Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (June 22, 2007)

FORGET WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO? WHO WANTS TO DATE PARTHENON?
The Sci Fi Channel may still not have given us a gay character on Battlestar Galactica (though I've noticed those smoldering looks between Apollo and Gaeta), but starting next month us gay boys can cheer for a gay superhero on Who Wants to be a Superhero? And we've got what I'm pretty sure is the first photo of the show's out male contestant. Meet Parthenon!

Parthenon's super power is to look utterly adorable and distract editors who need to finish their columns. He is also an archaeologist who derives his super powers from an ancient gauntlet he unearthed in Greece. Hmm, gay boy, Ancient Greece -- I'm sure there is some connection I'm missing. Hey, maybe Parthenon can go back and re-shoot 300!

BTW, in case you don't know, a gauntlet is a pair of protective (usually metal) gloves worn over the hands back when disputes were settled with swords. If you look in the lower right hand corner of the picture of Parthenon, you can glimpse his gauntlet. Here is a picture of another one to give you a better idea of what I'm talking about.

Just right for a night out on the town slaughtering infidels, no?

Parthenon is actually one Dan Williams who hails from Orlando, FL. That is all we know about him at the moment, but stay tuned for more details.

This isn't the first gay contestant on the quirky reality contest that pits superhero wannabees against each other for the right to become an actual superhero in Dark Horse Comics. Last season brought us Levity, who, sadly, was the first to get cut.

I guess there must be a rule that all gay superhero wannabees have to be adorable.