Gunnar Thorderson. Ever heard of him? Yeah, us neither. Until today, unfortunately.
Now, we know what you’re probably thinking. “That’s the name of newest Sean Cody model, right?” The answer, however, is no.
Believe it or not, Gunnar Thorderson is an ambassador for the antigay hate group Turning Point USA. He’s lives in Utah with his wife and kids and loves posting weird amateur modeling pics of himself pretending to be a politician (along with the occasional thirst trap) to Instagram, where he has approximately 50,000 followers…
Recently, Gunnar landed the gig of a lifetime when he was tapped to host the show “Firefight” on a new Gen Z Republican streaming platform called “Today Is America.” The platform recently announced a lineup of young conservatives you’ve probably never heard of who will host their own shows that are set to premiere sometime in the future.
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Gen Z Republicans have their own streaming service now. pic.twitter.com/qYsBsqymFA
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) September 22, 2021
Among the lineup of hosts is some blond chick named Kaylee Campbell, a brown-haired woman who goes by simply “Morgonn” (two Ns, no last name), a basic white dude named Blake Kresses, and a douchey-looking duo named Lance Johnson and Dom Fernando.
Then, of course, there’s Gunnar.
Gawker reports:
Of all of these shows, this one seems the most real. Hosted by Gunnar Thorderson, it has to be a show where he just yells about how immigrants are ruining this country, how much he loves his wife, and refusing to vaccinate his children. The title Firefight pulls off one of the oldest tricks in the book, in which a repugnant conservative takes something cool sounding and makes it godawful (see also: Grand Wizard).
We honestly don’t know what to make of this whole thing, whether it’s real or if we’re being trolled, or if it’s supposed to be some kind of parody. Twitter, too, seems confused. Especially by Gunnar, who many are convinced must secretly be a gay porn star…
These namesd can’t be real, Gunnar Thorderson?? Dom Fernando??? That sounds straight out of a gay porn
— Kocrodise (@Krokodice) September 22, 2021
Gunnar Thorderson? sorry but no way
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) September 22, 2021
Gunnar giving strong Aaron Schock energy https://t.co/lzE80iZZE3
— evan michael woods (@evanmichlwoods) September 23, 2021
I’m just gonna steal Gunnar Thorderson’s name. It’s mine now.
— Matty! (@MattytheMouse) September 22, 2021
“Gunnar Thorderson” is 1000% a fake/stripper name. https://t.co/VvEv6I4nDv
— Anson Ling (@ns0n) September 22, 2021
Were I ever to consider a career in porn, Gunnar Thorderson would be close to the top of my list of potential stage names.
— Ian Toll (@idtoll) September 22, 2021
Gunnar Thorderson was entirely too pagan a name for The Mormon Porn Network. Their loss!
— Khyron42 Prime (@Khyron42P) September 22, 2021
Refuse to believe Gunnar Thorderson is a real name
— Maggie Serota (@maggieserota) September 22, 2021
Gunnar Thorderson is awesome. What a name. I can only assume the rest of him lives up to it.
— SportsAngle (@SportsAngle) September 22, 2021
There’s no fucking way Gunnar Thorderson is a real person’s name.
— Ed Casey (@edcasey) September 22, 2021
No word yet on when “Firefight” will premiere.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Max
bet that when he pleasures himself, he calls out his own name.
yuck.
CatholicXXX
BS click-bait.
Troyfight
@CXXX….I second that: BORING BS click-bait (except for that picture of his ass lounging in Mexico)
Donston
Here goes this site again (particularly Graham), throwing shade at guys with overt anti-gay views/homophobic tendencies/instances of gay panic but transparently lusting after them and indulging their thirst traps.
James
THIS IS A LOW POINT, PROMOTING AS A SEX SYMBOL THAT HATE FILLED ANTI GAY NAZI.
ptn2719
People who won’t get vaccinated deserve to die from Covid. Sorry, but I’ve really reached the point of wishing that on these wastes of space.
