To see if Stephen Schneider (Stephen Downes of Season 3) has played any gay characters, I googled his name and "gay," and this clip came up on youtube. He's not in it.
A blond guy and a woman are standing at an apartment door . He asks "He never gave you the key?" She says no, so he bangs.
A very muscular black guy in his underwear answers. Shocked, he says "Oh...shit. Hey guys."
Blondie: "What the hell are you doing?"
Muscle Guy: "Sorry. We needed a place."
Woman: "For what?"
A swishy guy appears with a flourish, also in his underwear. They stare in shock.
Woman (Disgusted): "You're GAY????"
Muscle Guy (Upset): "No!!!!! But this n-word's son sucks really good dick." So the gay guy has a black parent?
The whole exchange -- the looks of shock and disgust, the need to defend yourself against the horrifying accusation, the gay guy's pronounced swishiness --- displays just the sort of jaw-dropping homophobia that I hate running into at 4:00 am.
The caption reads: You're the Worst - Brandon Mychal Smith. So let's look it up.
You're the Worst is a tv series that lasted for five years on FX (2014-2019), but was so under-exposed that I don't recall seeing a single commercial. Most episodes drew between .2 and .5 million viewers. It featured a romance between two horrible people, writer Jimmy (Chris Geere, the Blond Guy in the clip) and public relations person Gretchen.
The homophobic scene is from Episode 1.3, "Keys Open Doors." TO put it in context, I watched the whole episode.
Scene 1: Morning. After a night of carousing, Jimmy and Gretchen are lying naked, asleep, on the ground outside his house.
Cut to Jimmy pooping (butt shot) while Gretchen uses the hand nozzle of the shower to masturbate. Jimmy notes that he uses it too, in his butt.
They've spent six or seven nights together, so Gretchen wants a key to his apartment. He refuses, so she rushes out in passive-aggressive rage.
Scene 2: Edgar (Desmin Borges, left and below), Jimmy's horrible roommate, cooks breakfast. They discuss the key request as a symbol of banality and predictability, leading to "shopping for sconces at Williams-Sonoma."
Scene 3: At the coffee shop, Gretchen and her friend Lindsay discuss the key request, Lindsay's husband cheating, and "snorting in her vag."
So she's bisexual?
Her assistant rushes in with a crisis: Sam the Rapper gave an interview to a college newspaper, and used "gay" and "faggot" 37 times! And the interviewer was the president of the gay student association! So, if he said all that to a straight person, it would be fine?
More after the break