Like most men confronted with Catholic Church leaders, these fellas walk into the room clothed and then proceed to strip and dance.
A group of acrobats stopped by the Vatican to help Pope Benedict XVI celebrate Christmas, or something. (Actually the Fratelli Pellegrini, or “Pellegrini Brothers,” were invited as part of a Vatican-organized circus convention. Yes really.) And not only did they draw applause from the leader of the Holy Sea, but the nuns were about ready to throw their bras on stage.
TomMc
The pseudo-porn music accompanying that feat adds to the creepy hilarity of it all.
wildpuss
Oh, come on. Even the Pope likes to eat Italian.
gregger
meanwhile that old bastard is thinking “fuck him hard!!!!”
Scott
That bottom puts all the others to shame!
Tallskin
DIRTY OLD MAN
Thom Freeheart
I would like to be the guy who shaves these guys.
moviedan
Those acrobats were far too old for that crowd. The pontiff and his bishops like them under 12 if possible. They’re easier to hush that way.
SteveAtlanta
Watch for a poster named DAEZ, a highly religious zealot pretending to be a gay man, make an appearance on this post. He inserts homophobic ideology mixed with “…oh but I’m gay” and subtle jabs at fundementalist Christians, but overall very much so supports the homophobia in religion and the idea of practicing homophobia by virtue of religion. Please ignore DAEZ posts. They are a militant conservative leaning troll. Just wanted to get the word out in case anyone steps back and goes “How the heck can this gay guyharbor so much resentment toward gay issues”….he’s neither gay, nor pro gay rights and thought Harvey Milk was a congressmen who had a gay nazi agenda.
Michael
@SteveAtlanta: Gosh. Any more details to share?
Michelle
@SteveAtlanta: thanks. I’ve said so for a long time, and it went ignored. I don’t think he’s healthy upstairs if you catch my drift. he just recently wrote he thinks gay surrogacy is horrible, and even worse than gay adoption, and than backed it up with – and I’m gay. lol just as you said. His posts are starting to make me laugh though, I gotta say. They are so out there. You should read the one in the sherriff getting fired in Mississippi story and his “brilliant” comments there.
scribe
@SteveAtlanta: I noticed. thanks…. Anyway not going to talk about someone else’s religion, at least not today. Just want to mention the woman in dressed in the black cat suit. I’m gay and thought she was hot, what a freaking DIVA.
alan brickman
bring back morning goods!!!!
alan brickman
she was totally hot!
Jim Hlavac
To see plenty of hot naked men the pope need only look up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It was painted by the very gay Michaelangelo, who was bailed out of jail by the pope who hired him for “crimes against nature” so that the sculptor of David (hot hunk in marble) could finish the ceiling in question. No, this is not the first time the pope has seen naked men flesh. He’s done it for years.
Steve
There’s so many things erotic, ironic and downright hilarious about this video that no words could explain it with justice. There’s just so many levels of homoeroticism and irony that I can really only say… I love Christmas. And I think the Pope and I love it for the same 4, shirtless reasons.
Mack Robertson
Too cute!!
AugustLA
Hypocrisy?! BY THE CHURCH CROWD?! …No. No, say it isn’t so! But…butttt….theyyyy are so holy. And virtueous, and all things good, and do, see, experience no evil. And shirtless men? touching each other? next you’ll tell me there is no Santa Claus and religious folks have sex out of wedlock.
MickeyKidd
hey the popes sworn off sex, whats wronge with a ‘lil eyecandy from time to time? 🙂
GetBalance
I noticed they showed the nuns squeeling with their hankys, but left out the priests. I guess deer in headlights dabbing their sweaty foreheads wasn’t the message they wanted to send w that vid.
thedarkchariot
This. Is. The. Funniest. Thing. I. Have. Ever. Seen.
*laughing my ass off*
san
oh shut up guys, the Pope is not into them sexually. They are too old for his taste
Taylor Siluwé
This made my day. Dirty ol’ Pope getting his wizened little pickle a thrill.
Didn’t his handlers know this would be a really, really bad photo-op?
Or where they too blinded by lust to care?
jack
The old man looked ready to fall off his chair. Funny to see his eyes almost pop out of the sockets. Good thing the priest robes are made of heavy fabric, hiding their excitement.
Jake
Sorry, but this is the most pathetic “article” I have ever encountered on the web. Not to speak of the vacuous, childish and teenage-like sex-obsessed comments. This is the end of my road with gays and trying to help the “gay cause” and or/agenda.
This really stinks.
jason
The male form is not gay. The only thing that’s gay is your perspective.
