LGBTQ news and entertainment
Thanks to JoeMyGod for pointing out this clip of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team performing the Haka Dance.
The All Blacks performed this dance, shirtless and in the pouring rain, in celebration of their victory over England 26-7.
You can thank me later 🙂
Well, this happened during Saturday’s Six Nations rugby match-up between Ireland and Italy.
That smiling face peering through Italian thighs and rumps belongs to Rob Kearney, a rugby player for Ireland’s national team.
Someone was brilliant enough to capture the moment and set it to “A Whole New World” from Aladdin.
Ireland defeated Italy today 46-7 in a matchup in the Six Nations Championship, for those wondering.
Looks like Kearney seemed to enjoy it.
(via Deadspin)
Behind the scenes video at the photo shoot for the All Blacks New Zealand rugby team for their new sponsor – Jockey.
The Nashville Grizzlies, a USA Rugby Division III club, needs your help and they’re willing to give the shirts off their broad backs to prove it.
While the Grizzlies have published their naked calendar for three years, this time around they’ve brought professional photographer Chris Malone onboard to handle the touch job of shooting the athletes.
Funds raised from sales of the calendar will go towards sending the Grizzlies to the 2014 Bingham Cup — named in honor of Mark Bingham who died on United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11, 2001 attacks — in Sydney, Australia.
Check out the 2014 Nashville Grizzlies calendar here.
(via Queerty)
Currently playing for AS Carcassonne in the South of France, rugby star Stuart Reardon is smart, funny and has a heart.
Outspoken about Russia’s recent anti-gay laws, Reardon thinks going to the Games would make a bigger statement than boycotting: “What’s happened over there is disgusting,” Reardon tells Gay Times magazine. “If I was a gay athlete I think it would send a stronger message to go. Being in the public eye, you have a wider opportunity to voice your opinion to a wider audience and send a positive message. That would make more of an impact than boycotting.”
Oh, and he’s pretty easy on the eyes also 🙂
Read more at Gay Times.
Naked self-pics of Aussie rugby hunk “Gorgeous” George Burgess have gone viral, reminding us all why you never send photos of your dick to anyone…at least not with your face showing. It’s Online Hooking-Up 101.
Word is his rugby team will not be taking any action due to the pics.
It’s all in the genes, I’d say since George not only has an equally hot twin, but two more hunky brothers.
DNA can be a beautiful thing.
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| Oops – George Burgess takes and shares some naked pics |
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| George with twin Tom |
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| The brothers Burgess |
(source)
Australian rugby star and LGBT ally Nick Youngquest is the face of “Invictus”, a new fragrance for men by Paco Rabanne, which debuted the first commercial today.
The video follows Youngquest “through the euphoria of victory” as he parts a sea of photographers, dominates his opponents on the field and brings home a trophy—all while remaining shirtless and smelling like a million bucks, obviously.
(via Queerty)
British rugby star James Haskell appears shirtless and more on the cover of July’s Attitude magazine.
Talking on the taboo of gays in major sports:
‘I’ve got a big gay following on Twitter so it’s an honour for me to be in Attitude.
“I’m surprised that across all sports more people haven’t come out because going by sheer statistics there have to be lots of gay sportsmen, right?
“I hate the idea of people feeling they can’t just be themselves and personally I wouldn’t give a s**t if any of my team-mates were gay.’”
Fellow rugby star Matt Jarvis has also posed on the front cover of Attitude magazine this year.
(via Towleroad)
