Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
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- SIX-PACK ABS SHOULDN’T BE AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF GAY CULTURE ANYMORE
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
SIX-PACK ABS SHOULDN’T BE AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF GAY CULTURE ANYMORE
In 2019, our liv are led by meangls “lik, ” Pete Davidson is PDA-g hard wh Kate Becksale, and if you’re a gay man, you still face a number of superficial and ane guil that, if crossed, would mer shame or ostracizg.
And perhaps the biggt gay guile that reigns supreme, the one the culture seems to agree on, the most important one of all: You mt, mt, mt, MUST have a perfect six-pack.
Sce the dawn of time, or at least sce the begng of morn gay culture (and the sexualizatn of men across orientatns, while we’re at ), the six-pack has been the Holy Grail of fns. If there was ever a gay Mos, he surely held up a stone tablet statg that havg a rock’ six-pack was a sexual ’re the generatn that grew up wh Abercrombie and Calv Kle mols, and while Abercrombie has sce lerally fallen out of fashn, Kle’s most recent ad mpaign spotlights gay tnip Shawn Mens, wh his chiseled bare stomach ripplg on billboards around the world.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
And gay men seem to be most affected by the cultural view of male ’s the rult of all of this abdomal fixatn? It’s a clichéd facet of gay datg by now, but mate on the weight of that thought for a send: In this twisted world, someone’s actual face has bee a sendary body part, and sometim even a plete afterthought. It all almost amounts to a gay episo of The Twilight Zone, where fac don’t exist and everyone speaks out of their navels.
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In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.