Battle of the Network Gays: August 13, 2009

Every week we pick the gays who we think have made the biggest splash in television 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's BGWE column, and that champ will reign until a new set of challengers are introduced the following week to try to steal his title.

Last week, OLTL bad boy Kyle Lewis won the crown handily with 50% of the vote. But he didn't have much to do this week, and thus we thought it only fair to leave him out of contention this round, giving his OLTL castmate Oliver Fish and three other worthy contenders a shot at the crown.

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

This week's contenders:

• Fired Miami news anchor, Charles Perez, for his self-described career suicide.

• Openly gay dance troupe Vogue Evolution for wowing the crowd on America's Best Dance Crew. (Check out our interview with them here.)

• Miss J. Alexander, for winning the Choice Fab-u-lous Award (love that!) at the Teen Choice Awards. He was up against Carson Kressley, Perez Hilton, Rex Lee, and Ugly Betty's Michael Urie. Said Miss J upon winning: ''I would like to thank every single gay, transgendered, bisexual, heterosexual teenager throughout the nation. This award is going to be shared by me with you and it makes all of you as fierce as me. Bam!"

Miss J. accepting his Teen Choice Award

• Finally we have Oliver Fish, who dug an even deeper hole of denial for himself today on One Life to Live by bedding his beard girlfriend Layla (who deserves better) despite flashing back to that kiss with Kyle.

Vote for your favorite by 10 PM EDT Today. And be sure to check back for tomorrow's BGWE column to see which network gay our readers have carried to glory!