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Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach, is the first male ach a major U.S. men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

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***Remend ReadgThe tenncy of gay men to emphasize physil appearance is "hard to dismiss, " says Dr. In his article "Out of the Closet and Into the Gym, " Dunn acknowledg that the ialized male physique is "a major pot of cultural reference the domant reprentatn of gay men.

Anti-gay policians are more than ready to pathologize any tras gay men may have mon.

On the flip si, many gay-rights activists go to great lengths to ny altogether that there are any intifyg featur of what opponents pejoratively term "the gay liftyle. " In rponse to this double bd, some rearchers have nducted studi to answer the gay body image qutn. Brennan, a gay man himself, sists gay culture's preference for a specific physil ial do ed affect those who fall short of the prevailg standards.

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Brennan also says some gay men who don't measure up might even velop "an creased e or penncy" on dgs and even though the rearch to this area is fairly recent, Brennan suggts the lerature we do have shows that gay men on average tend to experience more body dissatisfactn than heterosexual men. (Some rearch suggts that gay men and straight men share siar ncern for their bodi, but bee of the prsur of heterosexual society, straight men don't feel fortable talkg about . )But while a nclive cisn has yet to be reached, ntemporary gay trends certaly lend crence to Brennan's, for stance, Grdr-a gay social workg app that helps you "fd gay, bi, cur guys for ee near you.

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***The tenncy to nflate mculary and masculy is wispread throughout gay culture, acrdg to Dr. In his article "Men's Bodi: Listeng to the Voic of Young, Gay Men, " Dmmond argu that we often take for granted that mculary signifi both physil and emotnal strength. In gay muni, he says, mcle means somethg very specific—such as "a sense of ntrol...

There are several different theori about gay mculary, each one ls polilly rrect than the next. After the AIDS crisis, he says, many gay men h the gym to avoid lookg th and ail, which might have been taken as signs of beg diseased. "Another motivatn might have been to overe the homophobia--ternalized or otherwise--that saw gay men as weaker than their straight unterparts.

Yet another opn is that the late 1970s, the growg physil strength of gay men mirrored the ntued social strength they were urse, the theori don't entirely expla why younger gay men who didn't live through the AIDS crisis or pre-Stonewall homophobia hold the same mcular ials as our forenners. Not to mentn, do there have to be a psychologil reason for gay men to like mcl?

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