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Acclaim for Muscle Boys: Gay Gym Culture

Alvarez clearly knows his territory.

The Gay & Lesbian Review

Accessible prose and experienced insight. This book provides the reader with a timely idea: the importance of the gym in allowing gay men a place where they can find each other and, most significantly, themselves. This very readable book politely kicks sand in the faces of those who impugn the gym as anything other than a unique, healthy, surprisingly diverse communal culture worthy of study, comment, and maybe even membership. This insightful history gives voice to the countless gay men who found the strength to assert themselves and in doing so redefined masculinity.

Tom Cardamone,
Author, The Werewolves of Central Park

An informed history and breezy analysis of gay mens thirsty interest in body image. Athlete Alvarez is a trainer who leaves his muscular signature on this entertaining book that covers early physique magazines, steroids, and pro athletes like Dave Kopay and Tom Waddell, inventor of the Gay Games. As a longtime gym-insider, Alvarez writes about what he knows. He captures the mystery and history of gay gym culture, of self-fashioning notions of masculine identity, and how gay muscle flexed gay power and uncloseted our Platonic Ideals into straight mainstream advertising.

Jack Fritscher, PhD,
Author, Gay Sports in Gay San Francisco:
Eyewitness DrummerSex, Art, and the Salon
Around Drummer Magazine

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Muscle Boys

Gay Gym Culture

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Muscle Boys

Gay Gym Culture

Erick Alvarez

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Alvarez, Erick.
Muscle boys: gay gym culture/Erick Alvarez.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-1-56023-404-3 (soft: alk. paper)
1. Gay culture. 2. Gay menSocial life and customs. 3. Body image in men. 4. Gymnasiums
Social aspects. 5. Physical fitnessSocial aspects. 6. Body, Human-Social aspects. I. Title.

HQ76.96.A58 2007

306.76'62097309045dc22
2007017273

ISBN 0-203-87276-2 Master e-book ISBN

Para Aracelly, mi adorada madre.

Gracias mam por apoyarme en todos mis proyectos y aventuras, aunque

algunos fuesen tan extraos y atrevidos como el escribir un libro.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Erick Alvarez, BS, grew up in San Francisco, where he attended San Francisco State University and earned his degree in kinesiology and exercise science. Muscle Boys is his first book. For more information, check out www.erickalvarez.com and www.gaygymculture.com.

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2.1	Red-figure kylix decorated with a homoerotic scene by Briseis Painter (5th Century BC), Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library.
2.2	Attic red-figure kylix depicting athletes training 5th Century BC), Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library.
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