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MCLE BOYS: GAY GYM CULTURE
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Mcle Boys: Gay Gym Culture.
Erick Alvarez is the thor of the ternatnal btseller Mcle Boys: Gay Gym Culture.
In Mcle Boys: Gay Gym Culture, Erick lv to the history of the male athletic ial, explorg 1, 500 years of gay fluence and the evolutn of morn bodybuildg, male body image, and mcle-lan media.
LIFTG THE GAY GYM STEREOTYPE
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From the rise and fall of the ancient Greek gymnasiums to Michelangelo’s rvg of David durg the Renaissance to the rurgence of bodybuildg durg Victorian tim to the morn day homoerotilly charged mpaigns prevalent media, Erick reveals the fluence of gay culture today and s powerhoe role morn gay life. Mcle Boys: Gay Gym Culture is a groundbreakg and bright perspective that will tell you everythg you wanted to know about gym and body culture today.
What was once a liftyle for a small number of gay men big ci has bee a way of life for many, and the gay gym is now a culture on s own. Mcle Boys: Gay Gym Culture explor the evolutn and current stcture of this gay subculture that surfaced San Francis, Wt Hollywood, and New York durg the 1970s. Coverg ancient Greek gymnasium culture, morn bodybuildg practic, and homoerotic mcle-bound media, Mcl Boys exam the origs of the male athletic ial.
A soclogil vtigatn on masculy, fns, HIV, steroids, and sex the locker room, Mcle Boys dissects the gay gym experience, and celebrat gay body culture and s role morn gay life.
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Author Erick Alvarez offers a ndid study of the gay gym om his perspective as a physil traer the San Francis Bay area, and om his terviews and onle surveys of nearly 6, 000 gay men. Mcle Boys: Gay Gym Culture is an enlighteng read for anyone terted gay body culture, and a valuable rource for amics workg GLBT studi, human sexualy, psychology, or athletics. For some gay men, the gym is a place of terror.
“Mcle Boys: Gay Gym Culture” is a wi-rangg, sightful look at exercise, gay-male style. It roams through history, soclogy, fashn and porn, stoppg to dissect topics like the Inter’s effect on body image, and the difference between gay and straight gyms. Alvarez – a Costa Ri-born, San Francis-raised personal traer – unrstands gay men who work out.