I have American friends who thought every 2nd guy in Italy and Greece was gay because, unlike American guys who wear board shorts that cover their knees at the beach, most European guys are very comfortable wearing speedos at the beach because it’s a norm in Europe.

(I’m not saying that this football player is not gay.)

Jesus, who needs to worry about the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family or NARTH when we have raging homophobes in our own camp.

If he is gay or bisexual, good luck to him cause he’ll need it come August. I find it amazing that some people seem to think that someone stealing another dude’s Facebook or other such social networking pictures and posting them for the world to see in an act that could ruin a guy’s career is a good thing.

If he does get hell, it will be no breakthrough. He’ll sit on the bench at Newcastle for half the season, and be back in Spain come the winter. You think he’s gonna stay in a cold foreign country to get shtick from the fans?

There was more male-male contact between the straight guys than between the gay guys.

Perhaps we gays are so obsessed with labels, we forget the subtleties of life. By all means, let’s be happy about Xisco but, at the same time, let’s not be Nazis when it comes to labels.

1) He has those thin fingers that say ‘thinmeat’ or even ‘tinymeat’.

2) He has that small nose that says ‘tinymeat’.

Homosexual tinymeat Brad Pitt also has ‘tinymeat nose’.

Discuss!

alcohol.

I don’t know if Xisco is gay or not – though I very much hope he is, because an openly gay player in the Premiership is something we need – but sorry to say that these photos really don’t prove it one way or the other, and it does seem irresponsible to frame this as a definite ‘he is’. There’s nothing sexual about those kisses. Even in the third one, which someone said ‘clears it up’, does nothing of the sort. He’s not macking, he’s smirking!

Even the Adam Lambert pics don’t prove that Adam is gay, but it’s not like we needed pictures to prove that.

If we’re going to start witch-hunting every straight or negotiable guy who likes kissing other guys when he’s drunk, you’re completely going to ruin my weekends.

It sits unhappily with Queerty’s more serious analytical articles on the failure of the anti-Prop 8 campaign etc.

Now more than ever, we need a campaigning but lively queer news site, with solid journalism underpinning the articles.

but we are not talking about an American, we are talking about a Spaniard (some of the most affectionate men on the planet) in Europe. so there is nothing in ANY of these pictures that says he’s gay.

this entire ‘upheaval’ is purely fabricated and steamed by cultural differences and not based off an actual admission or acceptance. there are a variety of ways to interpret a kiss – but by placing an American standard on a European footballer is not the best way to do that…

That would make him bisexual. Seriously.”

No, it wouldn’t make him bisexual.

That would make him bisexual. Seriously.

I write from a US perspective, where I had a friend in college who wouldn’t sit in the seat next to me at the movies because people might think we were gay. (Which I was, but still in the closet.)

So from a European objective, most of these could easily be dismissed as drunk, straight boy partying. Except xisco-4. That is not a straight-boy kiss, drunk or not. Bisexual, questioning, etc. could apply, but not straight.

But as has been stated, there seems to be an American ‘obsession’ for outing gay men and women who are well-known. It amazes me that in a country where football is a minority interest sport that there is any interest in Tejada. This is just ‘tabloid’ stuff. Who cares if the guy is straight, gay or bi?

The fact that he is a rather good professional football player does not mean that anyone has a right to speculate on his sexuality. This sort of ‘reporting’ is a disgrace – and the British tabloids can access this story, just as anyone else can. This could affect his career – especially bearing in mind that there is rampant homophobia in English football from the so-called fans.

As Darrien has pointed out, the PFA, the FA and UEFA are all committed to tackling homophobia in football and have even recruited Peter Tatchell to help.

Yes, let any gay football player ‘come out’ in the manner that he wants to, and let him set the timing. He will have the support of the PFA and the FA when that time comes. It is not the business of any website to ‘out’ a sportsman one the basis of a few photos. At the end of the day, a career could be on the line.

Did those photos a few years ago by The Associated Press of former President George W. Bush holding hands with, and kissing, a Saudi prince result in Queerty suggesting that their then President was ‘gay’? Of course not.