Pro Strongman champn Rob Kearney out as gay - Outsports

Contents:

• THREAD: WHY ARE SO MANY BODYBUILRS GAY?
• IS THE BODYBUILDG INDTRY GAY FOR PAY? BODYBUILDG TROLL VCE GOODM TAK SHOTS AT NICK TRIGILI
• THE PROFSNAL ATHLETE WHO CAME OUT AS A GAY MAN— 1989
• GAS & PAS: BLACK GAY BODYBUILRS & THE COMPLEX DYNAMIC BETWEEN MCL & QUEER DIRE
• PRO STRONGMAN CHAMPN ROB KEARNEY OUT AS GAY

THREAD: WHY ARE SO MANY BODYBUILRS GAY?

Like if you go to thailand, you see plenty of wtern BBers there to do their cycl due to how easy is to get roids, but none of the lols are huge - bee that untry only gay people bodybuild. I thk all has to do wh the whole 'mcle worship' sub culture, through out history the mclit men were often the gayt, and the seems to have ntued on even to today.

bee most women nowadays dont have any athetics, pl if you let a juiced up homo (no zyyyz) unload your ass you will absorb ttosterone though your tt. Vce Goodm, a YouTuber whose b simply reads “The First Ever Bodybuildg & Fns Inter Troll Of The Indtry, ” lled out Generatn Iron on his YouTube channel for mors that ntributor Nick Trigili was volved gay for pay schem spe not actually beg gay. 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.

IS THE BODYBUILDG INDTRY GAY FOR PAY? BODYBUILDG TROLL VCE GOODM TAK SHOTS AT NICK TRIGILI

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. Now, more than 25 years after g out of the closet, the former bodybuildg champ shar his thoughts on the ath threats he received after his announcement, the fate of his relatnship wh Rod and the untry's shiftg perceptn of homosexualy. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

THE PROFSNAL ATHLETE WHO CAME OUT AS A GAY MAN— 1989

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

GAS & PAS: BLACK GAY BODYBUILRS & THE COMPLEX DYNAMIC BETWEEN MCL & QUEER DIRE

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

PRO STRONGMAN CHAMPN ROB KEARNEY OUT AS GAY

While many may have ially assumed their aths were the rult of a homophobic hate crime, Malta Pri, a lol LGBTQ+ group, speculated the crime may have stead been "a botched hold up" and utned others to take a "wa and see" approach before "makg any rash nclns" regardg the crime. Gay Mculary Dired & VilifiedThroughout morn queer history—om the Castro Clon of the 1970s, the porn and ver mol athetics of the last four s, to the preferenc listed many onle datg profil—gay men have had an ambivalent relatnship wh mculary.