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:
- GAY IN THE GYM
- IS HE CHECKG ME OUT? WHAT GAY MEN THK IN THE LOCKER ROOM
- GAY FRIENDLY GYMS NEAR ME
- LIFTG THE GAY GYM STEREOTYPE
GAY IN THE GYM
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There's always a ltle part of you that go hopg to meet another cute, sgle gay/bi guy.
" Obvly, not every guy who works out at the gym is queer, but 's surprisg how many gay guys are actually there.
IS HE CHECKG ME OUT? WHAT GAY MEN THK IN THE LOCKER ROOM
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I don't thk that guy is gay.
" and then I see him on Grdr or at a gay bar. Okay, so this will actually help you terme if he really is gay.
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LIFTG THE GAY GYM STEREOTYPE
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But the way I look at , sometim you jt have to let the gay out. 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.
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" 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 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.
Grdr changed gay culture forever too: created a visual map that proved that gay and bi men are lerally everywhere (sometim jt feet away! The app quickly beme the most popular gay app the world and, by 2014, had seven ln ers worldwi.
It’s been referenced many TV shows and films too, om Glee to How to Get Away Wh Murr, The Real Hoewiv and, perhaps most ftgly, many discsns about gay culture end up circlg back to Grdr, om body image to sexual racism, “chemsex” and bottom-shamg. On the app, ers often behave differently to how they would “real life” and gay Twter is often flood wh screengrabs of men behavg badly, btally and straight-up bizarrely. Michael, a 24-year-old gay man who enjoys group exercise class and gog to the gym wh iends, thks this trend mak sense.