Out of all the comic-book heroes, no one will ever be as impossibly sexy as Wolverine. He's Canadian, he's rugged, he's hairy, he has claws that jut out of his hands that look like they might be fun in bed . . . He's kinda the total package.

Well, good news: Wolverine is going gay! Sorta. In the new issue of X-Treme X-Men #10, an alternate-universe Wolverine is not only openly gay, but he even has a Tom of Finland boyfriend. *SPLOOSH*

In the latest issue of Marvel’s X-Treme X-Men #10, Wolverine gets a new, muscular lover in demigod Hercules, one who urges him to wear more leather. Because that is what boyfriends do! Sadly, this Wolverine is from an alternate universe (as is that other Green Lantern, it’s kinda hard for us mere mortals here to understand), so don’t expect to see Hugh Jackman getting it on with a dude any time soon. [SOURCE]

Oh god, is it weird that I'm already thinking about what the sex is like? I feel like we need to know this. This is vital information we're dealing with here. I bet they're into the weird stuff. Please let them be into the weird stuff. 

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What's that? Another flimsy excuse to post gratuitously sexy pictures of Brendon Ayanbadejo? DON'T MIND IF I DO.

 
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Anyway, I'm not going to go too in depth about the Super Bowl last night -- seriously, grown men threw a ball up and down a field. How is that news? -- except to say that Brendon Ayanbadejo's team won. Yes, Brendon Ayanbadejo, one of the posterboys for the equality movement in the NFL, capped off what has been a great year by winning the goddamn Super Bowl and then following it up with an ad in support of marriage equality.

And did we mention he happens to be gloriously sexy? Because I definitely feel like that needs to be addressed. As often as possible. With pictures. 

Sure, no major athletes came out this year, but 2012 was still a pretty good year for queer people in sports: tons of major league athletes openly talked about how they'd support openly gay teammates. There may not yet be an openly gay athlete, but at least the groundwork has been laid.

And according to HuffPo's Jon Paul Fiorentino, 2013 may see the first openly gay athlete, if the change in sports culture is any indication.

In women's sports, the tide has already started to turn. Olympic soccer player Megan Rapinoe came out this year and received an outpouring of support by her teammates and fans. The men are lagging behind. I believe this has to do with to an outdated code of secrecy, shame, and silence that pervades professional sports.

Men have been stunted by the notion of traditional "family values" that is conjured when participating in sports as fans or as athletes. Indeed, hatred (dressed up as traditional values) led to a Emmitt C. Burns Jr.'s repellant attempt to suppress another American's right to freedom of expression by claiming to speak for the traditional "fan base." As Frank Bruni points out, "The possibility that coming out might rankle management or sour fans ... keeps gay athletes in the closet."

It appears that the culture of professional sports is still largely a culture of bullying. But thanks in part to Ayanbadejo and Kluwe, as well as Patrick Burke's groundbreaking "You Can Play Project" (whose slogan "Gay Athletes. Straight Allies. Teaming Up For Respect" says it all), the culture is changing. These activists have elevated the discourse in a world that is notorious for its rigid, limited, and archaic notions of heternormativity. 

Personally, I'm really hoping that Brendon Ayanbadejo was actually gay this whole time. I mean, my god, have you seen that man? That is just an impossibly gorgeous man. 

It's hard to get into comics these days, and it's not just because there's an insane amount of canonical back story for each universe and you need to parse through the entire thing to fully appreciate modern-day comics. It's because there's an insane amount of latent sexism under the surface.

Seriously, look at this shit:

What the hell is this? Either they just removed this poor woman's spine so that her boobs and butt could be facing the audience at all times, or she was hit by a train and her body is now a mangled, twisted octopus of misogynistic paraphilia. Either way, something is severely not right here.

Sensing that something was amiss, artist Noelle Stevenson of Gingerhaze came up with a way to fix all the sexist poses:

How to fix every Strong Female Character pose in superhero comics: replace the character with Hawkeye doing the same thing.

And thus was born The Hawkeye Initiative, a Tumblr where artists would draw the Avengers' Hawkeye in sexy poses to highlight how incredibly stupid they were. The drawings range from professional-looking . . .

To adorably cartoony . . .

To disturbingly arousing.

But seriously, there's nothing inherently wrong with sex appeal. Being sexy on your own terms, in ways that make you feel comfortable, is great. That's the kind of sex appeal we should be encouraging. But there's a difference between that and a man creating this weird, wholly impossible sexual ideal where woman contort themselves into these fucked-up, sexy jellyfish monsters because god forbid, we go one panel without seeing both Wonder Woman's boobs and ass. Please, for god's sake, cut these stupid poses out. We get it: you've never actually met a real woman before. No more of this shit. 

And by "martini" I meant his butt. Wordplay! (Barely.)

Anyway, if you've been keeping up with the latest James Bond movies, you might have noticed that they've been getting better, and also gayer. It's a correlational thing, really. The Bond films have always had an undercurrent of gayness to them, but ever since Daniel Craig stepped into the role, said undercurrents have been pushed further to the forefront.

This has led to more than a few people asking whether James Bond might be gay, though oddly, no one's asking if he's bisexual, which seems way more likely at this point. Anyway, Bond screenwriter Josh Logan decided to clear things up, and the short answer is: possibly bisexual, but who knows?

“Some people claim it’s because I’m, in fact, gay but it’s not true at all,” he said. “Sam [Mendes] and I were discussing, there were so many scenes where Bond goes mano-a-mano with the villain, whether it’s Dr No or Goldfinger or whatever.

“There’s been so many ways to do a cat-and-mouse and intimidate Bond, and we thought, what would truly make the audience uncomfortable is sexual intimidation; playing the sort of homoerotic card that is sort of always there subtextually with characters like Scaramanga in Man with the Golden Gun or Dr No.

“So we just decided that we should play the card and enjoy it.”

James Bond actor Daniel Craig, also addressed the scene between Bond and agent-turned-villain Raoul Silva, played by Javier Bardem, in which the villain unbuttons Bond’s shirt, and makes a sexually-suggestive comment, to which Bond replies: “What makes you think this is my first time?” [SOURCE]

So basically, Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem were eye-banging each other the entire time, and they got Adele to sing the theme song for this one? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY. I don't care what the plot is, just let me watch Craig and Bardem fuck each other with their gazes.