Australian rugby player Nick Youngquest has been a longtime ally of gays in sports and was a champion when Gareth Thomas came out. The fact that he enjoyed being a male model and posed for the cover of a gay magazine's sex issue didn't hurt.
Youngquest is the model for an ad campaign by Paco Rabanne for its new fragrance Invictus:
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