Battle of the Network Gays: November 05. 2009

Every week we pick the gays who we think have made the biggest splash in television (or pop culture in general) and leave it to you, the keepers of the flame, to decide who will be crowned Gay of the Week. We'll announce the winner on Friday, and that champ will reign until a new set of challengers are introduced the following week to try to steal his title.

Last week, we gave an honorary, in memoriam crown to "Friend of Dorothy (Zbornak)" Bea Arthur.  This week we've got four new contenders vying for the throne, including two from the same soap opera. Will they split their vote and open up a path to victory for either a flame-haired former ice skater, or a pair of globetrotting gay brothers?

Check them out after the break, and vote for your favorite!

• Sam & Dan from The Amazing Race. It was either the golfing in their underwear or the fact that they came in first during this round of the race — no matter — the fraternal duo seemed particularly worthy of a nomination this week.

• One Life to Live's Oliver Fish Llanview's gay cop (played by out actor Scott Evans) finally got his man this week when his big coming out on TV moment prompted....


• Kyle Lewis (played by actor Brett Claywell) to have a change of heart and leave poor Nick at the altar. Both Oliver & Kyle had amazing moments this week, and we thought they deserved individual nominations. It will be interesting to see which character gets more votes. 

• Modern Family's Mitchell got to relive some of his childhood glory (sans sequined tights) when he and his sister performed their old ice skating routine in a parking lot. It was hilarious but also rather touching. Note: the childhood photos were actually of actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

Vote for your favorite by 10 PM EDT Today. And be sure to check back tomorrow on the blog to see which network gay our readers have carried to glory!