ABSTRACT
In gay culture today, athletics and the pursuit of a sculpted physique are increasingly becoming an important aspect of our social and cultural lives-so much so that a backlash has arisen against gym and body culture. Many modern gay writers and social critics have spent quite a bit of ink condemning what one suggests has contributed to the “fall of gay culture.”1 Michelangelo Signorile in Life Outside, Edisol Wayne Dotson in Behold the Man, The Hype and Selling of Male Beauty in Media and Culture, and Daniel Harris in The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture have dedicated much of these titles to bashing gym culture and the cultivation of the body.
