Just because. I have been a bit slack with posting lately I know, so I thought I’d share some fit naked men with you.
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This article and interview with Gareth Thomas, now 8 months after publicly coming out, proves what an extraordinary man he is. So strong, down to earth, humble and apparently a genuinely nice guy. We love it.
It’s amazing to see the difference in levels of prudishness and censorship around the world. In the U.S. a contestants hint of bum crack on Survivor gets blurred out, but in New Zealand they post video on official news sites of the Annual Nude Rugby match complete with full frontal action!
Thanks to James for sending me the link. If anyone has the embeddable file, please let me know!
Capoeira is a form of exercise that I would love to have a go at one day. A brazilian form of martial arts and dance combined, it’s graceful, dynamic, cool and it looks like a bunch of fun. Some of the guys you see walking around who do it have amazing bodies so there are benefits to it clearly.
I found this video over at Active Naturists, and now capoeira makes even more sense to me. Although a badly timed move and you could be in a bit of pain.
Sydney’s gay waterpolo team is having a huge trivia night to raise money for it’s Gay Games campaign in Cologne this year. If you are free on Friday 18th June grab your friends and make a booking to come to the Paddington RSL club. Have a few beers, see how trivial your memory is and have lots of laughs. I’ve donated a photo shoot as one of the MANY prizes on offer.
Reserve your table (tables of 10) by emailing your details and the number of seats to info@sydneystingers.org.au and they’ll set aside your table.
Meet Jason Akermanis. Professional Australian Football League player and newspaper columnist. Jason has chosen this week, Anti Homophobia Week, to write a newspaper column telling all gay players that they should stay in the closet because he doesn’t think AFL is ready to deal with a gay player. He thinks the pressure on the first player to do so would “Tear the fabric” of the club.
He also went on to say that he doesn’t think it’s a safe environment to come out as it would make the other players in the team uncomfortable in the showers. “Akers” said that the players are at the height of masculinity and along with that comes homophobia.
Thankfully, another high profile player and a top coach have disputed his statements saying that they didn’t think anyone on their team would have a problem with a gay colleague.
Each year in the lead up to the Mardi Gras parade, I’m reminded that there are very different forms of fitness and body awareness. Our float is full of relatively fit people, we are lifesavers, we can swim out into the surf or paddle out through a big surf to rescue people.
The routines we have done over the last four parades have been fairly simple and a lot of fun, but I’m constantly amazed that a few people cannot even march in time to music. Each year there are one or two people that while they get the arm movements correct their feet are completely out of time. I cannot claim to be any kind of spectacular dancer but for me it makes it much easier if your feet and arms are both in time to the same beat, not one to the real beat and the other to some imaginary beat. Yet those same people can race a triathlon or get a drowning victim to shore easily.
None of this is in any way a criticism. I’m constantly fascinated by how different people are. Aerialists for example, are renowned for being clumsy on the ground, yet dangle them 8 metres off the ground and they’ll astound you with spectacular agility and grace. I’m not including myself in that statement either. I still run into things on the ground and trip over a shadow, but I’m not graceful up in the air.
Hudson Taylor is a champion for gay rights despite being a 23 year old straight college wrestler. The young man, who has political aspirations, proposed to his fiance after seeing Milk and has even worn an equality sticker during competition.
Taylor is very vocal about gay rights and also feminism and takes every opportunity to drop his cause into conversation and interviews. Enlightened athletes and straight men in general are an amazing addition to our movement towards equality. If Hudson is considering a political career or even a professional sporting career, being so vocal about such a controversial subject could definitely hamper his efforts yet he continues supporting us. Thank you Hudson.
Previously I’ve shown you the photos of the Dieux Du Stade calendar guys and the annual nude rugby match on the beach in New Zealand. Now I bring you this bunch of photos of a very real looking match of Rugby. I don’t have any details on where it is but judging by the dirt and grass stains on the guys bodies, they are playing for real. They certainly aren’t shy about physical contact with another nude man. Liberated footballers? It’s a rare thing, but a nice one.
I know a couple of bodybuilders and I would say, it has to be one of the most vain sports around. It is a sport solely and entirely devoted to how you look. I would also hazard a guess that, even for the straight guys, it’s about as gay as you can get. Sure it’s devoted to muscles and a perceived ideal of masculinity but it’s so waxed, fake tanned and preened it’s beyond belief. How many “straight” sports actually encourage straight men to wear very little and to look at other straight men and their bodies with a very keen eye.
This photo above made me laugh. Just how close to another man’s crotch can you get with fake tan before you feel a little gay?
For a few years a while back, I rowed surf boats. I have never been as fit as I was then. 250 kilograms of boat, with four rowers and a sweep (the guy at the back steering) piloting the boat through the unpredictable surf with their speedos wedged up their arse never knowing if you are going to make it back to the beach intact. SO much fun. The explanation of the wedgie thing is here.
Last night I sat down to watch “Tan Lines” on DVD. I’d bought it on impulse a couple of years ago now and hadn’t watched it in a while. I didn’t get very far into it before I remembered just how awful the movie is. The acting, script, story and photography are all bad. When you are filming a surfing movie, please invest in cameras that can get wet so you don’t have to put the actors in a rockpool pretending they are sitting in the surf. It’s easy to spot.
So instead I watched “Shelter” again. It’s a good movie that I think nearly everyone who has come out after their teens can identify with. My favourite surfing movie that doesn’t have as obvious a gay sub plot, is “Newcastle”. The cast are beautiful but very believable in their roles, the story is good and visually the film just nails it and the surfers are sitting in the surf, not in a rockpool.
A friend of mine had friends involved in “Tanlines” and when they were doing pre-production, a senior executive at a major surfing company said “Why are you making a gay surfing movie? There are no gay surfers.” That’s bullshit. While in sydney there are no gay surfing groups like there are for almost every other sport, surfing is a solitary sport and also fairly macho. Gay surfers are out there, quietly riding the waves and watching the swells come in, right beside the straight ones.
It’s very rare for a top level sportsman to come out during his career. So it’s a great day when Gareth Thomas, a Welsh National Rugby player has come out saying “I’m not going on a crusade, but I’m proud of who I am. I feel I have achieved everything I could ever possibly have hoped to achieve out of rugby, and I did it being gay. I want to send a positive message to other gay people that they can do it, too.”
Top level sport needs more athletes to be open about who they are, just as we need movie stars and business men and politicians to come out too. Why? To prove that we are capable, successful, intelligent people and not second rate citizens who don’t deserve equality.
Congratulations to Gareth and I wish him all the best and thanks. As he says, young kids need role models to know they aren’t the only ones out there.
So, you find yourself in Scotland at the Windsurfing Championships, competition is fierce, but you and a couple of mates have some spare time and the beach is pretty empty (as a windy beach in Scotland often would be I suspect). What do you do? That’s right, take off all your clothes and go nude windsurfing. And in the case of one of them, sail one handed while protectively cupping your nether regions the whole time so no one gets a photo of your icicle doodle.
I would hazard a guess that even if he wasn’t cupping his genitals, they wouldn’t be visible so much to the photographers. Scottish waters are cold enough at the best of times but in October on a windy, cloudy day? Damn near freezing I’d guess. Good on them for having a go. They are a hell of a lot tougher than I am.
A largely Muslim football team has been kicked out of a Paris football league because they made discriminatory remarks about and refused to play a gay team, citing “Our convictions are stronger than a game of football.”
Read the full article here.
