Tony arrivals: the fellas

Yes, the Gay Super Bowl (aka the Tony Awards) kicked off last night with what was perhaps the gayest thing I've ever seen on broadcast television: the leotarded, leg-warmered cast of A Chorus Line hoofing it in the middle of the street in front of Radio City. Somewhere in Smoot, Wyoming, a channel-surfing gay 14-year-old boy sees his future ... and it includes high kicks.

But the event was already a Gaysapalooza even before the first character shoe hit Sixth Avenue (and long before recently out actor David Hyde Pierce walked away with the Best Actor in a Musical trophy) -- check out these arrival pics of some of the gay honorees and presenters (as well as a few gay-faves, as well). Oodles more after the jump.

Neil Patrick Harris (Assassins)

Big winner David Hyde Pierce (Curtains!)

Idina Menzel (Wicked) and hubby Taye Diggs (Rent)

Patti Lupone (Sweeney Todd) and Harvey Fierstein (Hairspray)

Straight-but-we-love-him-anyway Patrick Wilson (Angels in America)

Raul Esparza (Company)

Duncan Sheik (songwriter of the very gay-friendly Spring Awakening)

Tommy Tune