Every year, gay men fan out for summer fun. But the pool at New Hope’s the Raven remas the statn for “daddi” and the young men they admire.
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THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE
Comg out is a very different experience for everyone. Can people really assume you’re a gay man jt for wearg an inic piece of fashn like a Speedo swimsu? * twinks speedo *
” However, if you Google “Tom Daley” and “Speedo”, once you have fished marvellg at his gual creas, you’ll appreciate why Out magaze once scribed this piece of clothg as “the sgle most perfect and phy em of clothg ever signed for the male body” exalted stat of the swim brief gay inography go some way to explag why is viewed wh such fear and loathg elsewhere. In 2018, a man named Chris Donohoe plaed that he was the victim of homophobia after beg thrown out of a pool party at a hotel Las Vegas for floutg the “no Speedo” le.
Young or old, gay or straight, the ‘sunga’ is a staple. “We n’t ny that they’re a huge gay thg, ” says Day when I ask him if only a certa type of man n pull off the look.
“If you go to Mykonos or Ibiza, you will see hundreds of gay men wearg [briefs]. Sports reprented clu swimmg, divg, volleyball, bodybuildg, soccer, Asie Rul Football, gby and first two photos the gallery are openly gay Olympic divers Tom Daley and Asie Matthew Mcham (2nd om left the group photo). ) shot of Cristiano Ronaldo, maybe the gayt straight man the world.
POOL BOYS: THE SUMMER GAY SCENE AT THE RAVEN POOL NEW HOPE
They are varly a symbol of liberalism and hedonism, of gay men, sporty men, fashnable men, exhibnists and dads; of both not givg a damn about how you look and givg lots of damns. Every year, gay men fan out farther and wir for summer fun.
Wele to the Pool at the you don’t know the Pool, ’s probably bee you’re not gay, boozy or particularly randy, or preferably all three. But ’s been a summertime staple for gay men om Philly, New York, New Jersey and parts of what is monly lled “Pennsyltucky” for s — New Hope’s crown jewel when to summer gay tourism. When a gay man texts “I’m gog to the pool, ” ’s no mystery which one — ’s not his pool, or a pool, but the Pool.
But if you’re gay and not sippg mojos at the Chelsea Atlantic Cy or whiffg poppers Rehoboth, you’re at the Pool — part of a bed gay bar/motel operatn — baskg s glisteng bawds. 3, which is everyone else — a loose llectn of sociable gays summoned to the water as if by gravatnal pull, neon pool noodl potg skyward. It’s like circle time at gay summer, gays are assiatg at a faster pace than ever before.