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It’s a competition set up to establish “future leaders of the gay community”. It’s open to anyone who wants to participate (as long as they are able to provide two to four pictures for consideration) and can fill out some basic statistical information.

It’s the Mr. Gay competition, and this week, Argentina announced their representative that will participating in the 2008 international event that takes place early next year.

The winner is none other than sexy porn star Max Schutler, who has appeared in films like Rush and Release and Bang that Ass.

The question of one’s past hardly seems relevant in a competition like this, but it does raise the issue: What exactly constitutes a representative of the gay community, and how well do we as a community accept ourselves?

Technically, the Latin hottie who won the prize is named Jorge Schmeda, but he is probably just as well known by his nom de porn.