Gay Of The Week: Ryan Gosling

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Finally one of Hollywood’s hottest leading men opens up about playing for the pink team.

In an exclusive interview with People Magazine scheduled for publication this week, heart throb Ryan Gosling comes out of the closet. Rumors about the leading man’s announcement have been swirling around Hollywood over the last week, and even Stephen Colbert used the Supreme Court’s hearings on marriage equality to announce he was calling dibs on gay marrying Gosling. Last week Gosling stunned Hollywood by announcing he was taking a break from acting, in an attempt by the actor’s people to diminish rumors about his sexuality and to protect People’s exclusive for which word has it the actor was payed $1.5 million. “I think it’s good for me to take a break and reassess why I’m doing it and how I’m doing it,” he told The Associated Press. But secrets and your sexual preferences are hard to keep hidden in Hollywood and Gosling was forced to issue a statement through his publicist this weekend. “Being gay is just part of whom I am,” his statement partially reads. “It’s time I share that part of me with the rest of the world.”

And gay men all over the world have dropped to their knees waiting for whatever part of him Gosling would like to share.

Ryan Gosling comes out in this week’s issue of People Magazine.

While the 32-year-old Canadian born actor has been rumored to be dating a procession of Hollywood starlets and co-stars over the years, none have ever seemed to take. Meanwhile, other Hollywood hunks whose sexuality is in question have gone out of their way to profess their appreciation of Ryan’s scruffy boyish good looks. Last year Daniel Radcliffe told Out Magazine that he’d “go gay” for Gosling, and fellow not-yet-out stud Bradley Cooper, responding to his dubious win of People’s Sexiest Man Alive title admitted to having a hard-on for Gosling too. “We were both in Paris this last week and a friend of mine showed me … photographs from the paparazzi – and when I say friend, I mean me, alone in my room, looking at the computer – he’s the greatest!”

George Clooney, who is rumored to fly the rainbow banner in his heart himself, also outs himself as being firmly in Ryan Gosling’s camp when it comes to the controversy about Gosling’s loss of the People’s Sexiest Man Alive title to Cooper, and thinks that Gosling is the hottest guy in Hollywood. ”Not that I don’t think Bradley Cooper is a perfectly sexy guy, but I’m still shocked that Ryan Gosling didn’t get Sexiest Man Alive,” he said. No problemo. Clooney – of whom Channing Tatum told Britain’s The Sun earlier this week, “I’d have sex with him” – who was in charge of the casting couch for The Ides of March, took one for the team by settling accounts with a leading role for Gosling in his movie.

Gosling trades hugs and phone numbers with an unidentified gay man at a recent Hollywood industry party.

Not surprisingly, the fish of Hollywood, who always seem to know first, have not joined in on the I want Ryan Gosling to do me bandwagon. Rumor had it late last year that Gosling and Eva Mendes were soon to be engaged, but Cooper, who stars with the pair in the recently released The Place Beyond the Pines, warned him away from taking part in the bearded wife experience citing his own short five month marriage to Jennifer Esposito as a cautionary tale.

But then Gosling’s love for his fellow man has been no big secret among Hollywood insiders but instead has been somewhat of a running gag for years. Even Gosling himself has joked about his preferences. Soon after moving to New York, in an interview with Jimmy Fallon Gosling recounted his experience at the infamous Russian Turkish Baths on East 10th St. “It’s just a big hairy Turkish guy that washes you with a bar of soap,” Gosling complained to a visibly disturbed Fallon. “He washed me for a while then I go on my front, you know, and then he tries to connect my right foot to my left arm … and his belly goes in my mouth,” he said of his experience of being naked while getting oiled down by the masseur. Gosling wasn’t satisfied with just one taste of the Turkish belly and proceeded to lick the man’s torso to try to place the taste he told Fallon.

Not the best kept secret in Hollywood, there have been a lot of insider jokes about Gosling’s love of men in the past, as in this scene with Steve Carell from Crazy, Stupid, Love.

That attitude toward his open secret also made its way to the big screen in Crazy, Stupid, Love, during a naked locker-room scene. Gosling says he made sure his privates were positioned as uncomfortably close to co-star Steve Carell’s face as they could possibly be. “It was funny to watch him blink many times, and then turn away,” Gosling told a reporter during a dinner interview with Carell.

“It was so hard not to laugh,” said Carell about filming the scene. “We giggled all the way through it. I had the idea that maybe my character should pass out and maybe fall forward toward him, which he had to prepare himself for both physically and emotionally,” he said. “He is just such a beautiful and deep person,” Carell added, without a trace of irony.

Seeing a quizzical look on the reporter’s face, Gosling, who had laid a napkin across his co-star’s lap before the two started eating, said, “Yes, we’re having a bromance.”

Carell chimed in: “There’s nothing wrong with that,” prompting a quick reply from Gosling. “He’s just so handsome.”

The satisfied smile on Gosling’s face says it all in this picture from the days of his and Justin Timberlake’s childhood bromance.

Of course every gay man knows a good bromance can lead to a romance if you play your cards right. Then again when you are just reaching puberty, you have to play the hand you’re dealt with, which is no small feat considering how busy your hands suddenly become at that age. So things don’t always turn out the way your heart may like and years later your first crush may refer to you not as a great romance of the past but as a boho instead. As is the case with Gosling and the one who apparently got away, Justin Timberlake.

Justin and Gosling were on The All New Mickey Mouse Club together in the early-to-mid ’90s though Gosling appeared on-screen infrequently because the other regulars, including Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, were considered to be more talented. Nonetheless, he has described the job as the greatest two years of his life thanks to having lived together with Justin during the second year of the show when Timberlake’s mother became Gosling’s legal guardian after his own mother returned to Canada for work reasons. “Aw, man, we were crazy,” Timberlake recalls of the days they worked, lived, and shared a bathroom together. “We were eleven and we were partners for a short amount of time,” he says.

With his announcement Gosling can now live his life happily as an openly gay man.

While Gosling’s exclusive with People, and his coming out tale, has not yet hit the newsstands and still remains under wraps, portions of the story have leaked, dribbling out at a flow more voluminous than John Travolta at the sight of a male massage shop. “I feel like I think like a woman,” he says in the interview. “I grew up with my mother and my sister so I’ve just been programmed to think like a girl,’ says Gosling, who has said in the past that a perfect day to him is a day he can spend knitting.

Sources report Gosling goes on to explain his decision to announce to the world that he is a gay man. “I feel like I’ve been on autopilot until this year,” he says. “I just knew what I should be doing. It wasn’t even a conscious thought. It was automatic.”

Part of the reason he decided to come out, as well as for his decision to take a break from acting is due to the roles he’s been offered which go against his true inclinations. “There’s no point in me playing roles that I can’t offer anything to,” Gosling says. “It might seem like a good idea at the time. But when it’s over nobody wins, the studio loses, the audience loses, I lose, we all lose.”

But with his coming out as a gay man, instead Gosling – and gay men the world over – are winners. He’ll make the perfect husband for some lucky man, Or as Stephen Colbert sums it up, “Support for gay marriage is surging like Ryan Gosling in my dreams.”

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Yup, I know. But there’s enough penis there for two men.

Despite the fact that what passes for news in America and what passes for reality on reality TV are one and the same thing these days, news stories about the foibles of mankind don’t generally interest me. From headlines alone I already know Lindsay Lohan is a drugged out alcoholic bitch with light fingers. And I know what Anthony Weiner’s penis looks like draped in underwear, though I haven’t a clue as to why those pictures surfaced. America may be fascinated with the antics of a six-year-old fat piece of future white trash being dressed up like a 16-year-old whore to win dubiously titled ‘beauty’ contests, but I really don’t need to make Honey Boo Boo part of my life. Other than as a reminder of why so many of my countrymen buy into the claim that FOX news is actually news. Generally, if a story is about a ‘personality’ instead of a newsworthy event, I ignore it as much as humanly possible. Unless, of course, it involves hot naked male flesh.

That doesn’t mean I’m not aware of those stories; articles about global warming and civil unrest always take a backseat to scandals and long-winded descriptions of who wore what to the latest round of entertainment industry awards. So I knew about the strange case of Manti Te’o once it began to surface. Being not the least bit interested in college sports or dead girlfriends, I just never bothered to delve deeper into the story. Now that it has taken on a gay angle – which always holds some promise of hot naked male flesh – my interest in the tale has taken off. Even though one of the two Pacific Islanders involved in the story is ugly enough to make a freight train take a dirt road. Besides, watching the talking heads on FOX try to pronounce Manti Te’o is almost as enjoyable as watching them try to correctly pronounce Quatar.

I did mention hot naked male flesh, right?

For those of you unfamiliar with the story, let me fill you in on the basics. Te’o, who is a linebacker for Notre Dame’s football team, met a girl on-line, fell in love, bragged to all of his buddies about his new girlfriend – whom he had never met in person – and then elicited tons of sympathy when shortly after the death of his grandmother, his girlfriend died too. No problemo. If a touri who spent a week in Thailand getting his rocks off with a bar boy can claim he now has a boyfriend, a semi-athletic Samoan can claim girlfriend rights with an internet friend too.

