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
- I WAS OPENLY GAY ON MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM AND HEARD SLURS ALL THE TIME
IS HE CHECKG ME OUT? WHAT GAY MEN THK IN THE LOCKER ROOM
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.
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. "Gay, straight, male or female, the boundari nversatn was a nsistent theme wh the men I terviewed.
A therapist om Sacramento, California admted he'd been h upon a few tim by gay men, but "those enunters didn't make me feel unfortable. " Steve th prov that life the locker room mov on, and that speci of varyg sexual orientatn n peacefully recurrg theme left me wonrg why there is this misnceptn that gay men are ready to pounce, at a moments notice, on the first good-lookg guy that giv them two sends of a se?
I WAS OPENLY GAY ON MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM AND HEARD SLURS ALL THE TIME
I was surprised bee I assumed, out of this group of guys most of whom I don't really know very well, I might have enuntered some form of hostily or overt fear towards homosexual men. 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.