More and more, we hear about athlet g out of the closet — and to gym locker rooms. Expert Rick Clemons tackl mon fears straight men have about sharg locker rooms wh gay men and explas why those fears are pletely unfound.
Contents:
- IS HE CHECKG ME OUT? WHAT GAY MEN THK IN THE LOCKER ROOM
- ARE GAY GUYS CHECKG YOU OUT THE LOCKER ROOM?
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
- GAY SNA ETIQUETTE
IS HE CHECKG ME OUT? WHAT GAY MEN THK IN THE LOCKER ROOM
* gay guys locker room *
I don’t thk they are gay, eher. I see hts of ternalized homophobia that le, and I thk he’d be a lot more fortable if he alt wh .
Rich: Jane Ward’s 2015 book Not Gay kicked off a lot of disurse about “straight” guys who engage “gay” sex, and I thk did a real disservice to nuance by beg totally crlo of self-labelg. Given the societal prsure to be straight and the history of closeted gay, bi, and queer men sayg one thg and dog another, I don’t necsarily thk we need to take people at their word when they say they’re straight and do thgs that suggt otherwise. I thk what happens is people say, to themselv, “Well, gay/bi/queer people are like this.
Do you go to particularly gay gyms? From Slate’s piece on them: “The rults of ‘Is mutual masturbatn gay? ’ were 465 to 100 that mutual masturbatn is not gay.
ARE GAY GUYS CHECKG YOU OUT THE LOCKER ROOM?
As not gay as may be, ’s also not not gay.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
In this example, you happened to see him naked a settg that n be sexually arog for a lot of gay man. Jt as you didn’t choose to be gay and have the feelgs you have. Summer mp my sophomore year, after ach left, Varsy guys held wrtlg match to terme who got the remag lockers the big varsy room.
Wh the rise openly gay athlet participatg profsnal sports, many people are wonrg if gay athlet are more or ls prone to check out other athlet the locker room. Yet, for some reason, 's assumed that gay men are on the hunt 24/7, tryg to bed every guy that walks.
GAY SNA ETIQUETTE
It's also assumed that locker rooms are prime huntg grounds for gay men to poach heterosexual men.
Granted, gay men will be gay men, but let's not assume that our libidos are more charged than our heterosexual brothers, or that we n't ntrol our urg.