Shirts and Skins premiered yesterday on Logo, Viacom’s cable TV channel aimed at the LGBT community. The reality-show follows a young all-star and all-gay basketball team, the San Francisco Rockdogs, on and off the courts. Their goal is to uphold their city’s three-generation legacy of international gay games gold medal, and national tournament wins. This involves intense training, of course, and many personal and interpersonal challenges, such as overcoming their differences and keeping their love lives — and the late-night parties — in check. As former NBA pro — and first professional basketball player to openly identify himself as gay — John Amaechi puts it: “In some people’s minds, being gay is just walking down the street in pumps and drinking fruity drinks. They don’t realize that you can do that and kick ass on the basketball court.”
Just like Janice Dickinson’s protégés, the players live together in a huge Peeping Tom’s dream loft, complete with a state-of-the-art gym and a semi-transparent shower overlooking the living room. Enough to encourage team-bonding via compulsory exhibitionism. The show features major blatino eye-candy, such as former ABA pro basketball player-turned-model DeMarco Majors (above, second from right), or abtastic 23-year-old Mike AKA Skinty; and also significant pieces of white hunk, like forward Rory AKA Pup, a 6-3” 196 lbs Mormon-raised 29-year-old with encyclopedic pop lyrics knowledge.
And since our friend Superhero fan seems to enjoy the show, we can reasonably assume that the captures we added to the gallery won’t be the last.
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