I'M COMING FOR ALL OF YOU!!!
Wednesday Woof Rerun: Washington Capitals' Brooks Laich and a buncha hot rugby players. Some of the above photos were taken by San Diego Dan, who has a new batch of nice photos to share, this time alternating photos of bodybuilders and zoo animals. Here's one of my favorites from San Diego Dan:
On Thursday I will travel to Las Vegas with the rugby team where we will play the Sin City Irish in a friendly rugby match to top off the season. It should be fun, and the day before the match I'll be hiking with some of my chill laid-back masc str8 buds in the nearby Valley of Fire. And to balance it all later that evening me and The Gays will go out to experience the aquatic spectacular LE RÊVE.
Friends in photos: Skwurl playin' Ultimate frisbee with his naturally masculine, chill laid-back buds, and Josh's 'stache progress.
You can donate to Josh at the link provided and try to bribe him to keep it in the name of prostate cancer research. I have been trying for years to get him to keep wearing his 'stache to no avail. Perhaps a donation will help.
To the left is a video about a 'stached Speedo and chain-wallet guy. Somewhat safe for work.
All of the above links should keep you busy while I'm gone, right?
"No. Not now. Not ever. Do you hear me? I will use every cannon, every bomb, every bullet, every weapon I have down to my own eye teeth to end you! I swear it! I'm coming for all of you!!!" - President Laura Roslin
No more Mr. Nice Gay in DC - activist Phil Attey channels Colonial President Laura Roslin with the new outing tool ChurchOuting.org. It's in response to another attack from the Catholic Church, this time they threaten to withdraw support for sheltering and the homeless in The District of Columbia. In other words, the Catholic Church in DC would rather hate on the gays than do Jesus-like activities such as feeding hungry people.
I really, really don't get it. Can't they see it makes them look really un-Christian? Anyway, there are bound to be closeted self-loathing homos in any Catholic heirarchy, otherwise they wouldn't be attacking the gays so vehemently. In general, emotionally secure straight people have other things to do than to go after homos. So Phil is taking a wise step and going after these fucktards. There may be somewhat open gays embedded in there too, but they have been far too quiet. It's time to strike back at this institution and tear down the hypocrites who have nothing better to do than to hate on that which they secretly admire, but openly loathe.
I have committed to going to Provincetown for a week in August with Dreamy Ron again. It should be a fun time. The last time I went there I met lots of nice people, as it seems easier to meet people when I'm on vacation - even if they're from the same city. In one instance there was a gay couple who lived on my block who couldn't even give me a simple nod as they walked their dogs by me, but when I met them in Provincetown I couldn't get them to stop talking. I don't get it...why do you need to be less social in your home environment, but then act in such a friendly way only while on vacation? My problem is that I assume the latter should be the norm, and it isn't in DC which drives me nuts. I'm naturally friendly but my outgoing nature isn't often met with warmth in this city.
I recall "Priest" as being one of the first films I saw on my own with a gay story front and center. I even travelled into Stockholm two weekends in a row to see it twice. Robbie Carlyle was one hot, rough man. His role in SG Universe isn't as hot, but he was my first of many cinematic crushes of guys playing real gay characters. He and Paul Rudd in Object of My Affection.
Since the site mainly goes for American Roman Catholics, I'm seeing it more as an intra-mural thing, especially as I think there is an opportunity to branch out and find certain reverends with DSLs.
A friend of ours went to see Le Rêve last year and said it was a waste of money - sort of Cirque du Soleil Lite - but that may be more a matter of personal taste. Hope Sin City lives up to its name for you.
Between the organized hate (it isn't just the Catholic church in DC... its all the local churches attended by hoardes of PG County Marylanders, too....) and the anti-social, Type-A attitudes of the general population:
Why Do You Live There?!
Now, let's factor in all the crime, the high cost of living, the congestion, etc. and ask the same question: why?
What you said. What is it with the guys here anyway? I am always surprised at how closed up DC is. Is it the city, the people that it attracts, do people become that way once they are here?
As someone who has moved more often than most, I can tell you there is an apt saying that applies to all the people who spend aeons complaining about things:
"You can either try to make it better, or you can move. These are the only options." Pick one, and go for it.
I think it would be wonderful (and would piss off the Catholic Church to no end) if the GLBT community stepped in and started supporting through time and donations the very services that the Catholic Church threatens to withdraw. That would send a fantastic message—we will be the voice and the hands of compassion and caring when prejudice closes others' hearts. And it would render the Church's threat impotent.