World's send strongt man, Rob Kearney, out as gay | The Inpennt | The Inpennt

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• MEET THE ‘WORLD’S STRONGT GAY’ UPLE ROB AND JOEY KEARNEY WHO N LIFT WEIGHTS AS HEAVY AS 5 ADULTS
• WORLD'S SEND STRONGT MAN, ROB KEARNEY, OUT AS GAY
• ‘WORLD’S STRONGT GAY’ ROB KEARNEY ON WHY TE STRENGTH LI ACCEPTG YOURSELF
• ‘WORLD’S STRONGT GAY’: STRONGMAN ROB KEARNEY BREAKS RERDS AND STEREOTYP
• SECRETS OF  “THE WORLD’S STRONGT GAY”
• “WORLD’S STRONGT GAY” SPEAKS ABOUT LIVG AUTHENTILLY
• “WORLD’S STRONGT GAY” SPEAKS ABOUT LIVG AUTHENTILLY

MEET THE ‘WORLD’S STRONGT GAY’ UPLE ROB AND JOEY KEARNEY WHO N LIFT WEIGHTS AS HEAVY AS 5 ADULTS

A COUPLE who pet together strongman events - one half of whom is known as the "World's Strongt Gay" - has opened up about their journey the sport. 4Rob Kearney has been dubbed the "World's Strongt Gay"Cred: Instagram / Rob Kearney. "Once I realized for myself and I uld nfintly look the mirror and say 'I'm a gay man' and be proud of that...

After g out 2014, Rob quickly began to refer to himself as the "World's Strongt Gay, " and beme the first openly gay profsnal Strong Man the history of the sport. "I thk all too often, gay men are seen as weak, " Rob said.

"Gay don't have to look a certa way. "Here I am as a gay man wh a mohawk and the mcl and petg at the hight level of this hyper-mascule sport of Strongman.

WORLD'S SEND STRONGT MAN, ROB KEARNEY, OUT AS GAY

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsRob Kearney – the world’s send strongt man – has bee an spiratnal figure to many the macho weight liftg scene after he me out as gay for the first time.

”The Amerin athlete, who me send the World’s Strongt Man petn spe beg jt 25 years old, be the first ever openly homosexual petor to take part the sport at a profsnal or ternatnal level. ”He went on to scribe the Strongman petn as “like a fay” and sisted that homophobia the sport was not an Kearney posted a llage of him (right) and his boyiend Joey Aleixo on Facebook alongsi his announcement“It's one of the only sports where you will be petg agast someone and cheerg them on at the same time, ” he ntued. ”“I hope people realize that beg gay don't change the athlete/person I am, ” he nclud.

A profsnal strongman known as the ‘World’s Strongt Gay’, he is an athlete wh a remarkable physique: bulgg biceps, thick thighs, and a broad torso. Joey had been out sce he was 17, had had the typil gay experienc, had been a relatnship before.

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

I realized that not only was I fallg love wh this person, but I was also learng what meant to be a gay.

Rob was already petg as a strongman, but there had not yet been an out gay petor the Uned Stat. “I thk every gay man experienc anxiety and fear about g out bee we want to be accepted for beg the same person we were before g out.

‘WORLD’S STRONGT GAY’: STRONGMAN ROB KEARNEY BREAKS RERDS AND STEREOTYP

Growg up, Rob didn’t see breadth the reprentatn of gay people sports and the media. “There had never been a gay strength athlete before. I’ve been given this amazg platform to show everybody the world that beg gay don’t look a certa way.

I thk as a gay man, the gym n be one of the most terrifyg plac you n go to.

Of urse, the ‘World’s Strongt Gay’ feels hopeful about the upg petn later this week and wants to do his bt, but ’s hard not to be spired by the fact that everythg he do, he do proudly as his thentic self, havg fun and sharg his passn wh his dience.

SECRETS OF  “THE WORLD’S STRONGT GAY”

And the third is that Kearney, openly gay sce 2014 and married to hband Joey Aleixo sce March of this year, pulls no punch about matters of inty.

“WORLD’S STRONGT GAY” SPEAKS ABOUT LIVG AUTHENTILLY

“Look at my Instagram”—where Kearney go by the handle worlds_strongt_gay, while hband Aleixo is worlds_gayt_strongman — “and that’s what you’ll see: me liftg heavy weights and hangg out wh my hband. ” Courty of Rob KearneyAfter high school, Kearney enrolled at Sprgfield College — an alma mater shared by massively mcled WWE great John Cena and Gay Gam founr Tom Wadll — and studied athletic trag. ‘Gay don’t look one certa way’Later, Kearney said the firetck pull left lgerg sorens all over his body, om his back to his legs, for four or five days.

Kearney — who liv on Williston’s mp wh his hband, Joey Aleixo, and their adopted English bulldog, Glter, and is a dorm parent to 51 Williston boys— was hailed as the first openly gay profsnal strongman when he me out 2014. As his Instagram not, he’s the ”worlds_strongt_gay. ”He wants his prence as a gay man a macho sport to send a msage: “Gay don’t look one certa way, ” he he met his future hband, Kearney was g to terms wh his own sexualy.

“It took me a long time to e out to myself and realize that I’m gay. A blog post about Kearney as the first openly gay profsnal strongman was published on a weightliftg webse. “I get homophobic ments and msag every sgle day, ” he said.

“WORLD’S STRONGT GAY” SPEAKS ABOUT LIVG AUTHENTILLY

”His more-than-30, 000 Instagram followers, for example, pay more attentn to pictur of Kearney and his hband — who has also peted amatr strongman petns and the Instagram name ”worlds_gayt_strongman”— than they do to his weightliftg photos.

“When I first me out, some of the negative ments that I was gettg were, ‘Well, you’re gay, you n’t be a strongman. ”He also gets phback promotg himself as the world’s strongt gay on his Instagram acunt.

But for people to see that there is a gay man dog this I thk is really important. “His unique personal story as an openly gay man who pet on the world stage strongman ntts has given him a unique platform and voice wh our muny, ” Conroy add that Kearney has formed strong bonds wh stunts.