…LOUIS CK
Louis CK just gets me. Or I get him. Or something - there’s something there, I just know it. Ever since I saw his “Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy” bit on Conan, I was like “this guy’s so right”. Not in a Bill Hicks preacherman should’ve-been-President kind of way, but in the sense that he’s broken life down into its constituent parts, seen the little truths behind it, and said hilarious shit about them. And this clip of him talking about Ewan McGregor being the only guy he’d blow shows he’d totally be down with the concept of Gay For… (via animalnoise)
…STEPHANIE DE MONACO
So hot for this guy. What? Really? OK, but I reckon she’s still masculine enough to be a gay icon.
…PARASKEVAS BOUBOURAKAS
(via @katie_jane_rose) The man’s man’s manly male model of choice.
…ALBERT GRANT
Viewers of Big Love will know that Alby Grant is the son of a false prophet wrestling for control of a polygamist sect in the Mormon heartland of Utah. What they won’t know is that he inspires in me exactly the kind of “urges” that he himself is struggling with. With his witchy face and a ginger quiff that drains his already-pale face of its remaining colour, he’s not the most obvious hetero man-crush. But, like his ill-fated beau from Season 4, we can see sensitivity in him, and if we squint he starts to look like a sickly Josh Homme. Mmmm sickly.
The idea behind the album [The Downward Spiral] is of someone who sheds everything around them to a potential nothingness, but through career, religion, relationship, belief and so on. It’s less muscle-flexing, though when I started it I didn’t know what I wanted it to sound like. I knew I didn’t want to be a full metal album, so I tried to address the issue of restraint. It was a long process. Thematically I wanted to explore the idea of somebody who systematically throws or uncovers every layer of what he’s surrounded with, comfort-wise, from personal relationships to religion to questioning the whole situation. Someone dissecting his own ability to relate to other people or to have anything to believe in…With The Downward Spiral I tried to make a record that had full range, rather than a real guitar-based record or a real synth-based record. I tried to make it something that opened the palate for NIN, so we don’t get pigeon-holed. It was a conscious effort to focus more on texture and space, rather than bludgeoning you over the head for an hour with a guitar.
…JOHN STANIER
This one is a real music nerd’s homo crush. Stanier’s a DRUMMER. From veteran post-hardcore band HELMET. Still not hard? Well, not only did he give us post’s most fluid-yet-tight rhythms, but he’s provided the breakbeat backbone for Pitchshifter’s Deviant album and driven along the noodley experimentals of both Battles and Tomahawk (also featuring Gay For… icon Mike Patton). Plus, he has great taste in shirts.
Dude can thump my tubs any day.
…TOM HARDY
When he’s not dressing himself. Or showing off his shit tatts. Or rocking hair that makes him look like Bad Guy #1 in some godawful 80s action flick. In fact, forget it. I was going to call him something nice like Mr Charisma, for his star turn in Bronson, or tip him as the natural choice for the next Bond, or use some Inception-inspired innuendo about “going deep”… but I’ve changed my mind. My cheeks are now closed, Mr Hardy.
...Em & Lo →
OK, so Em & Lo are ladies, but I think of their website as a man; a man that I’m Gay For… Even if, as one of their Wise Guys, I missed out on the opportunity to answer the query “do man crushes really exist?” - it still makes me question my online pseudo-sexual identity.
…Tycho
Not only does electronic producer Scott Hansen look like a young Josh Brolin and get to hang out with Ghostly label mate Matthew Dear, but he also makes swoon-inducing ambience sprinkled over with sensitive drum n’ bass. If he wasn’t such a hottie I would have posted some of his music instead - after all, this is the reason I’m so gay for him. Well, mostly.
