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At 22, I didn't feel like it was fair for him to be in a relationship with somebody who was closeted. RK: At first, I was looking at it from a very one-dimensional [perspective].

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I ended up coming out in October of after I had already turned professional in the sport. And what I've learned throughout my time competing is that all of the competitors know how much it takes to get to being a high-level Strongman athlete.

That same year, he competed in his first World's Strongest Man competition. So, there's a lot of sacrifice to put in the time and the training to get to the highest level. There was definitely a lot of anxiety and fear around that because I didn't know what that would mean.

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Thankfully, it seems the #GymTok generation is keeping this time-honored tradition of male companionship ––which dates back to the inception of bodybuilding –– alive. Inhe became the world's first male professional athlete to come out as gay in the media while still an active competitor in his sport.

They didn't care that I was gay—they cared that I was a good athlete and was worthy enough to be at these big competitions. [1] Inhe became the world's first male professional athlete to come out as gay in the media while still an active competitor in his sport.

[2]. Knowing how important representation really is, I was leaning into it. The realization of me being the first gay only openly gay professional Strongman in the world hit after. While doing all of this, he was Strongman's first—and only—openly gay athlete.

He was introduced to the sport at the ripe age of 17, and "never looked back. Newly retired the World's Strongest Man competition was his lastKearney reflects on how the sport became about so much more than picking up heavy metal and putting it down.

With a second glance, his rainbow tights also pop bodybuilders focus. Read the rest of the stories here. The people that had negative things to say about me being openly gay in this sport are people who don't understand the culture of Strongman. He log pressed pounds inachieving the American record before it was beat in by Bobby Thompson.

It's not a sport where you get a lot of recognition. I was coming out because I was in a relationship with my now husband, who had been out since he was 17 years old. I was looking at myself as a gay Strongman athlete. If so, how did you handle that?

Paris was the NPC American National and IFBB World Bodybuilding Champion. Looking back on it, I never really understood the weight of the moment—no pun intended. Paris was the NPC American National and IFBB World Bodybuilding Champion.

He's the same level of supersized as the others if not morebut one thing stands out about him—his rainbow-colored beard. MH: What does being the first openly gay Strongman athlete mean to you? It's become the stage for him to show the world that being gay does not determine what you can, and can't, do.

So I came out really just out of respect for our relationship, and then it quickly turned into much more. Then comes along Rob Kearney. Fortunately, the Strongman community is amazing. Bob Paris (born Robert Clark Paris on December 14, ) is an American writer, actor, public speaker, civil rights activist, and former professional bodybuilder.