Lesbian Gym Lockdown: Submitting to the Gym Queen

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She was 13 when she discovered for the first time about the club’s clientele and purpose. “It was Sunday lunchtime and my mother and I were washing up after lunch. She said: ‘I want to talk to you about something because you’re going to hear about this at school. You do know what the club is, don’t you?’ I said: ‘What do you mean?It’s a club,’ and she said: ‘It’s a lesbian club, Gina.’

The OUTFoundation isn’t a gym itself, but the LGBTQ+ fitness org can help you find inclusive gyms (and trainers) near you — both IRL and online. If you want to learn from and work out with LGBTQ+ trainers during the pandemic, The OUTfoundation is featuring Zoom fitness classesby different LGBTQ+ instructors each week (as part of a campaign that is called, naturally, #werkfromhome). The OUTFoundation’s inclusive gym locator will also help you find a queer-friendly gym near you, so you don’t have to take those terrifying first steps into a potentially queer-phobic club without having your homework done for you in advance.We didn’t even know how we became friends, let alone best friends. Attending anatomy classes together and spending long hours over big fat books inside an eerie library decorated with skeletons brings people closer. It helped that we both came from a small town and were staying in the same hostel. One day I told her how much I love drawing and would like to sketch her. She stared at me for long before agreeing to be by muse. But that came with one condition—she wanted to see me naked. She thought I wanted to draw her nude (and I didn’t correct her). Sarah and Maria explored several areas of the gym and even tried out a few moves on steppers before Jen finally asked the employee to take a closer look at the duo’s outfits.

I said: ‘What?’ And she said: ‘Lesbians! You know, women with women.’ So I was, like: ‘Really? Really?’” Gina says she feels “immensely proud and impressed by the work and the commitment [behind the documentary] and still astonished by the interest and love that people have for the Gateways and how they remember it. LGBTQ+ communities in strength sports are abundant — you just have to know where to look. The lists above are by no means exhaustive, so keep searching for more and keep creating queer lifting communities of your own, wherever you are. And there were simply no visible role models to challenge this lazy stereotyping. I didn’t know any lesbians when I was growing up, the internet was in its infancy then, and I certainly never saw any on TV.If you’ve ever contemplated becoming a personal trainer or tried to figure out the most effective way to motivate yourself (without beating yourself up), there’s probably an episode of The Queer Gym Podcast for you. Outsports Podcast If you can’t get enough of LGBTQ+ strength sports, you’ll want to tune into some key sources of news and education. Maybe you’re trying to educate your kid’s school about trans-inclusive sports, or maybe you just want to know the latest about queer athletes in all kinds of sports (or both). Whatever your situation, these sources are well-worth exploring. Outsports

Whether they’re playing in a basketball league after work or doing business at the bar, men have long had access to this ‘Old Boy’s Network’ that women have been excluded from,” Shear explained. “When I saw our running group laughing, socializing, and networking well past midnight, I knew there was a need for this.”But we were not prepared for what followed. Next day as we reached college, we knew something was different. Did people stare at us for a little longer than necessary? Did the girls stopped talking when we reached the stuffy common room? We had no idea. Founded to advocate and fundraise for trans powerlifters, Pull for Pride is dedicated to encouraging all lifters and federations to #ShareThePlatform with trans athletes. When you love deadlifting and equity in sports — and how could you not? — Pull for Pride has got you covered. Athlete Ally Pro-strongman Rob Kearneyalso dubbed the World’s Strongest Gay, just broke the American Log Press Record by smashing through 475lb during Pride Month (recorded in front of fabulous rainbow lights, I should add). He’s the first openly gay pro strongman and has competed at World’s Strongest Man numerous times.