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GAY PELOTON STCTOR, CODY RIGSBY, WILL BE ON THIS SEASONS DANCG WH THE STARS.
Unbeknownst to him, his si htle would propel him to fns and gay superstardom. “Even though I had a super progrsive and acceptg mom, growg up a space where I heard the f-word all the time, or when guys were talkg about somethg they didn’t like, they were llg ‘gay.’ It’s kd of like all of the micro-aggrsns we grow up wh, and ph to the closet,” he said. It was his gay awakeng.
Read Next | NYC Bath Ho Are Back, and Gay Men Are Cisg Them Once More. ““Beg visible the hom of people who don’t have gay iends, or who have maybe never even met a gay person giv me the opportuny to be a posive fluence their liv, ” Rigsby says. “I’ve had rirs tell me that they have gay sons, and they’ve been better able to nnect wh them bee of who I am.
”The former profsnal dancer has worked at Peloton for seven years, startg jt a year after the pany’s early days on Kickstarter and before beme a cultural phenomenon, but says he only locked to his persona as Ameri’s Gay Bt Friend three years ago: “I thk for the longt time throughout my tenure at Peloton, I was really tryg to f to a box, a perfect fns traer box, ” he says.