Battle of the Network Gays: The "True Blood" Edition

Oh the doldrums of summer TV. It is getting hard to find four good, reasonably equally matched candidates from different TV shows to run in our weekly Battle of the Network Gays

Thank goodness at least for True Blood which last Sunday gave some decent business to each of its four (count 'em FOUR!) gay characters. This show is like a supernatural Queer As Folk. All that's missing is a vampire Sharon Gless to hand out condoms, rainbow stickers, and vials of V.

Seriously though, it was hard choosing exactly which of the True Blood characters to put up for the network gays battle this time out, since any one of them would easily beat out lesser known basic cable reality show contestants.

When the winner is a foregone conclusion these contests just aren't much fun, so rather than running any one of these True Blood characters this week and basically handing them a win - we decided to run all four. Let them battle this thing out amongst themselves and see who comes out on top.

It's the Battle of the Network Gays - True Blood Edition! Your nominees below...

Clockwise from top left: Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), Talbot (Theo Alexander),
Jesus (Kevin Alejandro), and Vampire King Russell Edgington (Denis O'Hare)

Vote for your favorite by noon EDT Sunday. And be sure to check back next Monday on the blog to see which True Blood character rules the pack!