Out on DVD: Nearly-naked French rugby players. And other items of interest.

A look behind the scenes of the sexy Dieux du Stade 2009 calendar photo-shoot makes its DVD debut this week, along with gay zombies, queer Christians, controversial art and the Worst. President. Ever.

Read on for more DVD picks ... and a few more tempting (and mildly NSFW) images from the above!

Look, I've been writing this Tuesday DVD column for a few months now, and while there are some great indie movies and documentaries coming out this week, I know what AfterElton.com readers click on, because it's the same thing I click on: Cute dudes.

So let's start the week out with the Dieux du Stade 2009 DVD: Making of the Calendar, shall we? This calendar is a globally successful annual fundraiser for the French rugby teams, and while it was originally designed to make the players less "scary" for potential female fans in France, the ruggers have accrued a whole new squad of admirers in the US: gay men, who buy up the annual DDS calendars, books and DVDs in droves. Still, the whole franchise is geared, technically, for a female audience, and the publishers tend to keep rather mum about their male audience Stateside.

Queer content doesn't get more in-your-face than in the radical and sexy films of Canadian bad boy Bruce LaBruce, though, and his latest film Otto, or Up with Dead People also hits DVD today. The moving and hilarious tale of a queer zombie who becomes the subject of a movie about an anti-consumerist revolt (complete with orgy) was hailed by critics as a highlight of LaBruce's outrageous oeuvre.

Several new documentaries of note highlight important gay artists of the 20th century. The Universe of Keith Haring examines the life and work of the painter whose cartoony images of babies and stick figures defined the early years of the AIDS pandemic (to which Haring himself ultimately succumbed) and which remain ever-present today.

Obscene looks at publisher Barney Rosset, whose Grove Press survived controversy and censorship to publish such queer literary classics as Naked Lunch and Last Exit to Brooklyn. John Waters is one of the many compelling interviewees included in the film.

Singers (and life partners) Jason and deMarco promote both their music and the idea that "gay" and "Christian" don't have to be contradictions in terms. We're All Angels follows the pair on tour and documents their encounters with fans and 'phobes alike.

And finally, one of the most underrated movies of 2008, Oliver Stone's W. hits the New Releases shelf today. Released late last year, when most of us were wishing that George W. Bush would just go away already, the movie takes a surprisingly compassionate look at someone who was, frankly, never qualified to hold the highest office in the land. While some of the performers playing members of the Bush cabinet tread dangerously into MadTV territory — I'm looking at you, Thandie Newton as Condi Rice — Josh Brolin's portrayal as the infamous 43rd prez was one of last year's best performances.