‘The only thg stoppg you is yourself’: Openly gay strength athlete speaks to Frontier stunts

Contents:

• ROB KEARNEY: COMPETG AGAST GIANTS AND BEG AN OPENLY GAY STRONGMAN
• ‘THE ONLY THG STOPPG YOU IS YOURSELF’: OPENLY GAY STRENGTH ATHLETE SPEAKS TO FRONTIER STUNTS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• ‘WORLD’S STRONGT GAY’ ROB KEARNEY ON WHY TE STRENGTH LI ACCEPTG YOURSELF
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• PRO STRONGMAN CHAMPN ROB KEARNEY OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

ROB KEARNEY: COMPETG AGAST GIANTS AND BEG AN OPENLY GAY STRONGMAN

In addn, Rob is one of the most visible openly gay strength athlet Ameri. Competg Botswana 2017, when homosexualy was a crimal offense that untry (14:50).

‘THE ONLY THG STOPPG YOU IS YOURSELF’: OPENLY GAY STRENGTH ATHLETE SPEAKS TO FRONTIER STUNTS

The origs of Rob’s Instagram handle: @worlds_strongt_gay (17:35).

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

How beg an openly gay athlete impacted Rob (18:30).

Rob also discs his journey as an openly gay strength athlete, and challengg what somethg or nventnal notns of what means to be strong and mascule. At that pot, homosexualy was illegal. He was genuely terted my life and beg an openly gay Strongman, and how has e across throughout the muny.

‘WORLD’S STRONGT GAY’ ROB KEARNEY ON WHY TE STRENGTH LI ACCEPTG YOURSELF

It was fantastic, to say the TaoYou talk about some of the plitns that me om petg a untry where at the time homosexualy was illegal. You are an openly gay Strongman.

Your Instagram handle, which is hands down my favore the World’s Strongt gay, ’s the bt handle.

Then the much more important qutn I want to ask after this, one at a time is, how has beg an openly gay strength athlete impacted your reer? Rob KearneyFor me, the handle me bee I had realized that when I’d e out as gay obvly my social media platform explod overnight.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

I quickly realized that what I was dog beg openly gay and beg visible, as a visible member of the LGBTQ muny profsnal sports, was bigger than me jt petg Strongman.

I ma the swch to beg the world’s strongt gay simply bee I’m lookg at the bigger picture. It really is jt to show visibily of a gay athlete profsnal sports dog well.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

I thk there’s a lot of stigma around gay men and one of the thgs that my hband and I try to do on Instagram, social media, is g the hashtag, breakg the stereotype, tryg to change that dialogue of what people thk gay is. When I me out, I had so many people msagg me sayg, “You n’t be gay, you do Strongman.

” Or vice versa, “You do strongman, so you n’t be gay. ” That really bothered me bee people have this ia or this box that they thk gay people need to f . It accelerat the nversatn to a pot bee there’s no, “Is Rob gay?

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

It is very immediate when you follow Rob Kearney on Instagram that he is gay and he is very strong. You are gay. I thk the term I like to e is, “I’m unapologetilly openly gay.

Or a msage om a parent sayg seeg my profile helped them e to terms wh their child beg gay or lbian or trans. I thk havg an openly gay athlete that wave among the more visible petors is impactful there bee as the sport ris and be more popular, reprentatn the sport is also gog to bee more and more important as new people get exposed to . All that beg said, have you e across any negative reactns to your sexualy and beg open about and livg openly as a gay man om fellow Strongman petors?

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Fortunately for me, everybody’s been so welg wh me beg openly gay.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

You ll yourself the world’s strongt gay. Are there any openly gay strength athlet who you thk uld give you a real n for your money when to a balance ntt of strength?

He’s an openly gay petor as well, big guy, strong, super strong. Transphobia and homophobia strength sports, well, ’s not non-existent.

PRO STRONGMAN CHAMPN ROB KEARNEY OUT AS GAY

Feratn of Gay Gam (Var). In 2022, Hong Kong will be hostg Gay Gam 11, which will clu a feature a wi array of sports and athlet — cludg physique bodybuildg and powerliftg.

Pro-strongman Rob Kearney also dubbed the World’s Strongt Gay, jt broke the Amerin Log Prs Rerd by smashg through 475lb durg Pri Month (rerd ont of fabulo rabow lights, I should add). He’s the first openly gay pro strongman and has peted at World’s Strongt Man numero tim. When you’re figurg out what strength sports podsts to listen to, navigatg the terra n be tough — there’s some low key transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny out there.

I want to shed some light on why showg strong, gay men love is so important to fluence the LGBTQ+ youth of our world. And we are nstantly told that proud gay/lbian upl who show their affectn to one another are “sexually perverted” or phg an agenda.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

When I me out as a gay man on October 20, 2014, at the age of 22 years old, I never realized what would do to me as a person and my reer as a profsnal strongman.

Makg the proclamatn, “I am gay” sred me.

Now, I unrstand strongman isn’t exactly a ma-stream sport, but I am the only openly gay man petg at the profsnal level of arguably the most hyper-mascule sport the world. Gay men are often thought to be feme, soft, weak, unathletic wh the abily to be strong, mascule, powerful and urageo.