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I’m not sure why, but I’m really delighted that the new gay.com appears to be tanking. It’s alarmingly slow, the interface looks really corporate, and chat rooms that used to have hundreds of people in them now have maybe a few dozen.
To coincide with the relaunch, there’s a new Mr Gay.com event happening. Today is, I think, the last day to vote in the first round of the competition. There are fifty contestants in each of five categories: Silver Fox, Muscle Stud, Boy Next Door, Jock, and Community Leader. The contestants themselves picked what category they were entered in, and the whole thing was first-come, first-served, which means this is clearly going to fail.
Mind you, if I were going to post pictures of myself on a gay website that was in the middle of a big relaunch, I might take the effort to, say, take pictures with something besides my phone. Or take pictures that weren’t blurry. Or maybe check the definitions of Silver Fox and Community Leader before I nominated myself to be in those categories.
Similarly, if I were a major media corporation that was relaunching my website with an interactive jpeg pageant, I might screen the contestants to make sure that they weren’t totally hideous. And I would spell-check their bios, too.
But, you know, I’m not the average gay.com visitor. And I’m certainly not the gay.com marketing department.
So, let’s have a looksee at some of the nominees in the Silver Fox category, shall we?
In the silver fox category, I first caught 28-year old Rahit Sharma. Not ugly, I guess, but not a fox. And definitely not a silver fox. He’s ranked fourteenth, though.
Kevin Carlson, currently ranked fourth, thinks it’s a really big deal that he’s over thirty. “I also want to be Mr Gay.com,” he says in his statement, “because I want to be the role model for all guys over 30 and let them see that even over 30 we can still be hot and sexy. I also want to show everyone out there that disreguard us that are over 30 that we are just as interesting and fun to be around. “ Way to be totally insecure now that the twinks are ignoring you, assface.
I much prefer James Bronson (see photo above), who’s over fifty but photographs himself in the style (and wardrobe!) of fifteen-year olds who just discovered Myspace. He’s currently 49th out of 50, though. Beating him is Roy Hays, the father of three who has no idea of how a camera works. And then there’s Wally Blair, who, to be positive, sure has guts. As does Jeremy Slaseman, who looks young enough to know how the internet works and who nevertheless put pictures of his pasty self wearing red lipstick in the damn Silver Fox category!
So is there any good eye candy among this smorgasbord of ghastliness? Well, there’s 38-year old Kelly Stern, who has some gray stubble and looks good with his shirt off. He’s winning, as he should, which means there’s some hope for the world, I guess. There’s also Alex Garbera (5th), who has big muscles and a red beard (which is one of my favorite things in the whole world.) Dan Catalon (ranked 11th) would be a good third place vote, because I like a man with some shape to his beard, even if his pictures are remarkably uninspiring.
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