Robert De Niro's 15 gayest movies, from "Bloody Mama" to "Dirty Grandpa," with 5 De Niro dicks and one butt

In addition to being one of the most accomplished actors of our time, Robert De Niro is a strong gay ally.  In 2016 he received the GLAAD Excellence in Media Award, for media professionals who have made a significant difference in LGBTQ representation.

He has 135 acting, 39 producing, and 2 directed credits listed on the IMDB, but these are the gayest, with gay characters, buddy-bonding subtexts, beefcake, or nudity.

1. Bloody Mama (1970). The 27-year old's first nude scene in an anti-Establishment tale of Ma Barker and her crime family.  Mama gives the squaling Lloyd a bath, and his penis pops out.

2. Mean Streets (1973): buddy-bonding between two Italian-American hoods, De Niro and Harvey Keitel.

3. 1900 (1976): buddy-bonding between two Italian boys, one rich, one poor (De Niro, Gerard Depardieu).  Their three-way encounter with a woman features frontal nudity.

There's also a butt shot

4. Taxi Driver (1976): Travis Bickle becomes a vigilante, and rescues lesbian Jody Foster. Mega beefcake.

5. New York, New York (1977): "Lullaby of Broadway" romance between De Niro and gay fave Liza with a Z.

6. The Deer Hunter (1978): Depressed Vietnam War vets.  A distant nude shot.

More after the break

Fifteen glorious Gavins and magnificent muscle Munns from Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Ohio, and Hollywood

I already posted a photo collection of Gavin Munn's hunky father, brother, and cousins. These are additional Gavins and Munns, civilians and actors, who may or may not be relations.  Probably not, but who cares?  Beefcake is beefcake.

 1. Gavin Leatherwood, who you may recall as Sabrina's witch-boyfriend on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.  Here he investigates The Sex Lives of College Girls

2-3.  Father and son Munns from Northern Ireland.

4. Jonathan Gavin in Puberty Blues, an Australian comedy-drama about being pubescent in the 1970s.

5-6. Two Gavins from from County Down, Ireland. 

7.Darren Munn in Drink Me, 2015, about a gay couple with a sexy secret: they're vampires!

 8. A muscle Munn from Scotland

More Munns after the break

"True Blood": Vampires come out of the closet amid a Southern Gothic soap opera, with some vamp dicks

We have completely run out of tv shows to watch, except for The Simpsons and Doctor Who, which go on forever, so last night we latched onto True Blood, which ran from 2008 to 2014 on HBO.

This is the stereotypic South of Eudora Welty and Mama's Family, where people named Hoyt Fortenberry shop at the Piggly-Wiggly and drink sweet tea on the veranda, where everyone is related to everybody else's great-grand daddy once removed, and where the War means the Civil War...um, I mean the War of Yankee Aggression.   

It starts in media res, two years after vampires have "come out of the coffin," har har -- yep, the connection with LGBT people is just that heavy-handed -- due to the invention of artificial blood, brand name True Blood, which some humans have developed a taste for.  Snooty fratboy Brett (Josh Kelly, left), looking for a store that sells it, learns too late that every long-haired, multi-ringed Goth isn't a vampire; and sometimes chubby rednecks are.

We switch to the problems of Tara, who gets fired from or quits every job because she doesn't abide idiots and her best friend Sookie, who can read minds.  Sookie and soon Tara work at Merlotte's Bar, where the owner, Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell, top photo and left), is in love with her.  He won't come out with it, but of course Sookie can read his mind.

The only gay character so far is the bar's swishy cook, Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), a stereotyped flamboyant, promiscuous queen who  claims he's done most of the men in town, and likes to flirt with racist, homophobic rednecks to get them all scared. He doesn't get a boyfriend until late in the series.

That same evening, the bar's other waitress, Maudette, hooks up with Sookie's brother, Jason (Ryan Kwanten).  She's a fangbanger, a human who likes sex with vampires, because they get rough.  She offers to show him the video, which turns him on so much that he wants to do rough sex, including strangling her...a little too enthusiastically.  And she's taping the encounter!

Kwanten butt after the break