JusticeontheRocks
@Jake: Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Tony
@Thom Freeheart: Yes! Me, too.
Daez
@wildpuss: Italian men are HOT! Plain and simple. Besides, this isn’t news, its not like this is the first time the pope and his cronies have watched half to fully naked men fool around on stage. Its just the first time its been recorded.
Daez
@SteveAtlanta: Thank you for thinking of me. You just so get it don’t you. Here is a hint:
I HAVE NEVER AND WILL NEVER SUPPORT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
I support Christianity in general because Christianity is at its core not homophobic. Look, I’m sorry if you have a problem with all religion because you can’t separate the Pope and Fred Phelps as evil men trying to use religion to do evil things, but that isn’t my problem. Maybe you need to reconcile with religion, and figure out why you hate it so much. You aren’t even atheist, because atheist people just don’t react to religion. You hate it with zeal.
You got me, I have no fucking clue who Harvey Milk is, nor do I care. How the hell do you get the impression that I give a damn that he had a pro-Nazi agenda though? You love to rewrite things don’t you.
Oh, and as far as me being anti-gay. Just because someone disagrees with your views about gay related issues doesn’t mean they are anti-gay. I support gay causes, I just am realistic enough to know that trying to do stupid stuff like declare war on John McCain and throwing Obama (who has done more for gay rights than anyone including Milk) under the buss is not the way to get those rights.
Daez
@Michael: I do believe I have a stalker/fan!?!
Daez
@Michelle: Because I’m honest about my feelings that gay parents might harm a child I’m suddenly not gay? Its something I struggle with every day. Its not that I wouldn’t like to consider the possibility of children, but then I look at things like children killing themselves for being bullied. Who the hell do you think gets bullied more, the children of a homosexual couple of the children of a straight couple?
I’m not even trying to claim that gay men will harm the child. I’m simply claiming that its a huge stretch to say that a child that grows up with two parents of the same sex will not harmed in some way.
If gay men want to have children they can do so the old fashioned way. Get a woman, make her your BFF, get drunk, get her knocked up.
JusticeontheRocks
Please ignore Daez. He’s a very disturbed person ad illiterate besides. Responding to him only encourages the nonsense.
Daez
@JusticeontheRocks: Just because you can’t read the words I write on a page doesn’t make me illiterate.
I’ve never claimed I wasn’t disturbed; however, is it more disturbed for someone to make a statement you disagree with and you to ignore it or for someone to make a statement you disagree with and you reach a point where you want destroy them.
Its just like some bigoted homo, such as yourself, to try to silence anyone that doesn’t follow your agenda exactly. Believe it or not, being gay is just a sexual orientation, nothing more, and we are all entitled to different beliefs regardless of orientation.
Ronbo
@Daez: Here’s to your earning another nickel! Are you paid to post directly by the RNC or do you earn your nickels the old-fashioned way?
Please stop trolling for pay at queerty. Yes, we all agree with you that straight, republican, white men are much, much smarter than everyone at this site. Yes, yes, yes. Please, just go away. We see through your veil.
Now go take that Bible and beat some other minority to death. I understand that it says that eating shrimp is verbotten and that having slaves is OK (as long as you don’t beat them and they die the same day). I understand that Latvian Orthodox people just love shrimp. Yes, your book of rules seems sooo very logical.
rodrigo
why did they need to take off their shirts in the first place? A lycra suit would have been just as appreciated!
prohomo
@Daez: DAEZ, your posts sound reasonable enough to me, though you believe we aren’t born this way, do you? You believe we maladapted to become homosexual? Curious?
john
Daez, you do know christianity/jesus/etc. and even moses/jews were all based off of the old egyptian religions right?
FreshFit
Please ignore Daez. I give him the benefit of the doubt…but I’m further convinced he’s a mole here to create nothing but division and seperation within our community…and yes, daez, as angry as it makes you feel, gay folks have banded together in unity, galvanized under one cause which is equality and created an umbrella under that worthy platform hence= community. Much to your dismay. I defended you against those who called you a troll, but you insistent desire to always make subtle jabs at gay folks, none more offensive than your views on gay parenting confirms you’re here to divide and conquer and luckily it’s clearly not working on anyone. Not a single soul on here is buying what you’re selling, so at a certain point, you’r etaking your time to respond to every single comment, on every single thread for a lost cause. Do as you wish. Your time on the line.
Daez
@Ronbo: You forgot the mixed fibers and that the whole freaking argument is futile, because if you believe in Christ and that Christ died for your sins you also believe that Christ fulfilled the Mosaic law which means that the mention of gays being an abomination was wiped away with the sacrifice of Christ.