Three months later, the ‘girlfriend’ resurfaced, alive once again. Which sounds suspiciously like the life cycle of Thai water buffaloes. Te’o quickly – at least for a Samoan – figured out he’d been scammed and that his now no longer dead girlfriend really wasn’t. Exactly why he felt the need to report this to his coaches, or why Notre Dame began an investigation into the matter, and why they all felt the need to bring in the press I’m a bit fuzzy on. Other than that Penn State recently discovered how detrimental sweeping a scandal under the rug can be. Regardless, the media went crazy for the story because the choice between reporting on the Fiscal Cliff or a football player’s no longer dead fake girlfriend was an obvious one. It’s just a shame he hadn’t shot her, or the story would have really had legs.

Manti Te’o says he isn’t gay. I’d do him anyway.

The story, which at best should have lasted for a single 24-hour news cycle, became the lead news for the pundits at FOX, who spotting a new newsworthy member of a minority wrapped up in a scandal, couldn’t control themselves. They began to dump on Te’o in a big way, accusing him of fabricating the entire tale in order to gain the public’s sympathy which in turn increased ticket sales at Notre Dame’s games and furthered Te’o’s ambitions in winning the Hiesman Trophy (not that either of those things actually happened). Bill O’Reilly even foamed at the mouth while condemning Te’o for perpetrating such a hoax. Or for having a name Bill could not pronounce. Maybe Manti Te’o will be his next word of the day. Bill thought Te’o’s actions were almost as bad as Hillary Clinton faking a brain tumour to get out of appearing before the congressional committee investigating the Benghazi attack. Like the Muslim terrorist story ever stood a chance . . .

Despite Te’o’s story showing up on FOX’s list of talking points daily, that should have been the end to a story that should never have captured the national media’s interest in the first place. It didn’t mine. Until the most recent chapter. It turns out the once dead girlfriend was in fact a hoax. And it turns out the once dead girlfriend was in fact a dude. So Te’o never had a fake internet girlfriend, he had a fake internet boyfriend. Even if he didn’t realize his chick had a dick. Evidently Te’o has never heard about webcams.

What does Chaz Bono have to do with this story?

The press decided to call the not dead girlfriend who really was a guy a hoaxster. His name is Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. And yes, all Samoans have cool names. I would just like to interject that considering how well Tuiasosopo pulled his faked internet ID off, all of the hydras who post on the gay Thailand forums should immediately cease and desist out of shame. Or at least email Tuiasosopo for some tips on how to do it right.

Hoax aside, at its heart this is a story of two men who met on-line and fell in love with each other. Sure, one of them thought he was falling head over heels for pussy, but the emotional bonding between the two guys can not be ignored. And you know there was a good deal of masturbating going on on both sides of that internet connection too. Even without a webcam. Unless you are a member of the press. Even the right-wing haters on FOX are not using the gay label in their follow up coverage. Because, despite what is in their black little hearts – and thanks to their realization that they desperately need to expand their voter base – saying bad things about gay people just isn’t acceptable anymore. Even when they would have a right to. We’ve come a long way baby. At least since November.

Fellow Samoan, ex-Hawaii resident and ex football player Esera Tuaolo is not gay either. Or wasn’t until 2002.

More details about the affair are coming to light thanks to a two part interview Tuiasosopo is giving to Dr. Phil. I’d watch the second part except that means I’d have to watch Dr. Phil which is almost as bad as tuning into Oprah. I’d be more inclined to go see Oprah in person then watch her show on TV, just for the free goodies she bribes her studio audience with. If you can consider surrounding yourself with an audience of 500 women whose menstrual cycle just went into synch with Oprah’s free. But then I really don’t need to be the unproud owner of a new Ford Focus. Tuiasosopo, nonetheless, is spilling his guts and getting his 15 minutes of fame. While Te’o, who now knows he fell in love with dick, is finally, not surprisingly, keeping mum.

Now you could try to claim there is nothing gay about their love affair because Te’o didn’t know he was in the middle of a bromance. We also know Te’o is not gay thanks to the hard hitting journalism of Katie Couric who asked him if he was. If you want a demonstration of how not to be convincing when denying you are gay, check the clip out on YouTube. Of course any 22-year-old stud who only has a fake girlfriend that he has never met is probably trying to hide something. But I can tell you from the years I spent living in Hawaii, little gay local boys do not go gay until they hit 28 years of age. Then they explode. Especially the first time. Literally. I haven’t a clue why this phenomenon exists, but have frequently thanked the gods that it does. So despite having fallen in love with a dude, Te’o has another six years to go before he turns gay. I just hope he manages to find a real boyfriend when he does.

Like in Thailand, ladyboys are part of Samoan culture. They just don’t pull it off as well.

Tuiasosopo too is trying to avoid the gay issue. Even though he suspiciously looks like a darker version of Chaz Bono. But that’s more about being a transsexual than about being gay. If you ignore the T in LGBT. And ignore the lack of a P dangling from between Chaz’s legs. Not that either of these Samoan guys are likely to be sprouting that much more than Chaz. There’s a good reason why Samoa is located toward the bottom of the map. Regardless of size, or lack thereof, Tuiasosopo is not quite sure what he is supposed to do with his. After admitting to Dr. Phil that he and Te’o were in a romantic relationship, he admitted he was gay. Then claimed he was confused. And then claimed he was a recovering homosexual. I’m guessing confused was the closest answer to being correct. Though totally fucking whacked might be an even better answer.

TMZ reported that in addition to the Lennay Kekua persona Tuiasosopo used to bond with Te’o, he created yet another female character, like Lennay, to interact with men through her – because instead of feeling guilt about his sexuality, he could then chalk it all up to make-believe. Which most adults call a sexual fantasy. Or fetish. The media said Tuiasosopo did the fake on-line girlfriend thing because he otherwise feared scorn and ridicule from the Samoan community. That sounds like a reasonable excuse. Except for that like with ladyboys in Thailand, men who want to develop their female character in Samoa too are free to do so. Fa’afafine are a normal and accepted part of Samoan culture. Even on-line. And considering the large number of ‘straight’ men who head to Bangkok for ladyboy love, Tuiasosopo could have scored a hell of a lot of more dick using the fake fish scam instead of the catfish scam he went with. Then Te’o could have been happy with a fake fake girlfriend. Like other normal straight guys. At least until he turns 28.

Te’o would not be the first famous gay Samoan.

Te’o and Tuiasosopo’s on-line love affair lasted for just over two years before Tuiasosopo pulled his death act. The two spent hours on the phone having phone sex chatting in addition to their on-line time together. Tuiasosopo now admits that it was really him on the phone with Te’o, even though he’d previously claimed to have used a female cousin to make those calls. Te’o now admits that though he’d previously told his father that he met Lennay in person, he never did. Though he did meet Tuiasosopo. Huh. For two men who like to point to their staunch religious beliefs – they are both Mormon – as justification for why neither can possibly be gay, neither seems capable of telling the truth. Or being believable when they lie. So much for the power of magic underwear.

Like the Republican Party, the Mormon church now says it is okay to be gay. Their twist on the subject, however, is that while it is okay to be a homosexual, you just can’t act on it. And if phone sex doesn’t count, Te’o and Tuiasosopo’s relationship is cool with their faith. Though while both are firm in their belief that God lives on a planet named Kolob, neither thinks he is gay. Yet. Even though both have been in a romantic relationship with another guy for the last two years. That begs the question of just what it is that makes you officially gay?

Nor the first gay Samoan athlete.

There are many men who have had sex with a another man who still consider themselves straight. And many men who have had sex with lots of other men who too say they are straight. Then there are the guys who go to Thailand to have sex with ladyboys – which still puts one too many cocks into the equation – who claim to be straight. There are also guys who identify as gay though they have never had sex with another man. That would lead one to believe that it is not the act, but rather how you feel inside that qualifies as being gay. And even if you are confused and do not want to pin a gay badge onto your shirt, if you are romantically involved with another man, you are probably gay.

Tuiasosopo may have been pretending to be a woman, but certainly knew he wasn’t and obviously knew he was – or is – in love with a dude. He may not be ready to admit he is gay, but that day will come. Probably sooner than he expected. Te’o can use the excuse that he thought he was in love with a woman, but there are just too many little signs that make you suspect that was but a convenient illusion. If nothing else, he needs to consider what it is inside him that opened him to a romantic relationship with another guy – whether he really thought the dude was fish or not. Both have probably learned that discovering your sexuality on-line is probably not the best way of doing so. And having that journey played out in the national media is even a worse idea.

With all the airtime to be filled by television newsprograms that aren’t, both Te’o and Tuiasosopo still have ample opportunity to continue the saga of their love affair gone wrong in the public eye. At least until the next vehemently anti-gay Republican gets caught having sex with another man. More allegations, denials, confessions, and excuses are sure to be brought to light before their tale has been totally beat to death. Which can’t come too soon. At least until their sex tape surfaces.

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The XXX Games: Gay Of The Week: Kristian Ipsen

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U.S. Olympic diver Kristian Ipsen, and his penis, strike a pose. A rather gay one.

Google is about to be undulated with searches about USA diver Kristian Ipsen, and many of those are going to be asking if he is gay. Some people’s gaydar just isn’t all that good. That would be my dead grandmother’s. I’m not saying the boy plays for Team Pink, I’ll leave that assumption for the rest of the world to make. But Google needs at least one website to point toward rather than suffer the shame of returning 456,000 results, none of which address the subject – seriously G, when your predictive results wants to add ‘gay’ to Kristian’s name at the #1 spot for images, you need to have an appropriate pay out – so I’m just posting this to see to Google’s well-being.

