Hot gay sex and Jay Leno’s gayest look

Image by my friend Jack Shamama.

This week’s SF Chronicle column is Hot gay sex is for homophobes: Psych study links homophobia and homoerotic arousal; Violet Blue wants Jay Leno to know he’s safe. The comments are already over 500 and my inbox is crammed with everything from comments like, “What a crock of Shit article Violet! Get a life. Loine Hanson – ex SF Gay” to, “so awesome that you unearthed the study about homophobia and arousal – i was at the university of georgia when the study took place, and had a friend who participated (…) it made me all kinds of happy to picture the bone-headed frat boys, who spouted so many gay sentiments, getting chubbies. thanks!” Here’s a snip:

It happens every time I innocently go to the neighborhood grocery store for soy milk. You see, I live in the Castro, in San Francisco, and everyone knows what that means.

The streets are teeming with homosexuals. It’s just like in those horror-movie fundamentalist videos: Everyone’s in leather with their bits and butts on display; murderous Baby Jane drag queens run amok day and night; gay sex is happening in the streets at all hours. There’s a huge lube slide at the corner of 18th and Castro by the Bank of America, where of course, virgin straight men are sacrificed should they wander haplessly into our own little Sodom-by-the-Bay. And because I’m a heathen too, every once in a while I lure and toss a straight boy into the fray, just for kicks. It’s like a zombie movie, but gayer.

Don’t get your homophobic hopes up; It’s not really that fun in my neighborhood. But the gaya hatas love to obsess, their imaginations running wild with Bacchanalian scenarios far more creative (or physically impossible, a la “South Park”) than anything Falcon or Raging Stallion’s best porn screenwriters can come up with. Unfortunately, as we all know, homophobes get so lathered and frothy about the things they hate that they take action, sometimes political, sometimes physical and occasionally with murderous intent.

Most of the time they just look like asshats. Poster child: Jay Leno.

On March 20, Leno welcomed as his guest on “The Tonight Show” the actor Ryan Phillippe, who played a gay character early in his career on the daily soap “One Life to Live.” During the interview, Leno relentlessly reminded Phillippe about the role and continued with more awkward sexualization, causing Phillipe to remark more than once about leaving the show. At one point, Leno urged him to look into the camera and pretend it was his “gay lover … Billy Bob,” who “has just ridden in shirtless from Wyoming” and give it his “gayest look.”

At which point Heath Ledger rose from the grave, and gave Leno his gayest look.

Visit the Web site My Gayest Look … (…read the rest.)

This piece also has a nice link from Queerty (thank you!) and was totally inspired by seeing my friend Chriso‘s photo of his “gayest look” for Jay Leno. Thank you, Chriso!

Update 4/4: The Raw Story also picked this column up and ran with it! Check out Sex educator to Leno: Homophobia and homoerotic tendencies linked, their pull quotes from my piece are funny. Meanwhile — ZOMFG, the comments on my column are at 1,642! I have never seen so many comments on anything, holy moly…