Here he is in uniform, with a nice (but slightly goofy) smile: (A note on the queering of interest in the Giants in my “Halloween Giants” posting, here.) You can in fact get the double view, identifying with male athletes the way straight guys do and (privately) lusting for them the way straight women do. In addition, if you’re a gay sports fan, you - along with straight women - can get the extra pleasure of thinking of athletes as sex objects - pieces of meat, as one friend of mine puts it. I think that’s just splendid.) Others, of course, think of pro sports as silly, childish, and deeply boring. (Some can segue from the NFL to opera to cooking while cruising in a leather bar. Plenty of gay men are enthusiastic sports fans, into football, hockey, basketball, or, yes, baseball and some are serious players. People sometimes express surprise that a gay man would be interested in baseball (or any other strongly masculine-ethos sport), as if getting your Queer Card™ meant you had to cleave only to conventionally faggy tastes, when in fact the Queer Card gives you license to cleave to whatever faggy tastes suit you and to reject whichever imperatives of hypernormative masculinity don’t suit you, while preserving the ones that work for you. I did … get caught up in Giantsmania, for the playoffs and the Series, this year as in 2010. On the pleasures of gay baseball fandom, from a posting of mine on December 12th: My guys in Friday’s game and last night’s: on Friday, Buster Posey had an RBI double in the first inning, and Hunter Pence followed two batters later with a run-scoring single yesterday, Posey hit a home run. It doesn’t seem to have been taken, but a search did pull up a rich vein of steamy RPF (real people fiction) involving Giants players, in particular Hunter Pence and Brandon Belt (another good potential porn name) as lovers and Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner as lovers. It also occurred to me that Hunter Pence wouldn’t be a bad name for a pornstar. (Buster Posey and Tim Lincecum were already on the list.) After my adventures with shirtless actors and tennis players, I thought to check for shirtless Hunter Pence, and bingo. These games moved me to add Hunter Pence to my list of favorite Giants players - favorite as players and as wonderful men to look at. The San Francisco Giants have been playing a series against the Arizona Diamondbacks I watched the beginnings of the games Friday night and last night - both Giants wins, 2-0 and 4-3 - at Three Seasons (while consuming sushi).
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