The idea that an Olympic diver might be gay should not be earth shattering by now. Aussie Mathew Mitcham is openly gay and a gold medal winner to boot. Greg Louganis is probably one of the most famous gay Olympians as well as the most famous openly gay gold medal winners. Then there’s Australian diver Matthew Helm, and U.S. divers Patrick Jeffrey and David Pichler too. Throw in Tom Daley, Thomas Finchum, and Nick McCrory and you have to start wondering if being gay is a requirement for divers. One look at those incredibly hot bodies (perhaps except for McCrory’s, though those extremely hairy arm pits of his fascinate me) and you’ll start demanding that all Olympic divers be gay. Don’t worry, Kristian’s got your back. Though considering that boy’s booty those positions really should be switched.

I believe that’s the ‘do me’ position, which has a low degree of difficulty.

Kristian attends Stanford University, as does the recently out and proud gymnast Josh Dixon who unfortunately did not make the 2012 Olympic team. So there’s a local gay Olympic connection too. Just in case Ipsen is looking for pointers. And being equidistant from his school, his home in the affluent, tight-knitted suburban community of Clayton, Ca., and San Francisco, where rumor has it that there might just be a gay or two in residence, if Ipsen needs a naked shoulder to lean on there should be plenty to choose from.

The son of a pizza maker, the 19-year-old diving sensation may walk, talk, and gesture like a duck, but when he gets on the diving board his persona transforms into a masterful display of control and precision that hasn’t been seen in an American diver in decades. Kristian still has two to three Olympic Games in front of him, and will undoubtedly mature into one of the world’s best divers.

Um, just sayin’

An eight-time national champion at the senior level, Kristian is the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic diving team and is still considered a rookie on the international stage. Not that you’d ever know it from watching him dive. The control and confidence he exhibits is that of a much more marure diver. But then even for his young age, that should not come as a surprise. He has been diving competitively since the age of six, though that is not the sport he was initially drawn to.

“I did gymnastics for a little bit,” he says of his month long attempt on the mat, noting he stated with that sport because he enjoyed flipping and jumping on the trampoline. “I was super shy as a young kid and got moved up in age group with some kids I didn’t really feel comfortable with, so I stopped.”

Young, blonde, and in perfect form.

Ipsen switched over to swimming next, but says that spending practices swimming back and forth in the pool bored him. “So I kind of found a combination of the two,” he says. “Well, my parents did.” And the rest, as they say, is history.

By the age of eight, two years after he began competing, Kristian became the youngest diver to final on all three boards at the Junior National Championships and later became the youngest diver to win a junior national title. A member of the U.S. National Diving Team every year since 2006 – with the exception of 2007 – Ipsen has racked up a closet full of medals both on the national and international scene, and both as an individual and synchronized competitor.

Gold medal worthy booty.

By 2003 Kristian was winning gold medals at national events, taking the first place spot on both the 1m and 3m boards at the Speedo Junior Diving Championships in that year as well as in 2004 and 2005. At the 2003 Canada-U.S.A. Junior Challenge, his first international meet, he won gold on both of those as well as the 10m board. He is a sixteen-time junior national champion, an eight-time senior national champion, a three-time junior world champion, and was the 2009 World Championships silver medalist in the synchronized 3-meter event and the 2010 World Cup silver medalist in the same event. His qualification into the Olympics seemed to be a foregone conclusion, and his entry as a synchronized diver is part of his and his coach’s plan for Ipsen’s Olympic career.

From the look of his frequently displayed bulge, shrinkage does not seem to be one of Kristian’s concerns.

Kristian’s coach says he has groomed the 5’ 7” blonde bombshell for his appearance at the London 2012 Olympic Games, but their sight is beyond that. “Our goal with him is to put him on the team this year and hopefully he can medal in the synchronized event,” he said. “But in 2016, I’m going for a medal in the individual. He’s definitely the most accomplished diver I’ve ever coached.”

Ipsen is taking things one day and one dive at a time. And winning medals daily while he is at it. Kristian began his love affair with gold in the synchronized events diving with partner Drew Livingston. Together the two won gold at the 2007 Junior Pan American Championships on the 3m board. By 2009 he’d switched partners, teaming up with Troy Dumais with whom he will be diving in London. Dumais was previously partnered with Ipsen’s fellow diver with a questionable sexuality, Thomas Finchum. Ipsen went with Dumais, and Finchum with Kristian’s old partner, Livingston. All four competed against each other as one big family at the recent Trials, where Dumais and Ipsen came out on top. So to speak.

Ipsen and diving partner Dumais seem to get along fabulously.

Troy and Kristian have proved to be a good couple, winning gold at both the 2009 and 2010 AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix. They have come in first place at every national meet since 2009; on the international stage it’s been more of a struggle with the two consistently winning either silver or bronze at the World Cups and FINA World Championships, but unable to pull off the gold.

Tons of championships and medals aside, one of Kristian’s most memorable diving moments came at the age of ten when he met Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis while at a diving camp in Indianapolis. “I was going for my second practice and lot of the older kids skipped it to go to an Indiana Hoosiers football game,” Ipsen recalls. “Greg was at the camp and it was just him and me for about two hours. He actually got up on the 3-meter platform and was coaching and talking to me through each of my dives. It was a really cool moment.”

Ipsen and out, gold medal winning diver Greg Lougains are frequently compared with each other.
Huh.

Comparing the two divers seems natural. Among other reasons, both display an uncanny ability to perform unheard of feats on the diving board. Ipsen says he is flattered by the comparison. “It’s an honor,” he says. “A lot of people kind of put us together because of the way we dive and our lines in the air. But if I even accomplish one-quarter of what he did in his career, I would be thrilled.”

His start, at least Olympic-wise, comes today when he and Dumais take to the 3m springboards. Kristian, as do most divers, listens to his own soundtrack between dives. He says he came up with a new playlist just for the Olympics. “I can’t listen to super intense music or anything like that because I don’t want to get more nervous or more anxious than I already am,” he says. “There’s certain dance music that I like, but it changes every time that I go to a meet.”

Kristian has his dives down to perfection, his cum face: not so much.

He lists his favorites as several gay European DJs, as well as the song Little Talk by Of Monsters and Men, a tune he says he loves. He says he is also a big fan of Northern Nights, not yet out diver Thomas Finchum’s four-man country cross-over band. Go figure.

Kristian and Daddy Dumais at play.

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The questionably gay, as the mainstream media puts it, Thomas Finchum.

The on-going debate in the Boudia-Finchum bromance is who gets to be top. The on-going debate in the rest of the world is when will these two Olympic hotties say I am. And I do.

Matthew Mitcham is getting all of the pre-Olympics gay diver hype; he’s the best known gay athlete scheduled to compete at the London Games as well as being the defending gold medal champion on the 10m board. Meanwhile Britain’s entry in the gay diver sweepstakes, Tom Daley, is no slouch in the hype department himself thanks to his boyish good looks, his diving skills, and his boyish good looks. And with a dearth of gay Olympic divers already on the scoreboards making the Pink Team the overall winner, every Olympian who walks out on the diving board and strikes a pose causes eye brows to raise and his sexuality to be questioned.

Finchum tops Boudia

At this summer’s Olympics you can expect history to repeat itself, and those eyebrows to change to a knowing waggle when Thomas Finchum and David Boudia appear on the world’s stage. It happened at the Beijing Games, it will happen at the London Games too. Because the world wants to know: What in the hell is happening between those two boys? And how does Nick McCrory fit into that relationship?

U.S. Olympic divers David Boudia and Thomas Finchum were partners in the synchronized 10m platform event at the Beijing Games and seemed inseparable both on and off the diving board. The pair’s beautifully choreographed aerial ballet, two powerful near-naked bodies exemplifying masculine strength in perfect precision twisting and turning in a versatile coupling, the muscular powerhouse Boudia and Finchum’s graceful long limbed artistry excited viewers but failed to earn them a medal. Their coupling did, however, earn them a place in the hearts and minds of gay men all over the world who were willing to claim the duo as their own. Gaydar across the planet started pinging and even straight viewers wondered aloud if either or both were gay. For most, an interview Finchum gave on NBC settled the matter. Even those not willing to attach the gay label, begrudgingly admitted the boy is a bit effeminate. But then Boudia has plenty of gay backers himself.

Is this or the gold medal the real prize?

Boudia has gone on to become the 2011 Worlds silver medalist in the 10m platform and is the best U.S. hope for an individual Olympic diving medal – male or female, straight or gay. He and Finchum were the silver medalists at the 2009 Worlds, but soon thereafter Boudia teamed with Nick McCrory in the 10m synchronized event finishing fourth at the Test Event held in January in London, which earned the duo a berth at the XXX Games, a follow up to their just out of medal contention fifth place finish at the 2011 Worlds in Shanghai. The pair have become America’s best 10m synchro team and are expected to easily garner spots on the U.S. Diving Team whose trials are currently being held at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center near Seattle and will conclude this Sunday.

All three divers are battling for a berth on the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. Only two will make it. Boudia is the favorite; it seems both on and off the board McCrory and Finchum are vying for the #2 spot. The spot by Boudia’s side. And like three-ways often are, it’s been a messy few years as Boudia has teamed with Finchum, then with McCrory, while McCrory and Finchum tried each other on for fit along the way. All three haven taken turns being the top. Now Finchum wants to wear that title and win the opportunity to be off to London to visit the queens.

