Yesterday’s (soft porn) Olympic photo from Queerly News on X: Noah Williams and Tom Daley, on the occasion of their together winning the silver in the Men’s Synchronized 10m Platform event at the 2024 Paris Olympics:
(#1) It’s a playful bro kiss by NW, at which TD (famous for his charming playfulness) feigns wide-eyed astonishment
TD is also famous as one of the world’s champion divers, a campaigner against bullying, a hot muscle twink, and a gay icon. Also for looking about 14 years old ever since he was 14 (he’s now 30). And as a good friend, to which I now turn — I’ll get back to the gay icon and the hot muscle twink in a moment, but first some Facebook discussion from yesterday about his friendship with NW. Discussion between two gay men, Michael Thomas and me:
(My title takes off from the line “Sail on, silver girl” from Simon and Garfunkel’s 1970 album Bridge Over Troubled Water)
On Facebook. Edited some by me, with material added today:
— MT: I hope that Noah is straight to just fuck with people
— AZ > MT: I believe you have your wish. NW has a long-time girlfriend, and his relationship with TD looks a lot like a straight / gay best-buddies pairing (which isn’t uncommon in the larger world). They joke around a lot; on taking the silver, TD gave NW a cock sock (penis protector) he knitted for him (TD is a demon knitter). And now this kiss. They are in any case adorable.
— MT > AZ: Yeah, I love that straight guys and gay guys can love on each other just for fun and be comfortable with their sexuality. The best part is that they can mean it.
— AZ > MT: I have a very long history of close friendships with individual straight guys (groups of straight guys just reject me, and a great many straight guys can’t fathom a buddy you can’t talk about scoring chicks with, but there are a quite a few good straight guys out there), so it seems entirely natural to me. Male friendship (regardless of the sexuality of the friends) is a good thing (as is female friendship).
Earlier on this blog. From my 7/28/18 posting “Hockney paints Daley”:
Ah, synchronicity! Yesterday, in my posting “Are You My Bottom?”, I included a section on Tom Daley and his husband Dustin Lance Black — partly for the sake of a shot of Daley cradling Black’s bottom as they walk on the street, and partly for the sake of a shot of Daley’s bottom in very brief Speedos. Then today from Randy McDonald on Facebook, a Hornet website story from the 24th, “But Is it Art? Tom Daley Poses Nude for Painter David Hockney” by Dan Avery, the centerpiece of which is this photo by Black, of Daley guying for the camera in front of Hockney’s painting of him:
(#2) Man in Need of Cock Sock
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