Six-Pack Abs Shouldn’t Be an Integral Component of Gay Culture Anymore | GQ

Contents:

• PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE
• SIX-PACK ABS SHOULDN’T BE AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF GAY CULTURE ANYMORE
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE

Openly gay New Zealand Olympic rower Robbie Manson (left) wh his brother Karl, also a rower. "Chos Car" is a Palm Sprgs Gay Men's Chos program providg outreach iativ throughout the Coachella Valley.

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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.

SIX-PACK ABS SHOULDN’T BE AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF GAY CULTURE ANYMORE

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.

And gay men seem to be most affected by the cultural view of male ’s the rult of all of this abdomal fixatn?

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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. “I see both gay dividuals and upl, and for 90 percent of my clients, body-image issu are at the top of the list of thgs they stggle wh, ” explas Holloway, who also has a private practice Wt Hollywood (the epicenter of the six-pack madns if ever there was one).

At least we n agree this gay six-pack fantasy that surrounds on all sis tak all a b too far.

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