My Month of Hell a Gay CrossF Cult

Contents:

• CROSSF IS THE NEW NTENR FOR GAYT SPORT ON THE PLA
• GAY FNS TRAER VISED 100 CROSSF GYMS AND FOUND EXCELLENCE LED TO QUICK ACCEPTANCE
• CROSSF ATHLETE ALEC SMH OUT AS GAY
• FORMER CROSSF EMPLOYEE TALKS BEG GAY AND CROSSF’S INNATE ABILY TO UNE
• GAY CROSSF ATHLETE IS A NEW DAD
• WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

CROSSF IS THE NEW NTENR FOR GAYT SPORT ON THE PLA

"There I was, this anx gay guy liftg heavy weights, gettg better each week, alongsi some of the strongt people I'd ever met, " he said. In addn to beg the only out gay kid his high school, Stephen Wang, a 38-year-old IT worker based Chigo, Illois, has a ndn lled Poland Syndrome, meang he was born whout one of his pectoral mcl. The ia of approachg sports as a young gay man wh a disabily, he said, "was not somethg that was very fortable for me.

"It's sort of the ultimate exprsn of 'we really don't re who you are, or if you're gay bee we don't re if anyone thks we are eher. Nuno Costa, petive CrossF athlete, and the only out gay man to qualify for the CrossF Gam. "A lot of didn't feel fortable high school athletics bee they weren't the most gay-iendly plac to be, " said Nuno Costa, a 40-year-old CrossF ach at CrossF Invict San Diego.

"Costa is the only out gay man to qualy for the CrossF Gam, a feat he's acplished every year sce the petn began 2009. He mentned a recent suatn which a fellow gym member thanked him for "openg his ey" to the experience of gay athlet. But helped, she said, that her box is about a quarter gay.

GAY FNS TRAER VISED 100 CROSSF GYMS AND FOUND EXCELLENCE LED TO QUICK ACCEPTANCE

Dpe the large LGBTQ prence her box, she says the culture n, at tim, still venture to "bro-ft" terrory that n "borr on homophobia. " Evans add that while he was never the target of any physil acts of anti-LGBTQ aggrsn growg up the sports world, he did experience "emotnal bullyg" and homophobia.

CROSSF ATHLETE ALEC SMH OUT AS GAY

But he is still one of jt a few openly gay male athlet at the higher level of the sport, havg qualified for the CrossF Regnals -- the step before advancg to the CrossF Gam -- each year om what uld be done to help improve the sport for LGBTQ people, Evans said "'s easy -- jt show support like hangg an LGBT flag. "Still, CrossF's wir circle, she notic a "weird unrlyg sense of homophobia at tim when guys start to 'bro up. '" She wish more CrossF ach and affiliate owners would disurage anti-gay and trans jok, for stance, though she spects most won't out of a fear of losg clients.

Nuno Costa is the only out gay man to have ever qualified for the CrossF Gam. Costa overme a lot to get to where is now, cludg addictn and g out as gay. “A lot of didn’t feel fortable high school athletics bee they weren’t the most gay-iendly plac to be, ” Costa said.

FORMER CROSSF EMPLOYEE TALKS BEG GAY AND CROSSF’S INNATE ABILY TO UNE

CrossF Gam athlete and member of PRVN Fns, Alec me out at gay an emotnal Instagram vio 2019.

In an Instagram post, a high profile Crossfter has e out as gay.

GAY CROSSF ATHLETE IS A NEW DAD

"There's been somethg on my md that I've been wantg to talk to you guys a while about now, " Alec Smh said a vio that he ptned "Took a DNA tt, turns out I'm gay.

"So I'm gay, " he said. In the vio, Smh went on to say that he ially began playg sports orr to distract himself om his inty as a gay man, but beme too much.

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WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

CrossF is the new ntenr for gayt sport on the pla Fance Watchlists My Portfol Markets Optns: Hight Open Intert Optns: Hight Implied Volatily News Vios Yahoo Fance Pl Screeners Personal Fance High-yield savgs acunt rat Crypto Indtri Contact Us S&P 500 Dow 30 Nasdaq Rsell 2000 C Oil Gold Silver EUR/USD 10-Yr Bond GBP/USD USD/JPY B USD CMC Crypto 200 FTSE 100 Nikkei 225 CrossF is the new ntenr for gayt sport on the pla“It’s totally a cult. Cobb is part of a growg muny of avid CrossFters—a sports-like work-out regime that’s creasgly appealg to gay men. Or at least, a certa type of gay man, om Manhattan to the Middle is the week that the drone surveillance state beme real“CrossF fely attracts the type-A personaly—someone who lik stcture and l and measurg metrics, ” says Will Lanier, a 32-year-old New Yorker who found OUTWOD, a queer CrossF llective, 2011.

Nearly 20 years sce s but, CrossF now has some 4 ln adherents worldwi, cludg a large number who are gay, such as Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski and Tan Jpg gave Vladimir Put a giant gold “bt iend” necklaceThe CrossF ethos, one predited on clivy, may have somethg to do wh . Not only do CrossF wele LGBT-foced work-out groups, the pany severed ti wh a gym this week that refed to host a Pri event—and fired s Chief Knowledge Officer for supportg the homophobic move. “I feel like wh CrossF I’ve fally e to my own athletilly, after years of feelg too gay to play.

Then there’s the exclivy factor—more than half of all CrossFters have a hoehold e exceedg $150, 000, which allows drov of gay men to shell out hundreds of dollars a month for an Equox membership. This, bed wh s type-A siren ll, a public image unaaid to tout sweaty mascule flh, and, I would argue, s very bro-ns, and CrossF’s gay appeal is easier to cipher.