
Gavin Munn's polar plunge. Plus Tony's cold dip, a bondage hookup, and some nude dudes in the snow
The Top 15 Hunks of the Civil War Gemstones, with some 19th century soldier d*cks
Righteous Gemstones Episode 4.1, the short film about great-grandpa Elijah Gemstone (Bradley Cooper) grifting and murdering his way through the Civil War, was a nonstop sausage fest, with a cast of 18 men and no women. Granted, they were all soldiers, grim, grimy, injured, and dying, but still, their inner hunkiness shone through.
Instead of trying to profile them separately, I'll do them all at once, excluding Bradley Cooper and the three who have already been profiled (Charles Ambrose, Jackson Kelly). With such a large group, I'll limit my research to:
* Is he gay? A man with a wife or girlfriend will be identified as straight. Sorry, bi and closeted guys.
* Are there any n* ude photos? I'll just check AZ Nude Men and Instagram. No time to look through a lot of hookup sites.
1. Jim Cummings, Pete McCabe in Danny McBride's Halloween Kills, as Captain Cane, who accuses the pretend chaplain Elijah of gambling and drinking with the guys. He's kissing a lady a lot on his Instagram, so: straight.
2. Josh McDermitt, best known as Eugene on The Walking Dead, as Pastor Grieves, whom Elijah murders for the church offering money. Josh is straight, but likes to pretend to be gay for comedic effect by kissing dudes, har har.
3. Lew Temple, left, Axel on The Walking Dead, as a condemned Confederate soldier who asks conman chaplain Elijah to say a prayer for them, "send us out with a good one." He wishes his daughter happy birthday, so I'm going to guess straight.
4. Kimball Farley, star of the indie film Hippo, as Ned Rollins, who partners with Elijah to cheat during a card game with Captain McFall, and is later murdered. He and his girlfriend were profiled in the Love Issue of Cosmopolitan: their first kiss was at a stoplight. Straight.
5. Paul Schneider, left, known for All the Real Girls (2003) and Lars and the Real Girl (2007), as an injured soldier. His Instagram consists of posts about an innocent man on death row, with no personal information, but he kisses girls in a lot of his photos on the IMDB, so I'm going to say straight.
6. Charles Halford, seen here on Lucifer, as a soldier bathing in the river. There's a d*ck shot, but it's too blurry to post. He fills his Instagram with art and nature photos, so I can't tell if he's gay or not.
7. Tim Johnson as a soldier. He played Squi on Freaky and Punk Boss on Daybreak. Otherwise he's difficult to research: there are over 20 Tim Johnsons with Instagram accounts, including a pastor, several "husband and fathers," a fitness trainer, and this guy. Maybe it's our Tim Johnson, maybe not.
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Kelton Dumont's Hot/Hung Photos, Part 3: Birthday biceps, bare bums, rugger dicks, and brothers for life
This is a collection of cute/cool or hot/hung photos of actor Kelton Dumont, best known as Pontius in The Righteous Gemstones. He's over 18 in all of them. There are also photos of a few friends.
5. "I'm finally bigger than Adam...um, I mean taller, dude."
6. Kelton gets a homemade sign to welcome him to Leigh, a village near Manchester, England.
Rainer Dawn: Was his kiss with Harlan real? Is Aidan his boyfriend? Is that really his d*ck? And three more questions
When I was researching Nickelodeon teencom star Robert Ri'chard, this photo of someone named Rainer Dawn (not Rainier) appeared. Never heard of him, but he must have been on Nickelodeon at some point, and his Instagram features a lot of pictures with his boyfriend, Aidan, in formal wear, visiting Italy, having a romantic moment on their boat, and so on.
Question 1: Is Rainer Dawn a Yale grad?
Here Rainer, wearing a Yale jacket and giving his husband his leg, is promoting or about to see The Game, presented by the Yale Sigma Nu fraternity in 2023. He must be a Yale man.
Time for a Google search.
He is from Santa Cruz, he does runway and fashion modeling, and when he was 15, he sailed through Indonesia in his uncle's catamaran.
So Dawn is his birth name. The boyfriend must have adopted it when they married.
