Gorilla Suit: My Adventures In Bodybuilding
Bob Paris became famous as the first openly gay Mr. Universe and grew even more famous when he and Rob Jackson, his lover at the time, publishedStraight from the Heart,a memoir of their life together. Paris has now gone solo withGorilla Suit.A cross between a personal memoir and a cultural history of bodybuilding,Gorilla Suitdetails Paris's desire to radically change his body, what that meant to him as a gay man living in a homophobic culture, and his decision to leave the sport once he discovered how seductive its destructive qualities were.Gorilla Suitis not an emotionally wrought literary memoir, or even a tell-all exposé; rather, it is a well-written, perceptive, and ultimately joyful story of a gay man's discovery of what it means to love his body.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.