Elias Harger: the "Fuller House" femme boy, victim of ghosts and maniacal mothers, grows up to date a Jewish champion. With hung Hagenbuch and some twinks
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Blake Michael: The "Dog with a Blog" brother starts a band, stalks a teacher, vanishes into corporate. With Blake and Dano dicks
I haven't been watching Disney Channel programs regularly since the days of Hannah Montana, so all I heard of Dog with a Blog (2012-15) was buzz about how ridiculous the premise was: three kids discover that their dog is sentient, can talk, and actually has a blog where he discusses his experiences and tries to find other dogs. How is that more ridiculous than a pop star pretending to be a regular girl, both daughters of a famous country-western music singer, and no one suspecting for an instant?
But I reviewed an episode, and called it "The Disney Channel's Worst Show" due to the aggressive homophobia. Critics lambasted the show for its "lackluster writing' and absence of any actual blogging. Still, it averaged 3 million viewers in the first season, and was nominated for three Emmies. The main players, other than the dog, were Chloe and Avery, two tween sisters from a blended family. But there was also a teenage brother, Tyler (Blake Michael).
Plus Dad Bennett (Regan Burns, "Big Dick Mitch" on The Righteous Gemstones) and Avery's enemy/crush (L.J. Benet), who now has abs but smiling smugly as girls in bikinis surround him.
There are nude photos of Regan in my review of Episode 4.8. I haven't found any of L.J. But there are some of Blake.
Blake got his start in modeling at age three, and had his first on-screen role at age eight, playing a restaurant patron in Chosen (2004). Small parts in October Road, Out of Jimmy's Head, and The Mortician followed.
He had a starring role in Lemonade Mouth (2011), which I never saw because I thought the term referred to some kind of terminal cancer. It's actually the name of a bad that five high schoolers who start a band -- I guess disgusting names are de rigeur for rock bands. The boys are Charlie (Blake) and Wen (Adam Hicks). Both get girlfriends, and the remaining girl gets a boyfriend, and so on, and so on. Heteronormativity fulfilled.
Sorry, this is the only photo I could find where the two guys are together, not bookending the three girls.
It's a little tangential, but Adam Hicks is known as one of the Disney Channel's skateboarding dudebros on Zeke and Luther (2009-12). His partner, Hutch Dano, has retired from acting to become a painter.
And post photos of his d*ck (after the break).
Angel Mock Curiel: LGBTQ and Latinx roles culminate in Lil Pappi on "Pose." Not much after except nude modeling and Denver.
It's the late 1980s in Manhattan, the era of Reaganomics, Tough on Crime, and the AIDS crisis. It's cold outside. Especially if you're poor, a racial minority, and femme, trans, or gay: "the world hates you. When you die, it breathes a sigh of relief."
All you have is a "house," a family of choice with a "mother" and her children. And ballroom.
Li'l Papi (Angel Bismark Curiel) was living on the streets, surving through drug sales and hustling (he preferred women, but accepted male clients). After stumbling upon the ballroom subculture, he was entranced, and petitioned Blanca of House Evangelista to "adopt" him, even though he wasn't gay or trans. She agreed, with the rule that he stop dealing, and pose occasionally as a muscleman.
In Season 2, Li'l Papi starts dating Angel (Indya Moore), a sex worker whose previous plot arc involved an affair with a married man (Evan Peters). After various arguments and breakup-reconciliations, they get married. He opens a talent agency specializing in LGBTQ models, with Angel as his top client. They have a happy ending (sort of), a welcome relief in a show that too often emphasized people being rejected by family, murdered, or dying of AIDS.
This was Angel's first exposure to trans people. In an interview with Attitude, he notes that he grew up in a "very cis, very heteronormative, very rough" Afro-Dominican community in Little Liberty, Miami. He was bullied for being short and artistic, and for having asthma, and escaped into the world of the theater. At the Miami Arts Charter School, he performed in The Rose Tattoo, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Jesus Hopping the A Train,and upon graduating in 2013, he enrolled at Pace University in New York as a drama major.
He dropped out in 2015 due to inancial problems, was homeless for awhile, survived anyway he could (he doesn't specify, but I imagine that hustling was one of his survival jobs), and finally found a job in a hotel. But he still auditioned, and in 2016 landed his first on-screen role in America Adrift. He played a middle-class teenager on Long Island who drifts into heroin addiction and drug dealing.
And loses his clothes.
Davi Santos, who is gay in real life, played his older brother, giving Angel his first close contact with LGBTQ people.
Next came the short Louie's Brother Peter (2017). Peter (Andrew McLarty) has Asperger's Syndrome, but that doesn't stop him from helping his brother with the drug deliveries. Angel plays Zeke, one of their customers.
Andew McLarty is gay in real life. .
Night Comes On (2018) is a "slow, painful, grim" indie drama about an African-American, lesbian girl nameed Angel, who is released from juvenile detention at age 18 with no money and no place to stay. She gets a girlfriend, tries to find social connections, and seeks out her father to punish him murdering her mother. Dad is played by John Earl Jelks, who often plays gay characters
You're pushing up the LGBTQ representation, Angel buddy
Our Angel played a store clerk.
Monsters and Men (2018) is not about James Whale and the Frankenstein movie - that's Gods and Monsters. It's about an incident where six police officers corner a black man and "accidentally" kill him during an arrest.
You're pushing up the Black/Latinx representation, too.
When Angel saw the casting call for L'il Pappi, he thought, "That's me! Those are my experiences!" He got the part, and since he had so little exposure to trans people, tried to educate himself, hang out with them, ask about their lives -- and he ended up in a relationship with producer/writer Janet Mock, an African-American transwoman -- while she was still married to her husband. She is the one who suggested expanding Papi's role by giving him a romance with Angel Evangelista.
Pose turned out to be the high point of Angel's acting career. He was starring in a popular tv series, but more importantly, he had found a community.
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I do not love thee, Justin Long. With an homage to Dr. Fell and "Green Eggs and Ham," and Justin's dick and butt and stuff
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