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The XXX Games

What too soon? Sorry, but if retail establishments can start selling Christmas merchandise in August, there’s no reason I can’t begin hyping the Olympics some six months in advance. And since my coverage is going to be all about guys with incredibly hot bodies, you shouldn’t complain.

I’d warn you that if you are not into sports, it’s gonna be a difficult six months for you because I’ll be covering the important stories up to and through the games. But then like most gay men, I focus on the really hot guys more than the sports, and gravitate toward men’s gymnastics and men’s aquatic events. So it’s not so much about athletics but rather mastabatory fantasies. I’m sure you’ll be able to bear with me.

With 98 male gymnasts alone, there are plenty of studs to cover. Throw in the divers, swimming events (damn I wish they’d go back to Speedos!), water polo, boxing, wrestling, volleyball, rugby, and even track and field events for those who like their men wiry, and there is a smorgasbord overflowing with hotness just waiting to be devoured. And don’t forget the Equestrian events: not much male flesh to see but it turns out those guys are even gayer than ice skaters.

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Extremely buff men from all over the world will descend on London late July of this year.

The regular news media covers the games and top athletes, and once the events start taking place it’ll be Olympics everywhere you look. But other than an occasional color story, they shy away from out athletes and gay issues at the games. I’ll be featuring posts about both. Along with the hunks who don’t get the TV coverage they should. In the U.S. by the way, NBC will be offering 200 hours of coverage of the games during its prime-time schedule, though due to the time difference most coverage will not be live. The Opening and Closing Ceremonies, gymnastics, diving, and swimming will all be offered in 3D this year. Which should provide some pretty amazing bulges.

Over the last year I’ve already brought several gay Olympic hottie hopefuls to your attention, and there will be lots more eye candy headed your way. Of course the real media outlets don’t get away with speculative rumors (much) but since this is the internet I can. And am almost required to do so; it’s a tradition on the web. So while everyone will be covering out Olympic diver Matt Mitcham, I’ll also be cluing you in to which athletes might be sneaking into his room at night.

So we’re just a mere six months away from the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London and it looks like this time around they will be downright pink. And not just because they are being held in the land of ‘The English Disease” but the IOCC is going out of its way to be gay inclusive to boot.

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The London 2012 Olympics Committee has issued a Olympic pin honoring the LGBT community.

The London 2012 Olympics Committee (LOCOG) issued, and began selling at London’s Pride, an official Olympic pin honoring the LGBT community. The pin, featuring a rainbow, the London Olympic logo and the Olympic symbol, is a sure sign that the committee aims to include the gay community in the upcoming games.

“Our diversity badge range, starting with the LGBT pin, is a way of showing our support for a sporting environment built upon equality and inclusion,” said London 2012 CEO Paul Deighton.

The first pin was presented to out gay rugby player Gareth Thomas who said, “ I hope that everyone will buy and wear their pin badge with pride and help us achieve greater inclusion in sport.”

The LOCOG hopes their small step toward recognizing the gay community will help combat homophobia and ward off the idea that LGBT athletes must stay closeted. And they also hope to reach the public – the millions of men and woman who watch the Olympic games.

“If we can reach a young gay guy in Doncaster who is in the closet or a young gay woman in Wales who is in the closet and they can see the biggest event in the world with LGBT people at the heart of that, then the whole thing is about inclusion,” says Stephen Frost, who is in charge of the LOCOG’s diversity efforts for this year’s Olympic Games.

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Pride House London will be a base for LGBT competitors, officials, and fans during the Games.

Our community is also getting support during the games through the Pride House London, the second Pride House to join the line-up of Olympic houses and the first to be present at a summer games. Olympic houses are hospitality centres that showcase music, performances, food, demonstrations, art exhibits, culture, game viewing opportunities, and appearances by athletes. Many nations sponsor houses, as do numerous special interests groups and communities. They serve as refuges and hang-out spots for athletes and fans but also venues for countries and groups to showcase themselves. They are also great places to party your ass off. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, the Holland House alone sold more than 21,000 gallons of Heineken.

Pride House London, a base for LGBT competitors and officials during the Games and a place to break down barriers of homophobia in the sports arena, will be one of the largest houses in London next summer, and is expecting more than 250,000 visitors over seventeen days. The gay community’s hospitality house will hold several special events during the Olympics, including appearances by gay athletes, out Olympic competitors, and friends of the LGBT community from the sports world. Former NBA star John Amaechi, human rights activist Peter Tatchell, film producer David Furnish (Elton John’s husband) and actor/author Stephen Fry have been named as ambassadors of Pride House London.

Closer to home and taking a different tack, protests over the selection of Peter Vidmar, a gold medal winning athlete (I think his event was bigotry), as Chief of Mission for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team resulted in his resignation from the post earlier this year, less than two weeks after being awarded the position. Vidmar’s selection caused outrage within the LGBT community due to his outspoken support of Prop. 8, a California initiative that bans same-sex marriage. In his resignation address Vidmar stated he was stepping down so that his presence would not “become a detriment to the U.S. Olympic family.” He said that he hoped that by stepping aside, the athletes and their stories would rightly take center stage. At the same time he noted that it was unfair that his “personal religious beliefs would not have become a distraction from the amazing things that are happening in the Olympic movement in the United States.”

Nice Petey, but I don’t think it was the god you pray to that upset so many people. It was your bigoted attempt to support a political agenda that prevents other Americans from exercising the same rights as you enjoy. Well, okay, and maybe the magic underwear thingy, too.

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Not all Olympic gymnasts are gay, some are bigoted Mormon homophobes. And maybe a little bit gay.

The last Summer Olympic Games, held in Beijing, fielded only one openly gay male athlete, Matthew Mitcham, the Aussie gold medalist in diving (there were also nine lesbians and one bisexual, but ya know fish and confused so who cares?) There were five at the games in Athens (with five more fish rounding out the LGBT field). Though there have been nineteen gay medalists throughout the history of the Olympic Games, our community has been vastly under-represented. Things may be looking up for the 2012 Games. Many national teams have yet to be determined and not all qualification events have taken place, but there are quite a few potential competitors who are out, proud, and may be part of the pink team in London.

The Games of the XXX Olympiad will be held from July 27 to August 12, 2012 in and around London, England.

[‘The XXX Games’ are a series of posts about hot Olympians, gay competitors – both present and past – and general articles about the 2012 London Olympics of interest to gay men. So, yeah, lots of hot male eye candy. Click the XXX Games graphic below for additional news, stories, and pictures.]

The XXX Games of the Olympiad