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
Contents:
- LIFTG THE GAY GYM STEREOTYPE
- MCLE BOYS: GAY GYM CULTURE
- A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
- IS THE BODYBUILDG INDTRY GAY FOR PAY? BODYBUILDG TROLL VCE GOODM TAK SHOTS AT NICK TRIGILI
LIFTG THE GAY GYM STEREOTYPE
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For some gay men, the gym is a place of terror.
“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.
Alvarez – a Costa Ri-born, San Francis-raised personal traer – unrstands gay men who work out.
MCLE BOYS: GAY GYM CULTURE
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Gettg f raised his self-nfince, and eased his ncerns about beg gay.
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 *
“Thirty years ago, gay men were not necsarily accepted at the gym, ” Alvarez not.
“There was a stereotype that gay men were limp-wristed and ail.
IS THE BODYBUILDG INDTRY GAY FOR PAY? BODYBUILDG TROLL VCE GOODM TAK SHOTS AT NICK TRIGILI
Today, Alvarez says, “beg gay is equated wh fns, athleticism, havg a great body.
Acrdg the Alvarez, “average men” make up the largt group of gay gym-goers.
Gay athlet – a sub-group whose numbers crease every year – work out to bee stronger, and to rce the chance of jury.