Actually, you can’t be a Christian and hate anyone or judge anyone, doing so completely undermines the entire ministry of Christ. As I’ve said, I DO NOT SUPPORT XTIANS THAT DON’T FOLLOW THE BIBLE.
Daez
@prohomo: I believe that there is no evidence of a genetic link. I believe we were sociological programmed to be homosexual. I believe that it doesn’t matter because we didn’t chose it, we can’t change it, so others should cope with it and stop judging us because of it.
If there was more evidence to a genetic link then I would gladly believe in a genetic link. However, right now I find the whole “cause versus effect” argument to be bogus unless you somehow think that being “maladapted” somehow makes for the argument that being gay is a curable condition WHICH IT IS NOT!
Daez
@john:I’m well aware that many nations across the world had very similar religions and the Catholic Church bastardized itself greatly by adopting Pagan holidays (such as Christmas) and rituals (such as the burning of incense).
However, what you seem to forget is that there are very many progressive religions out there that are doing more for our cause than most activists because they are actually putting gay people beside straight people and opening hearts and minds instead of declaring war on the straights like Gay Inc is trying to do (a war we will never win).
Daez
@FreshFit: I absolutely am a troll. I never denied that.
My views on gay parenting are just that. Its not like I’m exactly proud of them. Its just something that I have issues with. I know plenty of gay parents that I support. I don’t understand said views. Its just the way I feel. I worry about the children. However, I was wrong to express said views the way I did. It really is something I’m struggling with, and I’m trying to accept it. Actually, the longer I’m with my partner (who has two children, one 16 on the 21st and one 19) the more it feels like I’m a gay step father. Of course, he had his children the old fashioned way (and is still actually married to their mother). So, these are views I really need to change. How exactly I go about doing that, I do not know.
The gay “community” is a myth in my experience. Not saying it doesn’t exist (oh wait I’ve said that countless numbers of times which is wrong), but what you really have in my opinion is a group of gay advocates that are a community, then you have the other segments of the gay community that are content just surviving which are another community. So, I think there is a split in the so called “community.”
gayperson
@Jake:
@jason:
Please don’t let a pathetic blogger or an immature commenter dissuade you from fighting for what is right.
Even though I’m gay, I too am appalled by this article and some of the subsequent comments.
The article is making the Pope seem like a pervert (‘gawking’) and disrespecting elements of the religion (I’m not Christian, and I’m still disgusted that someone would say stuff like ”
nuns were about ready to throw their bras on stage.”
The Pope is enjoying a Christmas event and the men happen to take off their shirts (strip and dance? Really! Max Simon, you are disgusting!) like a lot of circus and acrobats are performed. To imply (blogger/commenters) he is enjoying the homo-eroticism of this is disgusting–you are imposing your own ‘perception’ on another respectful, religious leader.
Disrespecting other’s religions, rights, morals, etc is never a way to get support for your own rights! Articles like this and disgusting commenters (“Tallskin:DIRTY OLD MAN”) are shameful.
Their parents and society has failed them. Please don’t take offense. Positive gay role models/organizations (Ellen DeGeneres, Neil Patrick Harris, The Trevor Project) exist so that you can remember that the gay community isn’t ALL disrespectful, disgusting, and ignorant. Every community unfortunately has ‘degenerates’–please AGAIN, don’t let it change your opinion on fighting for equal rights.
I know its hard to want to support someone/organizations that seems to disrespect your own values/beliefs/religion, but you’ll find those kind of people everywhere.
TO EVERYONE BEING DISGUSTING AND IGNORANT: Just as appreciating and enjoying the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show doesn’t make me straight (unless I am sexually turned on), this Pope isn’t gay or having ‘homoerotic’ thoughts watching this performance. Please don’t allow such disgusting and distasteful comments to leave your mouths/fingers. You’re discouraging prospective allies from being LGBT supporters!
Joey T
Daez….. you’re a freak!
jeremy Wingarden
DAEZ appears to be a victim of obsessive compulsive disease. the king where people hoard things, and never never never throw them away. In his case it just happens to be religious bullshitims.
And he is also a victim of Obsessive compulsive personality disorder. A slightly related mental condition where every thing is absolutes, there is no middle ground etc.
Poor Daez. obviously he must have sassed his parents, worked on friday saturday and sunday, which includes the Islamic, Jewish and christian sabbaths.
And worn clothes made of different cloths. Probabbly ate shellfish and pig parts. etc etc.
if there was a god, Daez would have been struck down dead long ago.