Boudia and McCrory – it’d be like doing twins.

And he’s planning on doing so by going it alone. Currently teamed with Drew Livingston in a bit of ‘I can do it too’ payback, Finchum and his pseudo partner did not enter the Trials. Instead, Finchum decided to add the 3m individual event to his repetoir. Anything to cut McCrory out of the picture, cuz’ when Boudia and Finchum get to London together . . . well, they’ll always have Beijing.

Finchum, who first made a splash as a tiny 15-year-old at the 2005 world championships, is trying to make his second Olympic team after going through what he calls four “very difficult” years. “It would mean a lot more to me because of what I’ve had to persevere through,” he says.

. . . and Finchum tops McCrory too.

For six or seven years until 2009, Finchum competed exclusively with Boudia, they even shared a home pool. When McCrory emerged on the scene, the three rotated partners for about a year – Boudia/Finchum, then Boudia/McCrory, then McCrory/Finchum – until the Boudia/McCrory pairing prevailed. “We were kind of trying out all the possibilities,” says McCrory.

The transition was a potentially uncomfortable situation, but everyone handled it as well as could be expected. “There was no emotion,” Boudia says ignoring what a drama queen Finchum can be.

Finchum channels Mayer, or maybe that’s Phoebe Snow.

While McCrory assumed Finchum’s synchronized spot with his longtime teammate, the Olympian was rehabbing from shoulder surgery and had time for song writing while out of the pool. Thomas now has a four-man country cross-over band, Northern Nights, and a popular video on YouTube of him singing John Mayer’s blues ballad, Gravity. “Oh, twice as much ain’t twice as good, And can’t sustain like one half could, Its wanting more that’s gonna set me to my knees,” he fittingly wails in a slight falsetto.

Now healed, at least physically, Finchum is back at the pool. “It hasn’t been as easy. I’ve had to fight my way back up to the top,” he says. He shared his tale of overcoming adversity with journalists at the U.S. Olympic Summit in Dallas last month. “I left Beijing empty-handed and that’s not what I want to do this time. I have big dreams, but I think they’re possible,” Finchum said.

Finchum has Olympic ink, but ya gotta wonder what his bitch stamp reads.

Finchum was first, or second to Boudia, at every national meet from the 2004 trials to 2009. In 2010 surgery set Finchum back, but recent results reflect a new and improved version of the former wunderkind. He was narrowly second to Boudia at December’s winter national championships, and in their last meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Finchum placed second to China’s Zhou Luxin, the 2008 Olympic silver medalist, beating his former partner. Finchum “just dominated, right to the last dive,” said his coach, John Wingfield.

The Beijing Olympian is now 22 years old and stands 6’1″, which is tall for a diver. Finchum said he concentrates on making dives technically perfect because any flaw is magnified more than it would be for a shorter athlete. Off the platform, Finchum says he is peaking at the right time for the trials and Olympics. Yet he acknowledged that it is hard to envision another four years like the past four. “But I finally feel I’m at a point that I’m stronger than I ever have been in my diving, physically and mentally,” he says.

But then there’s nothing effeminate about Finchum’s thighs.

For the first time since 2000, the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials feature no Olympic medalists. That’s a startling statistic for a country with more than twice as many Olympic diving medals than any other nation, despite China’s recent dominance. All three boys have plans to see that doesn’t happen again. Which two, whether diving together or not, is still up for grabs. Finchum, who regularly logs on to the gay entertainment site After Elton, hopes it will be himself and his longtime, if not current companion. “I don’t want it to be anyone else on that team with me but David,” he said. “I want to beat him, but I want to support him, too.”

The U.S. Olympic Trials represent a milestone for the Indianapolis diver, who has been competing at a national level for decade. He, Boudia, and McCrory are all considered to be genuine medal contenders at the London Olympics. By Sunday the trio will know which two of them will be competing at the Games and who will win a romantic holiday getaway to London.

Will Finchum and Boudia be offering up Olympic booty to the boys of London?

As of the semi-finals on the 10m board Tuesday night, Boudia is in the lead, followed closely by McCrory with Finchum bringing up a disappointing third. Unlike in the Olympics, their previous points carry over to the finals, which will be held on Saturday. Watching the trio battle it out with all three performing the same dive for their final effort of the night, I was struck by four things.

First, and of the utmost importance, McCrory has the best bulge. By far. Canadian Despartie’s title of best Olympic bulge will be in jeopardy in London. Second, Boudia walks a bit gay, but spits like a breeder. Third, McCrory, with a light dusting of chest hair, has the hairiest arm pits I’ve ever seen. I’m generally not in favor of manscaping under arm hair, but the boy might consider a little trimming. Fourth, Finchum really needs to open his closet door, everything about the boy screams gay.

But in that he’s not alone. Last night Finchum competed in the 3m semi-finals, an event he normally passes on. His dives were beautifully performed but as they were of a less degree of difficulty than the other top divers he finished the night in fourth place. Kristian Ipsen, a tall 19-year-old blonde, started and finished the night off in first place. He too has a nice bulge, a great ass, and is U.S. Diving’s fastest rising gay, but still not out diver.

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Finchum dove his little heart out at the Olympic trials this week but was unable to pull off high enough scores to secure his spot on the 2012 Olympic team. The 22-year-old has said that he will retire from diving now that his Olympic dream has been broken. Not sure what he plans on doing about that tat.

Boudia & McCrory’s hairy armpits, however will be off to London together.

Troy Dumais and Kristian Ipsen also made the team, with Kristian picking up Finchum’s rainbow tiara from the closet floor. Ipsen lists Finchum’s band as one of his favorites under the music category on his Facebook page, a nice tip of the hat to his fellow closeted diver I thought.

So no wedding bells in London, and no coupled gay divers to add to the media frenzy. But then there have always been rumors about Dumais, and Ipsen is so obvious . . . stay tuned.

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The XXX Games: Gay Of The Week Mitt Romney

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The Olympic Equestrian events are an acquired taste that I have yet to acquire. The outfits, however, I can get behind.

Sure President Obama says he is in favor of gay marriage. But when it comes to supporting ‘the gays’, Mitt Romney puts his money where his mouth is. Or at least where his mouth would never be caught going. He’s devoted hundreds of thousands of dollars to promoting the gayest sport at the Olympics. While stumping on the campaign trail Mitt may sing his own praises about his involvement with running the Salt Lake Olympics, but Team Romney is in the pink for the London Games, standing firmly behind the Equestrian, which historically has had more openly out gay competitors than any other Olympic sport, including diving.

And shame on conservative political pundit Stephen Colbert for holding the Romneys up for ridicule during his broadcast Tuesday night for their involvement with a sport that demonstrates genteel foppery at its finest. Colbert deserves a stern wag of his own finger for pointing out that Team Romney shills for an event that some describe as ice skating for horses while neglecting to mention that by doing so Romney is merely practicing an understated pacifist Mormon approach in championing a sport filled with gay Champions. It seems Mitt likes the gays more than anyone ever suspected. And don’t get me started about his love of show tunes . . .

. . . and I bet he’s hung like a horse too.

Sure everyone loves horses; I mean what lesbian doesn’t? But just how gay is the equestrian world you may ask. Well, what other Olympic sport can boast of a medal ceremony where of the 12 athletes given medals, all of the men were gay? And until U.S. divers David Boudia and Thomas Finchum come out in London, what other Olympic sport can claim participation by an openly gay couple? Not to mention that any sport called dressage has got to be pretty gay just on general principles.

Matthew Mitchum may get all the press for being the reigning openly gay Olympic medal winner, but out gay men have taken home medals in the equestrian events from the Olympic Games in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008. Expect the 2012 Olympics to be no different. Dutchman Edward Gal and his stallion Moorlands Totilas (nicknamed Toto), who have been dubbed ‘rock stars of the horse world’ are heavily favored for medalling in London as is Gal’s boyfriend and teammate Hans Peter Minderhoud. And Mitt wants to be there to cheer them on.

You know those knee pads are staying on, right?

The current Olympic equestrian disciplines are Dressage, Eventing, and Jumping. In each, both individual and team medals are awarded. In Jumping, riders complete a course hurdling over about 15 fences. In Dressage, riders perform a series of pirouettes and other dance-like moves while wearing tails and top hats. And Eventing is a combination of dressage, jumping, and cross country. Team Romney is drawn to the gayest of the three: dressage.

Traditionally seen as the exclusive domain of the privileged – Captain Mark Anthony Phillips ex-husband of Princess Anne is an Olympic Gold medalist in the sport and the Queen’s granddaughter Zara will be competing at the London Games – Dressage, often referred to as horse ballet, is a classical equestrian dance competition that passes as sport among the 1%. Rightly so, it comes with enormous expenses. The horses alone often carry a six-figure price tag (The Romneys have owned eight dressage horses, including their current mount Rafalca). Add in vet bills, insurance, staff wages, and enormous transportation costs for shuttling horses and riders to major competitions around the world and you can see why Romney got a tax break on his reported $77,000 loss for his involvement in the sport in 2010.

That’s one lucky pony.

But even that pales in financial comparison to the $500,000 investment the Romney’s hold in Rob Rom Enterprises, Inc – the corporation that holds title to their horse – and the $250,000 to $500,000 loan they floated to Ann Romney’s dressage trainer Jan Ebeling for the horse farm he runs in California where the Romneys stay in a Mediterranean-style guesthouse they use often as a getaway.

