from www.queerty.com – Broadway Bares, the annual event from Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, collects a couple hundred of theater’s beautiful people inside Roseland Ballroom and has them strip to choreographed routines. Most of the participants end up in Speedos and jockstraps; some of them wind up fully naked (with carefully placed digits covering the necessaries). You would think it would be the perfect event for a blog dedicated to man skin to cover.

You’d be wrong.

The website Dude Tube Online, which pretty much defines “NSFW” by collecting gay porn clips from around the web, was asked by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to take down its coverage of last month’s Broadway Bares.

“It is the site,” said the rep to Dude Tube (link possibly NSFW). Except “later in our exchange,” writes the blog, “the representative flopped and said the posted photos were the real issue, saying he was concerned about the impact on the career of the dancers.

Is having identical pictures posted on a Broadway website and Dudetube a career killer? [Ed: The same photos appeared on BroadwayWorld.com.]

Are you readers not savvy enough to understand the context under which the photos were taken? By the way, I did not identify any of the performers in the photos (unlike the majority of “mainstream” websites). I’m upset that an organization would actively promote an event based on sexuality, and then become outraged when a sexual website reports on it. The representative told me that Broadway Bares ‘is sexy but clever.'”

They’re right. Any organization that can make AIDS sexy is clever.