Thirty days a gay CrossF cult
Contents:
- GAY FNS TRAER VISED 100 CROSSF GYMS AND FOUND EXCELLENCE LED TO QUICK ACCEPTANCE
- FORMER CROSSF EMPLOYEE TALKS BEG GAY AND CROSSF’S INNATE ABILY TO UNE
- CROSSF ATHLETE ALEC SMH OUT AS GAY
- ONCE A LLEGE CLUB GYMNAST, GAY ACH STRS BEG CLIVE AS CROSSF TRAER
- GAY CROSSF ATHLETE IS A NEW DAD
GAY FNS TRAER VISED 100 CROSSF GYMS AND FOUND EXCELLENCE LED TO QUICK ACCEPTANCE
When Tim Chan first walked to CrossF SoCal San Diego 2006, he wasn’t sure what to expect. Beg a gay, Che-Amerin male, he had grown ed to… * cross fit gay *
"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.
FORMER CROSSF EMPLOYEE TALKS BEG GAY AND CROSSF’S INNATE ABILY TO UNE
After years of hidg, CrossF athlete Alec Smh says he’s gay and has never been happier. * cross fit gay *
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.
CROSSF ATHLETE ALEC SMH OUT AS GAY
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.
ONCE A LLEGE CLUB GYMNAST, GAY ACH STRS BEG CLIVE AS CROSSF TRAER
"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 CROSSF ATHLETE IS A NEW DAD
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.
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.