Dressage enthusiast Kenneth J. Braddick says the Romneys are regulars at dressage events and travel to Europe together to purchase horses for their California stable. When Ebeling was preparing a dressage routine to try and qualify for this year’s World Cup, Braddick said it was Mitt Romney who picked selections from the soundtracks to Rainman and The Mission as the music that would accompany the horse and rider’s performance. Braddick says this is not an unsubstantial contribution – many riders have music specially composed for competition, and some even hire an orchestra to play a version that will precisely fit the prancing of their horse. Elton John just might land a gig during the Olympics after all.

The look in that horse’s eye is saying, “I saw him first!”

And it looks like the pocket change the Romneys have thrown into the family’s athletic pursuits may finally be paying dividends. Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can buy a horse and entry into the gay world of equestrian competition. Rafalca, ridden by Ebeling with musical scoring by Mitt, came in third last weekend at the United States Equestrian Federation National Dressage Championships in New Jersey. The Grand Prix competition is a qualifying event for the U.S. Dressage Team for the 2012 Olympic Games, and will finish next Saturday. The Romneys are hoping they finish better than Mitt did in many republican primaries, and are looking forward to joining their gay friends and fellow equestrian enthusiasts at the Summer Games in London, scheduled to be held between 28 July and 9 August at the Greenwich Park venue.

The Olympic Equestrian events proudly champion horses of every color. Particularly pink ones. “I would say that many gays are involved in the horse world. . . . It is certainly no secret,” says distinguished equestrian and out athlete Mason Phelps, Jr. who was a reserve member of the U.S. Olympic Eventing Team at the Mexico City Games. “It’s a very accepting community.” And a community that the Romneys have enthusiastically embraced.

William Levy shirtless. There’s a horse in the picture too.

In fact, the absence of an out rider on the U.S. team at the Beijing Games was more noteworthy than that there were openly gay athletes at the Games. “Strangely, this year there are no out riders competing on the team,” commented four-time Olympic medalist and openly gay rider Robert Dover, who was the equestrian team Captain at the Sydney Games. “There is one rider who is married, but is having an affair with a guy, but so far he’s not coming forward about it” he added.

Dover himself has competed in six Olympics and his partner Robert Ross, a jumper, is an Olympian too. He hopes that athletes in other sports will someday feel free to identify themselves publicly as gay. And he says that there are many who could. “I wish that all gay athletes would come out in all disciplines – football, baseball, the Olympics, whatever,” said Dover. “After six Olympics, I know they’re in every sport. You just have to spend one day in the housing, the gyms, or at dinner to realize we’re all over.”

My little pony.

Gay Olympians in the Equestrian, however, are a horse of a different stripe. Many well-known athletes are publicly out within the sport. Carl Hester, a British rider competed in both the Sydney and Athens Games and achieved ‘pin up’ status with horse-loving teenagers that made him the biggest name in British dressage in his day. And Guenter Seidel, a German who immigrated to the U.S. in 1985 competed in dressage for his adopted country winning team medals at the Atlanta, Sydney, and Athens Games. Even more unusual are the equestrians who have combined their love of sport with their love of men. Several well-known pairs have partnered up both on and off the field.

New Zealander Blyth Tait, who competed in Eventing was the number one ranked competitor in the world from 1992 to 1998 and was also given the honor of being selected to bear New Zealand’s flag in the opening ceremony at the Sydney Games where he competed with his partner of ten years, Paul O’Brien. Tait won an individual bronze and team silver at the Barcelona Games, and a team bronze and individual gold at the Atlanta Games.

I believe that’s what they call a horse’s ass.

Tait met his partner while both were in England, originally serving as a mentor to O’Brien. ”He has trained me from day one, so he has been the main influence on me and my riding career,” said O’Brien. “And then the relationship grew into a loving one.”

Though no longer competing at the Olympic level, the pair took part at the Beijing Games, O’Brien as Olympic selector and Tait as team manager for the Kiwis. Fellow out equestrians and Dutch riders and partners Edward Gal and Hans-Peter Minderhoud, however, still actively compete and will be participating at the London Games.

Time to saddle up I’d say.

The high profile celebrity couple collaborate to become stronger in their chosen sport. “We ride together every day and once in a while Hans-Peter helps me by watching and telling me how it looks,” says Gal. Hans-Peter says the duo is versatile, sometimes even ride each other’s horses to check how the horse feels. They feel that having a partner who is also a competitor is a big advantage.

“Competitions are a way of life and it is so much fun if you are with someone who precisely understands that and knows what you are doing, dedicating all your time to horses,” says Hans-Peter. “And we only need one hotel room now,” Gal adds jokingly.

Cool. A stable that delivers.

Proving they are champions off the field too, former Olympian Robert Dover too paired up with a fellow equestrian, Robert Ross, and the two joined with Equestrian Mason Phelps, Jr. to found the Equestrian AIDS Foundation in 1996 which provides financial assistance for medical treatment, housing, food, and other necessities to members of the equestrian community with HIV/AIDS. The impact that AIDS has had on the equestrian world is not a documented subject. However, U.S. Olympian Darren Chiacchia was outed and made the news in 2010 thanks to a nasty break-up with his boyfriend that involved the HIV virus.

Chiacchia, who competes in Eventing, jokes he is the second most famous person from Ocala Florida after John Travolta. The gay part is left unsaid. An Olympic bronze medalist at the Athens Games, he gained national attention in 2008 when while preparing for the Beijing Games he was thrown from his horse in an accident that put him in a coma. While being treated for his injuries at a hospital in Gainesville, Chiacchia tested positive for HIV. Chiacchia, however, called the test results questionable, stating, “I am 100 percent healthy.”

You might call it kink, but I’m going with lust at first sight.

On the road to recovery from his injuries, Chiacchia met a man on a gay dating site in February 2009 and they dated and had sex regularly until June of 2010. On the morning that Chiacchia broke up with the man, his ex went to the police and filed a criminal complaint against him, which led the district attorney to charge Chiacchia with violating Florida’s disclosure laws about people infected with the HIV virus.

In Florida, if an HIV positive person knows that he is HIV positive and has been informed that HIV may be transmitted during sexual intercourse, and has sexual intercourse with any other person without disclosing his HIV status, it can be prosecuted. It is a third degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. If a couple has sex on multiple occasions, and the infected partner continues to fail to disclose his or her status, the crime can become a first-degree felony.

Okay, this time you are right. That is kinky. But look at that ass! Ya know what? Fuck PETA.

When asked if Chiacchia thought the charges were nothing more than the result of a bad breakup, he replied, “Absolutely, absolutely. I sent him an e-mail that said enough’s enough. I sent the e-mail at 9:30, it was read at 9:35, the police report was filed at 10:00 a.m. What do you think, what do you think?”

Note to self: breaking up by email might not be a good idea.

The case gained national attention serving to out Chiacchia and to complicate his plans to earn a spot on the team for the London Olympics. But then last year all charges against Chiacchia were dropped. The state of Florida’s homophobic legislature’s refusal to provide equal rights to gays and lesbians worked against them. An appellate circuit court in Tampa found that since intercourse is legally defined as ‘the penetration of the female sex organ by the male sex organ,’ and that under Florida law, ‘intercourse’ is only defined as sex between a man and a woman, then a same sex couple could not be prosecuted.

Come on, it’s dick. Do you really need a mildly funny caption?

Chiacchia, who claims the charges were fraudulent from the start, is now directing his attention toward London and the 2012 Games and the possibility of sharing an equestrian moment with the Romneys. With luck, Mitt will have ample time to spend with his gay friends and fellow sportsmen in the near future.

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Gay Of The Week: Dakota Cochrane (And The UFC)

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MMA fighter Dakota Cochrane is not gay, but played one on the gay porn site Sean Cody.

Talk about Thai bar boys and sooner or later someone brings up how many of them are straight. Someone else questions if that is true how is it possible they can ‘perform’. And then someone else yet weighs in on the whole gay-for-pay thing, and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Labels are always a bitch. Few people fit perfectly into the narrow confines we set when we start labeling someone as gay, straight, or bi. Even back in the repressed days of the 1950s, Kinsey’s studies showed most men fell somewhere in the middle. Guys may identify as straight, but that doesn’t stop them from having sex with a buddy. Or a stranger. Throw in some big bucks and it’s amazing what a straight guy will do. Like getting into a cage and allowing some other dude to pummel him into a bloody mess.

But that’s cool. That’s machismo at its finest. Sucking dick, not so much. But okay, a little stray dick in your mouth can possibly be overlooked. Bottoming for not one but several guys at one time, or showing off your dildo collection (with live demonstrations) might just be pushing the envelope. When you start off a porn career with a little JO scene, then a dildo butt-play scene, then fucking guys, then getting fucked, then threeways and all-out orgiastic four and then six-ways, at what point do you stop and admit you might just be a bit queer? Evidently you don’t. Not when your next career move is with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

Well, we all have to start somewhere.

Sean Cody’s stellar star and go-to guy for all gay things sexual, Dakota Cochrane, made thousands of dollars performing naked and lubed up for the camera – and for the enjoyment of thousands of men. Now he’s doing it again, but this time he’s fighting instead of fucking; on the Ultimate Fighter Live reality series on the FX channel. Dakota, along with 31 other Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters duke it out on the network’s first season of the UFC’s full contact combat reality television show. As ‘Danny’ he already did full contact for Sean Cody’s on-line gay porn site. And his dildo won.

