Nicknamed “Diamond Calv,” he was the first Black man to w the Mr. Ameri ntt. As a gay man, he said, he also felt bigotry over his sexual orientatn.
Contents:
- IS THE BODYBUILDG INDTRY GAY FOR PAY? BODYBUILDG TROLL VCE GOODM TAK SHOTS AT NICK TRIGILI
- THREAD: WHY ARE SO MANY BODYBUILRS GAY?
- GAY BASHERS: EVEN GAYER THAN BODYBUILDG?
- IS BODYBUILDG GAY?
- THE PROFSNAL ATHLETE WHO CAME OUT AS A GAY MAN— 1989
IS THE BODYBUILDG INDTRY GAY FOR PAY? BODYBUILDG TROLL VCE GOODM TAK SHOTS AT NICK TRIGILI
A eper dive to the mored world of bodybuildg gay for pay - which straight male bodybuilrs get paid to perform homosexual acts cludg mcle worshipg. * is bodybuilding gay *
"In the Miami bodybuildg circu they probably know me as the gay one, and I've never been met wh any adverse reactns.
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THREAD: WHY ARE SO MANY BODYBUILRS GAY?
“From where stands, Nick Trigili has done gay for pay. ” That’s a very tertg opn to exprs a vio that is lerally tled NICK TRIGILI: GAY 4 PAY BODYBUILDER HIRED BY GENERATION IRON…!!!
There are also claims of many rich gay men sponsorg bodybuildg events and athlet.
It’s not a secret that homosexual men have paid for sex wh bodybuilrs. Mcle worshipg is prevalent amongst gay men, but ’s also wispread amongst the bodybuildg dtry and those who fd mcle and gettg domated by an dividual arog. While rearchg for this piece, we spoke wh many people unr anonymy who were surprised to see how many knew of bodybuilrs havg gay for pay sex pag onle wh other men but sistg they were straight.
GAY BASHERS: EVEN GAYER THAN BODYBUILDG?
To improve LGBTQ reprentatn profsnal sports, Schweighofer and Denison said, ach and lears youth sports should set a precent that homophobic language and discrimatn are unacceptable. Sometim the Gam have taken place untri where homosexualy is not wily accepted or where legislatn impacts LGBTQ rints. Denison’s rearch fds that most LGBTQ athlet leave their sports as young people, a parture driven by a culture of homophobic language and stereotyp.
Daley has said that while he’s accepted his sport of divg, he often pet agast divers om untri where beg gay is crimalized. And Rapoe 2018 said that, as a kid, she “would have loved to have more rmatn” about what meant to be gay and why g homophobic slurs was wrong.
“Anytime you hear somebody say, ‘Oh, that’s gay, ’ or whatever, those thgs matter, ” said Rapoe, who didn’t e out to her teammat until llege. Homophobic slurs ntue to be prevalent sports – a 2020 study om Out on the Fields, which studi LGBTQ cln sports, found that more than 80% of gay participants had heard them ed while playg.
IS BODYBUILDG GAY?
When ach and teammat e gay slurs equently, sends the msage that the language is harmls and OK to e – and solidifi the belief that all members of the team are heterosexual, Denison said. The same Out on the Fields study reported that over 81% of gay men unr 22 hid their sexualy to avoid rejectn by teammat or discrimatn by ach or officials, among other reasons.
THE PROFSNAL ATHLETE WHO CAME OUT AS A GAY MAN— 1989
But we n assume that many s, gay players will jt drop out of their sport. That’s a problem for profsnal sports – wh few gay players sport, there will be even fewer who will make profsnally.
“Boys and young men are tght to avoid anythg associated wh femy, most notably weakns, emotn, and homosexualy, ” said Schweighofer, whose work on LGBTQ cln sports has appeared the publitn of the Natnal Park Foundatn. The same homophobic norms that affect men sports impact women and girls, too, and they origated the 19th century, Denison said.
Homophobic stereotyp of women athlet, though no longer based on women’s abily to reproduce, persist today, Denison said.