Rainer graduated from Santa Monica College in 2022 with an Associate's Degree in Economics. One doesn't usually transfer from a community college to the Ivy League.
Answer: Probably not
Noah in The Wrong Blind Date (2022), one of those "The Wrong ___" damsel in distress movies directed by David DeCoteau. Noah dated focus character Laura in high school, and now gets targeted by the "blind date" trying to kill off the competition.
Cody in five episodes of Wolf Pack (2023), a one-season teenage werewolf series on Paramount Plus starring Rodrigo Santino (left). According to the blurb: "A teenage boy and girl get their lives changed forever when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature."
Answer: No.
Question 3: Was his kiss with Harlan real?
The fan wiki entry for Cody has him seeing main character Harlan (Tyler Lawrence Gray) at the gym, selling him drugs later, and then flirting with him at a party, causing another guy to get jealous and ask if he likes boys or girls. Cody replies that he "doesn't like labels," which means that he's gay but doesn't want to come out.
But fans describe them starting a relationship, and the kiss as "perfect."
Answer: Real
Left: Ethan Wacker, Olivia's costar in Bizaardvark
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Gavin MacIntosh: Gay middle schooler, bullying brother, scary sleazoid. With Gavin's goods and a hung Hayden.
I was asked to profile Gavin MacIntosh. Never heard of him, but he's got some nice lats, so I'm willing to do the research.
Problem: there six photo collections of Gavin Munn and his friends and relatives, so another Gavin will play havoc in the Actors A-L Index.
Are those bodybuilder photos for inspiration or aesthetic enjoyment?
For inspiration, probably. He has a lot of photos with a girl: dude is straight.
Is he a little too young for a profile, or does he just have that sort of face?
IMDB next:
Gavin is an actor and Ford model (so he posed on top of cars?), born in Tucson in 1999.
His role as Connor on The Fosters (2013-16) brought him "world wide social media attention, both for his acting accolades as well as for his social stance on equality."
So who is Connor to get world wide social media attention?
Fan Wiki next:
Mark Patton: Freddy Krueger's boyfriend, George Clooney's buddy, artist, scream queen. With his butt and bulge and Clooney's dick
I wanted to do a profile of Mark Patton, the Scream Queen who hooked up with Ricky Schroder in 1988, at least according to my friend in West Hollywood, Zach the Photographer.
He's called the Scream Queen because of Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985), where he plays a gay-vague teenager beset-upon by the nightmare psycho-killer Freddy Krueger.
Plus continuing the tradition of Nightmare hunks like Johnny Depp (left), he shows some butt and bulges.
Mark thought that Nightmare would be his "big break" into mainstream movies. He was mistaken.
Previously he (right) had played a gay boy in the 1950s (actually a transgender woman before transitioning), Chuck Connor's son, and the brother of a cloned girl, all roles with gay potential.
When he was cast in Nightmare, he assumed that his character was gay, but his costar Robert Rusler (above) said "Hell, no! And if you know what's good for you, you won't mentions gays to David [writer David Chaskin], ever! He'll have you fired and on the first bus back to Missouri!"
I found the movie homophobic, even for the homophobic 1980s. There are lots of "fag" slurs. The evil gym coach (Marshall Bell) dies when nightmare killer Freddy Krueger assaults him from behind in the shower, the homophobe's fear of what a gay predator might do. The boy's "deviant impulses" are cured through the love of a woman.
In a recent interview, David Chaskin admitted that he put gay codes into the script deliberately, but his goal was homophobic, to point out that gay people are monsters. Still, the movie has been reclaimed as a queer classic, a gay teenager struggling to come out in a homophobic society that thinks gay people are monsters.
After Nightmare, Mark found himself at the mercy of agents who tried to de-gay him. They went through his closet to eliminate "gay" outfits, told him to avoid West Hollywood, and forbade him from being interviewed in The Advocate.
Mark managed a role as straight teenager in a CBS Schoolbreak Special (1986), and the buddy of the guy (George Clooney, left) who is having an affair with his mother on an episode of Hotel (1986).
He lost his first partner, Timothy Murphy, to AIDS in 1988. According to the story told by Zach the Photographer, he hooked up with Ricky Schroder later that year.