The 25-year-old Cochrane currently has an 11-2 pro record as an MMA fighter, including a victory over World Extreme Cagefighting champion Jamie Varner at the Titan Fighting Championship 20, which qualified him for the reality show. He fully disclosed his gay porn past to the producers of the show and has not denied his days as a porn star to the media. Though he does say his days as a gay porn star may have been a bad career move.

“It’s definitely a decision I regret,” he told MMA Fighting. “If I would have known what would happen I definitely wouldn’t have done it. But I had money issues and I needed help. I went there to do pictures, and they started throwing pretty high numbers in front of me. I didn’t really think. It was a big mistake.”

This is Dakota Cochrane not being gay.

Unlike the gay porn past of a recent Real World cast member, neither the fighter or the UFC has shied away from Dakota’s guy-on-guy career. ”I think it’s a little bit courageous for both of us,” Cochrane said of the UFC’s decision to include him on the show.

Of course when thousands, if not millions, of gay guys have already seen you at your best, hiding a former life of explicit gay sex performed for internet fans is difficult these days. And if his past came out after the television series was already on-air, the resulting bomb blast would have been much bigger. Getting out in front of the headlines allowed Dakota to put his gay-for-pay life in the proper context. Which, evidently, is the ‘I-was-young-and-dumb’ tack, second most popular to the ‘boy-was-I-drunk-last-night’ excuse straight guys have used for years to explain why their ass is so sore the next morning.

”Every time I was down there, I hated it,” Cochrane says of his days performing for the camera. He earned around $80,000 overall from taping the videos, which he made while a college student at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, where he was an all-league track athlete as a pole vaulter and 4×100 meter relay runner. Dakota gives his girlfriend Lacey Sechtem credit for um, straightening him out. When he told her what he was doing she asked him to stop, and quicker than you can say, “I’m gonna cum!” his gay porn career came to an end, wadded up like a cum drenched Kleenex and tossed into a corner.

Hunky MMA fighters may not be gay, but many of their fans are.

Now claiming to be completely straight, the baby-faced ultimate fighter faces the tribulations he’ll experience in the ring from opponents who will not want to lose to a guy who has spent his early years being other men’s bitch.

Meanwhile his gay fan base will grapple with the issue of what defines a gay man. According to Dakota, it’s not sucking dick or taking it up the ass. While according to gay guys, being paid $80,000 doesn’t make you straight. It’s the battle over labels again because face it, cash or not, your dick just doesn’t get hard (and stay hard while some other guy sticks his in your butt) unless you are enjoying it.

The label thingy too plays a role in the broader context of Mixed Martial Arts, the fastest growing sport in America. According to many, including the WBA’s light heavy­weight Champion Bernard Hopkins, the sport is rife with homoeroticism. Or as he put it, “The UFC and MMA is gay porn.”

Bad Boys and their toys.

But then professional boxing which has seen a large share of its fan base gravitate toward MMA has always been quick to accuse their rivals of promoting gay porn masquerading as athletics. Boxing promoter Bob Arum described MMA as “guys rolling around like homosexuals on the ground.”
MMA fans disagree. Vehemently. With as much chance of being believed as Cochrane when he claims he’s 100% straight.

There have been no openly gay UFC fighters, though Nick Ring, a competitor on the last season of The Ultimate Fighter made such a point of ‘acting’ gay his sexuality was a forgone, but incorrect, conclusion. But the obvious gay undertones of two near naked studs, hot, sweaty and grabbing each other in places no straight man would dare go, while grunting loudly with equal parts of exertion and excitement are hard to miss. MMA is all about fighting for being on top. Or maybe for being a not to willing bottom. And it’s mostly a horizontal sport – one that requires multiple zoom lenses and a wide screen TV to enjoy properly. Keeping your cum towel at hand is optional.

Acknowledging MMA’s sexual appeal to gay men, Dana White, the president of the UFC, recently became the first head of a major sports league to welcome gay athletes. “I’ll tell you right now, if there’s a gay fighter in the UFC, I wish he would come out,” he said. “I could care less if there’s a gay fighter in the UFC. There probably is, and there’s probably more than one. It’s 2012. Give me a break.”

Sponsors have not failed to take notice of the UFC’s homoerotic leanings.

Despite homophobic slurs he has made in the past, and that many of his fighters continue to utter, White believes there is room within the sport for gay men. “Any guy involved in grappling is the furthest thing from homophobic in the world,” White said. “I honestly think it would have no impact whatsoever with not only our fighters or our fan base. The guys in the UFC, everybody is so cool, it’s great sportsmanship, everybody has respect for each other. I honestly, it wouldn’t be a big deal to me and most of the guys I know in this sport, it wouldn’t be a big deal for them either.”

Whether White is attempting to be inclusive, or stepping over a thinly drawn line into accepting that his chosen sport seems gay despite its violence and macho attitude, he can not deny that MMA is attractive to those who like to ogle fit, handsome men.

Jim Buzinski, the publisher of Outsports.com, a web site devoted to gay sports fans and athletes calls MMA “intrinsically homoerotic,” citing his site’s most viewed article A Straight Guy’s Guide to the Top MMA Hotties as proof. Buzinski says readers routinely send links of who they think are the hottest MMA fighters, so fans clearly pay attention to more than just their skills. “UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre in tight trunks brings in a high number of page views,” he says.

MMA is not gay. But is big with the SM/BD crowd.

Buzinski calls Spike TV’s Ultimate Fighter reality series, in which a group of fighters live together in a house and compete for a UFC contract “the most homoerotic show on TV.” Even the gang of skanks on New Jersey Shore hasn’t stooped as low in their run for tops in the ratings game. Last season, in episode 8, the housemates engaged in a bit of semen eating one upmanship. But that’s not gay. Spunky for sure, but evidently not gay in the world of MMA. Because afterwards they all enter the cage and beat the shit out of each other. Or at least some type of body fluid flies.

And it flies in globbing hunks thanks to the sport’s own porn spin-off, sporno, with websites like matbattle.com which is devoted to “helping homosexual grapplers explore and express their fetish in a welcoming environment.” The site features movies and photos of non-sanctioned MMA bouts in which no one hears the bell until someone has a happy ending. But then what else do you expect from a sport in which one of the ways to win is through an act called submission?

Cock fighting is how Senator John McCain described it in 1998. But back then MMA was a bit more violent, a bit more bloody, and tad less homoerotic. To make the sport more appealing to 90 year-old has been politicians, as well as the general public, rules were established to ensure the survival of MMA and keep it from being banned. The UFC replaced the previous bloodfest with an opportunity of watching near–naked men grapple and grunt, embraced in the arms of another man while locked in a cage.

98.6% of hardcore MMA fans were able to identify the fighter in this cropped image without seeing the rest of the picture.

The homoerotism of the sport is, perhaps, not so surprising, since MMA owes a lot to those notorious warrior ‘mos, the ancient Greeks. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be traced back to the ancient Olympics where one of the earliest well documented systems of codified full range unarmed combat was utilized in the sport of Pankration. With deadly purity, pankration had two primary rules: no eye-gouging or biting. Fingers were often snapped off. Sometimes death, and often unconsciousness, was the end of a pankration match.

Today, the UFC has taken MMA, essentially a semi-organized barroom brawl in the ’90s, cleaned it up, introduced some rules – including no stomping, no spitting, no throat strikes, no punches to the back of the head, and no groin attacks of any kind – and turned it into an event that is rapidly replacing boring old traditional boxing, especially among young men, as the #1 fighting sport.

An omnivorous blend of boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, taekwondo, karate, and judo that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, MMA relies on Muay Thai as the fighting style for the stand-up game within the cage. Muay Thai originated in Thailand, and is known as the “art of eight limbs” which refers to the use of the legs, knees, elbows and fists. It is a very aggressive and straight forward style from which kick boxing is derived. And all would be good – and straight – except that bouts quickly dissolve into a homo-like hugging match between contestants. And MMA fans love it.

In MMA it’s called submission. In gay sex it is called bottoming. In either, it can at times be painful.

The cage-fighting craze has seen increased popularity with a pay per view business that rivals boxing and professional wrestling ever since the UFC – currently the largest MMA promotion company worldwide – brought the sport to the United States in 1993. According to Forbes magazine, its pay-per-view shows have drawn well over 2 million viewers, most of them male between ages 18 and 49, and the franchise is today valued at roughly $1 billion. That’s some big bucks for what is ultimately nothing more than gay porn for straight men. Though just how straight those men are is questionable.

A recent study by the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that 98.6% of all self-proclaimed hardcore MMA fans were able to identify a fighter from a picture of him that showed nothing more than his trunks-encased buttocks and the back of his meaty upper things. Fans may not acknowledge their sport’s homoerotic underpinnings, relying instead on its violence to justify the intimate, protracted, eye-popping physicality of MMA, but it’s a bit like how in gay porn ‘real’ tops never bottom – for the sake of the bottoms watching.

And the fighters themselves are often as heavily immersed in denial. War Machine, a popular combatant, was arrested for battery after an incident involving a 300 lb. doorman that occurred at a New York gay club called Krave. After his arrest made headlines on MMA blogs he explained himself via a post on his personal web page: “I want to address my recent arrest because there is a lot of B.S. information on-line. I was not out drinking, and I wasn’t hanging out in that club. I was employed there.”

