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Contents:
- FORMER CROSSF EMPLOYEE TALKS BEG GAY AND CROSSF’S INNATE ABILY TO UNE
- WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
FORMER CROSSF EMPLOYEE TALKS BEG GAY AND CROSSF’S INNATE ABILY TO UNE
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… * why crossfit is gay *
Homophobia at a CrossF is a good time to remember that gym culture wouldn’t exist whout queer people. #IndyPri activists and their alli were ultimately affirmed both by swift rporate actn om above—CEO and founr Greg Glassman told Berger to “shut the fuck up, ” addg that he is “crazy proud of the gay muny CrossF” —and om the grass roots: After days of staed prott, the affiliate permanently shuttered.
WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
But 2018, LGBTQ people’s achievement of a basic level of regnn at the gym is tged wh more than a ltle irony: Amerin fns culture has always been bound up wh gay inty, and today’s gyms, om CrossF to Curv, would be unregnizable whout . Still, mors of homosexual “perversn” swirled around the (mostly) men so attentive to their bodi, a preoccupatn nsired effete.