In 2000, while hospitalized for bronchitis, he was diagnosed as HIV positive himself.
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Matt Smith: Who doesn't want to see the penis of Prince Philip, Charles Manson, Christopher Isherwood, Superworm, and Dr. Who?
We've been watching the 2011 series of Doctor Who, the seemingly endless British sci-fi series that sends the last remaining Time Lord through time and space to save Earth, an alien planet, or the entire universe. Again and again. Oddly, when his world-saving takes him to modern day Britain, there are plenty of exteriors, but when it is a distant planet or the far future, all we see are endless corridors.
Doctors regenerate every few years, getting new bodies and personalities. Right now it's Matt Smith, an effervescent, jokey type, with an inner trauma that sometimes comes out. After all, he saw the destruction of his people, and he's over 1,000 years old, so dozens of human companions have died, gotten lost, or left him to go on with their lives.
Matt Smith has appeared as the Doctor in dozens of projects outside the show itself: videos exploring odd corners of his universe, video games, a lot of four-episode miniseries, spin-offs starring former companions Sarah Jane and Amy Pond
The Doctor would be enough for a career, but Matt has played a wide range of other characters, mostly based on real people:
Christopher Isherwood, the gay author of A Passage to India and Maurice, in Christopher and His Kind, a 2011 adaption of his memoirs. Left, the one without the biceps.
Rowing star Bert Bushnell in Bert & Dickie, 2012. Neither was gay.
Prince Philip, the consort of Queen Elizabeth, in The Crown, 2016-7.
Robert Maplethorpe, the controversial gay artist, in Mapplethorpe: The Director's Cut , 2018
Left, the one with the ring
Hippie cult leader Charles Manson in Charlie Say, 2018
Plus a variety of fictional characters. As far as I can tell, they're all heterosexual. I guess he only takes gay roles if they're of historical significance.
A detective fighting witchcraft.
An evil clone with a nice bulge.
A zombie-fighting parson in the Regency era.
The case worker of a refugee family facing evil
An evil spirit in the psychedelic 60s
A tourist in Morocco for whom things go terribly wrong
More Matt after the break
A new, improved batch of Adam Devine beefcake, bulge, and butt photos. With maybe a d*ck or two.
I thought I had seen every butt, bulge and cock scene in every one of Adam Devine's movies and tv shows, but nope, there are more. I'm not even going to think of clever comments; let's just get to the goods.
1. From the Righteous Gemstones Season 4 trailer. Kelvin gets up off his knees and tells Keefe: "This our world now. We can do what we want." I have pretty good idea what he wanted, but the question is, did he swallow?
2. Adam wigggling his jelly roll in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. Wait until you see Zac Efron's bulge later on!
3. Adam as Adam, with a snake and an apple. I'm not sure about this one. Butt looks a little too hairy.
4. A very young Adam sports a blatant bulge.
5. A side butt in a hospital gown in Workaholics.
6. Hey, who let the gay guy from Bumper in Berlin in here?
More Adam, Ders, and Tony after the break
Skyler's Hot/Hung Photos, Part 5: Bathtub pic, glory hole pic, hanging with Scotty pic. With Corenswet and Hoult backsides
This is a collection of cute/cool or hot/humorous photos of Skyler Gisondo, star of The Santa Clarita Diet and The Righteous Gemstones, and Jimmy Olson in the upcoming Superman: Legacy.
1. "Another photo collection? Haven't you seen enough of me?"
I can't help it, buddy. You keep posting homoerotic pics.
2. And now that you're starring in Superman, we have David Corenswet to worry about, too.
3. And Nicholas Hoult/Lex Luther
4. "Hey, I thought this was a photo collection about me."
Sorry. How about a long-hair bathtub pic?
5. "Have you met my girlfriend?"
Odd time to introduce her.
6. I don't care what you do in private, but let's get back to the homoeroticism. Tell me about your relationship with Scott McArthur when you were filming "Righteous Gemstones" Season 1.
"We really carped the diem… from frisbee golf courses to to swamp tours to bondage... I mean bluegrass concerts to cock...I mean chasing down the best fried chicken sandwich in Charleston."
More after the break. Caution: explicit