Save us from the flamers!

When it was reported last week that a couple of San Diego firemen were suing the city fire department over their involuntary participation in the San Diego PRIDE festivities, I thought that it couldn't possibly be true. After all, firemen and gay porn have such a long history together! If you're signing up to join the squad, shouldn't you be aware of the longstanding associations between the hose-groping job post and male erotica? For some, apparently not:

"During the course of the ensuing three hour long ordeal, the firefighters were subjected to vile sexual taunts from homosexuals lining the parade route," reads a press release from the Thomas More Law Center, the law firm representing the victimized flame extinguishers, 'This included the following statements: "show me your hose," "you can put out my fire," "you're making me hot," "give me mouth-to-mouth," "you look hungry, why don't you have a twinkie (from a man wearing a "Girth and Mirth" t-shirt)," and "blow my hose." These firemen are devoted husbands and fathers. When they refused to respond to the crowd, some in the crowd turned hostile and started shouting, "F--k you firemen" and others began "flipping them off."'

This comes as the second blow to the gay community from firefighters, after the New York Fire Department announced that its annual beefcake calendar will cease after the production of the 2008 edition, after the discovery that their cover model, 22 year-old Michael Biserta of a Brooklyn division, had been featured on an episode of Guys Gone Wild.

While it seems there is little any of us can do to bridge the gap between the firemen and the flamers who love them, we can always offer up one way to boost morale among the latter of those two demographics:

CHECK OUT FIREFIGHTER PORN ON NAKEDSWORD.COM!

You have to admit you saw that one coming.

(Above image courtesy of All Worlds Video, from Playing With Fire.)