The Horizon is Australia’s most watched web series, not to mention the world’s most watched gay-themed web series. I haven’t watched it. Yet. I’m assuming like with most films out of Australia I’ll need subtitles to make sense out of what the characters are saying. Regardless, you’d think any cute hunk who landed a starring role in a production with that many fans would be a household name around the world by now. I mean I don’t know who Dan Osborne is, or what it is he does, but I can instantly recognize his body. So I was a bit surprised when idly Googling photos of hot naked men the other day to find the hunk my gonads instantly responded to was not only well-known down under, but a gay man to boot. And for that I blame Google. And Mel Gibson.

It wasn’t long ago that any time you entered a male celebrity’s name as a search term on Google its predictive results would add ‘gay’ as one of its top choices. Not because every male celebrity is gay, but because we wish every hot male celebrity was gay. And even though some of that gayness was just speculation and rumor, if, for example, you were watching The Wedding Of The Century and turned to Google to find out just who James Middleton was, the world’s favorite search engine clued you into the fact that the man was gay. Just in case your gaydar didn’t work over television waves. Even though it later turned out, at least according to him, he’s not gay. He’s just English.

Fact or supposition, it really didn’t matter. Even it was nothing but gay rumors, Google too felt you had the right to know. Today you can’t get Google to admit a male celebrity might be gay even if he is. Do a search on Tom Daley and you’d never know he’s queer. But back before he knew it, Google did. And didn’t mind sharing that bit of knowledge with the rest of the world. Just a year ago, if you Googled John Travolta the #1 predictive result returned by the search engine was ‘gay’. Today it’s ‘movies’. And ‘gay’ never makes it to the list. Right. Like anyone Googles John Travolta these days for any other reason than to find out if he finally came out yet.

So after finding a name to go along with the pubes-exposing photo that caught my gonads’ attention so vividly the other day, of course the first thing I wanted to know was just what my chances were of hitting that. Google ‘Francis Mossman’ and you get model, Instagram, and IMDB. That’s it. That leaves seven more possible predictive results up for grabs. So it wouldn’t kill Google to throw you the ‘gay’ bone. But no such luck. And if you add ‘gay’ yourself, the results are all about his role on The Horizon because he plays a gay character. It took me hours of searching to find an interview Francis did during which when asked who his celebrity crush was, he replied, “Anyone one of the guys from One Direction.” Score. My latest celebrity crush is in fact gay. And just my luck, he’s into twinks.

Regardless, I think Google is doing Francis a disservice by not cluing fans in on his sexuality. ‘Cuz nothing makes a break-out star like a loyal fan base of gay boys. And we do love one of our own. Especially those who start off their career posing naked for a photo shoot. Even if they are into twinks. It doesn’t help that to date his claim to fame is being on an Australian web series either. ‘Cuz that still ain’t Hollywood. Which hasn’t yet discovered the gorgeous hunk of manhood. But then the last time Tinseltown went gaga over an Aussie, it was Mel Gibson. And look how that turned out. So you can understand why Hollywood may be a bit shy about shining the light on Francis. Even though he’s actually a Kiwi. Although if Google would admit the boy is gay, I’m sure the pink mafia would give him his chance anyway.

The 26-year-old, 5′ 9¾” tall studly actor had a brief, three episode, run on Starz’s Spartacus: Vengeance too. Which I did watch despite the need for subtitles ‘cuz there were always enough bulges on that show to make subtitles superfluous. Unfortunately, there were always enough bulges on that show to make Francis’s unnoticeable too. Too bad the producers of Spartacus didn’t cast him in a gay role too or he’d already be landing roles in Hollywood. And there’d be a lot more info about him on the internet. To date, there’s not much. Most of what you can find are photos of him in and out of his underwear. So I hope his career really does take off. Although I’ll settle for more photos of Francis taking it off too.

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