No Shirts Grandiose and Caligula Cover Is a Boner for Go Proud

  

Back in 1993, the cover of The Advocatemagazine’s “Special Inauguration Issue” (pictured below) featured an image with Al Gore and Bill Clinton’s heads photoshopped onto the shiny young bodies of two jean shorts-clad dudes with their arms around each other. The cover line read “Will Clinton & Gore go all the way for gay rights in 1993?”

Newsweek magazine has taken this cover concept and tweaked it to the right for their current issue, placing the heads of Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney onto the bodies of Spartacus-type warriors with the cover line “I Will Prevail: Mitt Romney’s Battle to Prove He’s the True Conservative.”

While the cover image is excellent in execution, we really can’t imagine anyone outside of GOProud with the desire to see either men undressed. Sixty-five-year-old Romney is not a bad-looking guy, but does anyone want to see his grandfather shirtless and swinging a sword? And though we love a silver fox, the thought of Gingrich naked makes us throw up in our mouth a little. Okay, a lot.

If the Republicans want to really offer up some right-wing beefcake, a winning update of The Advocate’s cover could feature Congressmen Aaron Shock and Paul Ryan. That’s something we’d definitely take a look at. And that shirtless cover wouldn’t even require Photoshop.

BY: MICHAEL MATSON  http://www.gay.net  Tittle and editing  adamfoxie*