My Month of Hell 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

"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.

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

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. 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.

CROSSF ATHLETE ALEC SMH OUT AS GAY

" 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.

"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.

ONCE A LLEGE CLUB GYMNAST, GAY ACH STRS BEG CLIVE AS CROSSF TRAER

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

Sam Leicht hasn’t been very good at hidg that he’s gay for much of his life.

Even as a teenager, before g out, Leicht told Outsports he wasn’t very good at hidg that he was gay. How did they know he was gay whout Leicht tellg them? In middle school, he got disved om trick-or-treatg wh a group of iends bee one of them spected he was gay.

GAY CROSSF ATHLETE IS A NEW DAD

I’d walk to gyms a tanktop and short shorts and I’d get kd of a ld shoulr [bee they intified him Leicht as gay]. They’d fet about the gay thg bee I was a good athlete. In an Instagram post, a high profile Crossfter has e out as gay.

"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. RELATED | Canadian Mayor Says "I'm Gay" Heartfelt Essay.