Jim
AMEN
Unlikely
Traditional Icelandic name.
I met Thorkle Thordurson, but never met his daughter Alda Thorklesdottir, or his father Thordur.
petej
the next madison cawthorn?
Mister P
Uh oh. They are dumb and good looking so they will procreate and live on.
Fahd
Pretty face (I don’t really see it ) doesn’t mean harmless. This guy and Turningpointusa should be added to Queerty’s right wing watchlist. Too many crypto Nazis floating around — I’ve got to believe that one can be a raised a Mormon and still be a decent person, but maybe not.
Also, this post alerted me that gawker dot com is back. Maybe I’m the last to know, but I’m surprised at the extent to which the website has been revived.
zealot
Propaganda poster boy wanna be for the new Hitler Youth. Utah branch.
Cam
Why is this site amplifying and promoting an anti-LGBTQ bigot? There wasn’t any legit story that he did porn, it was a few comments on Twitter saying his name sounds fake. I get Schock and Cawthorn because they were or are in Congress and attacking us, but this guy??
Dijonaise
Dat azz tho! I would definitely hate f$ck him!
greekboy
I bet he’s bumpin it with the wheel chair nazi…Madison cawthorne
Hank31
What are his supposed “anti-gay” views? I assume that if this guy had actually expressed anti-gay views, the author would have quoted every word. Since the author gives no quote, we can conclude that he hasn’t said anything anti-gay.
quantum
Nowhere in the article does it specifically state he personally harbors antigay views. Turning Point USA, for whom this man is a paid ambassador, has a consistent history of condemning LGBT activism and educational efforts as “insanity”.
He’s not terribly active on twitter, but he did in late August retweet an attack on a queer preschool teacher who talked about having positive reactions from her students discussing ideas like gender expression, consent, and skin color. I think the question Gremore is asking is how a guy who was less than a decade ago working the counter at a Salt Lake Chik-fil-A is suddenly a news pundit. He’s certainly shady. If his linkedin is to be believed, he sells solar panels and mines crypto currency.
His major focus seems to be vaccine mandates, even comparing vaccine refusal to Jim Crow and being labeled with a yellow star in holocaust-era Germany.
Also, he’s not nearly as attractive without a filter applied. 🙂
Cam
The fact that the same old right wing troll is here defending him gives me a VERY good indication that he is a bigot.
You only defend Republican bigots, so thanks for confirming.
BigE
A wife and children has never been a deterrent to acting in Gay Porn, at least until the wife finds out….
Gay Thomas
Another far-right malignant narcissist that Graham will lust over and we will have to endure, because he just can’t stop.
marion
He is a little too old for Grahams taste.
Kangol2
Such a bizarre focus on this right-wing White Nazi-esque creep, and for what reason? Graham or some other editor finds him hot and has porn fantasies about him? PLEASE coverage actual news about LGBTQ people. There’s so much of it, including numerous obvious threats to our equality and well-being in the US, and some of that news only trickles over to this site.
Donston
At this point it’s obvious that this site (and many connected to it) is driven by click-bait and sensationalism. What is more weird is how much focus they give to white pretty boys who are overtly Conservative and anti-gay and the obsession with “straight presenting” dudes and dudes who appear overtly overall hetero-leaning. Unless they’re talking about folks who are “coming out”, masculine male queers putting out thirst traps or crimes against queers, they ain’t got time for any real queer news and journalism. To me it’s just a sign of how potent internalized phobias and gay inferiority complexes are and how dominate hetero superiority still is. Even a “gay site” constantly succumbs to it and tries to cover up obvious lusting after Conservative anti-gay white guys with supposed “news”.
Terrycloth
His name is as funny as Turd Ferguson
peacefulruffneck
Dear Qweerty- Please stop with the sexualizing or glorification of homophobes. It’s creepy beyond belief.
Elizavetaoe
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