More and more, we hear about athlet g out of the closet — and to gym locker rooms. Expert Rick Clemons tackl mon fears straight men have about sharg locker rooms wh gay men and explas why those fears are pletely unfound.
Contents:
- IS HE CHECKG ME OUT? WHAT GAY MEN THK IN THE LOCKER ROOM
- I WAS OPENLY GAY ON MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM AND HEARD SLURS ALL THE TIME
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
IS HE CHECKG ME OUT? WHAT GAY MEN THK IN THE LOCKER ROOM
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Jt as you didn’t choose to be gay and have the feelgs you have.
Wh the rise openly gay athlet participatg profsnal sports, many people are wonrg if gay athlet are more or ls prone to check out other athlet the locker room.
I WAS OPENLY GAY ON MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM AND HEARD SLURS ALL THE TIME
Yet, for some reason, 's assumed that gay men are on the hunt 24/7, tryg to bed every guy that walks. It's also assumed that locker rooms are prime huntg grounds for gay men to poach heterosexual men.
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" Steve th prov that life the locker room mov on, and that speci of varyg sexual orientatn n peacefully recurrg theme left me wonrg why there is this misnceptn that gay men are ready to pounce, at a moments notice, on the first good-lookg guy that giv them two sends of a se? I was surprised bee I assumed, out of this group of guys most of whom I don't really know very well, I might have enuntered some form of hostily or overt fear towards homosexual men. I’ve heard spoken my prence as a closeted gay man, been lled as a closeted gay man, and even been provoked by the word as an openly gay man.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
When that word was spoken my prence as an openly gay stunt the high school locker room, my water polo teammat would pse, realize what they said, and slowly look at me to see if I was offend.
I’m still not sure what ma them more ignorant -- the fact that they were g the word or the fact that they were g the word ont of an openly gay teammate. I wasn’t shunned by any means for beg gay — after g out as a senr, I was chosen one of three ptas.
The term “faggot” is gradg — giv a rogatory term to a word that most s is beg ed as a synonym for “gay. When a boy lls another boy a faggot, is not only offensive to the person receivg as an sult, but even more so offensive to every gay person havg their inty beg ma an sult.