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LIFTG THE GAY GYM STEREOTYPE

By Dan Woog The OutField For some gay men, the gym is a place of terror. For others, 's a home away om home. For Erick Alvarez, the gym is the subject * gay muscle culture *

For some gay men, the gym is a place of terror.

MCLE BOYS: GAY GYM CULTURE

* gay muscle culture *

“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.

A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN

The gay world is often reprented as some sort of monolhic whole that has the same culture. That is a lie. It is actually broken down to a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs. Here they are. * gay muscle culture *

Alvarez – a Costa Ri-born, San Francis-raised personal traer – unrstands gay men who work out.

Gettg f raised his self-nfince, and eased his ncerns about beg gay. “Thirty years ago, gay men were not necsarily accepted at the gym, ” Alvarez not.