But even the UFC isn’t quite as gay as ‘professional’ wrestling.

Uh, that’s kind of like a Thai bar boy claiming he doesn’t samoke, he just works for a bar that provides male prostitutes to its clientele. Rather than denying that he was drinking, War Machine might have been better off using the old standby Boy-Was-I-Drunk-Last-Night. It’s an excuse many of his fans are undoubtedly familiar with.

The sport’s homophobia may well have to do more with fear than with hatred. Guilty of participating in or being a fan of an activity that barely qualifies as a sport and which even the most casual observer can not help but note is filled with homoerotism makes the straight boys nervous. And that may be the answer Dakota Cochrane needs to turn to for a successful career with the UFC. Now that it is well known that Dakota was tapping ass on a gay porn site before tapping opponents out for the UFC, he may have a psychological advantage when he steps into the ring. Because no straight boy wants to be known as a gay boy’s bitch.

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Gay Of The Week: Tim Tebow

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“The first time it was nerve-racking. My hands were shaking a little bit. I mean, you can’t do those kinds of things in the United States.”

- Tim Tebow on the summer he spent playing with the penises of young men in the Philippines.

Oh, girlfriend . . .

With football mania reaching its annual peak, it seemed like a good time to honor a man who likes to play with his pig skin, and its difficult these days to say gay and football in the same sentence without Tim Tebow springing to mind. Some of you may reach for the lube, others the closest barf bag, but what everyone seems to agree on is that Timmy plays for the pink team.

For those of you outside of the good ‘ole USA, first, we’re talking real football, not that girly game the rest of you call football. Second, Tebow’s been getting lots of press this year, not so much for his skill but more because he’s an out Christian. One of those who feels the need to share his religion with the world. Because religious beliefs, of course, are not a private matter and only count when you resort to ostentatious displays of your faith. But that’s cool. Tim makes sure everyone knows he is a good Christian. And while being so vocal about it, also lets us all know he’s a big ‘mo. If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t spend so much time on his knees.

Tebow is one of those guys who looks better from a far. The rank smell of a self-hating closeted gay man is less odious from a distance too.

God evidently is not as enamored with Timmy as Tebow is with his god. Or maybe just prefers the arm he blessed Tom Brady with. Sidelined for the big game, Timmy lost out on a championship ring. No problem, when you rack up the ‘might be gay’ points that Tebow scores, it’s an impressive touchdown.

If you queens out there who want to learn how to do camp right, go check out a Tim video on Youtube. Those hand gestures, that voice, that lisp . . . it’s only stereotyping when you are wrong. Even if his chosen career wasn’t one where you spend large amounts of time getting physical with bunches of hit sweaty men with a passion that borders on mania for tight ends.

“Dear God, please let that cute Champ Bailey slap me on the ass today.”

There are just some things that gay men know point to a closeted boy. Tebow tackles those points to the extreme. A 24-year-old virgin? Really? That’s not about abstinence in honor of your religion, that’s about avoidance. Despite the non-stop proselytizing by the world’s most famous Jesus freak, it quickly becomes evident it’s not really his religion he wants to cram down your throat.

Hiding your sexuality behind your religion is not a new trick. It’s been used by closeted gay men for centuries. If you need to repress your natural urges, nothing works as well as using the ‘God says I can’t have sex’ ploy. Then it’s not the gay thing, it’s the god thing. And if you can’t have sex, then there’s no reason for you to not spend all of your time surrounded by men, it’s not so much a self-fulfilling prophecy as a means to an end. And male booty is the end that Timmy is all about.

Just tell me you’ll still respect me in the morning.

The problem with Timmy’s claims about chastity and his high Christian morals is that he tries to have his cock and eat it too. A straight boy with high morals would be busy finding himself a good wholesome and upright woman to settle down with a raise a family. Tebow instead tweets skank Jessica Simpson “Hey can you possibly shoot me an email?” But then that’s more about finding a suitable beard than a suitable wife. And you have to wonder why this devout Christian would ‘Follow’ a chick who advertises her x-Rated vids on her Facebook page. But then maybe because being ‘Friends’ with Sean Cody would be giving the big secret away. Of course when Google returns 3.7 million results on a ‘Tim Tebow gay’ search, maybe that big secret isn’t so secret after all.

National endorsements are the name of the game for popular athletes.

Fortunately for Timmy, he got to let his feminine side run wild during a SE Asia holiday in 2008 which he spent playing with young men in an impoverished rural area of the Philippines. Though Tim has no medical background, he also had no problem playing doctor with the young, dark skinned locals. During a visit to Uncle Dick’s Home – I kid you not – Timmy spent the day performing circumcisions.

Fellow University of Florida alumnus and aspiring doctor Richard “R.B.” Moleno says of ‘Dr. Tebow’, “You could see he was really into it.”

Sounding eerily like lovers of kiddie porn who brave the slums of SE Asia in search of young boys, Tebow said, “I don’t remember anybody crying. Those kids were so tough.”

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Gay Of The Week: Jeremy Renner

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The hunky, and no longer gay, Jeremy Renner.

Having just posted a humongous article about all of the hot closeted celebrities who will be coming out this year, it may be a bit soon to be revisiting the topic. But then I didn’t mention Jeremy Renner in that post. Because he’s already out. Or was. Seems since his star has grown brighter, the closet door swallowed Jeremy once again. But since there is a recent tie-in with Thailand, not to mention his recently released ambiguously gay duo flick with Tom Cruise, it seemed a good time to give you some background on why Google’s predictive results adds ‘gay’ to his name when you type it in the search box.

First though, in case you missed it, Jeremy was visiting Phuket this week and one of his posse was attacked at a local bar with an axe. Last Wednesday morning, Jeremy and his entourage, including the 31 year-old hottie GM of Sri Panwa Resort, Wan Vorasit Issara, were bouncing from bar to bar in Phuket Town when things turned ugly about 4:30 a.m during their visit to the Rachada Pub. According to reports, Vorasit dropped a glass on the floor, which was the cause of a bloody brawl; six bar employees jumped Renner and his posse. Vorasit was stabbed in the stomach with a knife and slashed in the neck with a homemade battleaxe fashioned from a motorcycle brake disc. A patron in the bar maintains that Vorasit was drunk and arguing with the bar staff before being attacked.

Initial reports said that Renner had suffered injuries during the brawl, however Vorasit set that record straight in an interview from his hospital room; “We pushed Jeremy to safety as soon as the fight broke out.”

Phuket’s new police chief held a press conference to show off the six bar employees who attacked Renner’s posse and are now being held on attempted murder charges.

The six staff members involved in the attack were arrested and charged with attempted murder while the venue, which was open after official closing time, has been closed for the next sixty days pending further investigations. Rachada Pub owner Sawat Prueksakij, has reportedly apologized personally to Vorasit, vowing to assist police in their investigation. “We have had some conflicts before, and we have a strict policy of ensuring that people entering the pub are of legal age and are not carrying weapons, but we have never had staff harming patrons,” he said during an interview.

Maj Gen Chonasit, Phuket’s new police chief, held a press conference, typically Thai, to offer the world’s media visuals of the arrested pub employees and the weapons used in the attack. During the press conference, one of the suspects began to offer his version of the events that led up to the fight. He was quickly silenced by Chonasit.

Jeremy can afford to stay at the pricey Sri Panwa Resort in Phuket, but can’t afford a girlfriend.

Renner, the former diehard theater actor who made the transition to the big screen in the late ’90s, had been in the Philippines filming the latest instalment of the Bourne film franchise before flying to Thailand for a brief holiday at the swanky Sri Panwa Resort, perched high atop Cape Panwa, where a one bedroom villa goes for just over $1,000 a night. The resort’s acclaimed amenities include Baba Nest which was voted the third best beach bar in the world by CNNgo in 2011. Perhaps its lack of ladyboys was the reason Renner and his gang headed into Phuket Town for their tour of dive bars.

Ya gotta feel sorry for Jeremy, new to the Kingdom and with those odd, long, weird Thai place names, he mistook the Rachada Pub in Phuket Town for the smattering of gay clubs in the Ratchada area in Bangkok. Jeremy was out for a night of fun with a Thai bar boy and found Phuket’s unique brand of hospitality instead.

“Jeremy who?” was the question on everyone’s lips when he was nominated for an Oscar for The Hurt Locker, quickly followed by, “Oh, the gay guy” when it turned out the former makeup artist had brought his mother to the Academy Awards. The excruciatingly long, um, hug, he gave to ‘maybe not straight’ co-star Anthony Mackie upon hearing their movie named as the winner might have had something to do with that too. Granted, it was not quite the statement that Angelina Jolie made during her Oscar win when she slipped her brother some tongue, but then when you are getting your freak on with Billy Bob Thorton a bit of incest seems tame in comparison. Which is why I’ve paid no attention to rumors that Brad Pitt is gay; only a straight man would go where Billy Bob Thorton’s cock has been before.

Renner’s acting career got its start with his lead role in the film Dahmer, a fictionalized retelling of the life of the serial killer who also was not gay.

A year later, more media-savvy and at the Academy awards again, up again for Best Supporting Actor, Renner, who once again brought his mom as his date, didn’t win and didn’t get to go gay on one of his co-stars. But did take time out on the red carpet to share a quiet moment and a long embrace with Kevin Spacey. Who everyone knows is also not gay.

