Well that my friend is a specially designed fibreglass neck-brace for Brent Tate. He almost broke his neck back in 2005, and to play Rugby League he needs to wear it because certain vertebrae and bits and pieces in his neck could very easily break i think, if his head moves to far in a certain direction, he's in a wheel chair. Very risky the fact that he is actually playing at all.
Therefore O'Roth, i don't believe its what you are calling a gay neck thing