A lot goes on inside the men’s locker room.
In a newly resurfaced Tumblr post, Cody Harpster shares an incident that happened to him a few years ago. The post, which was first published in 2015, recirculated online this week and has garnered nearly 140,000 responses.
“One day I walk into the locker room after gym and all the guys have their arms bent and are talking like valley girls,” Cody writes.
The guys were mocking effeminate gay men. They invited Cody to join the fun, not realizing he was closeted gay man.
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“Act gay with us!” one of the guys said.
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That’s when Cody threw them a curveball.
He informed the guys that gay men don’t act in any certain way and that it’s actually impossibly to know whether someone is gay just by looking at them.
“I know for a fact that there are three gay men in this locker room right now and you don’t know who any of them are,” he added.
That’s when the whole locker room erupted into pandemonium.
“Suddenly everyone flipped shit,” Cody writes. “Every guy in a fifty foot radius scrambled to cover their junk and started yelling.”
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He continues: “I heard things like ‘you’re the fucking faggot, aren’t you?’ and ‘quit looking at my cock you queer.’ Guys who have been friends forever began to turn on each other. Two guys had similar shorts and mixed them up when hurrying to cover their crotches. Everyone was screaming and yelling.”
Cody says the disruption he caused was one of his “crowning achievements” in life.
“I feel nothing but pride about how I caused utter chaos with two sentences,” he says.
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Mack
I would tell them most of them wouldn’t have to worry since their dicks were too small.
Raymundo
High Five
Josh447
This happens in 1945 right? Today they pull straws and have straight gay butt sex.
Jack Meoff
They probably all freaked out over fear of being outed
Jaxton
Cody should not have interfered with male bonding. Guys bond all the time in the locker room. It creates total comfort in each other’s nudity.
Gay-identifying men will never understand the camaraderie of male bonding. Making fun of camp mannerisms is part and parcel of it.
Stop being such earnest party poopers. You’ve turned into the party pooper community.
DCguy
Awww, and here we have the new troll name of “Jason” who says that apparently straight guys can only bond by being bigots and attacking others. So by his logic a hate crime or a rape must be REALLY bonding for them?
Give it a rest.
mhoffman953
I’m calling fake on this story. Looking at the guy’s Instagram, which is linked from his Tumblr, I doubt he’s been to a gym
Knight
abso-freakin-lutely. First thing that came to my mind as well. Just another self-validating queen pandering to an instant audience of gullible sheep.
Clidna
Reading comprehension is your friend. It’s pretty obvious that he’s talking about gym CLASS, not going to a gym. First clue – when the teachers rush in.
mhoffman953
@Clidna
I did read the story and as you can see from the comments below, he’s adapting a scene from the TV show Cheers and making it seem as if this happened in his gym class.
But, maybe I should rephrase my comment. Here goes: From looking at this guy’s Instagram, which is linked from his Tumblr, he looks the type that would have his mom write him a note so he could skip gym class.
Brian
I’m pretty sure only a small percentage of us like to party with poop.
stevetalbert
Sounds like a penthouse letter written for boyslife by way of out magazine. That will show them! Joey thought as he went home to finish his mothers chore list.
machuffin
Are we supposed to think this is a true story? If it is this guy who recounted the story is one of the worst writers to ever walk the face of the earth (I realize he is not a professional writer. He is still awful.) “Act gay with us”? Really? Who would talk like that?
Knight
Riiiiight…yeah, this really happened….
Rex Huskey
nope, i bet not.
IWantAFullBeard
Why even say anything? A group of straight males hanging out half-naked in the locker room is epitome homoeroticism.
He BGB
Did this happen to him in middle school? That’s the way we acted in the 7th grade
Danny595
Um, this is fake. That line comes from the famous gay episode of Cheers, where Shelly Long throws the bar into chaos when she says “I know for a fact that there are 2 gay men in this bar right now.” Everyone accuses one another and then they accuse 2 metrosexual newcomers, but it turns out that the 2 gay guys are regulars.
I wasn’t even alive when Cheers was on TV but even I know about this famous ep. How gullible and culturally illiterate are Queerty and its readers?
Knight
shhhh….they’re hoping no one catches on
Nahald
I happen to notice that there are an awful lot of “straight” guys seem to come to pages for gay men & women. I wish they would just come out of the closet and be true to themselves.
GayEGO
I saw this when I was a Navy Musician who played the flute. I talked to my peers who gave me advice to joke back at the ones who were harassing me. I used to smoke back then and one morning during our break, a trombone player who was from Missouri, reached for a cigarette from my jumper pocket, so I shrieked and claimed he pinched my tit! He never harassed me again and he actually apologized to me.