The Winter Olympics have always been a crack-like love for me, and at the heart of that crack is, yes, figure skating (sorry, hockey, you get the silver). Thanks in large part to my dear mother, I became obsessed during the 1988 Calgary games, and have watched every single Olympic figure skating competition since. Yes: Those were the gayest two sentences I’ve ever blogged. But, wait, it gets gayer. So last night after my third hour of watching the men’s singles competition (which - if you are among the few that care - was above-average fabulous), I for some reason decided that its appropriate to gather together for you the dreamiest figure skaters of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics… (for those of you more into the more conventional athletic types, check out this tastefully done portfolio of shirtless Canadian Olympians). Enjoy, and don’t judge me:
There’s Stephane Lambiel of Switzerland:
and Samuel Contesti of Italy:
and Alexander Smirnov of Russia (who is actually in pairs):
and then, of course, there is ridiculous sexiness that is France’s Brian Joubert:
Which is only heightened by a quick google image search that shows a variety of somewhat scandalous photos, that, yes, I have included after the jump (NSFWish).
“We’re talking about taking the penis of a man and putting it in the rectum of another man and wriggling it around in excrement. And you have to think, would I want that to be done to me?” - New Hampshire State Representative Nancy Elliott, R-Merrimack, speaking in the executive session on HB 1590, to repeal same-sex marriage. Happy Valentines Day!
Alright, so this isn’t actually it. It’s Ryan James Yezak’s ultra gay pre-actual video spoof starring Scott Nelson & Luna Flare. The Jonas Akerlund-directed real video for the song - which I guiltily admit has been in heavy rotation on my iPod since Christmas - is out any minute now, but in the meantime this dragged up amateur edition is more than worth a few minutes of your time:
I’ve never watched a Super Bowl (no, not even for the commercials), have a very vague idea as to how football even works (though thats improved significantly thanks to Friday Night Lights.. now I know there’s something called a “touch down” involved and that the most sought after position on the field is something called a “quartered back”).
However, this photo from last night’s game (thanks, Eug!), is amazing. And thus, my first and last Super Bowl related post:
The GLAAD Media Award nominations were announced this morning, with the three obvious choices - “Precious,” “A Single Man” and “Taking Woodstock” - all in the best film in a wide release category (though “A Single Man”‘s release has been far from wide), joining stretching-for-it nominees “Everybody’s Fine” and “I Love You, Man” (At least its a jump up from 3 years ago, when “Stardust,” “Across The Universe” and “The Jane Austen Book Club” was the best they could do).
But, hey, why isn’t Kirby Dick’s politician-outing “Outrage” in the documentary category? Dick’s sadly underseen film went to great lengths to expose some incredible hypocrisy that is one of the backbones of homophobia the United States, and to encourage dialogue about it. Glad to see “Derek” and “The Topp Twins” make the cut (I haven’t seen the other three), but “Outrage” most definitely deserves recognition for what it set out to do.
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