“Unfiltered and Unapologetic: Discover the Provocative Journey of a Queer Black Voice in Brathwaite’s ‘Rage’!”
On the other side of this divide are queer men, who, like me, reject heterosexism, fatphobic beauty standards, and homophobia (both from others and that which we internalized in our youth). But as Mr. Brathwaite embarks on the history, both societal and personal, of bodybuilding, from “noted heterosexual” Eugen Sandow, who organized the first competition in 1901, and whose eponymous award was subsequently won seven times by another noted heterosexual, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to Bob Mizer, they gay photographer who launched a prototype of bodybuilding-inspired gay porn magazines, Physique Pictorial, in 1951.