But he can rant all he wants, its the law. He is a minor and less vicious version of the Westboro baptist church freaks who celebrate happily at the funerals of our soldiers and mudered gay children.
For the Westboro baptist church, a family filled with endless generation to generation and intra generational vicious child molestation, I’d skin them alive and throw the remains into a pit filled with maggots.
For Daez, we’ll just thank him for his insights. Reminds me of nut case catholic fixed gay who I’v had 2 dozen dinner meetings with over the last 2 years. He is as crazy as they come, break through the veneer of civility and you get comments like “matthew Shepards parents should have fixed him’
He’s just anotehr proof to me that there is no god. Because if there was, his fetus would still be used in medical school teachings and the church of the hidden molestation would have one less parrot pitching its murderous causes.
Ghost of 6 million Jews..
@gayperson:
yeh – the pope who in 2009 UNexcommunicated a bishop willliamson. he is a holocaust denier / minimizer kicked out of the anglican church.
why did hte church UNexcommunicate him – because he has 600,000 mad followers and most likely – conjecture I agree – they need the money to pay of the victims of the molestation
When Argentina discovered Williamson was living there, they threw him out of the country, because they’ve had enough trouble with temple bombings 40 yrs etc due to all the Nazis who the catholic church gave visas to at the end of the civl war. Any wonder Argentina was the first Latin american nation to grant full marriage to gay people.
The same church and pope who hid the endless molestation of children while winning support for CA prop Hate by talking about how children might learn that some of their children were gay.
You don’t give respect to these people, period. If we had the guts, and given the history of the catholic church (and some of its evangelical children), eg Hitlers election, 40 million muslims murdered during the christian crusades, a million women burned at the stake as witches because that was seen as a competing relgion…………….
We’d do to the vatican what we should have done to the riechtstag back in 1935 while it was in session.
Send the whole place to a very loud and firey hell. One plane full with a few blockbusers would do it.
ILoveDudes
Ghost : You’re not going to get much pro-Jewish sentiment on a NYC-based gay blog. Even when the Pres. of Iran was here, who wishes death on both Jews and gays, the ONLY gays who joined the protesters against him were the Log Cabin Republicans. The rest of the NYC gay community was too afraid they’d look anti-Palestinian if they were there.
Just a thought...
@Ghost of 6 million Jews..:
You are one sick, but blessedly impotent, fuck. And a bigot, it seems!
ILoveDudes
@ Just a thought… : Well, Ghost is certainly “tribal”, which I don’t mind (because life really is tribal, no matter what the diversity-rainbow bullies try to push on us), but I don’t think Ghost understands the shades-of-gray nature of life. All he says might be true, but leaves out Catholic priests killed in Nazi concentration camps, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Commies…The Reichstag bombed by gentiles and then stormed by the (anti-Semitic) Soviets, and on and on…
DR
The constant potshots at the Catholic Church are becoming tedious and childish, Max Simon.
Where’s your blog on the Catholic group collecting and returning the DVDs a Minneapolis Church sent out and its efforts to collect over $10,000 to support various community charities? Gonna write about that, or is that too Catholic-friendly?
Tallskin
@DR. you can never have too many pot shots at the filthy christian death cult.
The christian death cult invented homophobia for western culture and continues to be the source of most of the anti gay attitudes we suffer from.
As I have said before a gay christian by belonging to this death cult is providing a rod to beat not only his own back but also the backs of most other gays – because he is endorsing this absurd sky pixie cult.
Any christian should not expect respect, but only deserves mockery and abuse.
DR
@Tallskin:
“mockery and abuse”, huh?
The same could be said for your incessant blather against all Christians. You paint them as poorly as the far right paints all GLB people. Hypocrisy, ignorance, and stupidity from either side is ugly.
Jonathonz
Did that really just happen?
JudeThom
Predictable comments from stereotypical-style gays. You guys think you are being so cute lashing out at the pope, so chic, so PC. But these guys are just acrobats with their shirts off, not nude pole dancers. They are not very sexy anyway–they are too artifically shaved, “too” beefy Italian (and short) if you catch my drift. In ten years they will all look like bloated pizza makers.
JudeThom
Ghost of 6 Million Jews: You don’t know the first thing about SSPX Williamson. Williamson may have odd/objectionable views on the 6 million killed during WWII (gypsies, gays and Catholics included), but his excommunication was lifted for Church-related reasons. People are not excommunicated because they have objectionable “secular” views on world issues. The Pope cannot control what every bishop in the world thinks on any given subject.
gayperson
@JudeThom: yea great….we need you to put ignorant gays in their place with an equally (if not more) offensive comment about Italians.
*eyeroll*