The 40 year old never married actor, ignoring the existence of his um, ‘partner’ of five years with whom he lives recently gave an interview to Details magazine stating that prior to hitting the big time he was too broke to date women, and now that he is a box office draw, he’s too busy to date women. That’s the problem with gay guys trying to justify never being seen in the company of fish. They don’t get the straight guy mind-set. Too broke? Too busy? Sorry J, to straight guys it’s all about the pussy.

Back when Jeremy was the only one who thought he might be straight, a former acting coach said in an interview, “I have never had the pleasure of meeting Jeremy’s boyfriend, but the fact that Jeremy is gay has never been a primary concern.”

Renner, who is not gay, gets a tad bit excited when Channing Tatum, who is also not gay, replies, “Sure I’ll go back to your room with you Jeremy.”

The rumors about Jeremy’s preference for men started soon after his first appearance at the Academy Awards when an investigative reporter happened upon an article published the year before announcing the sale of a Hollywood home by Renner and Kristoffer Winters, a fellow actor who had a small part in The Hurt Locker. Turned out Winters plays a much bigger role in Renner’s life. And heart. But now that Renner is trying to close the barn door after the horse got out, Winters has moved from ‘boyfriend’ to ‘business partner’ to ‘brother.’ Huh. Maybe Angelina’s love for her brother had more of an impact than originally assumed.

As for those vile rumors that Jeremy and Tom Cruise were busy diddling each other while filming their recently released movie: bullshit. Both are obviously true bottoms and that makes that coupling a Mission Impossible. Sure, Tom bought some motorcycles and took Jeremy out for a romantic bike ride through Prague during the filming of the movie. And no one should read anything into Jeremy’s constant gushing about how charming and handsome Tom is. Instead we should all wish Jeremy the best of luck with his new found heterosexuality and hope that his fondest wishes do come true. The most likely to be the one most recently expressed when during a interview to promote Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Renner said, ‘When I grow up, I want to be just like Tom Cruise.’

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Gay Of The Week: Florian Bou

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The London Olympic Games scheduled for next year must be giving the organizers of the Gay Games great concern. The unprecedented number of proud out athletes competing in the London games is turning the Gay Games into a dinosaur. The rainbow flag will be flying high, right along side the official Olympic banner, at the next set of games thanks to both well known and still under the gaydar athletes of the world.

Joining the ranks of those representing the pink team in London is the 21 year-old French hottie Florian Bou, who will compete in the Heptathlon. Florian is a pentathelete, but the penthalon (competition in five different events) was replaced by the heptathlon (seven events) in the 1984 Summer Olympics. I’d tell you what all those event are, but then the only one you are interested in is the swimming event where Florian will appear in a skimpy swimsuit.

Born in 1990, Florian is a ranked Junior World Pentathlete. He burst onto the scene in 2006 at the European Championships in Prague where he placed 14th. In 2009 he won the gold at the International German Championships for Men and Women in Bonn and the following year repeated his win at the UIPM Junior World Championships held in Hungary. He’ll be representing his home country, as well as our team, at the Olympic Summer Games in 2012.

Florian comes from a family of competitive athletes. His grandfather was in France’s rugby team, his father was part of France’s Olympic swimming team, and his brother is a swimmer too. While in college, competing in swimming events, a coach saw him and suggested he try the penthalon. Florian says he had to familiarize himself with the other events, including learning how to ride a horse. Says Florian, “The hardest part was running because I was not a good runner; I was overweight and I had to run at altitude.”

Off the track and out of the water, Florian is in parallel studies at the Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance (Insep) in France. His typical day of study and workouts runs from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.. Asked about how his training schedule impacts his love life he says, “I have tried several times … I finish training late, I’m tired, it’s hard to see someone, they can not come to Insep. I am not very available, including the weekend … a boyfriend who is willing to go a month without seeing you, it’s not possible!”

Florian needs to forget the relationships and think quickies instead. He’s young, hot, and would have little problem finding eager partners.

Gay Of The Week: Taylor Lautner

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A gay boy and his chest.

Seems like I’m on a roll and have just been honoring out gay men lately in our Gay of the Week category.

What?

He didn’t come out yet?

Oooops, my bad. Never mind.

So then, let’s just pretend Taylor Lautner is a straight boy for a minute. LOL. Sorry, can’t do it, cant even keep a straight face for that one. Preteen girls who haven’t reached puberty yet may fall for that one, but anyone above that age, anyone who has sprouted a few curly hairs, knows that the only moon that boy howls at is a pink one.

And for proof you need look no further than Taylor’s recent V Mag cover shot with the boy obliviously channelling Grace Jones. Um, Taylor? I don’t think that’s quite what they had in mind when they told you that you need to butch it up a bit.

Seriously, does this boy have a publicist?

Taylor channels Grace Jones.

Not being a teenage girl, I’d missed Taylor initial emergence onto the scene. He starred in the Twilight vampire movies, which being marketed to the aforementioned teenage girls was of no interest to me. But after seeing a few shirtless shots of the boy and realizing he’d become legal over the last few years, I took a closer look. Nice bod. Killer abs. Obviously gay.

I rented the first Twilight movie. It sucked as badly as promised. But it did answer the is he or isn’t he question. First scene Taylor lights up the screen in he’s wearing hair extensions that’d make Lindsay Lohan jealous, and tossing his hair and flicking it out of his face in a manner that would make Richard Simmons look straight. I mean not a little bit gay, but full on fuck-me-daddy-fem-boy-god-I-love-dick gay. What had been rumor, became truth. Is he gay? A better question might be is he a top or a bottom. Uh, then again, I guess the answer to that one is fairly obvious too. Maybe a better question is. “If you name your son Taylor shouldn’t you buy him knee pads as well?”

Damsel in distress alert! Taylor tries on a straight face in the Twilight movie.

Hollywood insiders of course can spot a rainbow colored gerbil a mile away, so as for Taylor’s sexuality it’s not so much an open secret as a much alluded to fact. Or outright acknowledged. At this year’s MTV Movie awards while teeny bopper fans were breathlessly waiting for the big kiss between Kristen Stewart and Taylor’s Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson, Rob turned to Kristen, looked deeply into her eyes, and said, “I don’t feel like kissing you!”

And then added, “I just think there’s someone else in the audience who I think will appreciate it a little more.” And headed into the crowd to lock lips with Taylor. Yup, it really was Taylor’s big night.

Several months later at the MTV VMA awards, referring to the kiss, Taylor was asked if he kissed or was kissed by Pattinson. “I was definitely kissed. It was quite a shocker…I honestly have no idea how I’m going to top that,” replied Taylor. Uh, babes? You won’t be topping that. Half of your appeal is that you’re a natural bottom.

Publicist? Hello? Do your job!

Taylor looking his butchest during a red carpet interview on MTV.

Then consider Taylor’s infamous interview in Rolling Stone Magazine, where the interviewer pressed him about his sexuality:

“Another possibility is that maybe you’re just sort of discovering yourself,” Rolling Stone asked.

“OK,” Taylor said.

”…As a young person trying to figure out his sexual identity in the world,” the mag continued.

“OK. I see where you’re going,” Taylor said. “Interesting choice.”

“It is a possibility,” the mag pushed.

“There’s a lot of rumors out there,” Taylor replied.

What’s telling about that exchange is not Taylor’s lack of denial, but that the interviewer felt justified in asking about the boy’s fondness for dick. And that the magazine felt justified in publishing the exchange.

Taylor’s beautiful bod. Shame about the face thingy.

Taylor too must realize the fag’s out of the bag, feeling comfortable enough with what everyone already knows to attend a party recently thrown by openly gay X-Men director Bryan Singer who is known for throwing bashes with loads of gay Hollywood types. Taylor partied his ass off along with a houseful of other gay men, staying into the wee hours of the morning. Seriously, he’s gotta be using Britney Spears’ publicist.

At the age of 19, Taylor is a bit young for my taste, but there is no denying he’s a little hottie. In 2010, Lautner was ranked number two on Glamour’s 50 Sexiest Men of 2010 list. Men’s Health ranked him at third on their list of Top 10 Summer Bodies. He was ranked fourth on People’s Most Amazing Bodies list, and was named number one on Access Hollywood’s Top 5 Hollywood Abs list. And came in on the top spot of Ricky Martin’s Top Guys I’d Like To Do If Only They Were A Top list.

Taylor’s bod is quite impressive, but age has not been as kind to his face. Cute kid is quickly being replaced with WTF? Ricky could wait until he was in his 30s to come out, he’s still a hunk. Taylor needs to open the closet door before his looks fail further. It won’t be long before the only role open to him is Frank the Pug in the next Men in Black movie.

Taylor takes his buddy out for a run to study how best to play his next role.

Taylor has a new movie opening tomorrow, Abduction, which has been heavily promoted on Amber Alert highway signs across the country. And it was the promotion of his new flick that finally prompted me to honor him with a Gay of The Week post. There is an on-line sweepstakes with the top prize being a trip to NYC to meet the boys of the A-List, a reality TV show that follows the lives of a group of ‘A-List’ gay men. The contest is being brought to you by Taylor’s new movie. The only possible tie-in between the reality TV show and Abduction is the sexuality of the respective stars. The boy really does need to find a new publicist. Or just bend over and own up to playing for our team.

You can win a trip to NYC to hang out with a bunch of gay men, thanks to Taylor . . . who is absolutely not gay (wink, wink).