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I know..right? Like how can you be too gay? Is that anything like too pregnant...I love everything about male cheerleaders..screw the USASF...I mean really!
It's kinda upsetting that they would separate gay cheerleaders from everyone eles...call me crazy but I have gay friends and when I introduce them to other friends I dont say "hey guys this is is my gay friend so and so" I guess I dont see someone's worth through if they like the same sex or not...I mean if I'm wrong here someone please tell me
 
Eek. Thats a convo for another thread. I don't think catching guys in fun at all.
Let me make one last statement and I'm done with the male flyers. If they are small, they really aren't all that bad. Ive based guys in kick doubles before, they were just as small as the other flyers and easier to catch because they knew how to control their body unlike the girls who were flailing around which is why I say I'd rather catch a great guy than a sloppy girl.
 
I agree, even if this wasn't meant the way it sounds it was definitely worded wrong and if they do mean this it is wrong on all sorts of levels.
 
I have extremely strong opinions about flamboyant men, I won't share them, but I'll say this, I've briefly said this in a dm to someone when we were discussing this issue.

Think of 2 HUGE tragedies that struck the cheerleading world this year. Jeff Fehr and Casey May. Both (from what I know of teh cases) felt that because of their sexuality and the criticisms they received they no longer wanted to live. Both of those young people had cheerleading as a form of expression, a place they could be whoever they wanted. I didn't know either of them, but that can be said of any cheerleader. When you step on that mat, you are whoever you want yourself to walk off that mat being. You are not judged by the circumstances you can't control, and that's something that is rare to find in today's society. With so much sexism, racism, and homophobia that we continue to say is a huge problem, it blows my mind that the USASF of all organizations has the balls to take that away from anyone. As a young gay man, I've found myself acting less like myself because I didn't want to be "too theatrical", I didn't want people to judge me for it, but never once in the few years that I cheered (and I'm now on the fence about going back into it) did I EVER feel like I would be judged for being gay, or for acting gay on the mat. The mat is where you are your real self. No societal images to uphold, no fear of embarrassment because you shimmied really damn hard after landing your pass for the first time in competition, nothing, and yet the USASF dares to try and take that away?
 
I believe this was on the image etiquette page and it is no longer on there! Maybe they listened
 
Ok, I'm going to try to explain my thoughts on this. I honestly don't think the board was was trying to attack the gay cheerleader. I think that this guide only applies to very few of the boys in the industry. Think of it as Elton John works and Libarotchi doesn't. The "should be male and female appropriate" line I feel means boys should not be flying stunts and baskets. I wish there had been more explanation on the thinking behind these Image guides and I don't see that these are rules, just the boards opinion on how things should be.

I disagree, the fact that they mentioned it shows they have a dissatisfaction with the Gay cheerleader, not the male cheerleader!!! There is one EP/Program in particular, whom had their hands heavy into this change, who does not employee the "gay", "expressive" cheerleader! Are they trying to be the moral police because they don't approve of it?
 
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