Nick Youngquest

Rugby player and model. Straight.

Perfection

Bloke du Jour

Ozzie rugby player Bernard Foley

Gay Marriage

A Cathy Wilcox cartoon (from The Sydney Morning Herald)

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Gareth Thomas

Gay rugby player.

Ben Cohen

Straight but not strait. The handsome and thoughtful Ben Cohen, who is straight but gay friendly. A top bloke. Good on him!

Michael Hooper

Ozzie rugby player. Any time.

Johnathon Thurston

Ozzie rugby player

Rugby's Leigh Halfpenny

Speed o Rex: Wales: Rugby's Leigh Halfpenny: As you may know, Wales is something of a rugby-crazy place, such that a homegrown superstar like Leigh Halfpenny en...

George Burgess

Ozzie rugby player. Yum.

George Burgess

An Ozzie rugby player.

So much for tolerance

Jay Claydon of the Sydney Convicts [Pic The Age/SMH]

Ppl keep on saying that being gay is tolerated now, and things are improving, yadda yadda.  And so they are.   Somewhat.  But even in tolerant civilised New Zealand  ...

It started with whispers in the change rooms and ended with a call from his coach.

At 18, Jay Claydon had told close friends and family he was gay. They accepted him. But inside his rugby club, he didn't feel safe coming out. He was right to be fearful.

"At training one night, people were looking at me funny. Somehow they'd found out.

"On the Friday night, I got a call from my coach saying the players had taken a vote at a meeting behind my back and they weren't comfortable having me in the team any more. He said, 'they don't want you to come back.' "

[Read more here]

 How cruel.  How vile.  How horrible.  How it reminds me of my youth.  

Pigs.

Rugby player in Speedos

Rugby players have much heavier bodies than footy players.

Sean Lamont

Scottish rugby player

Irresistible

Ben Ross & Dave Taylor

Rugby wedgie

Anthony Minichiello

He's the bloke in the black swimshorts, next to his teammate in the Rival swimbriefs (dunno his name, but I like his tatts and his speedos).

An interesting face.  And the usual boring-boring applies.  He's not gay, just 'cos he's here.

Michael Witt

He's an Ozzie rugby player. Straight -- I think! -- but gay friendly (he appeared in Attitude magazine)

Juan Manuel Leguizamon

Look at those shorts!  On that body.

French/Hispanic rugby players seem to be slimmer and more beautiful than their Anglo counterparts.