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The 16 Most Homoerotic Photos Of Vladimir Putin

To paraphrase Shakespeare: "Methinks thou dost protest too much, shirtless stud."

1. He's always shirtless out of doors, in front of his mostly male entourage and the mostly male reporting pool.

RIA NOVOSTI/REUTERS, AFP/Getty Images

2. Always shirtless...

Dmitry Astakhov/AP

3. Nothing says "I'm very, very straight" like a shirtless dude on a horse.

RIA NOVOSTI/REUTERS

4. ...even when hunting in the Siberian Tyva region. Who hunts shirtless? I'll tell you who...

Dmitry Astakhov/AP

5. A big bear hug, to welcome Gérard Depardieu to the country.

Mikhail Klimentyev/AP

6. Lest we forget Putin's tender side.

OLEG POPOV / Reuters

7. He was a high-ranking KGB operative. Did you see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy? Half of MI-6 was gay.

8. At the movies?

Ivan Sekretarev / AP

9. He's always touching his handsome Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev.

Via cbc.ca

10. As they say, a nod is as good as wink, and vice versa.

RIA Novosti/Pool / Reuters

11. He looks very awkward at the dance. And today, his marriage is verrrry sketchy.

12. He loves the touch of their bottle-shaped noses.

13. He has his own doll. LOOK at those flexed trapezius muscles.

14. He knows how to tie a bow tie. How many hetero men do you know who know to tie a bow tie?

SYSOYEV GRIGORY/ITAR-TASS /Landov

15. A very rare photo.

16. If he put this on Grindr, my God, his in-box would crash.

To catch up on all the recent anti-gay developments in Russia...

...read this startling Animal New York post by Russian Marina Galperina.

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