02.17.09 GOOD FOR HIM.
Pictured above is one of the many attractive women who tried out for the cheerleading squad of the Penrith Panthers, a team in Australia’s National Rugby League. I’m leading with her because this story is really about another person who made the team, 19-year-old Aaron Neich, who became the first male cheerleader in the NRL (fabulous video after the jump). He’s here, he’s queer, deal with it.
He is expecting some heckling but is prepared. “I have had it all my life, I have grown up with getting names called, if people call me a gay poof, I am and I don’t care,” he said. “If you have got it, flaunt it.” [...]
Aaron said they will “butch” him up in black cargo pants and a pink tank top without the pom poms his female colleagues will use.
Good for Aaron. Here’s hoping that drunken rugby fans don’t resort to slurs. And here’s hoping he still wears the fishnet hose under his cargo pants. Cheerleaders appreciate acts of solidarity like that.
[via Deadspin, which hasn't seen an episode of "Jeopardy!" in eight years]
[Rugby cheerleader galleries here and here]
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There are 11 comments about:
GOOD FOR HIM.
Someone may wanna tie an anchor to this guy before he floats away.
Well here he is, the pink panther,
The rinky-dink panther,
Isn’t he a panther ever so pink?
He really is a groovy cat,
and what a gentleman, a scholar, what an acrobat!
Dude. Male cheerleaders don’t act that way. They are there to spot and toss little girls in the air and yell into giant cones.
Would I pretend to be gay to get myself into a darkened room with a bunch of glistening, scantily clad women with insanely toned bodies and Australian accents?
(sips from Tab, folds wrist down) Sure thing, sweetie!
THE ONLY GOOD GAY CHEERLEADER IS A DEAD ONE.
@Zack: If this guy is pretending, he deserves an Othcar.
Don’t be afraid to use your nails, boys.
WDYA @ 4:20 FTW!!!
(For The Weed)
See what I did there?
I wonder where he’d put an Oscar?
looks like chris lilley from summer heights high on HBO. he’s constantly playing different characters for comedy shows and this looks like him, so…yeah.
This would never happen in rugby union…
/shakes head, sighs and dreams of the day it will
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