Half-Naked Speedo Santas Bring Out Our Inner Ho-Ho-Ho

Cutesy flash mobs are one of the most overplayed tropes of modern day terrorism, but here's a recent one we can get behind: Hunks in red speedos jogging around the city as fundraising Santas. Over the past weekend, Speedo Santas took over both Boston and San Francisco. Of course someone snapped photos, which naturally we've hunted down as early stocking stuffers.

Boston hosts the most famous Santa run, which has become a major sponsored event to help raise cash for programs helping area middle school kids. The affair is primarily heterosexual, surprising seeing that the gays love any excuse to slip into speedos, but we're not gonna gripe if straight hotties wanna show off their bods. It began in December 2002 when a group of five male pals decided to pull it off as a one-time stunt. Then, you know, folks like seeing half-naked men running around, acting kooky, in freezing winter weather, and the stunt grew into an annual charity event. Good enough for us.

The idea got picked up in several cities, traveling all the way to San Francisco, which, you guessed it, is a whole lot gayer. The runners raised money for HIV prevention, along with raising plenty of boners. This also means the boys are cuter, since we gays have the fashion know-how to pull off the Speedo (or underwear, or short shorts) better than any group on the planet, okay! (I mean, "okkkrrrr.")

· Santa Speedo Run 2011 (boston.com)
· Santa in Skivvies Spread Holiday Joy in the Castro (queerty.com)

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